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Well there is Yuri Yakovich, but that would be same same but different
Yuri (or Yury, Юрий/Юрiй/Юры) is a pretty common slavic name, with the same origins as George but on a different linguistic path. Wikipedia lists a lot of people with this name, including the founder of the city of Moscow Yuri Dolgorukiy (surname translates roughly as Long-handed), chairman of KGB Yuri Andropov, but interestingly doesn't list Yuri Knorozov who is famous for deciphering Maya script and for including his cat Asya as a co-author of his papers.
Interestingly enough, Kim Jong-Il, the previous General Secretary of North Korea, has a birth name of Yuri Irsenovich Kim. I just learned this fact from this very same wiki article, so I decided to immediately share
I have a coworker named Yuri, who emigrated from the USSR, and the auto-captioning of videochats keeps calling him Fury.
Just waiting for the nominative determinism to kick in.