Aphabetic letter pairs in words

XR = Xosha Kai Roquemore

American actress, The Mindy Project

Xavier Suarez, Miami mayor

XT - Xenia Tchoumitcheva, model, etc.

XU = Xaver Unsinn

German ice hockey player

XV = Xavi Vierge, Spanish motorcycle racer

XW - Xenia Wickett

British nonprofit exec

XX - Xiao Xun, Taiwanese singer, actress

XY = Xavier Yombandje, former Central African Roman Catholic bishop.

Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet

YA = Yasser Arafat

YB = Yogi Berra or Yogi Bear

YC- Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig

YD = Yulia Drunina, a Soviet poet after whom minor planet 3804 Drunina was named.

YE- Yvonne Elliman (“I don’t know how to loooooove hiiiim…”)

YF = Yves Farge

French journalist

YG- Yuri Gagarin, first man in space
Hint for the next person: “Somewhere… over the rainbow…”

YH = Yip Harburg, composer of “Over the Rainbow”, “Paper Moon”, “April in Paris”.

Harburg was the lyricist, not the composer.

YI - Yelena Isinbayeva, Olympic gold-medal pole vaulter

YJ = Yung Joc, hip-hop artist

YK- Yolanda King, MLK’s daughter