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Yaya or Yayah may refer to:

People

Given name

• Liu Zhenya (born 1952), Chinese internet celebrity expelled from Taiwan whose online name is "Yaya"
• Urassaya Sperbund (Yaya; born 1993), Thai actress
• Yaya Banhoro (born 1996), Burkinabé footballer
• Yaya Bey (born 1990), American R&B musician
• Yaya Bojang (born 2005), Gambian footballer
• Yaya Ceesay (1937–2026), Gambian politician
• Yaya Cissokho (born 1957), Senegalese basketball player
• Yaya Coulibaly (born 1993), Malian puppet designer, puppeteer, and storyteller
• Yaya DaCosta (born 1982), America's Next Top Model contestant
• Yaya Diallo (born 1946), Malian musician and author
• Yaya Dissa (born 1975), Malian footballer
• Yaya Dillo Djérou (1974–2024), Chadian politician
• Yaya Dukuly (born 2003), Liberian-Australian footballer
• Yaya Fink (born 1984), Israeli social and political activist
• Yaya Fofana (born 2004), Ivorian footballer
• YaYa Gosselin (born 2009), American actress
• Yaya Han (born 1980), Chinese-American cosplayer
• Yaya Hartzenberg (born 1989), South African rugby union player
• Yayah Jalloh (born 1981), Sierra Leonean footballer
• Yayah Kallon (born 2001), Sierra Leonean footballer
• Yaya Kerim (born 1991), Chadian footballer
• Yaya Meledje (born 1997), Ivorian footballer
• Yaya Migansi (1850–1932), princess of Dahomey, present-day Benin
• Yaya Samaké (born 1999), Malian footballer
• Yaya Sanogo (born 1993), French football player
• Yaya Sanou (born 1993), Burkinabé footballer
• Yaya Seyba (born 1957), Malian sprinter
• Yaya Sherfedinov (1894–1975), Soviet-Crimean Tatar composer, musician, and poet
• Yaya Soumahoro (born 1989), Ivorian footballer
• Yaya Soumaré (born 2000), French footballer
• Yaya Sow, Guinean politician
• Yaya Bauchi Tongo (1963–2026), Nigerian businessman and politician
• Yaya Touré (born 1983), Ivorian football player

Surname

• Faouzi Yaya (born 1989), Algerian football player

Places

• Yaya, Çan
• Yaya, Congo, district of Niari Department in the Republic of Congo
• Yaya, Russia, an urban-type settlement in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia
• Yaya (river), a river in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia
• Yaya Island, Russia
• La Yaya Dam, in Cuba
• Yaya, DR Congo, district of Kwilu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Yaya Mongombala, DR Congo, district of Kwilu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Characters

• Yaya Dub, a character played by Maine Mendoza in a comedy segment called "Kalyeserye" in the Filipino noontime show Eat Bulaga!
• Yaya, a 2009 fictional character from the light novel series Unbreakable Machine-Doll
• Yaya Nanto, a character from the anime series Strawberry Panic
• Yaya Yuiki, a character from the manga series Shugo Chara!
• Yaya, a character from the Malaysian animated series BoBoiBoy and BoBoiBoy Galaxy

Music

• Yaya Kim, South Korean solo music project by Kim Eunji
• Ya! Ya!, a 1964 album by saxophonist Budd Johnson
• "Yaya" (song), a 2020 single by 6ix9ine
• "Ya Ya" (Beyoncé song), 2024
• "Ya Ya" (Lee Dorsey song), 1961, covered by Dalida, Petula Clark and others
• Yaya, a 1982 album of Nino Buonocore
• Ya Ya, a 1994 album by Mitsou
• "Yaya", a song by Tara VanFlower from My Little Fire-Filled Heart, 2005
• "Ya Ya", a song by Yeat, from the album Up 2 Me
• Ya-ya, a trombone technique of Tricky Sam Nanton

Other

• Ya Ya (film), a 2013 Tamil language film
• Yaya (military), infantry military units of the Ottoman Empire and some other medieval Anatolian emirates
• YaYa's Flame Broiled Chicken, an American fast food chicken chain
• Ya Ya (panda), a panda
• Ya-Ya, a series of novels by Rebecca Wells

See also

• Yeah Yeah (disambiguation)