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

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Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jurgis Baltrušaitis (2 May 1873 – 3 January 1944) was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator who wrote in Lithuanian and Russian, and was an exponent of iconology. He was the father of art historian and critic Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr. ...

(1873–1944), Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator * Jurgis Baltrušaitis (son) (1903–1988), Lithuanian art historian *

Jurgis Bielinis Jurgis Bielinis (16 March 1846 – 18 January 1918) was one of the main organizers of the Lithuanian book smugglers, illegal book-smuggling at the time of the Lithuanian press ban (1864–1904). Bielinis is informally referred to as the King of B ...

(1846–1918), book smuggler * Jurgis Blekaitis (1917–2007), Lithuanian American theatre producer * Jurgis Dobkevičius (1900–1926), Lithuanian aviator * Jurgis Gedminas, Lithuanian cyclist * Jurgis Hardingsonas (1892–1936), Lithuanian footballer * Jurgis Jurgelis (born 1942), Lithuanian politician *

Jurgis Kairys Jurgis Kairys (born 6 May 1952 in Krasnoyarsk Krai) is a Lithuanian Aerobatics, aerobatic pilot and Aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineer. See also *Competition aerobatics References External links Jurgis Kairys�� leader of Airbandit ...

(born 1952), Lithuanian aerobatic pilot and aeronautical engineer * Jurgis Karnavičius (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 was ...

(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 al ...

(1947–2002), Lithuanian poet, novelist and essayist *

Jurgis Maciunas George Maciunas (; ; November 8, 1931 Kaunas – May 9, 1978 Boston, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian American artist, art historian, and art organizer who was the founding member and central coordinator of Fluxus, an international community of a ...

(1931–1978), Lithuanian American artist *

Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (; 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 was also the founder of the Sisters of the Immac ...

(1871–1927), Roman Catholic bishop of Vilnius *

Jurģis Pučinskis Jurģis Pučinsks (born 3 January 1973 in Daugavpils) is a former Latvian football (soccer), soccer player who played as a midfielder and is now an assistant in Latvia national football team, Latvia. He signed with Luch-Energia Vladivostok fo ...

(born 1973), Latvian soccer player *

Jurgis Šaulys Jurgis Šaulys (; 5 May 1879–18 October 1948) was a Lithuanian economist, diplomat, and politician, and one of the twenty signatories to the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania. Šaulys attended Palanga Progymnasium and Vilnius St. J ...

(1879–1948), Lithuanian economist, politician and diplomat

Fictional characters

*Jurgis Rudkus, a character from the novel ''

The Jungle ''The Jungle'' is a novel by American author and muckraking-journalist Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information ...

'' by Upton Sinclair

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