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Utkarsh Verma
Utkarsh Verma, also known as Utkarsh Verma Madhur, is an Indian Samajwadi Party politician who has been the Member of the Lok Sabha for Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, since 2024, after serving in the state assembly.
Utkonos
Utkonos is a Russian online-only grocery retailer founded in Moscow in 2000 by Sergey Razumov, Russia's pioneer of home grocery delivery, owned by the supermarket chain Lenta since 2022.
Utkur Mirsaidov
Utkur Mirsaidov is an associate professor of physics at the National University of Singapore who uses liquid-phase electron microscopy to image nanoparticles, wetting, and fabrication in real time.
UTMB World Series
UTMB World Series, global trail running circuit launched 2022 by UTMB Group; Events, Majors, and Finals at UTMB Mont-Blanc (OCC, CCC, UTMB); Running Stones lottery, UTMB Index, 51 events in 28 countries in 2025.
Utnapishtim
Utnapishtim (Ut-napištim), "He Found Life," is the Babylonian flood survivor of Gilgamesh Tablet XI, son of Ubar-Tutu of Shuruppak, warned by Ea, granted immortality, and the Mesopotamian counterpart most often compared with Noah.
Utne Reader
Utne Reader, also known simply as Utne, is an American magazine founded by Eric Utne in 1984 that digests and reprints articles from the alternative and independent press; it grew past 300,000 circulation, renamed itself Utne in 2002, and is now a digital digest from Ogden Publications.
Uto-Aztecan languages
Uto-Aztecan is a Native American language family of about 69 living languages, spoken from Oregon and Idaho to Nicaragua and including Classical Nahuatl, the language of the Aztec Empire.
Utomilumab
Utomilumab (PF-05082566), Pfizer's fully human IgG2 agonist antibody against 4-1BB (CD137), binds CRD3-4, blocks 4-1BBL, is a weak FcγR-dependent agonist, was safer than urelumab but had limited efficacy, and development was discontinued.
Utopia
Utopia: an imagined ideal society; also the 1516 Latin book by Thomas More that coined the word from Greek ou-topos, "no place," punning on "good place," founding a literary genre.
Utopia (2020 TV series)
Utopia (2020) is an American Prime Video conspiracy thriller by Gillian Flynn, adapting Dennis Kelly's British Channel 4 series; eight episodes starring John Cusack, Rainn Wilson, and Sasha Lane, premiered September 25, 2020 and canceled November 27, 2020 after one season.
Utopia (Australian TV series)
Utopia (Australian TV series) is a satire about Australian government bureaucracy. Created by Working Dog, it premiered in 2014 and is set in the fictional Nation Building Authority.
Utopia (Björk album)
Utopia is Björk's ninth studio album, released November 24, 2017 on One Little Indian, produced with Arca and Rabit. A flute-centered companion to Vulnicura, it runs 71 minutes, scored 82 on Metacritic, and spawned the Cornucopia tour.
Utopia (British TV series)
Utopia is a British conspiracy thriller series by Dennis Kelly, broadcast on Channel 4 from 2013 to 2014, following comic-book fans hunted by a shadowy organization.
Utopia (More book)
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus...), Thomas More's Latin dialogue first printed by Dirk Martens at Louvain in December 1516, describes an island commonwealth without private property and coined the word "utopia".
Utopia (Travis Scott album)
UTOPIA is Travis Scott's fourth studio album, released July 28, 2023 on Cactus Jack/Epic; 19 tracks with Beyoncé, Drake, and The Weeknd; debuted No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 496,000 units and earned a 2024 Best Rap Album Grammy nomination.
Utopia Falls
Utopia Falls is a 2020 Canadian teen sci-fi hip-hop drama series created by R.T. Thorne, streaming on Hulu and CBC Gem. Set in the future colony New Babyl, ten episodes follow Exemplar competitors who discover a forbidden archive of hip-hop history; canceled after one season.
Utopia Park
Utopia Park (פארק אוטופיה), or Utopia Orchid Park, is Israel's covered tropical rainforest at Kibbutz Bahan, opened 2006, with thousands of orchids, carnivorous plants, mazes, and a musical fountain; distinct from Utopia Park, Texas.
Utopia Parkway
Utopia Parkway is the second studio album by Fountains of Wayne (Atlantic, April 6, 1999), a 14-track suburban-themed power pop record by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger; a critical hit that never cracked Billboard's Top 100 and got the band dropped.
Utopia Planitia
Utopia Planitia, a vast northern-hemisphere plain of Mars and a ~3,200 km impact basin; Viking 2 landed there in 1976 and China's Zhurong rover in 2021, finding buried ice and possible ancient beach deposits.
Utopia Rupēs
Utopia Rupēs (Utopia Rupes), an IAU-approved 2003 scarp feature on Mars, ID 6261, about 2,493 km across, centered near 43.53°N, 86.03°E in the northern lowlands at the Utopia basin margin, named for a classical albedo feature.
Utopian and dystopian fiction
Utopian and dystopian fiction: related speculative traditions imagining ideal or magnified-worse societies, founded by Thomas More's Utopia (1516), which coined "utopia"; dystopia emerged in the mid-late 1800s, spanning Bellamy, Orwell, Atwood, and YA hits like The Hunger Games.
Utopian literature in German
Utopian literature in German, or deutsche Utopieliteratur, is German-language writing about ideal or deliberately bad societies, beginning with More's Utopia in translation in 1524 and spanning utopias and dystopias to today.
Utopian scholastic
Utopian scholastic, also called Kid Frasurbane, is a design aesthetic of late-1980s to early-2000s edutainment media: DK Eyewitness books, Microsoft Encarta, documentaries, and museums, defined by photo cut-outs on white, serif type, and pre-9/11 optimism; coined in 2017 by CARI-affiliated archivists.
Utopian socialism
Utopian socialism is the early nineteenth-century school of social thought represented by Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Owen, who sought to rebuild society cooperatively rather than through class struggle.
UTOS Gas Pipeline
The UTOS Gas Pipeline, also known as the U-T Offshore System, is a 42-inch natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico running to Cameron Parish, Louisiana, built in the late 1970s.
Utøya
Utøya is an island in Tyrifjorden, Hole municipality, Norway, owned by the Workers' Youth League (AUF) and site of its summer camp; on 22 July 2011 a right-wing terrorist killed 69 people there. Rebuilt as a memorial and learning site.
Utpal Banerjee
Utpal Banerjee is an Indian-born American developmental biologist at UCLA who studies cell signaling in the Drosophila eye, blood progenitor maintenance, and metabolic control of development.
Utpal Dutt
Utpal Dutt (উৎপল দত্ত, 1929–1993), Indian actor, director, and playwright; founder of the Little Theatre Group (1949) and maker of Marxist political theatre in Bengal, also known for Bengali and Hindi film roles.
Utpal Kumar Singh (उत्पल कुमार सिंह)
Utpal Kumar Singh (उत्पल कुमार सिंह), born 1960, is a retired 1986-batch IAS officer of the Uttarakhand cadre and former Uttarakhand Chief Secretary (2017–2020) serving as Lok Sabha Secretary-General since 1 December 2020.
Utpal Pajvani
Utpal B. Pajvani is an American physician-scientist at Columbia University whose research established that Notch signaling drives insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease in obesity.