Urs (given name)
Urs is a masculine given name. From the Latin name Ursus, the name means "bear". It is a popular name in German-speaking Switzerland due to the historical veneration of Saint Ursus in Switzerland.
Notable people with the name include:
- Urs Allemann, Swiss writer and journalist
- Urs App, Swiss orientalist
- Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor
- Urs Egger, Swiss film and television director
- Urs Fischer, Swiss artist
- Urs Freuler, Swiss former cyclist
- Urs Noel Glutz von Blotzheim, Swiss ornithologist
- Urs Graf, Swiss painter and printmaker
- Urs Imboden, Swiss-Moldovan alpine skier
- Urs Hölzle, Swiss software engineer and technology executive
- Urs Kälin, Swiss former alpine skier
- Urs Lehmann, Swiss former alpine skier
- Urs Leimgruber, Swiss saxophonist
- Urs Lüthi, Swiss artist
- Urs Meier, Swiss football referee
- Urs A. Meyer, Swiss physician and clinical pharmacologist
- Urs Odermatt, Swiss film director and author
- Urs Räber, Swiss former alpine skier
- Urs Rechn, German actor
- Urs Rohner, Swiss lawyer, businessman and banker
- Urs Schwarzenbach, Swiss financier
- Urs Widmer, Swiss author
- Urs Zimmermann, Swiss former cyclist
- Hans Urs von Balthasar, Swiss theologian
