Julius (name)

Julius is the name of a Roman family, most famously the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. The name Julius may be derived from Greek ιουλος (ioulos) "downy-bearded" or from Latin Jovilius "devoted to Jove". Julio/Júlio is the Spanish/Portuguese form and Jules is the French form.[1]

Surname

• Andrew Julius (born 1984), international footballer from Montserrat
• Anthony Julius (born 1956), British lawyer and academic
• Churchill Julius (1847–1938), English priest who became the first Archbishop of New Zealand
• David Julius (born 1955), American physiologist
• DeAnne Julius (born 1949), British-based American economist
• George Julius (1873–1946), Australian inventor and engineer
• Leigh Julius (born 1985), South African sprinter
• Max Julius (1916–1963), Australian barrister and communist
• Orlando Julius (born 1943), Nigerian musician
• E. Haldeman-Julius (né Emanuel Julius) (1889–1951), Jewish-American socialist writer, social reformer and publisher

Given name

• Julius (judge royal) (fl. before 1135), a nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary
• Julius, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1812–1884), German noble
• Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528–1589), German noble
• Julius Aghahowa (born 1982), a football striker from Nigeria
• Julius Akosah (born 1982), Cameroonian-Hongkonger professional association football player
• Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), an American biochemist
• Julius Bacher (1810–1889), German playwright and novelist
• Julius Bär (1857–1922), German banker
• Julius Boros (1920–1994), Major winning golfer
• Julius Brink (born 1982), German beach volleyball player
• Julius Büdel (1903–1983), German geomorphologist
• Julius Erving (born 1950), American basketball player
• Julius Evola (1898–1974), Italian philosopher
• Julius Fučík (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Julius Fučík (composer) (1872–1916), Czech composer, the journalist's uncle
  • Julius Fučík (journalist) (1903–1943), Czech journalist, the composer's nephew
• Julius Gregory, (born 1988), American football player
• Julius Ingram (1832–1917), American politician.
• Julius La Rosa (1930–2016), American pop singer
• Julius Ludolf (1893–1947), SS officer and concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
• Julius Malema (born 1981), South-African politician
• Julius Mandel (also known as Gyula Mándi (1899–1969), Hungarian Olympic footballer and manager
• Julius Masvanise (born 1966), Zimbabwean track and field athlete
• Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), president of Tanzania
• Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), German bacteriologist
• Julius Rudel (1921–2014), Austrian-born American opera and orchestra conductor
• Julius Petersen (1839–1910), Danish mathematician
• Julius Rosenberg (1918–1953), American communist
• Julius Schwartz (1915–2004), comic book and pulp magazine editor
• Julius Seligson (1909–1987), American tennis player
• Julius Streicher (1885–1946), notorious Nazi newspaper editor
• Julius the Veteran (255–302), Catholic saint and martyr
• Julius Warmsley (born 1990), American football player
• Julius Zeyer (1841–1901), Czech romantic writer
• Pope Julius (disambiguation), three popes

Fictional characters

• Julius, book by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Dav Pilkey
• Julius, song by the band Phish on their album Hoist
• Julius Caesar, fictional character, Japanese name of Julian Konzern from the animated series Beyblade: Metal Masters (Metal Fight Beyblade: Explosion in Japan)
• Julius Hibbert, a character from The Simpsons TV series
• Julius Little, fictional character in the Xbox 360 game Saints Row
• Julius Pringles, the name of the mascot for Pringles potato crisps
• Julius, a comic monkey character created by Paul Frank
• Julius, the father from the television series Everybody Hates Chris
• Julius, one of the main characters from the Canadian animated series Delilah & Julius
• The faction House of Julii from the computer game Rome: Total War uses Julius as the family name
• Julius Belmont, vampire hunter and descendant of Simon Belmont from the Castlevania series of video games
• Julius, a monster in the 1995 animated Mickey Mouse short, Runaway Brain
• Dr. Julius Strangepork, a character in The Muppets
• Julius the Cat, Walt Disney's first recurring animated character.
• Julius Zebra, a book franchise from author Gary Northfield.

See also

• Julius (disambiguation)
• Jukka Nevalainen, a Finnish drummer whose nickname is Julius

References

1. Hanks, Patrick (8 May 2003). Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 258. ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4.