Uğur is a common masculine
Turkish and
Azerbaijani given name. In both Turkish and Azerbaijani, the word "uğur" means "luck".
Given name
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Uğur Albayrak
Uğur Albayrak (born 8 June 1988) is a German footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian fo ...
(born 1988), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Boral
Uğur Boral (born 14 April 1982) is a Turkish retired footballer who last played for Beşiktaş in the Süper Lig.
Boral was a gifted play-maker and surprised goalkeepers with his deceptive shot. He is naturally left-footed and could play as a l ...
(born 1982), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Çiftçi
Uğur Çiftçi (born 4 May 1992) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Sivasspor in the Süper Lig.
Career statistics
Honours
Sivasspor
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(born 1992), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Çimen
Uğur Çimen (born 5 April 1975 in Konya) is a Turkish football coach, who managed Konyaspor, and the North York Astros of the Canadian Soccer League.
Managerial career
Çimen's first managerial career was coaching various youth levels with Kony ...
(born 1975), Turkish football coach
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Uğur Dağdelen
Uğur Dağdelen (3 October 1973 – 24 September 2015) was a Turkish professional footballer from Amasya. He played for several clubs in Turkey in addition to the Turkey national team.
Club career
Dağdelen played for Karabükspor, Bursaspor ...
(born 1973), Turkish former footballer
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(born 1990), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Demirok
Uğur Demirok (born 8 July 1988) is a Turkish former footballer of Bosniak
The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical regio ...
(born 1988), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Dündar
Uğur Dündar (born 28 August 1943) is a Turkish journalist, anchorman, political commentator, and writer.
He was born in Akören village of Silivri district in Istanbul Province. He graduated from Istanbul University's Institute of Journalism. ...
(born 1943), Turkish journalist, political commentator, and writer
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Uğur Erdener
Uğur Erdener (born June 15, 1950) is a Turkish physician specialized in ophthalmology and professor at the Hacettepe University, Ankara.https://www.olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr/Detail/TOC/ugur-erdener/70/1/1 He is currently a member of the Internat ...
(born 1950), Turkish academic and physician
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Uğur Erdoğan (born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Güneş (born 1987), Turkish film and television actor
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Uğur Güneş (born 1993), Turkish volleyball player
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Uğur Gürses
Uğur Gürses is a Turkish financial columnist. He has written financial and economic articles for daily ''Radikal
''Radikal'' () was a daily liberal Turkish language newspaper, published in Istanbul. From 1996 it was published by Aydın Doğ ...
, Turkish financial columnist
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Uğur Işıkal (born 1985), Turkish footballer
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Uğur İbrahimhakkıoğlu
Uğur İbrahimhakkıoğlu (; born July 2, 1944 in Istanbul) is a high-ranked Turkish judge and the Secretary General of the Court of Cassation
A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cass ...
(born 1964), Turkish judge
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Uğur İnceman
Uğur İnceman (born 25 May 1981) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born in Germany, he represented the Turkey national team.
Club career
İnceman was born in Aachen, West Germany. His childhood nickname is Iceman. ...
(born 1981), Turkish-German footballer
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Uğur Kapısız
Uğur Kapisiz (born 9 May 1987, in Uzunköprü, Turkey) is a Turkish footballer who currently plays as a midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position pri ...
(born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Rıfat Karlova
Uğur Rıfat Karlova ( zh, t=吳鳳, p=Wú Fèng; born August 2, 1980) is a Turkish- Taiwanese stand-up comedian, actor, TV host, showman, and writer.
Biography
Born in Izmit, Karlova's family origins go back to the city of Karlová. He atten ...
(born 1980), Turkish comedian, actor, and writer
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Uğur Kavuk
Uğur Kavuk (born September 11, 1979 in Zonguldak, Turkey) is a Turkish footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, Amer ...
(born 1979), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Köken
Uğur Köken (born November 28, 1937) is the former left wide midfielder of Galatasaray S.K. (football team), Galatasaray. He played at Galatasaray between 1955 and 1973 and was capped 12 times for Turkey, He competed in the Football at the 1960 ...
(born 1937), Turkish former footballer
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Uğur Arslan Kuru
Uğur Arslan Kuru (born 16 February 1989) is a Turkish football player who plays for TFF Second League
The TFF 2. Lig (), currently referred to as Nesine 2. Lig for sponsorship reasons, is the third level in the Turkish football league syste ...
(born 1989), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Mumcu
Uğur Mumcu (; 22 August 1942 – 24 January 1993)
um:ag (1942–1993), Turkish investigative journalist
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Uğur Orel Oral
Uğur Orel Oral (born September 26, 1979) is a Turkish former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. He is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a seven-time NCAA Division II national champion while studying in the United States ...
(born 1979), Turkish swimmer
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Uğur Pamuk
Uğur Pamuk (born 26 June 1989) is an Azerbaijani international footballer who plays as a midfielder and striker for German club SC Hicret Bielefeld. He is of Turkish descent.
Career
Pamuk moved to Khazar Lenkaran from fellow Azerbaijan Premi ...
(born 1989), Azerbaijani footballer
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Uğur Pektaş
Uğur Pektaş (born 16 April 1979) is a Turkish actor.
He is known for his role in the television crime series '' Arka Sokaklar'', which co-stars his ex-wife Gamze Özçelik. ''Arka Sokaklar'' is the longest-running Turkish series.
He portray ...
(born 1979), Turkish actor
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Uğur Polat
Uğur Polat (born 4 September 1961) is a Turkish actor.
Early life and career
He graduated from theatre department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was lecturer in Anadolu University. He joined the Ankara Art Theatre (Ankara Sanat Tiyatro ...
(born 1961), Turkish actor
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Uğur Soldan
Ugur Soldan (born 1978) is a Turkish author, critic, academic and lecturer.
He was born in Mut, a town of the province Mersin in Turkey, in 1978. After graduating from primary school in Hocalı, the village where he was born and spent his child ...
(born 1978), Turkish author, critic, academic, and lecturer
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Uğur Şahin
Uğur Şahin (; born 19 September 1965) is a German oncologist, immunologist, entrepreneur, and billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, which developed the world’s first mRNA-based vaccine against COVID-19.He also ...
(born 1965),
Turkish-German
Turks in Germany, also referred to as German Turks and Turkish Germans ( or ''Deutschtürken''; , also known as ''Gurbetçiler'' or ''Almancılar''), are ethnic Turkish people living in Germany. These terms are also used to refer to German-born ...
scientist, founder & CEO of
Biontech
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The compan ...
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Uğur Taner
Mehmet Uğur Taner (born June 20, 1974) is a retired Turkish-born American swimmer who was a High School All American, national public school record holder and Washington state champion specializing in sprint freestyle and butterfly. He competed ...
(born 1975), Turkish swimmer
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Uğur Tütüneker
Uğur Tütüneker (born 2 August 1963 in Bursa, Turkey) is a Turkish former footballer and manager who most recently served as the manager of Adana Demirspor. After migrating to Germany with his family, he started playing football at Bayern Munic ...
(born 1963), Turkish former footballer
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Uğur Uçar
Uğur Uçar (born 5 April 1987) is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a right back.[UĞUR UÇAR< ...]
(born 1987), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Uluocak
Yaşar Uğur Uluocak (1962 – 2 July 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor.
Born in 1962 in Ankara, Turkey, Uğur attended Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, and graduated in mechanical engineering from Is ...
(1962–2003), Turkish outdoorsman, photographer, and editor
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Uğur Ümit Üngör
Uğur Ümit Üngör (born in Erzincan, 1980) is a Dutch–Turkish academic, historian, sociologist, and professor of Genocide studies, specializing as a scholar and researcher of Holocaust studies and studies on mass violence. He served as Prof ...
(born 1980), Dutch scholar
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Uğur Yıldırım (born 1982), Turkish footballer
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Uğur Yücel
Uğur Yücel (born 26 May 1957) is a Turkish film actor, producer and director. He graduated from the Theater Department of the Istanbul Municipality Conservatory (İstanbul Belediye Konservatuarı Tiyatro Bölümü). He took part in several pl ...
(born 1957), Turkish film actor, producer, and director
Surname
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Özkan Uğur
Raif Özkan Uğur (17 October 1953 – 8 July 2023) was a Turkish pop and rock musician, member of the renowned band MFÖ and actor. After starting his career in 1970, he became a founding member of Kurtalan Ekspres in 1972, which included Bar ...
(1953–2023), Turkish pop musician
Places
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Uğur, Düzce
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Turkish masculine given names
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