Uke or UKE may refer to:
People
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Billy "Uke" Carpenter
Billy "Uke" Carpenter is believed to be a stage name of William "Billy" Costello, who was best known as the original voice of Popeye.
Carpenter was a ukulele player of note during the 1920s, known for his performances in the " eefin" style, which ...
, American musician
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Billy "Uke" Scott (1923–2004), British musician
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Uke Clanton (1898–1960), American baseball player
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Ukë Rugova
Ibrahim Rugova (; 2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was a prominent Kosovo Albanian political leader, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President o ...
, Kosovar politician
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Sıtkı Üke
Sıtkı Üke (1876; Salonica ( Thessaloniki) – 1941; Istanbul) was a Turkish career officer and politician. He was a major general of the Ottoman Army and the first head general of the Turkish Army. Sıtkı grew up in the same town as Atat ...
(1876–1941), Turkish general and politician
Places
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Uke Island
Uke Island, or , is one of the Satsunan Islands of Japan, classed with the Amami Islands, Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.''Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan'', Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd., Tokyo,
The island, 13.34 km² in area, ...
, Japan
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Uke, Nigeria
Uke in Idemili North (Anambra) is a town in Eastern Nigeria
The Eastern Region was an administrative region in Nigeria, dating back originally from the division of the colony Southern Nigeria in 1954. Its first capital was Calabar. The capital ...
Ukrainians
* UKE: The Untold Story of Hockey Legends, 2020 Ukrainian film about Ukrainian
National Hockey League players
* Uke, a.k.a.
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
, a person identified with nationality of Ukraine
Other uses
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Uke (martial arts), role in training
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Uke, a submissive role in a relationship between males in yaoi or shōnen-ai media, derived from the martial arts term
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Ukulele, a musical instrument
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Mighty Uke'', a 2010 documentary film about the ukulele
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Üké, Uke, or Ükä Tibetan, a term for the most widely understood dialect of
Tibetan languages
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Uke Mochi
, commonly known as , the daughter of the Shinto deities Izanagi and Izanami, is a goddess of food in the Shinto religion of Japan. In some differing interpretations, Ukemochi is referred to as both male and female. When shown in other forms, U ...
, a goddess of food in the Shinto religion of Japan
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University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (german: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)) is the teaching hospital of the University of Hamburg and the largest hospital in Hamburg, Germany.
The UKE has 1,738 beds and 121 day-care pl ...
or UKE, a hospital in Germany
See also
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Uki (disambiguation) Uki or UKI may refer to:
*Uki Goñi, writer, journalist and musician
*Uki, New South Wales, an Australian town
*Uki, Kumamoto, a Japanese city
*Uki Island in Solomon Islands
* ''Uki'' (TV series), a pre-school animated television programme from Bel ...
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