Ueli

Ueli [ˈuəli] is a Swiss male first name .

pronunciation

Ue- is pronounced as a diphthong and not as an umlaut .

Origin and meaning

The name is originally a Swiss short form for compositions with "Ul-", mostly Ulrich , analogous to the German version "Uli".

Well-known namesake

• Ueli Beck (1930–2010), Swiss radio presenter and actor
• Ulrich Bräker , called (Näppis-) Ueli Bräker
• Ueli Bodenmann (* 1965), Swiss rower
• Ueli Gegenschatz (1971–2009), Swiss extreme athlete
• Ueli Götsch (1925–2017), Swiss journalist and politician (SP)
• Ueli Jäggi (* 1954), Swiss actor and director
• Ueli Kestenholz (* 1975), Swiss snowboarder
• Ueli Maurer (* 1950), Swiss politician, Federal President
• Ueli Prager (1916–2011), Swiss entrepreneur, founder of Mövenpick
• Ueli Rotach († 1405?), Appenzell folk hero
• Ueli Schmezer (* 1961), Swiss journalist and moderator
• Ueli Steck (1976-2017), Swiss extreme climber

Fictional characters

• The Ueli, a figure of the Basel Carnival , corresponds to the fool . The name "Ueli" probably does not come from a first name here, but from the fool Eulenspiegel .
• Ueli der Knecht , Swiss fictional and film character

Others

• One of the four Basel ferries , the St. Johann Ferry, is called “Ueli”.
• On Vogel Gryff , the feast day of the three honorary societies in Kleinbasel , four “Ueli” collect money for the orphanage.
• The Fischerstube brewery produces the Ueli beer .