21 October: Ursula name day

If your name is Ursula, today is your name day. Here are 10 people whose name day you share.

1. Saint Ursula: Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. 21 October is her feast day.

2. Ursula Andress (pictured): Swiss actress. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No.

3. Ursula K. Le Guin: American science fiction author

4. Ursula von der Leyen: German politician and current president of the European Commission.

5. Ursula Brangwen: character in the 1915 novel The Rainbow and the 1920 novel Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

6. Ursula Mary Lawley: daughter of Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock, mother of the 2nd Lord Wraxall.

7. Ursula: theoretical founding ancestor of Haplogroup U (mtDNA)

8. Ursula Bloom: British novelist

9. Ursula: fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated film The Little Mermaid, a villainous Cecaelian sea witch.

10. Ursula Holden-Gill: English actress best known as Alice Dingle on ITV's soap opera Emmerdale.

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