Julius (name)

Julius is a masculine given name and a surname, derived from the nomen of a Roman family, most famously Julius Caesar. The name may be derived from Greek ιουλος (ioulos) or from Latin Jovilius . Julio/Júlio is the Spanish/Portuguese form and Jules is the French form.

Given name

• Julius, the centurion given custody of Paul the Apostle in Acts 27
• Pope Julius (disambiguation), multiple popes
• Julius the Veteran (255–302), Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox saint and martyr
• Julius (judge royal) (fl. before 1135), 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), Nigerian footballer
• Julius Akosah (born 1982), Cameroonian-Hongkonger (soccer) footballer
• Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), an American biochemist
• Julius Babao (born 1968), Filipino broadcast journalist
• Julius Bacher (1810–1889), German playwright and novelist
• Julius Balkow (1909–1973), East German engineer and politician
• Julius Bär (1857–1922), German banker
• Julius Bliek (born 1994), Dutch footballer
• Julius Boros (1920–1994), American golfer
• JuJu Brents (real name Julius; born 2000), American football player
• Julius Brink (born 1982), German beach volleyball player
• Julius Büdel (1903–1983), German geomorphologist
• Julius Buelow, American football player
• Julius Chestnut (born 2000), American football player
• Julius Eastman (1940–1990), American composer
• Julius Erving (born 1950), American basketball player
• Julius Evola (1898–1974), Italian philosopher
• 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 Hirsch (1892–1945), German soccer player and Iron Cross recipient
• Julius Jørgensen (1880–1937), Danish runner
• Julius Kuperjanov (1894–1919), Estonian teacher and military officer
• Julius Köbner (1806–1884), Danish Baptist pioneer
• Julius Ingram (1832–1917), American politician.
• Julius Lenck (1845–1901), Hungarian-German brewer and businessman
• Julius Ludolf (1893–1947), German SS officer and concentration camp commandant
• Julius Wandera Maganda (born 1971), Ugandan politician
• Julius Mägiste (1900–1978), Estonian linguist and academic
• Julius Malema (born 1981), South African politician
• Julius Mandel aka Gyula Mándi (1899–1969), Hungarian football player and manager
• Julius Masvanise (born 1966), Zimbabwean athlete
• Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), president of Tanzania
• Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American theoretical physicist
• Julius Petersen (1839–1910), Danish mathematician
• Julius Richard Petri (1852–1921), German bacteriologist
• Julius Randle (born 1994), American basketball player
• Julius Reubke (1834–1858), German composer, pianist and organist.
• Julius La Rosa (1930–2016), American pop singer
• Julius Rudel (1921–2014), Austrian-born American conductor
• Julius Rosenberg (1918–1953), American communist
• Julius Schaub (1898–1976), chief aide and adjutant to Adolf Hitler
• Julius Schwartz (1915–2004), American comic book and pulp magazine editor
• Julius Samuel Scott Jr. (1925–2019), American minister, sociologist, community leader, teacher, and academic administrator
• Julius Sherrod Scott III (1955–2021), American scholar of slavery and Caribbean and Atlantic history
• Yulius Selvanus (born 1963), Indonesian politician and military office, governor of North Sulawesi
• Julius Seligson (1909–1987), American tennis player
• Julius Streicher (1885–1946), Nazi newspaper editor
• Julius Terpstra (born 1989), Dutch politician
• Julius Travis (1869–1961), American jurist from Indiana
• Julius Warmsley (born 1990), American football player
• Julius Welschof (born 1997), German American football player
• Julius Wolf (born 1993), German basketball player
• Julius Wood (born 2001), American football player
• Julius Zeyer (1841–1901), Czech romantic writer

Surname

• Alice Julius (1846–1918), New Zealand artist
• Andrew Julius (born 1984), Montserrat footballer
• Anthony Julius (born 1956), British lawyer and academic
• Aron Julius, English actor
• Churchill Julius (1847–1938), first Archbishop of New Zealand
• David Julius (born 1955), American physiologist
• DeAnne Julius (born 1949), British-based American economist
• Eva Julius (1878–1972), Australian Girlguiding leader, wife of George
• George Julius (1873–1946), Australian inventor and engineer, husband of Eva
• Harry Julius (1885–1938), Australian commercial artist
• (1901–1977), Dutch medical professor and cancer researcher
• Leigh Julius (born 1985), South African sprinter
• Max Julius (1916–1963), Australian barrister and communist
• Orlando Julius (1943–2022), Nigerian musician
• (1851–1902), Dutch theoretical physicist
• Willem Henri Julius (1860–1925), Dutch solar physicist
• E. Haldeman-Julius (né Emanuel Julius) (1889–1951), Jewish-American socialist

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 ' (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 ' 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
• Julius Geezer, a character from The Smurfs, where he forced Smurfette to marry his son unless Brainy wins a gladiator fight
• Dr. Julius Strangepork, a character in The Muppets
• Julius Sagamore, a character for The Millionairess, a play by George Bernard Shaw
• Julius the Cat, Walt Disney's first recurring animated character
• Julius Zebra, a book franchise from author Gary Northfield
• Julius Oppenheimmer Jr., a character from The Amazing World of Gumball
• Julius Euclius, a character from '