Jurgis () and Jurģis () are male given names. They are cognates of
George
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Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Jurgis Baltrušaitis (May 2, 1873 – January 3, 1944) was a Lithuanian symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian. In addition to his important contributions to Lithuanian literature, he was noted as a politica ...
(1873–1944), Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator
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Jurgis Baltrušaitis (son)
Jurgis Baltrušaitis (May 2, 1873 – January 3, 1944) was a Lithuanian symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian. In addition to his important contributions to Lithuanian literature, he was noted as a polit ...
(1903–1988), Lithuanian art historian
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Jurgis Bielinis (1846–1918), book smuggler
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Jurgis Blekaitis (1917–2007), Lithuanian American theatre producer
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Jurgis Dobkevičius
Jurgis Dobkevičius (born March 23, 1900 in Saint Petersburg, died testing his own construction airplane Dobi-III in a crash June 8, 1926 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian aviator and aircraft designer.
Military biography
Dobkevičius was a voluntee ...
(1900–1926), Lithuanian aviator
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Jurgis Gedminas, Lithuanian cyclist
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Jurgis Hardingsonas (1892–1936), Lithuanian footballer
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Jurgis Jurgelis
Jurgis Jurgelis (born 9 August 1942 in Šiauliai, ''Generalbezirk Litauen'', ''Reichskommissariat Ostland'') is a mathematics teacher, politician, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
The Act of the ...
(born 1942), Lithuanian politician
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Jurgis Kairys
Jurgis Kairys (born May 6, 1952, in Krasnoyarsk) is a Lithuanian aerobatic pilot and aeronautical engineer. He has won many awards for his flying and has invented several maneuvers, including the "Kairys Wheel." He helped develop the Sukhoi Su- ...
(born 1952), Lithuanian aerobatic pilot and aeronautical engineer
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Jurgis Karnavičius
Jurgis Karnavičius (born 1957, in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian pianist.
Karnavičius comes from a renowned family of musicians: his grandfather, Jurgis Karnavičius (1884–1941), was a composer, and his father, also named Jurgis (1912–2001), was ...
(born 1957), Lithuanian pianist
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Jurgis Karnavičius (composer)
Jurgis Karnavičius (23 April 1884 – 22 December 1941) was a Lithuanian composer of classical music and a forerunner of the development of Lithuanian operatic works.
Biography
Karnavičius was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, which at the time wa ...
(1884–1941), Lithuanian composer
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Jurgis Kunčinas Jurgis Kunčinas (13 January 1947 in Alytus, Lithuania – 13 December 2002) was a poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He has been described as the chronicler of Soviet bohemianism, who poeticized the individual's internal autonomy as an ...
(1947–2002), Lithuanian poet, novelist and essayist
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Jurgis Maciunas
George Maciunas (; lt, Jurgis Mačiūnas; November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian American artist, born in Kaunas. A founding member and the central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composer ...
(1931–1978), Lithuanian American artist
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Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius
Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius, also known as Jerzy Bolesław Matulewicz-Matulaitis (13 April 1871 - 27 January 1927) was a Latin Church Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Vilnius from late 1918 until his resignation in 1925. Matulaitis ...
(1871–1927), Roman Catholic bishop of Vilnius
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Jurģis Pučinskis
Jurģis Pučinsks (born 3 January 1973 in Daugavpils) is a former Latvian soccer player who played as a midfielder and is now a manager.
He signed with Luch-Energia Vladivostok for the Russian First Division 2004 season, but did not feat ...
(born 1973), Latvian soccer player
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Jurgis Šaulys
Jurgis Šaulys (; 1879–1948) was a Lithuanian economist, diplomat, and politician, and one of the twenty signatories to the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania.
Šaulys attended secondary school in Palanga and attended the Kaunas Theologi ...
(1879–1948), Lithuanian economist, politician and diplomat
Fictional characters
*Jurgis Rudkus, a character from the novel ''
The Jungle
''The Jungle'' is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair's primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers wer ...
'' by Upton Sinclair
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