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Usha Mangeshkar (उषा मंगेशकर)
Usha Mangeshkar (उषा मंगेशकर), born 15 December 1935, is an Indian playback singer, fourth child of Deenanath Mangeshkar and sister of Lata and Asha, known for Jai Santoshi Maa's bhajans, Mungda, and Marathi and Gujarati singing.
Usha Parinayam (ఉషా పరిణయం) (2024 film)
Usha Parinayam (ఉష పరిణయం), also called Love Is Beautiful, is a 2024 Telugu romantic drama written, produced and directed by K. Vijaya Bhaskar, starring his son Sree Kamal and debutant Tanvi Akaanksha; released 2 August 2024, 144 minutes, U/A, grossing ₹0.14 crore.
Usha Priyamvada
Usha Priyamvada, pen name of Usha Nilsson, is an Indian-born American Hindi novelist of the Nayi Kahani movement, best known for her first novel, Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (1961).
Usha Uthup (उषा अय्यर)
Usha Uthup (उषा उथुप), born 1947 in Bombay, is an Indian pop and playback singer who began at the Nine Gems nightclub in 1969, known for Hari Om Hari, Rambha Ho, and Darling; Padma Bhushan 2024.
Ushak carpet
The Ushak carpet (Uşak halısı) is an Ottoman carpet woven in Uşak, western Anatolia, from the 15th century onward in two classic types, medallion and star, and exported widely across Europe.
Ushanka (ушанка)
Ushanka (ушанка), or shapka-ushanka, is the Russian winter fur or cloth hat with tieable earflaps, descended from the treukh and malakhai; adopted by the Red Army in 1940 (order No. 187) and a global symbol of Russia.
Usher (album)
Usher (album): 1994 self-titled debut studio album by R&B singer Usher, released August 30, 1994 on LaFace Records, 14 tracks coproduced by L.A. Reid and Sean Combs, gold-certified via single "Think of You."
Usher (musician)
Usher (Usher Raymond IV, born 1978, Dallas) is an American R&B and pop singer with eight Grammys, diamond-certified Confessions (2004), a Las Vegas residency, the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show, and Coming Home (2024).
Usher discography
Usher discography: catalog of nine studio albums by Usher Raymond IV, from Usher (1994) to Coming Home (2024), including My Way, 8701, and the diamond-certified Confessions with four Hot 100 No. 1 singles.
Usher: Past Present Future
Usher: Past Present Future was a concert tour by American R&B singer Usher, running from August 2024 to May 2025 across North America and Europe.
Ushijima the Loan Shark (闇金ウシジマくん)
Ushijima the Loan Shark (闇金ウシジマくん, Yamikin Ushijima-kun) is Shohei Manabe's manga about loan shark Kaoru Ushijima of Kaukau Finance, lending at 50% per ten days; serialized from 2004 in Big Comic Spirits, 10 million copies, Shogakukan Manga Award, three dramas and four films starring Takayuki Yamada.
Ushna Shah
Ushna Shah is a Pakistani actress and Hum Award winner known for playing negative and morally complex characters in serials such as Balaa, Parizaad, and Habs.
Uski Roti (उसकी रोटी)
Uski Roti (उसकी रोटी, A Day's Bread) is Mani Kaul's 1969 Hindi debut feature, adapted from a Mohan Rakesh short story about Balo, a village wife who waits at a bus stop to feed her bus-driver husband; one of the three 1969 films that inaugurated Indian Parallel Cinema.
Usman Awang
Usman Awang, pen name Tongkat Warrant, was a Malaysian poet and playwright named the third Sasterawan Negara in 1983 and known as the People's Poet.
Usmar Ismail
Usmar Ismail (1921–1971) was an Indonesian film director, producer, and writer called the father of Indonesian cinema; he founded Perfini and directed Darah dan Doa (1950), regarded as the start of national cinema.
Usopp (ウソップ)
Usopp (ウソップ), the sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates in Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, son of Yasopp of the Red Hair Pirates; a lying, cowardly marksman and inventor also known as Sogeking, the King of Snipers.
USS Callister
USS Callister is the Black Mirror season 4 premiere (2017), written by Charlie Brooker and William Bridges and directed by Toby Haynes, in which programmer Robert Daly clones co-workers inside a Star Trek-styled game mod; it won four 2018 Emmys and received the sequel USS Callister: Into Infinity in 2025.
USS Callister: Into Infinity
USS Callister: Into Infinity is the 2025 Black Mirror season 7 finale and first-ever sequel episode, continuing 2017's USS Callister; directed by Toby Haynes, written by Charlie Brooker and others, it strands the cloned crew in the game Infinity.
USS Defiant
USS Defiant (NX-74205), also known via its replacement USS Sao Paulo NCC-75633, is the Defiant-class prototype warship from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, built to fight the Borg, destroyed at Chin'toka in 2375, and succeeded by a renamed sister ship.
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, the Galaxy-class flagship of Star Trek: The Next Generation under Captain Jean-Luc Picard; designed by Andrew Probert, capable of saucer separation, destroyed in Generations and restored in Picard season 3.
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the fictional Constitution-class Star Trek starship designed by Matt Jefferies in 1964, launched in-universe in 2245, commanded by Kirk, destroyed in 2285; its 11-foot filming model rests at the Smithsonian.
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage is a 2016 war drama directed by Mario Van Peebles, starring Nicolas Cage as Captain Charles McVay. It dramatizes the July 1945 sinking of USS Indianapolis by submarine I-58 and the crew's days adrift, and was poorly received (18% Tomatometer, Metascore 30).
USS Midway Museum
USS Midway Museum, a naval museum aboard the retired carrier USS Midway (CV-41) at Navy Pier, San Diego, opened June 7, 2004; longest-serving 20th-century US carrier, 47 years of service, 20+ million visitors, 30+ aircraft.
Usseewa
Usseewa (うっせぇわ), roughly "Shut up!", is the 2020 debut single by Japanese singer Ado, written by Vocaloid producer syudou; it topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 and passed 500 million streams.
Ustad Bukhari
Ustad Bukhari (استاد بخاري), born Syed Ahmed Shah Bukhari, was a progressive Sindhi-language poet of Sindh, Pakistan, whose poetry voiced the lives of farmers, laborers, and the poor.
Ustad Daman
Ustad Daman (استاد دامن), born Chiragh Din, was a Punjabi poet and tailor of Lahore, Pakistan, known for extemporaneous verse against colonial rule and Pakistani governments.
Ustad Faiyaaz Wasifuddin Dagar
Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar, born in Delhi in 1968, is an Indian dhrupad singer of the Dagar family tradition, the 20th generation of his lineage, and a Padma Shri recipient.
Ustad Hotel (ഉസ്താദ് ഹോട്ടൽ)
Ustad Hotel (ഉസ്താദ് ഹോട്ടൽ), also spelled Usthad Hotel, is a 2012 Malayalam comedy-drama directed by Anwar Rasheed, written by Anjali Menon, starring Dulquer Salmaan and Thilakan; it won three National Film Awards and was the top Malayalam grosser of 2012.
Ustad Mansur
Ustad Mansur was a Mughal court painter under Akbar and Jahangir, active from about 1589 to 1626, known for his natural history studies of India's birds and flowers.
Ustadh Mau
Ustadh Mau is the pen name of Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir (born 1952), a Swahili poet and imam from Lamu, Kenya, writing didactic poetry in the Kiamu dialect.