Yuri
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Yuri is a common first name in several languages, with alternately masculine and feminine denotations depending on the specific culture. In Russia, for example, Юрий is a common male given name meaning 'George
', while in Japan it is a traditional female name meaning 'lily'(百合/ゆり/ユリ), and in Korea, it is also a female which is a homonymous to the word 'glass' in Korean(유리). It is also a fairly commonplace feminine given name in some Spanish-speaking countries. Yuri may also refer to:
George (given name)
George, from the Greek word γεωργός , "farmer" or "earth-worker", which became a name in Greek: Γεώργιος , and Latin: Georgius. The word γεωργός is a compound word, formed by the words ge , "earth", "soil" and ergon , "work"...
', while in Japan it is a traditional female name meaning 'lily'(百合/ゆり/ユリ), and in Korea, it is also a female which is a homonymous to the word 'glass' in Korean(유리). It is also a fairly commonplace feminine given name in some Spanish-speaking countries. Yuri may also refer to:
Other uses
- Yuri (genre), a Japanese loanword referring to female homosexual content in fiction, especially anime and manga.
- Yuri (island)Yuri (island)Yuri island is part of the Russian Kuril Islands. The Kuril Islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ring of Fire running northeast from Hokkaido, Japan to Kamchatka, Russia....
, one of the Kuril islands claimed by Japan - Yuri language (New Guinea), a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea
- Yuri language (Amazon)Yuri language (Amazon)Yurí is, or was, a language previously spoken near a stretch of the Caquetá River in the Brazilian Amazon, extending slightly into Colombia. A small amount of data was collected on two occasions in the 19th century, in 1853 and 1867...
, an Amerindian language of Colombia and Brazil - Yuri people, one of the Indigenous peoples in ColombiaIndigenous peoples in ColombiaThe indigenous peoples in Colombia comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country's present territory prior to its discovery by Europeans around 1500.-Origins:...
- Yuri, the first dedicated Japanese Broadcasting Satellite (Japanese) and start of the BS-series
- Typhoon Yuri (disambiguation)
Russians
- Yuri BrezhnevYuri BrezhnevYuri Leonidovich Brezhnev is the son of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Viktoria Brezhneva.-Life and career:By Konstantin Chernenko's death Yuri had become a chronic alcoholic...
(born 1933), son of Leonid Brezhnev - Yuri ChurbanovYuri ChurbanovYuri Mikhailovich Churbanov was the son-in-law of Soviet politician and longtime General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.-Life and career:Chubranov was born on 11 November 1936. As a young boy he was an active member of the Komsomol. He attended the Moscow State University in the 1960s and studied...
(born 1936), son-in-law of Leonid Brezhnev - Yuri AndropovYuri AndropovYuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.-Early life:...
(1914–1984), Soviet Politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Yuri ArtsutanovYuri ArtsutanovYuri N. Artsutanov is a Russian engineer born in Leningrad. A graduate of Leningrad Technological Institute, he is best known for being one of the pioneers of the idea of space elevator.In 1960 he wrote an article "V Kosmos na Electrovoze Yuri N. Artsutanov (born 1929) is a Russian engineer born...
(born 1929), Russian pioneer of the idea of Space Elevator - Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (born 1924), Soviet physicist and human rights activist
- Yuri IzraelYuri IzraelYuri A. Izrael was a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change until September 2008, when the new bureau was elected. He was the "most influential scientific adviser" for Vladimir Putin, the former president of Russia, according to CNN.Izrael is a former chairman of the...
(born 1930), Russian scientist and vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Yuri GagarinYuri GagarinYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
(1934–1968), Soviet cosmonaut, the first human in space - Yuri MaslyukovYuri MaslyukovYuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov was a Russian politician who was in charge of the Gosplan for three years preceding the demise of the Soviet Union.-Early life:...
(1937–2010), Russian politician - Yuri MatochkinYuri MatochkinYuri Matochkin, also spelled Yury Matochkin, was a Russian politician. He was the first post-Soviet governor of Kaliningrad Oblast, having been appointed to that position by Boris Yeltsin in September 1991. Matochkin was elected to the Federation Council in 1993 and served on the International...
(1931–2006), Russian politician - Yury Luzhkov (born 1936), Mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010
- Yury SevidovYury Sevidov-Career:He was the best bombardier of 1962 Soviet championship. He is gold champion of USSR in 1962 and bronze medalist in 1961.-Personal life:In 1965 while driving a car, Sevidov hit a man who was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Dmitry Ryabchikov, the prominent chemist,...
(1942–2010), Russian footballer - Yuriy VenherovskyYuriy VenherovskyYury Naumovich Vengerovsky was a Ukrainian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics.He was Jewish, born in Kharkiv, and died in Belgorod, Russia....
(1941–2004), Soviet volleyball Olympic champion - Yury ZakharevitchYury ZakharevitchYury Ivanovich Zakharevitch was an Olympic weightlifter for the Soviet Union. He trained at Dynamo in Dimitrovgrad. Yury competed in the Middle-Heavyweight, Sub-Heavyweight and Heavyweight weight classes during his career....
(born 1963), Olympic weightlifter for the Soviet Union
Others
- Yuri (Mexican singer)Yuri (Mexican singer)Yuri is a famous Mexican singer, actress, and TV host. She has maintained a significant presence in the entertainment business in Mexico for the last three decades...
(born 1964), Mexican actress and singer - Yuri DolgorukiYuri DolgorukiPrince Yuri I Dolgorukiy , also known as George I of Rus, was the founder of Moscow and a key figure in the transition of political power from Kiev to Vladimir-Suzdal following the death of his elder brother Mstislav the Great...
(1099–1157), Grand Prince of Kiev - Yuri EbiharaYuri Ebiharais a Japanese model and actress. She is a graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, where she studied fine arts.Her first big break came as a model for CanCam, with whom she had an exclusive contract. She has since appeared in several TV dramas, most recently "Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi"...
(born 1979), Japanese model and actress - Yuri ForemanYuri ForemanYuri Foreman is a Belarusian-born Israeli-American professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super welterweight champion...
(born 1980), Belarusian-born Israeli-American middleweight and World Boxing Association champion super welterweight - Yuri LandmanYuri LandmanYuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn...
(born 1973), experimental luthier, comic book artist and musician - Yuri LowenthalYuri LowenthalYuri Lowenthal is a voice actor that has voiced several anime and video game characters. He also voiced Kamal for the alternate reality game I Love Bees....
(born 1971), American actor/voice actor, known best for the fictional character Sasuke Uchiha - Yuri RasovskyYuri RasovskyYuri Rasovsky is an American award-winning writer and producer working in the field of radio drama in the United States....
(born 1944), American audio dramatist - Yuri RostYuri RostYuri Rost is a photographer, journalist, author and traveller. Rost’s photographic vision is closely related to the humanist tradition established by post-war photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Leonard Freed, and Ed van der Elsken...
(born 1939), Ukrainian photographer and journalist - Yuri RuleyYuri RuleyYuri Zane Ruley is an American drummer who plays in the pop punk band MxPx. In 1992, while still in high school, Ruley started MxPx with Mike Herrera and Andy Husted; Husted was replaced by Tom Wisniewski two years later...
(born 1976), drummer for pop-punk band MxPx - Yuri of SillaYuri of SillaYuri of Silla was the third king of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He is commonly called Yuri Isageum.- Name :As a descendent of Silla's founder Hyeokgeose, his surname was Park....
(died 57 CE), early King of Silla, an area in Korea - Cha Hyun Ok (born 1976), K-pop singer who was part of the group Cool and is now in Girl Friends
- Yuri of GoguryeoYuri of GoguryeoKing Yuri was the second ruler of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He was the eldest son of the kingdom's founder King Dongmyeongseong. As with many other early Korean rulers, the events of his life are known largely from the Samguk Sagi.- Background :Yuri was the son...
(died 18 CE), early King of Goguryeo, an area in Korea - Sung Yu RiSung Yu RiSung Yu Ri is a South Korean singer and actress, the youngest member of currently inactive K-pop group Fin.K.L.Sung first appeared in the miniseries "Bad Girls" which earned her the "Best New Actress" award. She followed it up with the popular series "Thousand Years Of Love" in which she...
(born 1981), Korean singer/actress known mainly for her role as a member in Fin.K.L. - Masuda YuriYuri Masuda, also simply known as yuri , is the vocalist of the Japanese band m.o.v.e. She's credited as a solo artist for the Eurobeat song PARADISE, a song released before she joined m.o.v.e....
(born 1977), vocalist from Japanese music group m.o.v.e - Kwon YuriKwon YuriKwon Yuri also known by her given name Yuri, is a South Korean idol singer, Dancer, Actress and Promotional model. She is member of popular south korean girl group, Girls' Generation. Her position is Lead Dancer and Vocalist....
(born 1989), Korean singer, member of Girls' Generation - Yuri KochiyamaYuri KochiyamaYuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human rights activist.Kochiyama was born Mary Yuriko Nakahara in San Pedro, California. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Kochiyama's father was imprisoned the same day...
(born 1921) Japanese American human rights activist
Characters
- Yuri (Command & Conquer), an antagonist in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
- Yuri SakazakiYuri Sakazakiis a video game character from SNK Playmore's Art of Fighting series. She first appears in the original Art of Fighting being kidnapped by Mr. Big, a criminal from the fictional city of Southtown. The players, Yuri's brother Ryo and his friend Robert Garcia spend the game searching for her...
, a character in the Art of Fighting and King of Fighters video games - Yuri Stavrogan, an E-frame pilot from animated television series Exosquad
- Yuri, a Russian friend of Mike Motley in the classic comic strip Motley's Crew
- Yuri, one of the main characters in the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, with Raven Software having assisted in development...
- Yuri Orlov, the main character in the movie Lord of WarLord of WarLord of War is a 2005 French-German-American action drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Nicolas Cage. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2005, with the DVD following on January 17, 2006 and the Blu-ray Disc on July 27, 2006.Cage plays an illegal arms...
- Yuri Shibuya, the main character and 'Demon King' in the light novel series Kyo Kara Maoh!
- Yuri Volte Hyuga, the main character in Shadow HeartsShadow Heartsis a series of role playing games for the PlayStation 2. The original Shadow Hearts was developed by Sacnoth and released by Midway in the United States on December 11, 2001. The sequel, Shadow Hearts: Covenant , was also made by the same group, although Sacnoth reformed itself into a company...
video games - Yuri Zhivago, the lead character in the book and movie Doctor Zhivago (novel)Doctor Zhivago (novel)Doctor Zhivago is a 20th century novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet...
- Yuri Lowell, the main character in the game Tales of VesperiaTales of Vesperiais the tenth main title in the Tales series. It was developed by Namco Tales Studio and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Xbox 360. The title was announced on December 22, 2007 at Jump Festa, and was released on August 7, 2008 in Asia, and on August 26, 2008 in North America...
- Yuri, a protagonist in the Dirty PairDirty Pairis a series of sci-fi comedy light novels written by Haruka Takachiho and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko that was later adapted into anime and manga versions....
series of anime and manga - Yuri Mihairokov, a character in PlanetesPlanetesis a Japanese hard science fiction manga by Makoto Yukimura. It was adapted as a 26-episode television anime by Sunrise, which was broadcast on NHK from October 2003 through April 2004...
anime series - Yuri, a starship captain in the game Infinite SpaceInfinite Space, initially announced as "Infinite Line",. is a science-fiction role-playing game developed by Nude Maker and Platinum Games for the Nintendo DS. It was the third of a four game publishing deal with Sega...
- Yuri Boyka, sometimes Uri, a character in Undisputed IIUndisputed II: Last Man StandingUndisputed II: Last Man Standing is a 2006 direct-to-video sequel to the 2002 action film Undisputed. The film stars Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Eli Danker and Ben Cross, and was directed by Isaac Florentine...
and IIIUndisputed III: RedemptionUndisputed III: Redemption is the third installment to the 2002 action film Undisputed. The film stars Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir and Hristo Shopov, and was directed by Isaac Florentine.-Plot:... - Yuri Suzuki, the main character in Red RiverRed River (manga), also known as Anatolia Story, is a historical fantasy shōjo manga series by Chie Shinohara. It is published in Japan by Shogakukan in Sho-Comi and collected in 28 volumes. It is published in English in North America by VIZ Media, with 25 volumes released as of April 2009 and the remaining 3...
manga - Yuri Tsukikage, a character in the HeartCatch PreCure!HeartCatch PreCure!, also called HeartCatch Pretty Cure! is a Japanese anime series and the seventh Pretty Cure installment by Izumi Todo. Produced by Toei Animation, the series premiered on February 7, 2010 on TV Asahi, following Fresh Pretty Cure!, and ended on January 30, 2011, where it was followed by Suite...
anime series
See also
- George (disambiguation)
- JariloJariloJarilo , alternatively Yarilo, Iarilo, or Gerovit, was a major male Proto-Slavic deity of vegetation, fertility and spring, also associated with war and harvest.-Sources:...
, a spring, agricultural god - Juri (disambiguation)
- Uriah (disambiguation)
- Yuriko (disambiguation)
- Yury (given name)
- YūreiYureiare figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of ghosts. The name consists of two kanji, 幽 , meaning "faint" or "dim" and 霊 , meaning "soul" or "spirit." Alternative names include 亡霊 meaning ruined or departed spirit, 死霊 meaning dead spirit, or the more encompassing 妖怪 or お化け...
, figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of ghosts