Yaz may refer to:
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Yazmith Bataz
Yazmith Bataz Carballo (born April 5, 1972), is a Mexican athlete specializing in 100 meter, 200 meter, and 400 meter events.
Career
Bataz has been a member of Mexico's athletics team at the Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012 Paralympi ...
(born 1972), Mexican sprinter
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Yaz Mubarakai
Shahyaz Yezdi "Yaz" Mubarakai (born 24 October 1975) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2017 state election, representing Jandakot.
Mubarakai was born in India, and ...
(born 1975), Australian politician
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Carl Yastrzemski
Carl Michael Yastrzemski ( ; nicknamed "Yaz"; born August 22, 1939) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. Yastrzemski played his entire 23-year Major League career with the Bost ...
(born 1939), American Hall-of-Fame baseball player
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Mike Yastrzemski
Michael Andrew Yastrzemski (; born August 23, 1990), nicknamed "Yaz", is an American professional baseball outfielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the grandson of Hall of Famer and Triple Crown winner Carl ...
(born 1990), American professional baseball player, grandson of Carl
Other uses
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Yaz culture
The Yaz culture (named after the type site Yaz-Tappe, Yaz Tepe, or Yaz Depe, near Baýramaly, Turkmenistan) was an early Iron Age culture of Margiana, Bactria and Sogdia (ca. 1500–500 BC, or ca. 1500–330 BC). It emerges at the top of late Br ...
, an early Iron Age culture of Bactria and Margiana, c. 1500-1100 BC
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Yaz-class river patrol craft
The ''Yaz''-class small artillery craft, also known as Project 1208, is a Russian Coast Guard patrol craft. This gunboat is designed to operate in rivers to secure and protect Russian maritime borders, enforce navigational laws and other law enfo ...
, Russian Coast Guard vessels
* YAZ, IATA code for
Tofino Airport
Tofino/Long Beach Airport is a non-towered airport that is located within the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. Immediately adjacent to Long Beach, it is southeast of Tofino, British Columbia, Canada.
It is both a general aviation and commerc ...
in Tofino, British Columbia, Canada
* yaz, ISO 639-3 code for the
Yakö language, spoken by the Yakö people of Nigeria
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Yaz (band) or Yazoo, an English synth-pop band
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Yaz Pistachio, a female character from the comic strip ''Bloom County''
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Yaz (drug), a brand name for a birth control pill containing drospirenone that may also be used for other indications
* YAZ, a programmer toolkit for development of
Z39.50 clients and servers
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Yazz
Yazz (born Yasmin Evans; 19 May 1960) is an English pop singer, who remains perhaps best known for her 1988 UK number one single " The Only Way Is Up". Some of her records are credited to Yazz and the Plastic Population.
Career
Yazz was born ...
(born 1960), pseudonym used by English singer Yasmin Evans
* Yazz The Greatest, a stage name of American actor and rapper
Bryshere Y. Gray
Bryshere Yazuan Gray (born November 28, 1993), also known by the stage name Yazz the Greatest or simply Yazz, is an American actor and rapper, best known for his role as Hakeem Lyon in the Fox primetime musical drama television series ''Empire'' ...
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