Niccolò Ugo Foscolo, né le 6 février 1778 sur l'île de Zante, mort le 10 septembre 1827 à Turnham Green, Londres, Angleterre, est un écrivain et poète italien.
Ulrich Bonnell Phillips was an American historian who largely defined the field of the social and economic studies of the history of the Antebellum South and slavery in the U.S. Phillips concentrated on the large plantations that dominated the Southern economy, and he did not investigate the numerous small farmers who held few slaves. He concluded that plantation slavery produced great wealth, but was a dead end, economically, that left the South bypassed by the industrial revolution underway in the North.
Ulrich von Hutten, « ex Buchonia », chevalier d'Empire, fut un humaniste et un des grands propagandistes de la Réforme dans le Saint Empire. Il est également, comme Martin Luther et Conrad Celtis, une figure du premier nationalisme allemand.
Ulrich Hermann Heinrich Gustav Freiherr von Schlippenbach war ein deutsch-baltischer Dichter, Schriftsteller und Herausgeber in der Epoche der Romantik.
Cyr Joseph Ulysse Chevalier, né à Rambouillet le 24 février 1841 et mort le 27 octobre 1923, est un prêtre catholique, bibliographe et historien français, spécialiste du Moyen Âge, connu notamment pour ses études sur le Suaire de Turin et la Sainte Maison de Lorette.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as U.S. Secretary of War. Later, as president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who signed the bill that created the Justice Department and worked with Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction.
Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
Uriah Smith was a Seventh-day Adventist author, minister, educator, and theologian who is best known as the longest serving editor of the Review and Herald for over 50 years.
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
