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UEFA Women's Europa Cup

UEFA Women's Europa Cup: UEFA's second-tier women's club competition, launched 2025/26 as a straight knockout. Häcken won the first edition, beating Hammarby 4-2 on aggregate; Schröder top scored with 8.

UEFA Women's Nations League

UEFA Women's Nations League: biennial European women's national team competition, three leagues of 51 teams, promotion/relegation, finals; Spain won the 2024 inaugural title, which doubled as Olympic qualifying.

UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship

The UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship is UEFA's annual European championship for under-17 women's national football teams, running since 2007/08 and doubling as World Cup qualification.

UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship

The UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship is the European championship for women's national under-19 football teams, founded in 1997/98 and doubling as UEFA's route into the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

UEFA Youth League

UEFA Youth League, annual UEFA Under-19 club competition launched 2013/14 after an ECA request; Champions League path plus domestic champions path; winners lift the Lennart Johansson trophy; Barcelona hold three titles.

UEFI

UEFI, or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, is a specification that defines how operating systems boot on platform firmware, and it has replaced the legacy BIOS on most modern systems.

Uehara Yūsaku

Uehara Yūsaku (上原勇作, 1856–1933) was a marshal and general of the Imperial Japanese Army whose resignation as Army Minister in 1912 forced the Saionji cabinet's fall, the Taisho political crisis.

Uejima Onitsura

Uejima Onitsura (上島鬼貫, 1661–1738) was a Japanese haikai poet of the Edo period, born in Itami, known for the doctrine "no haikai apart from truth."

Uele (landform)

Uele (Uellé, Uélé), river in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, rising near the Uganda border at about 1,620 m and flowing about 1,100–1,210 km west to join the Bomu at Yakoma and form the Ubangi River.

Uele (protected area)

Uele is a freshwater ecoregion in the Freshwater Ecoregions of the World classification, covering the Uele River basin in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.

Uelen

Uelen (Уэлен; Chukchi Увэлен) is a selo in Chukotsky District, Chukotka, the easternmost inhabited settlement of Russia and Eurasia since 1958, near Cape Dezhnev, with 673 residents (2023) and a famous walrus-ivory carving workshop founded in 1931.

Ueli Aebi

Ueli Aebi (1946–2025) was a Swiss structural cell biologist at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, known for work on the cytoskeleton, nuclear lamina, and nuclear pore complexes.

Ueli Grossniklaus

Ueli Grossniklaus, born 1964 in Beatenberg, Switzerland, is a Swiss plant developmental biologist and full professor at the University of Zurich known for work on genomic imprinting, seed development, and apomixis.

Ueli Rutishauser

Ueli Rutishauser is a Swiss-born systems neuroscientist who studies human memory and cognition by recording individual neurons in living people, directing the Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai.

Ueli Schibler

Ueli Schibler (Ulrich Schibler), born in 1947, is a Swiss molecular biologist at the University of Geneva known for discovering self-sustained circadian clocks in organs such as the liver.

Ueli Steck

Ueli Steck (1976-2017), the "Swiss Machine," was a Swiss speed alpinist who set Eiger north face records (2:47:33) and soloed Annapurna's south face in 28 hours; he died on Nuptse in 2017.

Ueli Suter

Ueli Suter is a Swiss neuroscientist and professor emeritus at ETH Zurich who studies neuron-glia interactions and myelination, best known for identifying the PMP22 mutation in the Trembler mouse.

Uemura Shōen

Uemura Shōen (上村松園, 1875–1949), real name Uemura Tsune, was a Kyoto nihonga painter of beautiful women and the first woman to receive the Order of Culture.

Ueno Hikoma

Ueno Hikoma (上野彦馬, 1838–1904) was a Japanese photographer who opened one of Japan's first commercial photographic studios in Nagasaki in 1862, photographing leading Bakumatsu figures like Sakamoto Ryōma.

Ueno Park (上野公園)

Ueno Park (上野公園), formally Ueno Onshi Park, is a Tokyo public park designated Japan's first park in March 1873 on the former Kan'ei-ji temple grounds after Dr. Bauduin's proposal; it holds major museums, Ueno Zoo, Shinobazu Pond, and famous cherry blossoms.

Ueno Seiki

Ueno Seiki (上野精機株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of semiconductor and electronic-parts inspection equipment, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Mizumaki-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, with a stated top share in visual inspection equipment.

Uerdingen

KFC Uerdingen 05 (Krefelder Fußballclub Uerdingen 05), German football club founded 1905 in Krefeld-Uerdingen; Bayer 05 Uerdingen 1953–1995; 1985 DFB Cup winners, 14 Bundesliga seasons, now fifth-tier Oberliga Niederrhein.

Uesugi clan

The Uesugi clan (上杉氏) was a Japanese warrior family that served the Ashikaga shoguns as hereditary deputies over the Kantō region, later led by Uesugi Kenshin and based at Yonezawa.

Uesugi Kagekatsu

Uesugi Kagekatsu (上杉景勝) was a Japanese daimyō, nephew and adopted son of Uesugi Kenshin, who led the Uesugi clan from 1578 until his death in 1623.

Uesugi Kagetora

Uesugi Kagetora (上杉景虎) was a Sengoku-period Japanese warlord, a son of Hōjō Ujiyasu adopted by Uesugi Kenshin, who killed himself in 1579 after losing the Ōtate succession war to Uesugi Kagekatsu.

Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信)

Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信, 1530–1578), born Nagao Kagetora, was a Sengoku daimyō of Echigo, Kantō kanrei from 1561, devotee of Bishamonten, and rival of Takeda Shingen in the Kawanakajima battles; he died suddenly in 1578 before marching on the capital.

Uesugi Norizane

Uesugi Norizane (上杉憲実, 1410–1466) was a Japanese warlord of the Muromachi period who served as Kantō kanrei, helped end the Eikyō War of 1439, and revived the Ashikaga Gakkō academy.

Uesugi Yōzan

Uesugi Yōzan (上杉鷹山), formally Uesugi Harunori (1751–1822), was the ninth lord of Yonezawa Domain in Japan, remembered as a model Edo-period ruler whose reforms restored the domain's finances.

Ufa (Уфа)

Ufa (Уфа) is the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia, founded as a fortress in 1574, a city of 1.19 million known for oil refining, machine building, and chemicals.

Ufa Directory

The Ufa Directory (Уфимская директория), formally the Provisional All-Russian Government, was a five-member anti-Bolshevik government created at Ufa in September 1918 and overthrown by Admiral Kolchak's coup at Omsk in November 1918.