All articles starting with U

Umar Nurmagomedov (Умар Нурмагомедов)

Umar Nurmagomedov (Умар Нурмагомедов), born 1996, is a Russian UFC bantamweight from Dagestan, cousin of Khabib and brother of Usman. Record 20-2; lost the 2025 title fight to Merab Dvalishvili and was knocked out by Song Yadong in 2026.

Umar Sadiq

Umar Sadiq, Nigerian centre-forward born 1997 in Kaduna; Almería striker (43 goals in 84 games), Real Sociedad's €20m 2022 signing, and Valencia CF player from 2025, with 9 Nigeria caps.

Oct 22, 2026

Umar Samatar

Umar Samatar, also spelled Omar Samatar, was a Somali rebel leader of the Majeerteen clan who led a 1925 revolt against Italian rule at El Bur.

Umar Tall's conquest of Masina

Umar Tall's conquest of Masina was the 1862 overthrow of the Masina caliphate by Tukulor forces of al-Hajj Umar Tall, who took the capital Hamdallahi in central Mali.

Umar Tall's conquest of Segou

Umar Tall's conquest of Segou was the capture of the Bambara capital of Segou on the Niger River in 1861 by al-Hajj Umar Tall's Toucouleur army, ending the Segou Empire.

Umar Tall's jihad manifestos and correspondence

Umar Tall's jihad manifestos and correspondence are the Arabic letters and treatises of al-Hajj Umar Tall, justifying his jihad against the Muslim caliphate of Masina, conquered in 1862.

Umara al-Yamani

Umara al-Yamani (عمارة اليمني) was a Yemeni poet, historian, and Shafii jurist, executed in Cairo by order of Saladin after the fall of the Fatimids.

Umarell

Umarell (umarèll, plural umarells) is a Bolognese-dialect neologism coined by Danilo Masotti in 2005 for retirees who watch construction sites, hands behind their back, offering unsolicited advice; it entered the Zingarelli dictionary in 2021.

Sep 19, 2026

Umaria Sinhawansa

Umaria Sinhawansa, born in 1991, is a Sri Lankan pop, R&B, and jazz singer from Colombo whose hit 'Manda Pama' has surpassed 25 million views.

Umaru Dallaji

Umaru Dallaji was a Fulani religious and military leader who captured Katsina in 1806 during Usman dan Fodio's jihad and became its first Fulani emir, founding the Dallazawa dynasty.

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua

Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951–2010), Nigerian president 2007–2010 and Katsina governor 1999–2007; PDP, Seven-Point Agenda, Niger Delta amnesty; presidency cut short by illness and the 2010 Doctrine of Necessity crisis.

Umaru Nagwamatse

Umaru Nagwamatse was a prince of Sokoto's ruling Fulani house who won the title sarkin sudan in 1859 and founded the Kontagora emirate, ruling until his death in 1876.

Oct 22, 2026

Umaru of Bida

Umaru of Bida, also known as Umaru Majigi, was the third Etsu Nupe, the Fulani ruler of the Bida Emirate in Niger State, Nigeria, from 1873 to 1884.

Umashankar Joshi

Umashankar Joshi (ઉમાશંકર જોષી) was a Gujarati poet, playwright, essayist, and editor, 1911 to 1988, a leading Gandhi-era literary figure who won the 1968 Jnanpith Award for Nishith.

Umask

Umask (file mode creation mask) is a per-process setting in Unix and Unix-like operating systems that determines which permission bits are turned off when a process creates a new file or directory.

UMass Chan Medical School

UMass Chan Medical School, formerly UMass Medical School, is Massachusetts' public academic health sciences center in Worcester, founded 1962, renamed 2021 after a $175M Morningside Foundation gift, with three graduate schools and Nobel laureates Mello and Ambros.

Umasvati

Umasvati (उमास्वाति), also called Umasvami, was a Jain acarya and philosopher of the early centuries CE, author of the Tattvarthasutra, the first systematic work of Jain philosophy in Sanskrit.

Oct 20, 2026

Umay-ene Corona

Umay-ene Corona (Umay ene Corona) is a 370-km-diameter corona on Venus at 50.5°E, 27.5°S in quadrangle V-45, a double-ringed basin with nested ridges, named in 1997 for the Kazakh childcare goddess Umay.

Sep 19, 2026

Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman

Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman (உமையாள்புரம் கே. சிவராமன்), born 1935 in Kumbakonam, is a leading Indian Carnatic mridangam player of the Tanjore school and a Padma Vibhushan awardee.

Umayamma Rani

Umayamma Rani (ഉമയമ്മ റാണി), also known as Asvathi Tirunal Umayamma, was a rani of Attingal in Kerala who became regent of Venad in 1677 and dominated Travancore politics.

Umayya ibn Abd Allah

Umayya ibn Abd Allah (أمية بن عبد الله) was an Umayyad prince of the Quraysh who served as governor of Khurasan under Caliph Abd al-Malik, dying around 705–706.

Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt

Umayya ibn Abi al-Salt (أمية بن أبي الصلت) was an Arab poet of Ta'if, a pre-Islamic hanif whose poems versify biblical lore and the prophets.

Umayyad Caliphate (الخلافة الأموية)

Umayyad Caliphate (الخلافة الأموية), first hereditary Muslim dynasty, 661–750, capital Damascus, empire from Atlantic to Indus; Sufyanid and Marwanid branches; fell to the Abbasid Revolution in 750, with a surviving line ruling Córdoba from 756.

Umayyad conquest of Ifriqiya

The Umayyad conquest of Ifriqiya (فتح إفريقية) was the Umayyad caliphate's campaign, begun in 665, to take the Byzantine province of Ifriqiya, founding Kairouan in 670.

Umayyad conquest of Sindh

The Umayyad conquest of Sindh (فتح السند) was the campaign in which Arab forces under Muhammad bin Qasim overran the Indus valley between 711 and 713.

Umayyad dynasty

Umayyad dynasty (Banu Umayya, بنو أمية), first hereditary Islamic dynasty, founded by Mu'awiya ibn Abi Sufyan; ruled from Damascus 661–750, conquered from the Indus to Iberia, and survived as the Córdoba caliphate until 1031.

Umayyad Mosque (الجامع الأموي)

The Umayyad Mosque (الجامع الأموي), also called the Great Mosque of Damascus, is the congregational mosque of Damascus, built by caliph al-Walid I between 706 and 715.

Umbanda

Umbanda is a Brazilian spirit-incorporation religion in which mediums receive spirit guides who give advice, healing, and blessings, blending Spiritism with Afro-Brazilian and Catholic elements.

Oct 15, 2026

Umbelliferone

Umbelliferone, also called 7-hydroxycoumarin, is a naturally occurring coumarin found widely in plants such as carrots, used in sunscreens and fluorescent sensors and studied for anti-inflammatory and anticancer effects.