Julius

Julius is a male name .

Origin and meaning of the name

Latin ( Iulius, Julius ): 'from the Julier family ', whose legendary progenitor Iulus is, according to legend, the son of Aeneas ' and thus of divine origin.

The best-known member of the family was Gaius Iulius Caesar ; the seventh month of the year was named in his honor.

name day

• April 12th, also the day of the death of Pope Julius I.

variants

• male: Iulius (orig. Lat.), Julian , Jules (French), Julien (French), Gyula (Hungarian), Giulio (Italian), Luglio (Italian), Juliusz (Polish), July ( russ.), Julio (span.)
• female: Julia , Julie (French), Giulia (Italian)

Name bearer

First name

• Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), American pharmacologist and neurochemist, 1970 Nobel Prize in Medicine
• Julius Baron (1834–1898), German legal scholar and university professor
• Julius Biada (* 1992), German soccer player
• Julius (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) (1528–1589), important reformer of the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
• Julius Döpfner (1913–1976), German cardinal and chairman of the German Bishops' Conference
• Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (1545–1617), ecclesiastical and state head of Würzburg
• Julius Erving (born 1950), American basketball player
• Julius Flechtheim (1876–1940), German lawyer and honorary professor
• Julius Hackethal (1921–1997), German surgeon and proponent of euthanasia
• Julius Hönig (1902–1945), German politician (NSDAP)
• Julius I (? –352), Pope 337–352, namesake, set the date of Jesus' birth on December 25th
• Julius II. (1443–1513), Pope 1503–1513, builder of St. Peter's Basilica
• Julius III. (1487–1555), Pope 1550–1555
• Julius James (* 1984), soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
• Julius Kniese (1848–1905), German conductor
• Julius Leber (1891–1945), German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• Julius Maus (1906–1934), German cyclist
• Julius Morkūnas (* 1978), Lithuanian politician, Vice Minister
• Julius Nepos (430–480), last legitimate emperor of the Western Roman Empire
• Julius Nyerere (1922–1999), first President of Tanzania
• Julius Pagojus (* 1987), Lithuanian Vice Minister of Justice
• Julius Popp (artist) (* 1973), German media artist
• Julius Popp (politician) (1849–1902), Austrian politician of the SDAP
• Julius Raab (1891–1964), Austrian politician, Federal Chancellor, achieved the conclusion of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955
• Julius Rosenberg (1918–1953), American spy for the Soviet Union
• Julius Rudel (1921–2014), American conductor
• Julio Santana (* 1973), Dominican baseball pitcher
• Julius H. Schoeps (* 1942), German historian and political scientist
• Julius Shulman (1910–2009), American architectural photographer
• Julius Speer (1905–1984), German forest scientist and science organizer
• Julius Straube (1832–1913), German cartographer and publisher
• Julius Streicher (1885–1946), National Socialist politician, editor of the anti-Semitic propaganda paper Der Stürmer
• Julius Sturm (1816-1896), German poet
• Julius Vogel (1835–1899), the eighth Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Julius von Ficker (1826–1902), German-Austrian historian
• Julius of Novara († around 400), Christian priest and saint
• Julius of Rome († around 190), Christian martyr and saint
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), Nobel Prize in Medicine 1927
• Julius Yego (* 1989), Kenyan athlete

family name

• Iulius Marcellinus , Roman centurion

• Gaius Iulius Caesar (100 BC – 44 BC), Roman statesman, general and author
• Gaius Iulius Avitus , Roman suffect consul 149
• Gaius Iulius Commodus Orfitianus , Roman suffect consul 157
• Gaius Iulius Iulianus , Roman consul 150
• Gaius Iulius Iullus (consul 447 BC) , Roman consul
• Gaius Iulius Marcellinus , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Gaius Iulius Nicanor , Roman grammarian
• Gaius Iulius Paullus , Roman officer (imperial era)
• Gaius Iulius Proclus , ancient Roman entrepreneur
• Gaius Iulius Scapula , Roman suffect consul 139
• Gaius Iulius Statius Severus , Roman suffect consul 154
• Gaius Iulius Victor , Roman author (possibly Gallic origin) of manuscripts on rhetoric

• Anthony Julius (* 1956), British lawyer and non-fiction author
• David Julius (* 1955), American sensory physiologist
• Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1889–1951), American journalist and publisher
• Ener Julio (* 1973), Colombian boxer
• Friedrich Julius (1776–1860), German theater actor
• Gustav Julius (1810–1851), German journalist, participant in the German revolution of 1848/49
• Hinrich Julius (* 1962), German legal scholar
• Hugo Julius (1870–1949), German photographer in Hanover
• Ignaz Julius (? -1888?), German photographer in Hamburg
• Jorge Julio Rocha (* 1969), Colombian boxer
• Kurt Julius (1909–1986), German photographer
• Leopold Julius (approx. 1850–1890), German classical archaeologist
• Lucius Iulius Ursus , Roman suffect consul 85, 98, 100
• Marten Julius (* 1966), German handball player
• Michael Julius (1558–1605), German Protestant pastor, theologian and high school teacher
• Nikolaus Heinrich Julius (1783–1862), German doctor
• Nils Julius (* 1974), German actor
• Paul Julius (1862–1931), Austrian chemist
• Reinhold Julius (1913–1937), German resistance fighter against National Socialism and boxer
• Rolf Julius (1939–2011), German artist
• Rosamind Julius (1923-2010), English designer and entrepreneur
• Willem Henri Julius (1860–1925), Dutch physicist

Others

• Julius (software) , free speech recognition software
• Juliusplate , a former Weser island