Julia

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Julia
Given Name
Gender Female
Meaning Youthful
Origin Latin
Related names Julius, Julie, Ivlia
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Julia is usually a woman's given name or a surname. It is of Latin origin and means "youthful". .

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[edit] Julius family

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

[edit] Other Romans

[edit] People

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

[edit] As first name

[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, a character in the fighting game series Tekken
  • Julia Fernandez, a character in the anime series Beyblade
  • Julia (1984), a character from George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Julia, a character in William Shakespeare's play "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
  • Julia Flyte is one of the Flyte siblings in the novel Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
  • Julia, a one-time character in the Simpson's episode "The Homer of Sellville".
  • Julia Merton, a character in Oscar Wilde's short story "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"
  • Julia Pargetter, mother of Nigel Pargetter, owner of Lower Loxley, a minor stately home, in The Archers.
  • Julia Shuttlethwaite, a character in T.S. Eliot's play, "The Cocktail Party"
  • Julia Forsyte Small, a character in The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
  • Julia Sugarbaker, outspoken interior designer, played by Dixie Carter on the sitcom Designing Women
  • Julia (Rave Master), a character in manga series Rave Master.

[edit] Christian saints

[edit] In entertainment

  • Julia (film), a 1977 film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, and Jason Robards.
  • Julia (TV series), a TV series starring Diahann Carroll that ran on NBC from 1968 to 1971.
  • "Julia (The Beatles song)", a song from The Beatles' The White Album.
  • "Julia (Eurythmics song)", a song by Eurythmics, based on the character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and featured on their album, 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother).
  • Being Julia, a 2004 movie starring Annette Bening.

[edit] Other uses

[edit] See also