Urban (name)
Urban is a male given name and a family name .
Origin and meaning
Urban is derived from the Latin Urbanus from urbs (city, especially Rome) and means urban or the townspeople (also the polite , educated ). The male first name originally refers to Pope Urban I.
name day
- May 25 , the anniversary of the death of Pope Urban I (230 AD); the day is called Urbanstag , Sankt Urban or Urbani .
Name bearer
Pope's name
- Urban I. , Bishop of Rome, pontificate 222–230
- Urban II. , Pontificate 1088-1099
- Urban III. , Pontificate 1185-1187
- Urban IV. , Pontificate 1261–1264
- Urban V , pontificate 1362-1370
- Urban VI. , Pontificate 1378-1389
- Urban VII. , Pontificate 1590
- Urban VIII. , Pontificate 1623–1644
First name
- Urban (Bishop) († 1134), Welsh clergyman, Bishop of Llandaff
- Urban Bruun Aaskow (1742–1806), Danish medic
- Urban Brückmann (1728–1812), German doctor, mineralogist and scientific writer
- Urban Camenzind (* 1965), Swiss politician
- Urban Ehrlich (1822–1898), Austrian writer
- Urban Federer (* 1968), 59th Abbot of Einsiedeln Monastery
- Urban Ferenčak (* 1992), Slovenian mountain bike and road cyclist
- Urban Franc (* 1975), Slovenian ski jumper
- Urban Gad (1879–1947), Danish screenwriter and director
- Urban Gwerder (1944–2017), Swiss writer, artist and editor
- Urban Hettich (* 1953), German Nordic combined athlete and trainer
- Urban von Langres , French clergyman, Bishop of Langres and Autun
- Urban Loritz (1807–1881), Austrian pastor and pastoral theologian
- Urban Dietrich von Lüdecke (1655–1729) statesman from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
- Urban Mangold (* 1963), German politician (ÖDP)
- Urban Pierius (also Birnbaum ; 1546–1616), German Protestant theologian
- Urban Priol (* 1961), German cabaret artist, writer and presenter
- Urban Wiesing (* 1958), German medical ethicist
- Urban A. Woodbury (1838–1915), American politician
family name
A.
- Adolf Urban (1914–1943), German football player
- Adrian Urban (* 1966), German publicist and book author
- Agricol-Joseph Fortia d'Urban (1756–1843), French philologist and historian
- Albert J. Urban (* 1959), German religious psychologist and philosopher of language
- Alexander Urban ( Alexander S. Urban ; * 1980), physicist and university professor
- Alexandra Urban (* 1984), German table tennis player
- Alfons Urban (* 1936), German politician (CSU)
- Alfred Urban (1893 – after 1973), German lawyer and author
- Annette Urban (* before 1981), art historian and university professor
- Anton Urban (entrepreneur) (1827–1885), Austrian entrepreneur
- Anton Urban (soccer player) (* 1934), Slovak soccer player
B.
- Benjamin D'Urban (1777–1849), British general and colonial governor
- Benny Urban (* 1991), German-Canadian snowboarder
- Bernd Urban (* 1941), German philologist and author
- Bernd W. Urban (* 1950), German biophysicist, anesthesiologist and university professor
- Bernhard Krahl-Urban (* 1941/1942), German physicist
- Bonifaz Kaspar von Urban (1773-1858), German clergyman, Archbishop of Bamberg
- Brigitte Urban , German biologist, soil scientist and university professor
- Bruno Urban (1851–1910), German glass painter
C.
- Carl Urban (1865–1941), German chemist and entomologist
- Carola Bauschke-Urban (* before 1966), German sociologist and university professor
- Cezary Urban (* 1963), Polish politician
- Christian Urban (composer) (1778–1860), German music theorist, conductor and composer
- Christian Urban (physician) (* 1949), Austrian doctor and university professor
- Christoph Urban (1671–1756), German Protestant cantor and poet
D.
- Daniel Urban (* 1980), German actor
- Denny Urban (* 1988), American ice hockey player
- Dirk Urban (* 1969), German shot putter
E.
- Eberhard Urban (1942–2019), German author
- Edit Urbán (* 1961), Hungarian table tennis player
- Emanuel Urban (1821–1901), Austrian educator, scientist and collector
- Emil K. Urban (1934–2014), American ornithologist
- Eric Urban , French mathematician
- Ernst Urban (publisher) (1838–1923), German publisher
- Ernst Urban (1874–1958), German pharmacist
- Eugen Urban (1886–1929), German painter and graphic artist
F.
- František Urban (1868-1919), Czech academic painter
- Friedrich Urban (* 1944), Austrian broadcast director
- Friedrich Julius Urban (1838–1918), German singing teacher and composer
- Friedrich-Ludwig Urban (1806–1879), German veterinarian
- Fritz Urban (? 1907-), German Nazi - racial theorists and - hygienist , university teachers
G
- Georg Urban (politician, 1908) (1908 – after 1962), German entrepreneur and politician (GB / BHE, GDP, CDU), MdL Schleswig-Holstein
- Georg Urban (politician, 1925) (1925–2005), German ship broker and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- Gotthard Urban (1905–1941), German businessman and politician (NSDAP)
- Günter Urban (1926–2017), German building historian and university rector
H
- Hans Urban (* 1978), German politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
- Hans-Jürgen Urban (* 1961), German trade unionist
- Hartmut Urban (1941–1997), Austrian artist, painter and graphic artist
- Heinrich Urban (1837–1901), German composer, violinist and music teacher
- Heinz Urban (1925–1977), German politician (SPD)
- Helmut Urban (* 1971), Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- Henry F. Urban (1862-1924), German-speaking writer
- Hermann Urban (1866–1946), German painter
- Horst Urban (luge rider) (1936–2010), Czechoslovakian luge rider
- Horst Urban (goldsmith) (* 1939), Austrian gold and silversmith
- Horst W. Urban (1936–2007), German industrial manager and founder of the foundation
- Hugo Urban-Emmerich (1887–1939), Czechoslovak automobile racing driver
I.
- Ignaz Urban (1848–1931), German botanist
J
- Jan Urban (* 1962), Polish football player and coach
- Jens Urban (*?), German screenwriter
- Jerzy Urban (* 1933), Polish government spokesman, journalist and publisher
- Joachim Krahl-Urban (1901–1983), German forest scientist and university professor
- Jochen Urban (* 1983), German rower
- Johann Urban (1863–1940), Austrian chemist and industrialist
- Johannes Urban (1906–1990), German entomologist and butterfly collector
- Jörg Urban (* 1964), German graduate engineer for hydraulic engineering and politician (AfD)
- Josef Urban (wrestler, 1899) (1899–1968), Czechoslovakian wrestler
- Josef Urban (wrestler, 20th century) , Czechoslovak wrestler
- Joseph Urban (1872–1933), Austrian-American architect, illustrator and set designer
- Julia Urban (* 1972), German actress
K
- Karl von Urban (1802–1877), Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
- Karl Urban (politician) (1855–1940), Bohemian industrialist and politician
- Karl Urban (fighter pilot) (1894–1918), Austrian fighter pilot in the First World War
- Karl Urban (actor) (born 1972), New Zealand actor
- Karl Urban (journalist) (* 1984), German journalist with a focus on technology and science
- Karlheinz Urban (1915–1994), German painter and sculptor
- Keith Urban (* 1967), Australian-New Zealand musician
- Klaus Urban (actor) (1934–2012), German actor and artistic director
- Klaus Urban (materials scientist) (* 1944), German materials scientist and science manager
- Klaus Urban (author) , German gardening book author
- Klaus Dieter Urban (* 1947), German sculptor
- Klaus K. Urban (* 1944), German educator, writer, musician, songwriter and artist
- Knut Urban (* 1941), German physicist
L.
- Leonhard Urban (* 1942), German soccer player
- Lola Urban-Kneidinger (1901–1989), German actress
- Luboš Urban (* 1957), Czech football player
- Ludwig Urban (industrialist, 1854) (1854–1923), Austrian industrialist and landowner
- Ludwig Urban (industrialist, 1876) (1876–1946), Austrian industrialist and politician
- Łukasz Urban (1979–2016), Polish truck driver, see notice on the Berlin Christmas market at the Memorial Church
M.
- Malte Urban (* 1974), German racing cyclist
- Marcus Urban (* 1971), German soccer player
- Maria Urban (1930–2019), Austrian actress
- Martin Urban (art historian) (1913–2002), German art historian
- Martin Urban (publicist) (* 1936), German publicist
- Martin Urban (soccer player) (* 1972), Slovak soccer player
- Max Urban (* 1984), Swiss singer
- Michael Urban (* 1983), German soccer player
- Michael Urban (publisher) (1939–2016), German (?) Publisher
- Michael Urban (politician) (* 1943), German politician (CDU)
- Miguel Urbán (* 1980), Spanish social activist and politician (Podemos), MEP
- Miguel Hernández Urbán (* 1936), Mexican sculptor and painter
- Milo Urban (1904–1982), Slovak writer, interpreter and journalist
O
- Othmar Urban (1930–2017), Austrian journalist and artistic director
- Otto Urban (trade unionist) (1877–1947), German trade unionist
- Otto Urban (historian) (1938–1996), Czech historian
- Otto Helmut Urban (* 1953), Austrian prehistoric
P
- Patrick Urban (* 1990), German-Polish karateka
- Paul Urban (graphic artist) (1901–1937?), German graphic artist
- Paul Urban (physicist) (1905–1995), Austrian physicist
- Peter Urban (author) (1941–2013), German writer and translator
- Peter Urban (moderator) (* 1948), German moderator and musician
- Peter Urban (engineer) (1955–2016), German engineer and university professor
- Peter Urban-Halle (* 1951), German literary translator
- Petr Urban (* 1960), Czech draftsman and illustrator
- Petra Urban (writer) (* 1957), German literary scholar and writer
- Petra Urban (singer) (* 1968), German singer (mezzo-soprano)
R.
- Ralf Urban (* 1943), German ancient historian
- Reva Urban (1925–1987), American painter and graphic artist
- Reinhold Urban (1880–1917) German evangelical missionary and publisher
- Robert Urban (1826–1899), German district administrator
- Robin Urban (* 1994), German soccer player
- Rudolf von Urban (1879–1964), German-American psychoanalyst and writer, see Rudolf Urbantschitsch
- Rudolf Urban (political scientist) (1910–1985), German political scientist
- Rudolf Urban (1914–1961), German fatality on the Berlin Wall
S.
- Sabine Urban (* 1976), German actress
- Sebastian Urban (1852–1930), German brewery owner
- Simon Urban (* 1975), German writer
- Štěpán Urban (1913–1974), Czech musician, Esperanto poet and writer
- Stephan Urban (* 1961), German biochemist, virologist and university professor
T
- Theodor Urban (1874–1939), German evangelical publisher
- Thomas Urban , pseudonym of the German historian Oskar Köhler (1909–1996)
- Thomas Urban (journalist) (born 1954), German journalist
- Thomas Urban (business IT specialist) (born 1969), German business IT specialist
U
- Ulrich Urban , German conductor and pianist
- Ulrike Urban-Stahl (* 1971), German social worker and university lecturer
V
- Víctor Urbán (* 1934), Mexican organist and composer
W.
- Wilbur Marshall Urban (1873–1952), American philosopher
- Wilhelm Urban (actor) (1793–1833), German actor and librettist
- Wilhelm Urban (politician) (1908–1973), German politician (SPD)
- William Stewart Mitchell D'Urban (1836–1934), British botanist and zoologist
- Wincenty Urban (1911–1983), Polish theologian and clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Gniezno
- Wolfgang Urban (* 1945), German manager
- Wolfgang Urban (conservator) (* 1948), German conservator
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Gottschald : German onomastics. Our family names according to their origin and meaning. (1st edition Munich 1932) 3rd edition 1954, reprint Berlin 1971 p. 582.