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Ulf Gyllensten

Ulf Gyllensten is a Swedish geneticist and professor of medical molecular genetics at Uppsala University, known for the 2000 Nature study of human mitochondrial genome variation.

Ulf Kristersson

Ulf Kristersson (born 1963), Swedish Moderate Party leader since 2017 and Prime Minister 2022–2026; led a minority coalition backed by the Sweden Democrats under the Tidö agreement, took Sweden into NATO in 2024, and resigned after the 2026 election.

Ulf Landegren

Ulf Landegren is a Swedish physician and Senior Professor at Uppsala University who invented proximity assays and co-founded Olink Proteomics, sold to Thermo Fisher in 2024.

Ulf Landmesser

Ulf Landmesser (born 1970) is a German cardiologist, Director of Cardiology at Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin in Berlin and Deputy Medical Director of the DHZC.

Ulf Leonhardt

Ulf Leonhardt, born 1965 in Schlema, Germany, is a theoretical physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science known for transformation optics and the first optical simulation of an event horizon.

Ulf Lindahl

Ulf Lindahl, born in 1940, is a Swedish glycobiologist and emeritus professor at Uppsala University whose work on heparin's antithrombin-binding sequence underpinned low-molecular-weight heparin drugs.

Ulf Pettersson

Ulf Pettersson (1942–2024) was a Swedish molecular geneticist and virologist, professor of medical genetics at Uppsala University, known for his 1970s work on adenovirus DNA and RNA.

Ulf R. Rapp

Ulf R. Rapp, full name Ulf Rüdiger Rapp, is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for discovering the RAF oncogene and RAF/MYC cooperation in transformation.

Ulf Riebesell

Ulf Riebesell is a biological oceanographer and marine biogeochemist who has headed Biological Oceanography at GEOMAR Kiel since 2003, known for research on ocean acidification and winning the 2011 Vernadsky Medal and a Leibniz Prize.

Ulf Sundelin

Ulf Sundelin is a Swedish sailor who won Olympic gold in the 5.5-meter class at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics with his brothers Jörgen and Peter.

Ulf Timmermann

Ulf Timmermann (Ulf-Béla Timmermann, born 1962, East Berlin), East German shot putter, four-time world record holder, first man over 23 m (23.06, Chania 1988), 1988 Olympic gold with 22.47 m on his final throw.

Ulf von Euler

Ulf von Euler was a Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on chemical transmitters in nerves.

Ulf-G. Meißner

Ulf-G. Meißner, also cited as U.-G. Meißner, is a German theoretical nuclear physicist, born 1957, who holds the nuclear physics chair at Bonn and works on nuclear lattice simulations.

Ulfberht swords

Ulfberht swords are early medieval blades inlaid with the name Ulfberht, most likely produced in the Frankish Rhineland; about 170 are known, mostly from Scandinavia and the Baltic.

Ulfilas

Ulfilas, also known as Wulfila, was a fourth-century Christian bishop and missionary to the Goths who devised the Gothic alphabet and translated the Bible into Gothic.

Ulfrun Regio

Ulfrun Regio, a 3,954-km-wide regio on Venus at 27°N 225°E, IAU-approved 1982, named for a Norse giantess; contains western Hecate Chasma, Ozza Mons, Nazit Mons, and radiating graben systems.

Ulgen-ekhe Coronae

Ulgen-ekhe Coronae is a 300-km-wide corona (ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 14.2°S, 224°E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the Buryat Earth mother.

Ulhae Persecution

The Ulhae Persecution (을해박해) was a persecution of Catholics in Gyeongsang Province, Korea, in 1815, carried out by local officials and ending with seven executions at Daegu.

Ulhasnagar

Ulhasnagar (उल्हासनगर) is a city and municipal corporation in Thane district, Maharashtra, India, founded in 1949 as a township for Sindhi refugees displaced by the Partition.

Uli (art)

Uli is a traditional body and wall painting of Igbo women in southeastern Nigeria, drawn with a dark dye pressed from uli plant berries and adapted from the 1960s into modern art by the Nsukka School.

Uli Hoeneß

Uli Hoeneß (Ulrich Hoeneß, born 1952, Ulm), German football executive and former striker, honorary president of FC Bayern München; 1974 World Cup winner, three-time European Cup winner, Bayern general manager from 1979 and president 2009–2014 and 2016–2019.

Uli Jon Roth

Uli Jon Roth (Ulrich Roth), German guitarist born in Düsseldorf in 1954; Scorpions lead guitarist 1973–1978 (Fly to the Rainbow through Tokyo Tapes), founder of Electric Sun, and creator of the 7-string, 36-fret Sky Guitar.

Uli Kirchhoff

Uli Kirchhoff (Ulrich Günter Hermann Kirchhoff), German-born show jumper born 1967, won individual and team jumping gold at Atlanta 1996 on Jus de Pommes, then rode for Ukraine at Rio 2016.

Uli Vos

Uli Vos (Ullrich Vos, 1946-2017), West German field hockey player, Gladbacher HTC; 145 caps 1966-76, Olympic gold 1972 Munich with 1-0 final win over Pakistan, fourth 1968, fifth 1976, 1970 European champion, 2006 Over-60 world champion.

Ulices Chaidez

Ulices Chaidez is a Mexican singer and songwriter from Sinaloa who leads the Regional Mexican trio Ulices Chaidez y Sus Plebes, signed to DEL Records at 15.

Ulick Richardson Evans

Ulick Richardson Evans (1889–1980) was a British metallurgist at Cambridge who put the electrochemical theory of metallic corrosion on a quantitative footing and wrote the field's first textbook in 1924.

Ulidavaru Kandanthe (ಉಳಿದವರು ಕಂಡಂತೆ)

Ulidavaru Kandanthe (ಉಳಿದವರು ಕಂಡಂತೆ), also As Seen by the Rest, is a 2014 Kannada neo-noir crime film, Rakshit Shetty's directorial debut, set in Malpe near Udupi, the first Kannada film shot entirely in sync sound, later a cult classic.

Ulidiidae

Ulidiidae, picture-winged flies (formerly Otitidae), are a Tephritoidea fly family of about 800 species, 2-13 mm, mostly saprophagous larvae, two subfamilies Ulidiinae and Otitinae, some crop pests.

Uliledlimab (TJD5)

Uliledlimab (尤莱利单抗, TJD5, TJ004309) is I-Mab's humanized anti-CD73 monoclonal antibody for solid tumors; non-competitive intra-dimer binding, tested with toripalimab and atezolizumab, now Phase 2/3 in NSCLC via TJ Biopharma and Sanofi.

Ulimorelin

Ulimorelin (TZP-101, LP101), a macrocyclic ghrelin receptor agonist prokinetic developed by Tranzyme Pharma for postoperative ileus; potent in phase 2b but failed phase 3 ULISES trials and was discontinued.