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Um Copo de Cólera
Um Copo de Cólera (A Cup of Rage) is a 1978 short novel by the Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar, depicting a violent weekend quarrel between a smallholder and his younger lover.
Uma Riyaz Khan
Uma Riyaz Khan (born 1975) is a Tamil film and TV actress, daughter of actress Kamala Kamesh, wife of actor Riyaz Khan, known for Anbe Sivam, Mouna Guru, and Cooku With Comali.
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman, American actress; daughter of Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman. Known for Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction (Oscar-nominated, 1995) and The Bride in Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2, co-conceived with Tarantino in 1993.
Uma Thurman (song)
"Uma Thurman" is a 2015 Fall Out Boy single from American Beauty/American Psycho that samples Jack Marshall's Munsters TV theme, honors the Pulp Fiction dance scene, peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won the 2015 MTV VMA for Best Rock Video.
Uma2rman
Uma2rman (Уматурман, also styled Uma2rmaH) is a Russian pop-rock duo of brothers Vladimir and Sergey Kristovsky, formed in 2003 in Nizhny Novgorod and named after Uma Thurman.
Umair Jaswal
Umair Jaswal (عمیر جسوال), born 1986, is a Pakistani rock singer-songwriter, producer, and actor from Islamabad, formerly of Qayaas, famous for Coke Studio's Sammi Meri Waar, Mor Mahal, and albums Umair Jaswal and Dance Kerain Saari Raat.
Umakeralam
Umakeralam (ഉമാകേരളം) is a Malayalam mahakavya by Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, first published in 1913, telling the story of Umayamma Rani, the 17th-century regent queen of Venad.
Umami
Umami (うま味) is the fifth basic taste, the savory taste of glutamate, inosinate, and guanylate, identified by Kikunae Ikeda in kombu dashi in 1908 and now recognized in foods from cheese to soy sauce.
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray (ウマ娘 シンデレラグレイ)
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray (ウマ娘 シンデレラグレイ) is a Weekly Young Jump manga (2020–2025, 23 volumes, 8 million copies) by Taiyou Kuzumi, Masafumi Sugiura, and Junnosuke Ito, original Cygames, following horse girl Oguri Cap from Kasamatsu regional racing to central-racing legend; TV anime aired 2025 in two cours.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー 新時代の扉)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー 新時代の扉) is the 2024 CygamesPictures anime film, the franchise's first movie, following Jungle Pocket through the Classic Triple Crown; it earned ¥1.41 billion in Japan and reached North America in 2026.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) (TV series)
Umamusume: Pretty Derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) TV series: 2018, 2021, and 2023 P.A.WORKS anime seasons directed by Kei Oikawa, following horse girls like Special Week racing in the Twinkle Series.
Umar Kamani
Umar Kamani, British entrepreneur, co-founded fast-fashion e-tailer PrettyLittleThing with brother Adam in 2012, sold it to Boohoo by 2020 for up to £323.8m, led it as CEO until 2023, returned 2024, and is building a Dubai-based fashion-wellness brand.
Umar Kayam
Umar Kayam (1932–2002) was an Indonesian writer, sociologist, and cultural authority who wrote acclaimed fiction on Javanese society and served under the New Order government.
Umar Marvi
Umar Marvi (Sindhi: عمر مارئي) is a Sindhi folk tale in which Marvi, a village girl of the Thar desert, refuses ruler Umar Soomro and is returned to her people.
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.
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.
Umberto Bindi
Umberto Bindi (1932–2002) was an Italian singer-songwriter and composer from Bogliasco near Genoa, best known for 'Il nostro concerto' (1960) and remembered as a founder of the Genoese school of cantautori.
Umberto Boccioni
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) was an Italian painter and sculptor, the leading artist of Italian Futurism, best known for the 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
Umberto D.
Umberto D. (1952), Vittorio De Sica's neorealist drama written by Cesare Zavattini, follows retired pensioner Umberto Ferrari and his dog Flike facing eviction in postwar Rome; often dated as the last neorealist film, a flop in Italy later honored abroad.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian novelist, semiotician, and medievalist, professor of Semiotics at Bologna; author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Opera aperta, and Trattato di semiotica generale.
Umbo
Umbo, born Otto Maximilian Umbehr (1902–1980), was a German photographer, a leading figure of Bauhaus photography known for close-up portraits and high-angle Berlin street scenes such as Mystery of the Street.
Umbrella (song)
Umbrella, Rihanna's 2007 single featuring Jay-Z from Good Girl Gone Bad, written by Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Kuk Harrell, and Jay-Z; ten weeks at UK number one, Grammy-winning, originally offered to Britney Spears.
Umbrella Corporation
Umbrella Corporation is the fictional pharmaceutical-biotech company in Capcom's Resident Evil franchise, founded in-universe in 1968 by Spencer, Ashford, and Marcus; secretly a bioweapons developer whose T-Virus destroyed Raccoon City before its 2003 collapse.
Umbro
Umbro is a British sportswear brand founded in 1924 by Harold and Wallace Humphreys (from Humphreys Brothers), known for the double diamond logo, England's 1966 World Cup kit, the Speciali boot, and replica kits; owned by Authentic Brands Group since the 2022 Iconix acquisition.
Umeboshi (梅干し)
Umeboshi (梅干し), Japanese salted and sun-dried pickled ume (Prunus mume) fruit, a Heian-era medicine and preserved food; traditional types carry about 20% salt, Wakayama's Nanko-ume is the signature variety, and pickling yields sour umezu brine.
Umehara Ryūzaburō
Umehara Ryūzaburō (梅原龍三郎, 1888–1986) was a Japanese yōga, or Western-style, painter who studied under Renoir in France and led modern Japanese oil painting through the Taishō and Shōwa periods.
UMEK
UMEK is the stage name of Uroš Umek, a Slovenian techno DJ and producer born in 1976 who pioneered Slovenia's rave scene and founded the label 1605.
Umělecká beseda
Umělecká beseda ("Artistic Society") is a Czech artists' association founded in Prague in 1863 by figures including Bedřich Smetana, uniting writers, musicians, and visual artists.
Umer Shareef
Umer Shareef (عمر شریف), born Muhammad Umer, Pakistani comedian and stage actor (1955–2021) famed for Bakra Qiston Pe and Mr 420, National and Nigar Awards, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz.
Umera Ahmed (عمیرہ احمد)
Umera Ahmed (عمیرہ احمد), born 1976 in Sialkot, is a leading Pakistani Urdu novelist and screenwriter, author of Peer-e-Kamil and Zindagi Gulzar Hai, whose digest-born fiction and TV adaptations dominate popular Urdu fiction.