List of Famous people named Yuri

Yuri Vyacheslavovich Grymov is a Russian film director, clipmaker, screenwriter, producer. Member of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Oblast, Academician of Motion Picture Arts.

Yuri Alvear Orejuela is a Colombian female judoka, three times World Champion in her division.

Yuri Mamin is a Soviet and Russian film director, stage director, screenwriter, composer, author and television host, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. His "Window to Paris" (1993) remains one of the most popular movies in Russia. His Buddhist-themed film "Don't Think About White Monkeys" (2008) is popular among the Russian noncomformist youth, including punks and rockers.

Yuri 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. He was selected by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2005) for inclusion in his last exhibition, Les choix d’Henri Cartier-Bresson after meeting him in Paris.

Yuri Vladimirovich Lodygin is a Russian-Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for PAS Giannina.

Yuri Danilochkin is a Belarusian alpine skier. He has competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group, and Professor of Physics at Cornell University. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin.

Yuri Yuryevich "Krash" Krasheninnikov is a Russian beach soccer player currently active as defender. He is Merited Master of Sports of Russia.

Yuri Leonidovich Tsiuman, known as The Black Tights Killer, and The Night Guest, is a Soviet serial killer. All of his victims wore pantyhoses, which became known as the killer's "calling card."