Julia

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Julia is usually a woman's given name, or a surname. It is of Latin origin and means "youthful" or full of life.


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[edit] Julius Family

In Ancient Rome, women from all branches of the Julius family were called Julia (see Roman naming convention).

[edit] Other Roman Julias

[edit] People

Today, Julia is a common name, and is also a surname.

[edit] As First name

  • Julia Boutros (b. 1968), Lebanese singer, mostly known for her national song Ghabet Shams El Haq (Arabic:غابت شمس الحق)
  • Julia de Burgos, spanish poet
  • Julia Child (1912–2004), American gourmet cook, author, and television personality
  • Julia Clarete (b. 1979), Filipino singer-actress
  • Julia Anne Clarke, Playboy Playmate of the Month for March 1991
  • Julia Fischer (b. 1983), German violinist
  • Julia Gillard, Australian politician
  • Julia Irwin, Australian politician
  • Julia Ling, Asian American actress, star of "Cinder" guest starring recurring on "Studio 60"
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus (b. 1961), American actress, costar of the TV series Seinfeld
  • Julia Roberts (b. 1967), American actress, star of the movie Pretty Woman
  • Julia Stiles (b. 1981), American actress, star of the movie 10 Things I Hate about You
  • Julia Ormond (b. 1965), British actress, star of the movie Legends of the Fall
  • Julia Sweeney (b. 1961), American actor and comedian, Alumna of Saturday Night Live
  • Julia Savicheva (b. 1987), the Russian contestant from Eurovision 2004
  • Yulia Volkova(b. 1985), Russian singer
  • Julia Yevdayeva (b. 1987), Current Azeri emissary to the United States
  • Julia Janes (b. 1985), Miss Hockessin, Tuba player extraordinare

[edit] As Last name

  • Bernard Julia (b. 1952), French theoretical physicist at Ecole Normale Supérieure
  • Didier Julia (b. 1934), a French deputy
  • Gaston Julia (1893–1978), a French mathematician who devised the Julia set of fractals
  • Raúl Juliá (1940–1994), American actor

[edit] Fictional characters

  • Julia, a character in the anime series Cowboy Bebop
  • Julia Chang, character in the fighting game series Tekken
  • Julia Kendall, an Italian comic book character
  • Julia Fernandez, a character in the anime series Beyblade
  • Julia (1984) is the name of a fictional character from George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Julia Sugarbaker, outspoken interior designer, played by Dixie Carter on the sitcom Designing Women
  • Julia Flyte is one of the Flyte siblings in the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
  • Julia, a character in the Shakespeare trilogy by Gary Blackwood (The Shakespeare Stealer, Shakespeare's Scribe, and Shakespeare's Spy).

[edit] Christian saints

[edit] Other uses

[edit] See also

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