American Famous Names Starting with Letter Y

Was an African American singer, best known for her 1976 recording of "It Should Have Been Me".Born F

Was an African American singer, best known for her 1976 recording of "It Should Have Been Me".Born Flora Yvonne Coleman in Richmond, Virginia, Fair got her start as a latter-day member of the re-formulated Chantels and the James Brown Revue.[1] Whilst per

Is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the

Is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.Fritz first sought public office in the 1986 Calgary municipal by-election for Ward 5 and was defeated in a very close race by Jon Havelock but was elected in the 1988 general election as the alderman for Ward 5. She served in that capacity until 1993 when she sought the position of MLA for the new constituency of Calgary-Cross. In the 1993 Alberta general election, Fritz was the successful candidate receiving 60% of the vote. In the subsequent elections in 1997 and 2001, she proved successful again, receiving 67% and 75% of the vote respectively. While sitting as a Private Member, she served on the Treasury Board and chaired both the Alberta Multicultural Commission and the Women's Breast Cancer Screening Council. She also sponsored three important Private Members' Bills, including a bill for mandatory bicycle helmet use for children and teenagers.

Is a Spanish-American figure skater who competed internationally for both Spain and the United State

Is a Spanish-American figure skater who competed internationally for both Spain and the United States. She represented Spain at the 1988 Winter Olympics where she finished 18th.

An American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, espe

An American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique.According to askart.com and artcyclopedia.com, her works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and others. According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's online bio

Was one of the most successful female Dutch all-round speed skaters. Her main success dates from the

Was one of the most successful female Dutch all-round speed skaters. Her main success dates from the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, where she surprisingly won three gold medals.

Is an American singer and actress. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese a

Is an American singer and actress. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese and Chinese ancestries. She was born and raised in Honolulu, and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970.

Is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. She is the sixth consecutive woman to serv

Is the 47th and current Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. She is the sixth consecutive woman to serve in that capacity and is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Prettner Solon was a member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 7, which

An American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging an

An American choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in both disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental.In 1957 Rainer moved to New York to study theater. She found herself more strongly drawn to modern dance than acting, however, and began studying at the Martha Graham School and later with Merce Cunningham. Rainer was one of the organizers of the Judson Dance Theater, a focal point for vanguard activity in the dance world throughout the 1960s, and she formed her own company for a brief time after the Judson performances ended. Rainer is noted for an approach to dance that treats the body more as the source of an infinite variety of movements than as the purveyor of emotion or drama. Many of the elements she employed—such as repetition,