Yasha may refer to:

People with the name

Gu Yasha Gu Yasha (; born 28 November 1990 in Zhengzhou, Henan) is a Chinese football player who competed for the national team in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her position is midfielder and plays for Beijing Jingtan. She starts playing football in 2001, ...

(born 1990), Chinese footballer * Nidhi Yasha (born 1983), Indian costume designer *

Yasha Khalili Yasha Khalili (born 27 April 1988) is an Iranian footballer who plays for Aluminium Hormozgan. Club career Khalili joined Aluminium in 2010 after spending the previous season at Mes Sarcheshme in the Azadegan League The Azadegan League (, ...

(born 1988), Iranian footballer *Yasha as a diminutive of the Slavic given name Yakov,

Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

: ** Yasha Asley (born 2003), British mathematics child prodigy ** Yasha Levine (born 1981), Russian-American investigative journalist and author **

Yasha Malekzad Yasha Malekzad (born 1 October 1984) is an English music video director and producer from Beccles, Suffolk, England, who has worked with international artists including Enrique Iglesias, Will Smith, Pitbull, Usher, Lil Wayne, Sharon Stone, Nic ...

(born 1984), English music video director and producer **

Yasha Manasherov Yasha Manasherov (; born October 29, 1980, in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) is a retired amateur Israeli Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category. Manasherov finished eighth in the 74-kg division at the 2003 World Wrestling ...

(born 1980), Israeli Greco-Roman amateur wrestler

Arts and entertainment

Anime and manga

* ''Yasha'' (manga), a Japanese manga series by Akimi Yoshida * ''Yasha Gozen'', a Japanese one-shot manga by

Ryoko Yamagishi is a Japanese manga artist. She is one of the Year 24 Group, a collection of female artists who innovated (girls') manga throughout the 1970s. Her major works include and '' Terpsichora''. Life and career Ryoko Yamagishi was born on Septe ...

* '' Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon'', a Japanese anime series and the sequel to ''Inuyasha''

Fictional characters

* Yasha, in the 1904 Russian play ''

The Cherry Orchard ''The Cherry Orchard'' () is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by '' Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition later that year in Saint Petersburg, via A.F. Marks Pu ...

'' by Anton Chekhov * Yasha, in the 1990 Soviet adventure film ''

Passport A passport is an official travel document issued by a government that certifies a person's identity and nationality for international travel. A passport allows its bearer to enter and temporarily reside in a foreign country, access local aid ...

'' * Yasha, in the 1993 Japanese anime film '' Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie'' * Yasha, in the 2012 Japanese action video game ''

Asura's Wrath is a 2012 Action game, action video game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Capcom for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Taking elements from Hindu and Buddhist mythologies and blending them with science fiction, the game follows the titula ...

'' * Yasha Nydoorin, in the American ''D&D'' web series ''

Critical Role ''Critical Role'' is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 aft ...

'' * Yasha-ō, in the Japanese manga series ''

RG Veda is a manga created by Clamp, consisting of ten volumes in all. It was first published in Japan in 1989 as Clamp's debut manga. The story features elements of Vedic mythology; the title itself is pronounced ''Rigveda'', the name of one of t ...

Other uses

* ''Yasha'' or ''

yaksha The Yakshas (, , ) in Mythology are a broad class of nature spirits, usually benevolent, but sometimes mischievous or capricious, connected with water, fertility, trees, the forest, treasure and wilderness. They appear in Hindu, Jain and Bud ...

'', nature-spirits in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, sometimes depicted as demonic warriors

People with the name

Arts and entertainment

Anime and manga

Fictional characters

Other uses

See also