Surnames Starting with Y
Name | Country | Category | Gender | Birth | Death |
Yamada, Otozo | Japan | Military-Ground | Male | 1881 | 1965 |
Yamaguchi, Moriyoshi | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | ||
Yamaguchi, Tamon | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | 1892 | 1942 |
Yamamoto, Isoroku | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | 1884 | 1943 |
Yamaoka, Mineo | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | ||
Yamasaki, Yasuyo | Japan | Military-Ground | Male | 1891 | 1943 |
Yamashita, Tomoyuki | Japan | Military-Ground | Male | 1885 | 1946 |
Yan, Xishan | China | Military-Ground | Male | 1883 | 1960 |
Yanagimoto, Ryusaku | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | 1894 | 1942 |
Yang, Guangsheng | China | Government | Male | 1900 | 1942 |
Yasui, Minoru | United States | Other | Male | 1916 | 1986 |
Yeager, Charles | United States | Military-Air | Male | 1923 | 2020 |
Yi Geon | Korea | Military-Ground | Male | 1909 | 1990 |
Yi Kang | Korea | Government | Male | 1877 | 1955 |
Yi U | Korea | Government | Male | 1912 | 1945 |
Yi Un | Korea | Military-Ground | Male | 1897 | 1970 |
Yonai, Mitsumasa | Japan | Government | Male | 1880 | 1948 |
Yoshida, Mitsuru | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | 1923 | 1979 |
Yoshida, Shigeru | Japan | Government | Male | 1878 | 1967 |
Yoshikawa, Takeo | Japan | Military-Sea | Male | 1914 | |
Yoshimura, Hisato | Japan | Medicine | Male | 1907 | 1990 |
Yoshioka, Yasunori | Japan | Military-Ground | Male | ||
Yu, Hanmou | China | Military-Ground | Male | 1896 | 1981 |
Yu, Xuezhong | China | Military-Ground | Male | 1890 | 1964 |
Yuan, Baokang | China | Military-Air | Male | 1915 | |
Yuan, Jinkai | China | Government | Male | 1870 | |
Yue, Yiqin | China | Military-Air | Male | 1913 | 1937 |
Yun, Bong-gil | Korea | Resistance | Male | 1908 | 1932 |
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