Ute

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Ute may refer to:

  • UTE (Usinas y Terminales Eléctricas), Uruguay's government-owned power company
  • Ute Tribe, an ethnically related group of American Indians now living primarily in Utah and Colorado
    • Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, descendants of the Weminuche band who moved to the western end of the Southern Ute Reservation in 1897
  • Utes, name for University of Utah's athletic teams
  • Ute, the Queen Mother of the King of Worms in the Nibelungenlied
  • UTE, the abbrevation of Újpest FC, the Hungarian sports club "Újpesti Torna Egylet"

[edit] Entertainment

  • O-Ton Ute, 1999-2005 Berlin literature, music and performance group,
  • Yoot Saito, Japanese computer game program designer
  • Yut, a traditional board game played in Korea.

[edit] Science and technology

  • 634 Ute, a minor planet orbiting the sun
  • C-6 Ute and U-21 Ute, military variants of the Beechcraft King Air Model 90
  • Ute, symbol for Untriennium, an unsynthesized chemical element with atomic number 139

[edit] Vehicles

  • Utility vehicle, in Australian English
    • Holden Ute, a coupe utility vehicle by Holden, a subsidiary of General Motors in Australia
    • Nissan Ute, a badge engineered version of the Ford Falcon ute sold by Nissan in Australia, from 1989 to 1992
    • Ute muster, an Australian activity that embraces its large Ute culture in remote, flat, rural councils

[edit] People

  • Anneli Ute Gabanyi (born 1942), Romanian-born German political scientist, literary critic, journalist, and philologist,
  • Ute Berg (born 1953), German politician and member of the SPD
  • Ute Christensen (born 1955), German actress
  • Ute Geweniger (born 1964), East German breaststroke and medley swimmer of the 1980s
  • Ute Hommo, German athlete who competed mainly in the Javelin
  • Ute Lemper (born 1963), German chanteuse and actress
  • Ute Noack, former East German cross country skier who competed during the 1980s
  • Ute Thimm née Finger (born 1958), German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres

[edit] Places

  • Southern Ute Indian Reservation, lies in southwestern Colorado, USA, along the northern border of New Mexico
  • Ute, Iowa, a city in Monona County, Iowa, along the Soldier River
  • Ute Mountain (or Ute Peak or Sleeping Ute Mountain), a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado
  • Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation, an Indian reservation in southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah, USA
  • Ute Pass, a high mountain pass west of Colorado Springs, near Divide

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