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Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin (1911-2008), American film director of the Hollywood noir cycle Brute Force, The Naked City, Thieves' Highway and Night and the City, blacklisted by HUAC, exiled to Europe, and director of Rififi, Never on Sunday and Topkapi with Melina Mercouri.
Jules Ernest Naville
Jules Ernest Naville (1816–1909) was a Swiss Reformed pastor, theologian, and philosopher, professor at the Academy of Geneva whose apologetic lectures drew audiences of 3,000.
Jules Froment
Jules Froment (1878–1946) was a French neurologist who spent his career at the Lyon hospitals, known for Froment's sign of ulnar nerve palsy and work with Joseph Babinski on war neurology.
Jules Gonin
Jules Gonin (1870–1935) was a Swiss ophthalmologist in Lausanne who showed that a retinal tear causes detachment and devised ignipuncture, the first effective operation for it, raising cure rates from about 1% to over half.
Jules Gounon
Jules Gounon, French GT and endurance racing driver born in Aubenas; 2017 ADAC GT Masters champion, Mercedes-AMG Performance Driver, three-time Bathurst 12 Hour winner, and Alpine Hypercar driver in the WEC, son of ex-F1 driver Jean-Marc Gounon.
Jules Héricourt
Jules Héricourt (1850–1938) was a French physician and physiologist who, with Charles Richet, discovered the principle of serotherapy in 1888 and made early observations of anaphylaxis.
Jules Hirsch
Jules Hirsch (1927–2015) was an American physician-scientist at The Rockefeller University who pioneered the study of human metabolism, showing that fat cell number is fixed and that metabolism falls after weight loss, opposing the new weight.
Jules Hoffman
Jules Hoffman (born 1992), also known as Jules!, is an American non-binary children's musician and Berklee-trained songwriter, a performer on Ms. Rachel's Songs for Littles and creator of the albums Jamming with Jules! and Thanks A Lot: Raffi Reimagined.
Jules Hudson
Jules Hudson (Julian Harold Hudson), British presenter, archaeologist and Army Reserve officer born 1970 in Colchester; main presenter of BBC One's Escape to the Country since 2007, Countryfile contributor, Channel 5 farm series host, and author of Wild at Heart (2026).
Jules Jordan
Jules Jordan, born Ashley Gasper (1972), is an American adult film director, performer, and producer; founded Jules Jordan Video in 2006 after Evil Angel years; AVN Hall of Fame 2011.
Jules Joubert
Jules François Joubert (1834–1910) was a French physicist and microbiologist who, as Louis Pasteur's co-worker, co-authored the 1877 paper Charbon et septicémie, the first report of antibiosis.
Jules Koundé
Jules Koundé (born 1998, Paris) is a French defender for FC Barcelona and France; Bordeaux and Sevilla (record €25m signing) before 2022, World Cup 2022 finalist, Barça contract to 2030.
Jules Kroll
Jules Kroll, also known as Jules B. Kroll, is an American businessman who founded Kroll Associates in 1972 and later the credit rating agency Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
Jules L. Dienstag
Jules L. Dienstag is an American hepatologist, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1976 and Harvard professor, known for lamivudine trials and a widely cited 2008 hepatitis B review.
Jules Ladoumegue
Jules Ladoumègue (Julot), French middle-distance runner (1906-1973): 1928 Olympic 1,500 m silver behind Harri Larva, six world records 1930-31 including 3:49.2 and mile 4:09.2, banned for professionalism in March 1932 before the Los Angeles Games.
Jules LeBlanc
Jules LeBlanc, born Julianna Grace LeBlanc in 2004 and formerly known as Annie LeBlanc, is an American YouTuber, actress, and singer who rose to fame on the Bratayley family vlog, starred as Rhyme in Chicken Girls and Lex in Nickelodeon's Side Hustle, and rebranded from Annie to Jules in October 2020.
Jules Ledesma
Julio "Jules" Ledesma IV, Filipino politician and businessman, NPC representative of Negros Occidental's 1st District, served 1995-2004, 2007-2016, and from 2025; longtime Science and Technology committee chair.
Jules Lejeune
Jules Lejeune (1828–1911) was a Belgian criminal lawyer, professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and Minister of Justice known for the 1888 Loi Lejeune on conditional release.
Jules Maigret
Jules Maigret, Simenon's fictional commissaire of the French Judicial Police, hero of 75 novels and 28 stories, adapted in over 300 films and TV series including the BBC Rupert Davies, Jean Richard, and Bruno Cremer series.
Jules Massenet
Jules Massenet (1842-1912), French composer of about 25 operas including Manon, Werther, and Thais; Paris Conservatoire professor 1878-1896 whose melodious operas dominated fin-de-siecle French opera.
Jules Meyer
Jules Meyer was a chemist at the ETH laboratory in Zürich who co-authored, with Hermann Staudinger, the 1919 papers reporting the reaction now called the Staudinger reaction.
Jules Moch
Jules Moch was a French socialist politician and École Polytechnique engineer who served as Interior Minister from 1947 to 1950, directing the response to Communist-led strikes.
Jules Renard
Jules Renard, born Pierre-Jules Renard (1864–1910), was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist known for Poil de Carotte (1894) and his Journal, published after his death in 1910.
Jules Richard (mathematician)
Jules Antoine Richard (1862–1956) was a French mathematician who taught in provincial lycées and is known for Richard's paradox, his 1905 contradiction about real numbers definable in finitely many words.
Jules Rimet
Jules Rimet (1873-1956), French sports administrator, third and longest-serving FIFA president (1921-1954), founder of Red Star club and creator of the FIFA World Cup, first held in Uruguay in 1930.
Jules Romains
Jules Romains, pen name of Louis Farigoule, was a French writer who founded Unanimism and wrote the play Knock and the 27-volume novel Les Hommes de bonne volonté.
Jules Supervielle
Jules Supervielle (1884–1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, novelist, playwright, and translator, born in Montevideo and counted among the major French poets of the twentieth century.
Jules Tinel
Jules Tinel (1879–1952) was a French neurologist who described the Tinel sign in 1915, tingling felt when an injured nerve is pressed, and first described paroxysmal hypertension in pheochromocytoma.
Jules Vaughn
Jules Vaughn is a main character in HBO's Euphoria, portrayed by Hunter Schafer in her screen debut; a trans teen who transitioned at 13, central to the Rue romance and the special episode co-written by Schafer.
Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist of Nantes and Amiens, author of the Voyages extraordinaires with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days.