Julius (disambiguation)
Julius | |
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Pronunciation |
/dʒuːliːəs/ Latin: [ˈjuː.li.ʊs] |
Gender | Male |
Origin | |
Language(s) |
1. Greek 2. Latin |
Meaning |
1. "downy-bearded" 2. "devoted to Jove" |
Other names | |
Related names | Julio, Julia, Julie, Julian, Jules, Julien, Jolyon |
Look up Julius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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.
Julius may also refer to:
People
Surname
- Albin Julius (born 1967), Austrian martial music and industrial artist
- 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
- E. Haldeman-Julius (né Emanuel Julius) (1889–1951), Jewish-American socialist writer, atheist thinker, social reformer and publisher
Given name
- 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), a German beach volleyball player
- Julius Büdel (1903–1983), a German geomorphologist
- Julius Erving (born 1950), an American basketball player
- Julius Evola (1898–1974), an Italian philosopher
- Julius Fučík (disambiguation), multiple people
- Julius Gregory, (born 1988), an American football player
- Julius Ingram (1832-1917), American politician.
- Julius La Rosa (born 1930), an American pop singer
- Julius Malema (born 1981), a South-African politician
- Julius Masvanise (born 1966), a Zimbabwean track and field athlete
- Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), a president of Tanzania
- Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), a German bacteriologist
- Julius Rudel (1921–2014), Austrian-born American opera and orchestra conductor
- Julius Petersen (1839–1910), a Danish mathematician
- Julius Rosenberg (1918–1953), an American communist
- Julius Schwartz (1915–2004), a comic book and pulp magazine editor
- Julius Streicher (1885–1946), a notorious Nazi newspaper editor
- Julius the Veteran (255–302), a Catholic saint and martyr
- Pope Julius (disambiguation), three popes
Entertainment
- Julius, book by Angela Johnson, illustrated by Dav Pilkey
- Julius, song by the band Phish on their album Hoist
- 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
- The faction House of Julii from the computer game Rome: Total War uses Julius as the family name
- Julius Belmont, vampire hunter in the Castlevania series
- Julius, a monster in the 1995 animated Mickey Mouse short, Runaway Brain
- Dr. Julius Strangepork, a character in The Muppets
Other uses
- Julius Baer Group, Swiss bank
- Julius (chimpanzee), Norwegian chimpanzee
- Julius (restaurant), tavern in Greenwich Village, New York City
- Julius (software), open-source Linux speech recognition decoder
- Orange Julius, American chain of fruit drink beverage stores, and eponymous beverage
- Julius (month), the month of the ancient Roman calendar originally called Quintilis and renamed for Julius Caesar
See also
- Julius Caesar (disambiguation)
- Jukka Nevelainen, a Finnish drummer whose nickname is Julius
- Juliusz
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