Jurgis () and Jurģis () are male given names. They are cognates of

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. They may refer to: * Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944), Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator *

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 *

Jurgis Bielinis Jurgis Bielinis (1846–1918) was one of the main organizers of the illegal book-smuggling at the time of the Lithuanian press ban (1864–1904). Bielinis is informally referred to as the King of Book Smugglers. Since 1989, Bielinis's birthday (1 ...

(1846–1918), book smuggler * Jurgis Blekaitis (1917–2007), Lithuanian American theatre producer *

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 *

Jurgis Gedminas Jurgis Gedminas (born 1902, date of death unknown) was a Lithuanian cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of t ...

, Lithuanian cyclist *

Jurgis Hardingsonas Jurgis Hardingsonas (24 September 1892 – 1936, Germany ) was a Lithuanian footballer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (fre ...

(1892–1936), Lithuanian footballer *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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 *

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'' by Upton Sinclair

References

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