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
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