A famous person named Yu.

Yu Dingguo, Prime Minister of Han Dynasty; Yu Ji, a Taoist priest in the late Eastern Han Dynasty; Yu Jin, one of the five good generals of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period; Yu Zhining, Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty; Yu Qian, a statesman, strategist and poet in Ming Dynasty, and Yu Yu: Yu Chenglong, the first upright official in Qing Dynasty; Yu Youren, a calligrapher, politician and educator in the Republic of China; Yu Min, a nuclear physicist and China's "father of hydrogen bombs"; Yu Shizhi, the representative figure of China's plays, etc.