Yuri
Jurij ( IPA: ' i̯uʀ ʲ II) is a male first name. It is the Sorbian form of the name Georg and next Juri also a possible transliteration of the East Slavic forms of the name Юрій or Юрий.
For more information on the name, see the main article George.
West Slavic variants
- Jerzy ( Polish)
- Jiri ( Czech)
- Juraj (Slovak, Croatian and ( westsüdslaw. ) )
- Jurij (Sorbian )
Well-known bearers of the name
- Yuri Brežan (1916-2006), Upper Sorbian writer
- Yuri Chěžka (1917-1944), Sorbian poet
- Yuri Dalmatians (~ 1547-1589 ), Slovene Protestant priest, writer, and translator of the Bible into Slovene
- Jurij Koch ( b. 1936 ), Upper Sorbian writer
- Yuri Kramer ( born 1940 ), German actor, screenwriter and director
- Yuri Pirk (1858-1926), Upper Sorbian historians, local historian, musician and composer
- Yuri Rak (1740-1799), Upper Sorbian jurist, poet and composer
- Yuri Striedter (* 1926), Russian- German Slavist and comparatist
- Yuri A. Treguboff (1913-2000), Russian- German writer
- Jurij Vega (1754-1802), Slovene mathematician