Yul Brynner (born Yuly Borisovich Briner, Russian:Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born, United States-based film and stage actor.

Brynner was best known for his portrayals of Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, and of King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for the film version. He played the role 4625 times on stage. He portrayed General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia and the gunman Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven.