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Udham Singh (ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ)
Udham Singh (ਊਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ), Indian revolutionary who shot Sir Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall, London, on 13 March 1940, avenging the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre; tried at the Old Bailey and executed.
Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link
The Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) is a 272 km broad gauge railway in Jammu and Kashmir, India, connecting the Kashmir Valley to the Indian Railways network.
Udhaya (உதயா)
Udhaya (உதயா) is a 2004 Tamil action thriller directed by N. Azhagam Perumal, starring Vijay and Simran, with music by A. R. Rahman. Released 26 March 2004 by Pyramid Entertainment; a man is framed for a terrorist plot and his love interest fights to prove his innocence.
Udhayam NH4
Udhayam NH4 (உதயம் NH4) is a 2013 Tamil romantic thriller directed by Manimaran, written by Vetrimaaran, starring Siddharth, Ashrita Shetty, and Kay Kay Menon, about a kidnapping chase along the Bengaluru–Chennai NH4 highway.
Udhayanidhi Stalin (உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின்)
Udhayanidhi Stalin (உதயநிதி ஸ்டாலின்), Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister, DMK youth wing secretary, son of M. K. Stalin and grandson of M. Karunanidhi; former Red Giant Movies producer-distributor and actor who retired after Maamannan (2023).
Udhri poetry
Udhri poetry (الشعر العذري, al-ghazal al-'udhri) is a classical Arabic genre of chaste love poetry named for the Banu 'Udhra tribe, peaking in the Umayyad era.
Udina
Udina (Bolshaya and Malaya Udina) is a pair of Holocene stratovolcanoes at the south end of Kamchatka's Kliuchevskaya group, Russia, with no known Holocene eruptions but seismic unrest in 2017-2019 suggesting possible magmatic reawakening.
Udine
Udine is a city in northeastern Italy, the main city of Friuli, with about 98,500 residents and landmarks including its hilltop castle, cathedral, and Tiepolo frescoes.
Udinese Calcio
Udinese Calcio, founded 1896 in Udine, is Italy's second-oldest active football club and a Serie A mainstay since 1995 under Pozzo ownership, known for global scouting, player trading, and the Bluenergy Stadium.
Udio
Udio, also known as Udio.com or Udio AI, is an AI music creation platform launched in April 2024 that generates songs from text prompts and lyrics.
Udio (company)
Udio, formally Uncharted Labs, is an AI music-generation startup founded in December 2023 by former Google DeepMind researchers, known for its April 2024 platform launch and major-label copyright lawsuits.
Udit Narayan (उदित नारायण झा)
Udit Narayan (उदित नारायण झा), born Udit Narayan Jha, 1955, is an Indian playback singer, the 1990s Hindi-film male voice behind 'Papa Kehte Hain', with five Filmfare Awards, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.
Udjahorresnet
Udjahorresnet, also written Wedjahor-Resne, was an Egyptian high official and chief physician from Sais who served the pharaohs Amasis and Psammetichus III, then the Persian kings Cambyses II and Darius I.
Udjebten
Udjebten, also written Wedjebten, was a queen consort of Pepi II of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, buried in a pyramid at South Saqqara whose burial chamber bore Pyramid Texts.
Udmurtia (Удмуртия)
Udmurtia (Удмуртия), the Udmurt Republic, is a Russian federal subject between the Kama and Vyatka rivers, capital Izhevsk; homeland of the Finno-Ugric Udmurts, about 35% of its 1.49 million people, with a declining Udmurt-language community.
Udne Ki Aasha (उड़ने की आशा)
Udne Ki Aasha (उड़ने की आशा) is a Star Plus Hindi family drama premiering 12 March 2024, a Hindi adaptation of Tamil's Siragadikka Aasai, starring Kanwar Dhillon as taxi driver Sachin and Neha Harsora as florist Sailee in a Marathi setting.
Udo Beyer
Udo Beyer (born 1955, Eisenhüttenstadt), East German shot putter, 1976 Olympic champion and 1980 bronze medalist, set three world records ending at 22.64 m in 1986; later ran a Potsdam travel agency.
Udo Bullmann
Udo Bullmann is a German SPD politician who has served in the European Parliament since 1999 and chaired the Socialists and Democrats group from 2018 to 2019.
Udo Dirkschneider
Udo Dirkschneider (born 1952, Wuppertal) is a German heavy metal singer, original vocalist of Accept (Breaker, Balls to the Wall) and founder of U.D.O., also touring as Dirkschneider with Accept songs and leading Dirkschneider & The Old Gang.
Udo Hempel
Udo Hempel, German track cyclist born 1946 in Düsseldorf: West German team pursuit silver 1968, Olympic gold 1972, world champion 1970, eight national titles, and national track coach 1982–88.
Udo Kier
Udo Kier (Udo Kierspe, 1944–2025), German cult character actor of over 200 films: Warhol's Frankenstein and Dracula, Fassbinder, Lars von Trier, My Own Private Idaho, Swan Song, Yuri in Red Alert 2; died in Palm Springs at 81.
Udo Lindenberg
Udo Lindenberg, born 1946 in Gronau, Westphalia, is a German rock singer and painter credited as the inventor of Deutschrock; his 2023 hit Komet spent 21 weeks at number 1.
Udo Poser
Udo Poser (born 1947 in Hildburghausen) is a German swimmer for East Germany and ASK Vorwärts Rostock who swam heats on the 1972 Olympic 4x100 freestyle relay.
Udo Quellmalz
Udo Quellmalz is a German judoka who won Olympic gold in the half-lightweight class at Atlanta 1996 after Barcelona 1992 bronze, then became an international coach.
Udo Schwingenschlögl
Udo Schwingenschlögl is a computational condensed-matter physicist and professor of applied physics at KAUST in Saudi Arabia, where he leads the Computational Physics and Materials Science Lab.
Udo Seifert
Udo Seifert is a theoretical physicist and pioneer of stochastic thermodynamics, which extends work, heat, and entropy production to individual fluctuating trajectories; he has been a professor at the University of Stuttgart since 2001.
Udo Wagner
Udo Wagner (born 1963, Bautzen) is a German foil fencer, the only Olympic fencing medalist from East Germany: silver in individual foil at Seoul 1988, gold in team foil for reunified Germany at Barcelona 1992, plus four World Championship team medals.
Udokan Plateau
Udokan Plateau (Udokan volcanic plateau): a 3,000 km2 Miocene-to-Holocene volcanic field on the NE Baikal Rift in Siberia, Russia, with cinder cones, domes, and maars; last eruption at Chepe, 220 BCE.
Udomporn Polsak
Udomporn Polsak (อุดมพร พลศักดิ์), Thai weightlifter born 1981, first Thai woman to win Olympic gold, taking the 53 kg title at Athens 2004 with a 222.5 kg total; also 2003 world champion.
Udon
Udon (うどん) is a thick, chewy Japanese wheat noodle made from flour, salt, and water, served hot in dashi, cold with dipping sauce, or stir-fried; famous styles include Sanuki udon of Kagawa and firm Yoshida udon.