Notable inmates

Yehuda Bacon (Hebrew: יהודה בקון; born July 28, 1929) is an Israeli artist and Holocaust survivor.

Yehuda Elkana (Hebrew: יהודה אלקנה‎; 16 June 1934 – 21 September 2012) was a historian and philosopher of science, and a former President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

Yehudit Arnon (Hebrew: יהודית ארנון; 15 October 1926 – 17 August 2013) was an Israeli dancer and choreographer.

Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (Hebrew: יקותיאל יהודה הלברשטאם; January 10, 1905 – June 18, 1994) was a rebbe (hereditary rabbinical leader) of the Hasidic dynasty of Sanz-Klausenburg.

Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalmen Leib) Teitelbaum (1911 – 18 May 1944) was Chief Rabbi of Sighet/Máramarossziget from 1936–1940 (Romania), 1940–1944 (Hungary).

Yevgenia Solomonovna Ginzburg (December 20, 1904 – May 25, 1977) (Russian: Евге́ния Соломо́новна Ги́нзбург) was a Soviet writer who served an 18-year sentence in the Kolyma Gulag.

Yevgeny Olegovich Nagorny (Russian: Евге́ний Оле́гович Наго́рный; born 26 June 1972) is a Ukrainian-born serial killer, who organized a car repair service in which he killed the vehicle owners in order to sell their cars.

Yevgeny Nikolaevich Petrov (Russian: Евге́ний Никола́евич Петро́в; born 17 December 1975), known as The Novouralsk Ripper (Russian: Новоуральский потрошитель), is a Russian serial killer, rapist and pedophile.

Yiannos Papantoniou (Greek: Γιάννος Παπαντωνίου; born 27 July 1949) is a former member of the National Parliament in Greece (MP) from 1988 to 2007, Minister of National Defense (2001−03), Minister of Economy and Finance (1994−2001).

Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli murderer who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally supporting the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv.

Yip Kai-foon (Chinese: 葉繼歡; 12 June 1961 – 19 April 2017), also known as "Teeth Dog" and "Goosehead", was an infamous Chinese criminal who was most active in Hong Kong from the early 1980s to 1990s.

Yishai Schlissel (also spelled Shlisel; Hebrew: ישי שליסל; born 10 December 1975) is a convicted Israeli murderer.

Yisrael Kristal (or Israel Kristal; born Izrael Icek Kryształ; Hebrew: ישראל קרישטל; 15 September 1903 – 11 August 2017) was a Polish-Israeli supercentenarian recognized in 2014 as the oldest living Holocaust survivor.

Yisrael (Israel) Meir Lau (Hebrew: ישראל מאיר לאו; born 1 June 1937) is a Holocaust survivor who served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1993 to 2003.

Yisroel Spira (November 12, 1889 – October 30, 1989), the Bluzhover Rebbe, was a senior member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and a Holocaust survivor.

Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal (9 February 1885–24 January 1945) was one of the few European rabbis to break ranks with Ashkenazi Orthodox Judaism to support an active effort to settle the Land of Israel, then part of Ottoman Palestine and later Mandatory Palestine.

María de las Mercedes Bernardina Bolla Aponte de Murano (20 May 1930 – 26 April 2014), better known as Yiya Murano, and also referred to as The Poisoner of Monserrat was an Argentine serial killer and swindler.

Yochanan Sofer (Hebrew: יוחנן סופר; January 1, 1923 – February 22, 2016) was the rebbe of the Erlau dynasty.