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Ugo Foscolo

Ugo Foscolo, born Niccolò Foscolo (1778–1827), was an Italian poet and novelist, author of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei Sepolcri, who died in exile in London.

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Ugo Frigerio

Ugo Frigerio was an Italian race walker who won three Olympic gold medals, at Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924, and a bronze at Los Angeles 1932.

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Ugo Humbert

Ugo Humbert, French tennis player (born 1998, Metz), left-handed ATP pro. Career-high No. 13 (April 2024), seven ATP titles including 2021 Halle and 2024 Dubai; beat Alcaraz at 2024 Paris Masters.

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Ugo Kadmiri

Ugo Kadmiri, full name Ugo Matis Lamare El Kadmiri (born 2007), is a French-born professional footballer who plays as a center-forward for Olympique de Marseille B, Marseille's reserve side.

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Ugo Locatelli

Ugo Locatelli (1916-1993), Italian midfielder, Olympic football gold 1936 and 1938 World Cup winner, one of only four Italians with both; played for Brescia, Inter, and Juventus.

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Ugo Monye

Ugo Monye (Ugochukwu Chiedozie Chinye Monye), born 1983, English rugby union winger, one-club Harlequins player 2002-2015, 14 England caps, 2009 Lions top try scorer, now a TNT Sports pundit and RFU diversity group chair.

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Ugo Raghouber

Ugo Raghouber, born 2003 in Clichy, is a French defensive midfielder developed at LOSC Lille, loaned to Le Mans, Dunkerque, and Levante, later listed with Burnley.

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Ugo Ugochukwu

Ugo Ugochukwu (born 2007, New York) is an American racing driver, 2026 FIA F3 champion with Campos Racing, 2024 Macau GP winner, former McLaren junior, and first F1 test with Alpine at Monza in 2026.

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Ugo!

Ugo! is a 2013 trick-taking card game by Hoekstra, Jansen, and Zuidhof (Playthisone, Kosmos) for 2-4 players, where won tricks stack by color on kingdom boards and only top cards with enough farmers score.

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Ugra Biosphere Reserve

Ugra Biosphere Reserve (Биосферный резерват «Угра»), a UNESCO MAB site in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, based on Ugra National Park (founded 1997, designated 2002), covering 153,832 ha along the Ugra, Zhizdra, and Oka river valleys with bison reintroduction and 1480 Great Stand heritage.

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Ugra Narasimha statue

The Ugra Narasimha statue, also called the Lakshmi Narasimha statue, is a 6.7-meter monolithic granite image of Narasimha at Hampi, Karnataka, carved from a single boulder under Krishnadevaraya in 1528.

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Ugram (film)

Ugram (ఉగ్రం) is a 2023 Telugu action thriller directed by Vijay Kanakamedala, starring Allari Naresh as cop Shiva Kumar whose family vanishes after an accident; released 5 May 2023 by Shine Screens, streamed on Prime Video.

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Ugramm

Ugramm (ಉಗ್ರಂ), also spelled Ugram, is a 2014 Kannada action crime film and Prashanth Neel's directorial debut, starring Sriimurali as Agastya and Haripriya; released 21 February 2014, it became a cult hit and was later retold by Neel as Salaar. Not the 2023 Telugu film Ugram.

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Ugric languages

Ugric languages: Hungarian plus the Ob-Ugric languages Khanty (Ostyak) and Mansi (Vogul) of Western Siberia. Traditionally a Uralic sub-branch, now debated as possibly a contact Sprachbund; Hungarian has ~13 million speakers, the endangered Ob-Ugric languages a few thousand.

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UGT1A locus and enzyme subfamily

The UGT1A locus is a gene complex on chromosome 2q37.1, which produces nine functional UDP-glucuronosyltransferase enzymes (UGT1A1 to UGT1A10) via alternative splicing to process drugs.

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UGT1A9

UGT1A9, the UDP glucuronosyltransferase family 1 member A9 gene on chromosome 2, codes for a liver and kidney enzyme that converts drugs, steroids, and bilirubin into excretable water-soluble metabolites.

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UGT2B subfamily enzymes

The UGT2B subfamily is a group of human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase enzymes in the endoplasmic reticulum that attach glucuronic acid to steroids and drugs, making them water-soluble for excretion.

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UGT2B7

UGT2B7, or UDP glucuronosyltransferase family 2 member B7, is a human gene on chromosome 4 that encodes a drug-metabolism enzyme, the principal one that glucuronidates morphine.

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Ugu District Municipality

Ugu District Municipality (DC21) is a district municipality on KwaZulu-Natal's south coast, South Africa, with four local municipalities including Ray Nkonyeni; population 773,402 (Census 2022), economy of agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing.

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Ugueth Urbina

Ugueth Urbina (Ugueth Urtain Urbina), Venezuelan MLB relief pitcher 1995-2005, nicknamed Oogie; 237 saves, two-time All-Star, 2003 World Series champion with Florida Marlins; later convicted of attempted murder in Venezuela.

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Uğur Şahin

Uğur Şahin (born 1965), Turkish physician and immunologist, co-founded BioNTech in 2008 with Özlem Türeci and led Project Lightspeed, producing the first approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in 11 months; he is a Mainz professor and mRNA cancer vaccine pioneer.

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Ugutskoye Oil Field

The Ugutskoye Oil Field (Угутское месторождение) is an operating oil field in the Surgut district of Western Siberia, Russia, near the village of Ugut, operated by Rosneft subsidiary RN-Yuganskneftegaz since 1988.

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Uh Huh Her (album)

Uh Huh Her is PJ Harvey's sixth studio album, self-produced and released May 2004 on Island Records; darker and rawer than Stories from the City, UK number 12, Grammy-nominated, with singles 'The Letter', 'You Come Through' and 'Shame'.

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Uhehe

Uhehe is the kingdom of the Hehe people in Tanzania's Southern Highlands, best known for resisting German conquest from 1891 to 1898 under Chief Mkwawa.

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Úherce

Úherce: name of two Czech villages, one in Louny District (German Auretz, first mentioned 1088) and one near Nýřany (first mentioned 1213), both with historic municipal cemeteries.

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Uherské Hradiště

Uherské Hradiště, royal town in Zlín Region, Czechia, center of Slovácko; founded 1257 by Přemysl Otakar II as a Morava-river border fortress, about 24,850 inhabitants, leaning town hall, wine cellars.

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UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff

UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff is "Weird Al" Yankovic's July 1989 album for his film UHF: 13 tracks, six from the movie, plus parodies of Dire Straits, R.E.M., and Fine Young Cannibals, produced by Rick Derringer.

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UHF (film)

UHF, also known as The Vidiot from UHF, is a 1989 American comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose bizarre programming revives a bankrupt TV station.

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UHF television broadcasting

UHF television broadcasting is the transmission of television signals in the ultra high frequency band above 300 MHz, first broadcast in the United States in 1952.

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Uhha-Ziti

Uhha-Ziti, also written Uḫḫa-ziti, was a king of Arzawa in western Anatolia in the 14th century BC, defeated and deposed by the Hittite king Mursili II around 1318 BC.