Urban as a given name or surname may refer to:

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Urban of Langres Saint Urban of Langres (327 – c. 390) was a French saint and bishop. He served as the sixth bishop of Langres from 374 until his death. Saint Leodegaria was his sister. Life Urban was the bishop of Langres, France, beginning in 374. Legend stat ...

, 4th-century French saint and bishop * Urban (bishop of Llandaff) (1076–1134), Welsh bishop *

Urban of Macedonia Urban of Macedonia is numbered among the Seventy Apostles. Along with the Apostles Ampliatus, Stachys, Narcissus of Athens, Apelles of Heraklion and Aristobulus of Britannia (all of these names are mentioned together by St. Paul in , which cannot ...

, 1st-century bishop, martyr and saint *

Urban Blitz Urban Blitz is an English rock musician, best known for his "eerie and atmospheric" ( Ira Robbins) electric violin, baritone violectra and lead guitar work with the 1970s London protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness.Robbins, IraDoctors ...

, English rock musician * Urban Federer, Swiss Catholic prelate * Urban Gad (1879–1947), Danish film director *

Urban Hansen Urban Hansen (October 23, 1908 – July 24, 1986) was a Danish politician for the Social Democratic Party. From 1962 to 1976 he was the Lord Mayor of Copenhagen. He is the inspiration to the housing project ''Urbanplanen'' on Amager Amager ( o ...

, Danish politician * Urban Meyer, American football coach *

Urban Priol Urban Priol (born 14 May 1961) is a German Kabarett artist and comedian. Life Urban Priol was born on 14 May 1961, in Aschaffenburg. He spent his childhood in Obernburg am Main. In 1980, he made his abitur at the Kronberg-Gymnasium Aschaffenbur ...

, German comedian * Urban Shocker, American baseball pitcher

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* Adolf Urban (1914–1943), German footballer * Aleksandra Urban (born 1978), Polish painter *

Amanda Urban Amanda "Binky" Urban is an American literary agent and partner at ICM Partners. Urban started at ICM as a literary agent, worked as Co-Director of the ICM Literary Department in New York, and had been Managing Director of ICM Books in London from ...

(born 1946/7), American literary agent * Charles Urban (1867–1942), Anglo-American film producer and distributor * Damir Urban (born 1968), Croatian rock singer/songwriter * , Brazilian entomologist *

Eric Urban Eric Jean-Paul Urban is a professor of mathematics at Columbia University working in number theory and automorphic forms, particularly Iwasawa theory. Career Urban received his PhD in mathematics from Paris-Sud University in 1994 under the super ...

, mathematician * Ewald Urban (1913–1959), Polish footballer *

Faye Urban Faye Urban (28 October 1945 – 11 November 2020) was a Canadian tennis player, the top-ranked player in Canada from 1967 to 1969. Career Raised in Windsor, Ontario, she competed in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments in singles (the French ...

(1945–2020), Canadian tennis player * Friedrich Maria Urban (1878–1964), Austrian psychologist *

Gábor Urbán Gábor Urbán (born 30 December 1984) is a Hungarian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football ...

(born 1984), Hungarian footballer * Gasper Urban (1923–1998), American football player * George Urban (1921–1997), Hungarian writer, journalist and radio broadcaster * George Urban Jr. (1850–1928), American businessman * Glen L. Urban (born 1940), American professor * Ignatz Urban (1848–1931), German botanist * Jan Urban (born 1962), Polish footballer and manager * (1874-1940), Polish Jesuit, historian * Jerheme Urban (born 1980), American National Football League player *

Jerzy Urban Jerzy Urban (born Jerzy Urbach, 3 August 1933 – 3 October 2022) was a Polish journalist, commentator, writer and politician, best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine ''Nie''. From 1981 to 1989 he was the Press Se ...

(1933–2022), Polish journalist, writer, politician and former communist press secretary * Josef Urban (1899–1968), Czechoslovak wrestler * Joseph Urban (1872–1933), Austrian artist and architect * Karl Urban (disambiguation) * Keith Urban (born 1967), Australian country music singer, songwriter and record producer * Klaudiusz Urban (born 1968), Polish chess player * Marcus Urban (born 1971), German footballer and diversity adviser * Mark Urban (born 1961), British journalist and writer * Mark C. Urban, American biologist and professor * Matt Urban (1919–1995), American lieutenant colonel and Medal of Honor recipient * Milo Urban (1904–1982), Slovak writer, journalist and World War II collaborator *

Miloš Urban Miloš Urban (born 4 October 1967 in Sokolov, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech novelist and horror writer, known as the "dark knight of Czech literature". He is best known for his 1999 novel '' Sedmikostelí'', a Gothic crime horror set in Prague, ...

(born 1967), Czech horror novelist * Paweł Urban, chemistry professor working at the National Tsing Hua University * Pavo Urban (1968–1991), Croatian photographer * Peter Urban (disambiguation) * Shirley M. Frye (née Urban), American mathematics educator *

Stuart Urban Stuart Urban (born 1958) is a British film and television director. Early life and education Urban was educated at Rokeby Preparatory School, Kingston upon Thames and King's College School, Wimbledon. At the age of 13, he became the younge ...

(born 1958), British film and television director *

Tim Urban Timothy Joseph Urban (born May 1, 1989) is an American singer who was the seventh place finalist on the ninth season of ''American Idol''. Following his participation in the series, he released two EPs: '' Heart of Me'' in 2010 and ''New York ...

(born 1989), American singer

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