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People

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Billy "Uke" Carpenter William Arnold Costello (February 2, 1898 – October 9, 1971), commonly known as "Red Pepper Sam", was an American actor and the original voice of ''Popeye, Popeye the Sailor'' in animated cartoons. Life and career Costello was born on F ...
, American musician *
Billy "Uke" Scott Billy "Uke" Scott (12 March 1923 – 23 November 2004) was a British music hall star, who inspired three generations of ukulele players, composing, singing and writing a "teach-yourself" ukulele manual. Biography William Scott was born in Su ...
(1923–2004), British musician * Uke Clanton (1898–1960), American baseball player *
Ukë Rugova Ibrahim Rugova (; 2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was a Kosovo-Albanian politician, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President of Kosovo from 2 ...
, Kosovar politician *
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 Atatür ...
(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 within the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.''Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan'', Teikoku-Shoin Co., Ltd., Tokyo, The island, 13.34  km² in area, has a popul ...
, Japan *
Uke, Nigeria Uke is a Nigerian town in Idemili North LGA in Anambra State. The traditional head is elected on the demise of the previous traditional leader. The current traditional ruler is Igwe Surv. Charles Agbala(Oranyelu III) Prominent people from ...


Ukrainians

* UKE: The Untold Story of Hockey Legends, 2020 Ukrainian film about Ukrainian
National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...
players * Uke, a.k.a. Ukrainian, a person identified with nationality of Ukraine


Other uses

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Uke (martial arts) () is in Japanese martial arts the person who "receives" a technique. The exact role of ''uke'' varies between the different arts and often within the art itself depending on the situation. For instance, in aikido, judo kata, and bujinkan ninj ...
, role in training **
Uke Uke or UKE may refer to: People * Billy "Uke" Carpenter, American musician * Billy "Uke" Scott (1923–2004), British musician * Uke Clanton (1898–1960), American baseball player * Ukë Rugova, Kosovar politician * Sıtkı Üke (1876– ...
, a submissive role in a relationship between males in yaoi or shōnen-ai media, derived from the martial arts term *
Ukulele The ukulele ( ; ); also called a uke (informally), is a member of the lute (ancient guitar) family of instruments. The ukulele is of Portuguese origin and was popularized in Hawaii. The tone and volume of the instrument vary with size and con ...
, a musical instrument ** ''
Mighty Uke ''Mighty Uke: The Amazing Comeback of a Musical Underdog'' (released 2010) is a documentary film about the ukulele. It combines graphics, photographs, interviews and performance footage to tell the story of the ukulele and its recent resurgence in ...
'', a 2010 documentary film about the ukulele *
Üké Lhasa Tibetan or Standard Tibetan is a standardized dialect of Tibetan spoken by the people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branched" c ...
, Uke, or Ükä Tibetan, a term for the most widely understood dialect of
Tibetan languages The Tibetic languages form a well-defined group of languages descending from Old Tibetan.Tournadre, Nicolas. 2014. "The Tibetic languages and their classification." In ''Trans-Himalayan linguistics, historical and descriptive linguistics of the H ...
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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, Ukemo ...
, a goddess of food in the Shinto religion of Japan *
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 pla ...
or UKE, a hospital in Germany


See also

* Uki (disambiguation) {{disambiguation