Notable inmates

Yosef Zalman Kleinman (January 1930 – 4 May 2021) was a Slovak Holocaust survivor, who testified against Adolf Eichmann at his trial.

Yoshitomo Hori (Japanese: 堀 慶末; né Kim; born April 29, 1975) is a Korean-Japanese serial killer who killed a couple in Hekinan in 1998, and later participated in the murder of Rie Isogai in 2007.

Yu Gwan-sun (Korean: 유관순; Hanja: 柳寬順; December 16, 1902 – September 28, 1920) was a Korean independence activist.

Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko (née Hrihyan; born 27 November 1960) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2005, and again from 2007 until 2010; the first woman in Ukraine to hold that position.

Yunis Abdurrahman Shokuri (Arabic: يونس عبد الرحمن الشقوري) is a citizen of Morocco who was held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. The Department of Defense reports his date of birth as May 4, 1968.

Yuri Kochiyama (河内山 百合子 (ユリ・コウチヤマ), Kōchiyama Yuriko; born Mary Yuriko Nakahara; May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was an American civil rights activist born in San Pedro, California.

Yuriko Kikuchi (née Amemiya, February 2, 1920 – March 8, 2022), known to audiences by her stage name Yuriko, was an American dancer and choreographer who was best known for her work with the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) 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.

Yuri Leonidovich Tsiuman (born 30 January 1969), known as The Black Tights Killer ("Черноколготочник", transliteration "Chernokolgotochnik"), and The Night Guest, is a Soviet serial killer.

Yury Titovich Shutov (Russian: Юрий Титович Шутов, (1946-03-16)March 16, 1946 – December 12, 2014) was a Russian politician who is known for collecting incriminating evidence against Vladimir Putin at the time when Putin worked as an aid of the former Saint Petersburg Mayor Anatoly Sobchak.

Yousef Azizi (Bani-Torof) (born April 21, 1951 in Susangerd, Iran) is an Iranian Arab journalist living in exile in London, United Kingdom.

Yousaf Raza Gilani (born 9 June 1952) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 16th prime minister of Pakistan from 2008 to 2012.

Yuval Zamir (Hebrew: יובל זמיר‎; 15 July 1963 – 21 December 2011) was an Israeli actor, voice actor, singer, writer and theatre director.

Yvan Colonna (Corsican: Ivanu Colonna, [iˈvanu koˈlɔnna]; 7 April 1960 – 21 March 2022) was a Corsican nationalist convicted for the 1998 assassination of the prefect of Corse-du-Sud, Claude Érignac.

Yves Marie-Joseph Congar (French pronunciation: [iv maʁi ʒozɛf kɔ̃ɡaʁ]; 13 April 1904 – 22 June 1995) was a French Dominican friar, priest, and theologian.