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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.

Contents 1 Julius Family 2 Other Roman Julias 3 People 3.1 As First name 3.2 As Last name 4 Fictional characters 5 Christian saints 6 Other uses 7 See also

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

• Julia Caesaris, the name of many Julias of the Julii Caesares (Julius Caesar branch)
• Julia the Elder, (Julia Caesaris) daughter of Emperor Augustus
• Livia Drusilla, Julia Augusta, the wife of Emperor Augustus
• Julia Drusi Caesaris, granddaughter of Emperor Tiberius

• Julia Urania, wife of Roman client King Ptolemy of Mauretania
• Julia Flavia, daughter of Emperor Titus
• Julia Domna, Empress and wife of Emperor Septimius Severus
• Julia Maesa, Domna's elder sister
• Julia Soaemias, daughter to Julia Maesa and mother of Emperor Elagabalus
• Julia Avita Mamaea, Soaemias' sister and mother of Emperor Alexander Severus
• Helena of Constantinople, Flavia Julia Helena, mother of Constantine the Great

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

• 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

• 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

• 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).

• Julia of Corsica
• Julie Billiart
• Ursula Julia Ledochowska
• One of the Martyrs of Zaragoza

• Julia River, a river in Switzerland
• Julia (film), a 1977 drama starring Jane Fonda
• Julia (TV series), a TV series starring Diahann Carroll that ran on NBC from 1968 to 1971
• "Julia" (song), a song from The Beatles' White Album.
• "Julia" (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
• 89 Julia, an asteroid
• Julia set, a set of fractals defined by Gaston Julia
• Julia, a Chatterbot designed for TinyMUD Multi-User Dungeon environments
• Dryas julia, the Julia butterfly, a common New World Heliconiinae butterfly
• Julia, the replacement for Jeanne on the 2010 hurricane lists

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