Julian

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Julian is a common male given name in Austria, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, the Netherlands, France (as Julien), Italy (as Giuliano), Spain, Latin America (as Julián in Spanish and Juliano or Julião in Portuguese) and elsewhere.

The name literally means, in Latin, "belonging to Julius", hence its use for the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar. Some families have taken it as a female name, possibly due to the influence of the French feminine form, Julienne. Juliana is the feminine form of this name in the Portuguese and the Spanish languages, and Giuliana is its Italian version.

Variations

Some variations of the name are:

People

Notable people named Julian/Julien include:

Antiquity

• Didius Julianus (133 or 137–193), Roman emperor
• Sabinus Iulianus (fl. 283–293), also known as Julian of Pannonia, Roman usurper
• Julius Julianus (fl. 315–325), grandfather of the emperor Julian, Roman administrator under Constantine the Great
• Julian (emperor) (332–363), Flavius Claudius Julianus, Roman emperor
• Julianus ben Sabar (Julian ben Sabar, fl. 529–531), leader of the Samaritans
• Julian, Count of Ceuta (fl. 710), Visigothic hero/traitor

Religion

• St. Julian of Toledo (642–690), a Christian saint
• Julian, bishop of Zaragoza (Spain) in 1077-1110
• St. Julian the Hospitaller, legendary Roman Catholic saint
• St. Julian of Le Mans, venerated as first bishop of Le Mans
• Julian of Norwich (1342 – c. 1413), woman English mystic
• Sts. Julian and Basilissa, fourth-century martyrs
• Julian of Eclanum
• Julian of Antioch (of Cilicia, of Anazarbus)
• Friar Julian, Hungarian Dominican friar, explorer
• Julian of Samosata, a companion in martydrom of Romanus of Samosata
• Julian, a companion of Saint Lucian of Beauvais
• Julian I of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox patriarch

Others

• Charles-André Julien, French Historian
• Percy Lavon Julian, 20th-century American chemist
• Julian (pornographic actor) (born 1970), American pornographic actor
• Julian Adams, American actor
• Julian Edwin Adderley, better known as Cannonball Adderley, American jazz musician
• Julien Arias, French rugby footballer
• Julian Assange (born 1971), Australian Internet activist
• Julian Austin, Canadian field hockey player
• Julian Austin, Canadian musician
• Julian Barnes, English novelist
• Julian Barratt, English actor, comedian, and musician
• Julian Bond, African American civil rights leader
• Julian Bream, English classical musician
• Julian Casablancas, American rock musician
• Julien Chouinard, French Canadian lawyer and judge
• Julian Clary, English comedian
• Julian Cochran, English classical composer
• Julian Cope, English rock musician
• Sean Julian Danielsen, guitarist and lead vocalist for American rock bands Smile Empty Soul and World Fire Brigade
• Julien Dillens, Belgian sculptor
• Julian Draxler, German footballer
• Julian Dufreche, Clerk of Court and President of the Board of Election Supervisors for Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
• Julien Duvivier, French film director
• Julian B. Erway (1899–1970), New York politician
• Julian Fellowes, English actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and Conservative Party life peer
• Julian Forte (born 1993), Jamaican sprinter
• Julien Fountain, English Cricket Coach
• Julian Glover, English actor
• Julian Golley, English athlete
• Julien Green, American novelist (French-born and wrote in French)
• Julian Hamilton, Australian musician
• Julian Hartridge, American politician
• Julian Hodge, English/Welsh banker, businessman
• Julian Hodgson, English chess Grandmaster and former British Champion
• Julian Miles Holland, better known as Jools Holland, musician
• Julian Huxley, English biologist and first director of UNESCO
• Julian Illingworth, American squash professional
• Julian Jaynes, 20th-century American psychologist
• Julian Jenkins, American football player for the Buccaneers
• Julien Josephson, American screenwriter
• Julian Kelly, English-born Irish footballer
• Julian Knight, Australian mass murderer
• Julien Lahaut, Belgian politician and political activist
• Julian LeBlanc, actor, producer, and celebrity blogger
• Julien Leclercq, French poet and art critic
• Julian Lennon, English musician
• Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
• Julien Lorcy, French boxer
• Julian Marley, English/Jamaican musician
• Julian May, American fiction writer (female)
• Julian McMahon, Australian actor and model
• Julian Mitchell, English screenwriter, novelist
• Julián Morrinson, Cuban discus thrower
• Julian Morrow, Australian comedian
• Julien Mory Sidibé, Malian bishop
• Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher
• Julian Opie, English artist
• Julian Paynter, Australian long-distance runner
• Julian Peterson, American Football player for the Detroit Lions
• Julien Puricelli, French rugby union player
• Julian Rachlin, Lithuanian Jewish / Austrian classical musician
• Julien Raimond, Haitian black civil rights activist
• Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
• Julian Richards, Welsh film director
• Julian Sands, English actor
• Julian Smith (disambiguation), multiple people
• Julián Sotelo, Spanish javelin thrower
• Julien Temple, English documentary, film, and music video director
• Julian Trevelyan, English artist and poet
• Julian Turner, American young singer, awarded the james fotinos award in 2006
• Julian Tuwim, Polish poet
• Julián García Vargas, Spanish politician
• Julian Wilson (born 1940), former BBC horse-racing correspondent
• Julian Wilson (surfer) (born 1988), Australian surfer

Fictional

• Julien Mayfair, supporting character in Lives of the Mayfair Witches series by Anne Rice
• Julian, supporting character in The Chronicles of Amber
• Julian, supporting character in Dave Eggers's novel What is the What
• Saint Julian, main Character in Gustave Flaubert's novel The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller
• Julian, narrator of Shelley's poem "Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation"
• Julian Sark, fictional character of the television series Alias
• Julien Sorel, main character in Stendhal's novel The Red and the Black
• Dr. Julian Bashir, chief medical officer of Star Trek Deep Space Nine
• Julian Kirrin, oldest of Enid Blyton's Famous Five
• Julian Moore, minuscule character in His Dark Materials
• Julian Savage, fictional character in the novel Dark Challenge by Christine Feehan
• Julian, a main character in the Canadian mockumentary Trailer Park Boys.
• Julian, the protagonist of the short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
• Julian Kaye, Richard Gere's character in the 1980 movie American Gigolo
• Julian "Bean" Delphiki, one of the main characters in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series
• Julian, the strongest character in the game Little Fighter 2
• King Julien XIII, Lord-of-the-Lemurs, a character from the animated "Madagascar" movie franchise and the TV cartoon series "The Penguins of Madagascar"
• Julian Kintobor, now known as Ivo Robotnik, the primary antagonist of the Sonic series
• Julián Carax, the mysterious author investigated by the protagonist of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Julian Baker, character on the CW television series One Tree Hill
• Julian Marsh, main character in the musical 42nd St.
• Julian Luna, Prince of the San Francisco clans in the TV series Kindred: The Embraced
• Julian, trainee magician in Riordan's fantasy adventure novel "The Throne of Fire"
• Julian, a female protagonist in P.D James's The Children of Men
• Julian Thompson, protagonist in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives

See also

• Jolyon
• Jullien