Ursus is Latin for bear. It may also refer to:

Animals

  • Ursus (mammal), a genus of bears

People

  • Ursus of Aosta, 6th-century evangelist
  • Ursus of Auxerre, 6th-century bishop
  • Ursus of Ravenna, 5th-century bishop
  • Ursus of Solothurn, 3rd-century martyr
  • Ursus (praefectus urbi) of Constantinople in 415-416
  • Reimarus Ursus, an astronomer and imperial mathematician to Rudolf II
  • Ursus, a pen-name of Ambrose Bierce

Fictional characters

  • Ursus, the bodyguard of Ligia, a minor character in the novel Quo Vadis
  • Ursus, a character in Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs
  • General Ursus (Planet of the Apes), a character in Beneath the Planet of the Apes
  • Ursus (film character), a character in a series of 1960s Italian adventure films

Arts

  • Ursus (film), 1961 Italian film

Science and technology

  • Ursus (journal), a scientific journal published by the International Association for Bear Research and Management
  • Ursus Factory, Polish manufacturer of heavy vehicles
  • Ursus A, a series of Polish lorries and buses from the 1920s
  • The Ursus, or Samochód pancerny wz. 29, a model of Polish armored car

Others

  • Ursus (beer), a Romanian beer
  • Ursus (vodka), an Icelandic vodka
  • Ursus, Warsaw, a borough of Warsaw, Poland

See also

  • Ursa (disambiguation)