Yuri may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Given name

Yuri (Slavic name) Yury, Yuri, Youri, Yurii, Yuriy, Yurij, Iurii or Iouri is the Slavic (russian: Юрий, Yuriy, or uk, Юрій, Yuriy, or bg, Юрий, Jurij, or be, Юры, Jury) form of the masculine given name George; it is derived directly from the Gree ...

, the Slavic masculine form of the given name George, including a list of people with the given name Yuri, Yury, etc. *

Yuri (Japanese name) Yuri (ゆり, ユリ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Although it sounds similar, it is completely unrelated to the Slavic name Yuri. Possible writings Yuri can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *由里, "reason, villag ...

, also Yūri, feminine Japanese given names, including a list of people and fictional characters *

Yu-ri (Korean name) Yu-ri, also spelled Yoo-ri or You-ri, is a Korean given name, in modern times used as a feminine name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 62 hanja with the reading "yu" and 26 hanja with the r ...

, Korean unisex given name, including a list of people and fictional characters

Singers

Yuri (Japanese singer) , better known by her stage name yuri, is a Japanese singer, best known as a vocalist of the Japanese band m.o.v.e. She began her musical career at 19 years old in 1996, and released her first song as a solo artist in 1997, the Eurobeat song “P ...

, vocalist of the band Move *

Yuri (Korean singer) Cha Hyun-ok ( ko, 차현옥; born December 24, 1976), known by her stage name Yuri ( ko, 유리), is a South Korean pop singer. Debuting as a singer with Cool (쿨), she later formed Girl Friends with best friend Chae Ri-na after the former gr ...

, member of Girl Friends *

Yuri (Mexican singer) Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco, commonly known as Yuri, (born, 6 January 1964) is a Mexican singer, actress and television host. Yuri began her career as a teenage singer in her native country. In 1978 she released her first album titled '' Tú Il ...

Kwon Yu-ri Kwon Yu-ri (; born December 5, 1989), better known by her mononym Yuri, is a South Korean singer, actress and songwriter. She debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation (and later its subgroup Girls' Generation-Oh!GG) in August 2007, w ...

, member of Girls' Generation

Footballers

Yuri (footballer, born 1982) Yuri de Souza Fonseca (born 8 August 1982), known simply as Yuri, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Spanish club SD Ponferradina as a forward. He also holds Portuguese citizenship, and spent the majority of his professional career in Por ...

, full name Yuri de Souza Fonseca, Brazilian football forward *

Yuri (footballer, born 1984) Yuri Adriano Santos (born 27 April 1984), commonly known as Yuri, is a retired Brazilian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associat ...

, full name Yuri Adriano Santos, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born 1986) Yuri Vera Cruz Erbas (born 30 April 1986), commonly known as Yuri, is a retired Brazilian footballer. Honours ; Flamengo * Copa Record Rio de Futebol: 2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gu ...

, full name Yuri Vera Cruz Erbas, Brazilian footballer * Yuri (footballer, born 1989), full name Yuri Naves Roberto, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Yuri (footballer, born 1990), full name Yuri Savaroni Batista da Silva, Brazilian footballer * Yuri (footballer, born 1991), full name Yuri de Jesus Messias, Brazilian footballer * Yuri (footballer, born September 1992), full name Yuri Soares Liberator de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born October 1992) Yuri Tracante Sousa (born 18 October 1992), commonly known as Yuri, is a retired Brazilian footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associ ...

, full name Yuri Tracante Sousa, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born April 1994) Yuri Lima Lara (born 20 April 1994), simply known as Yuri Lara, is a Brazilian Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, defensive midfielder for Yokohama FC. Playing career He played for Olaria Atlético C ...

, full name Yuri Lima Lara, Brazilian football midfielder *

Yuri (footballer, born June 1994) Marcos Yuri Gonçalves da Silva de Souza (born 28 June 1994), simply known as Yuri, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championnat National 2 club Saint-Priest. Club career Born in Teodoro Sampaio, São Paulo, ...

, full name Marcos Yuri Gonçalves da Silva de Souza, Brazilian forward *

Yuri (footballer, born August 1994) Yuri Oliveira Lima (born 5 August 1994), simply known as Yuri, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Juventude, on loan from Fluminense. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play a central defender. Club career Audax Born in São Paulo, ...

, full name Yuri Oliveira Lima, Brazilian football defensive midfielder * Yuri (footballer, born January 1996), full name Yuri Antonio Costa da Silva, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born April 1996) Yuri Nascimento de Araujo, known as Yuri (born 13 April 1996), is a Brazil, Brazilian association football, football player who plays for Portuguese club Académico de Viseu F.C., Académico de Viseu. Club career He made his professional debut in ...

, full name Yuri Nascimento de Araujo, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born 1997) Yuri Gonçalves de Souza (born 31 October 1997), commonly known as Yuri, is a Brazilian professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football ...

, full name Yuri Gonçalves de Souza, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born 1998) Yuri Jonathan Vitor Coelho (born 12 June 1998), commonly known as Yuri, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Portuguese club Leixões The Port of Leixões ( pt, Porto de Leixões, ) is one of Portugal's major seaports, locate ...

, full name Yuri Jonathan Vitor Coelho, Brazilian footballer *

Yuri (footballer, born 2001) Yuri de Oliveira (born 2 January 2001), simply known as Yuri, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Flamengo. Club career Born in Vitória, Yuri began his career with Flamengo and made his professional debut on 27 ...

, full name Yuri de Oliveira, Brazilian football midfielder

Fictional characters

* Yuri, the antagonist of the real-time strategy game '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' and its expansion pack ''

Yuri's Revenge ''Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge'' is an expansion pack to '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' developed by Westwood Studios. The game was released in North America on October 10, 2001Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3'' *Yuri, a character from the psychological horror video game ''

Doki Doki Literature Club! ''Doki Doki Literature Club!'' (''DDLC'') is a 2017 freeware visual novel developed by American independent game studio Team Salvato for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. The game was initially distributed through itch.io, and later became a ...

'' *Yuri, a character in the manga series ''

Girls' Last Tour is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukumizu. It was serialized monthly through Shinchosha's ''Kurage Bunch'' manga website from February 2014 to January 2018 and collected in six ''tankōbon'' volumes. An English release ...

'' *Yuri Leclerc, a character from the tactical role-playing video game '' Fire Emblem: Three Houses'' *

Yuri Lowell is a fictional character introduced in the 2008 role-playing game ''Tales of Vesperia'' by Namco Tales Studio. The protagonist of the story, Yuri is a young adult from the Lower Quarter of the Imperial Capital, Zaphias. He leaves the town with a ...

, a character from the video game ''Tales of Vesperia''

Languages

Yuri language (Amazon) Yurí (Jurí) is, or was, a language previously spoken near a stretch of the Caquetá River in the Brazilian Amazon, extending slightly into Colombia. It was spoken on the Puré River of Colombia, and the Içá River and Japurá River of Brazil. ...

, an Amerindian language of Colombia and Brazil *

Karkar language The Karkar language, also known as Yuri, is the sole Eastern Pauwasi language of Papua New Guinea. There are about a thousand speakers along the Indonesian border spoken in Green River Rural LLG, Sandaun Province. Writing system Dialects ...

, a language isolate spoken in Papua New Guinea also known as "Yuri"

Places

Yuri (island) Yuri (Iurii) (russian: Юрий , ja, 勇留島, Yuri-to, ain, ウリル, translit=Uriru) is an island in the Habomai Islands sub-group of the Kuril Islands chain in the south of the Sea of Okhotsk, northwest Pacific Ocean. The island is uninha ...

, one of the Kuril islands claimed by Japan *

Yuri, Akita was a town located in Yuri District, Akita Prefecture, Japan. In 2003, the town had an estimated population of 5,883 and a density of 60.94 persons per km². The total area was 96.53 km². On March 22, 2005, Yuri, along with the city of Honjō ...

, a former town in Akita Prefecture, Japan; now part of Yurihonjō *

Yuri District, Akita was a rural Districts of Japan, district located in southern Akita Prefecture, Japan. On October 1, 2005, the towns of Kisakata, Akita, Kisakata, Konoura, Akita, Konoura and Nikaho, Akita, Nikaho were merged to create the city of Nikaho, Akita ...

, a former district

Other uses

Yuri (genre) , also known by the ''wasei-eigo'' construction , is a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters. While lesbianism is a commonly associated theme, the genre is also inclusive of works depicting emoti ...

(百合 "lily"), Japanese lesbian/sapphic fiction *

Yuri (satellite) Yuri, also known as Broadcasting Satellite or BS, was a series of Japanese direct broadcast satellites. The first satellite of this series, called BSE or Yuri 1, was launched in 1978. The last BS series satellite, BS-3b (Yuri 3b), was launched ...

, the first dedicated Japanese broadcasting satellite and start of the BS-series *Yuri I, a

human-powered helicopter A human-powered helicopter (HPH) is a helicopter powered solely by one or more humans carried on board. As in other human-powered aircraft, the power is usually generated by pedalling. It remains a considerable engineering challenge to obtain bo ...

developed in Japan * Typhoon Yuri (disambiguation)