List of Famous people named Yuri
Yuri Berchiche
Yuri Berchiche Izeta is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Athletic Bilbao as a left-back.
Yuri Entin
Yuri Sergeyevich Entin is a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, and lyricist who wrote screenplays and songs for various children's films including The Bremen Town Musicians (1969) and two sequels and Blue Puppy (1976), among others. He also wrote music with Bulat Okudzhava for the 1975 film The Adventures of Buratino.
Yuri Stoyanov
Yuri Nikolaevich Stoyanov is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, musician. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2001). Most famous comedian duo with Ilya Oleynikov.
Yuri Ebihara
Yuri Ebihara in Miyazaki Prefecture is a Japanese model and actress. She is a graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, where she studied fine arts.
Yuri Nikolaev
Yuri Alexandrovich Nikolaev is a Soviet and Russian TV and radio host, actor. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia in 1998, and since 2007 has been a member of the Academy of Russian Television. On 9 May 2007 he was awarded the Order of Friendship via presidential decree, and was awarded the Order of Honour on 14 January 2014 "for his great contribution in the development of national television, radio, print and many years of fruitful activity".
Yuri Bykov
Yuri Anatoleyvich Bykov is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing the films The Major, The Fool and the TV series The Method.
Yuri Semin
Yury Pavlovich Syomin is a Russian football coach. He has managed FC Lokomotiv Moscow for 4 different stints, for a total of over 23 years. The recent history of the Russian club has been associated with him, as he was also president for a short period.
Yuri Kondratyuk
Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works.
Yūri Furukawa
Yūri Furukawa is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants.
Yuri Shevchuk
Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk is a Soviet and Russian rock musician and singer/songwriter who leads the rock band DDT, which he founded with Vladimir Sigachev in 1980.