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Jules Verne bibliography

The Jules Verne bibliography records the works of the French novelist (1828–1905), whose Voyages extraordinaires series comprises roughly 62 to 65 novels, beginning with Cinq semaines en ballon in 1863.

Julga Bahador

Julga Bahador (جلگه بهادر, also Batur) is a region and village in Nawur District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, at about 2,909 m elevation, populated mainly by Hazara Dari speakers living by farming and livestock.

Juli Feigon

Juli Feigon is an American structural biologist who studies nucleic acid structures and is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at UCLA, known for NMR and cryo-EM structures of telomerase.

Juli, Peru

Juli is a town in the Chucuito Province of southern Peru, on Lake Titicaca south of Puno, once called the "Rome of America" for its colonial churches.

Julia (1977 film)

Julia (1977), Fred Zinnemann's drama from Lillian Hellman's Pentimento, stars Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave; it won three Oscars from 11 nominations, and its title character's identity was disputed by Muriel Gardiner.

Julia (2022 TV series)

Julia (2022–2023) is an HBO Max comedy-drama created by Daniel Goldfarb about Julia Child launching The French Chef at WGBH. Sarah Lancashire stars; eight-episode season one premiered March 31, 2022; critics consensus: infectious joie de vivre.

Julia (programming language)

Julia, also known as the Julia language, is a high-level programming language for scientific and numerical computing, announced in 2012, that matches C's speed through just-in-time compilation.

Julia A. Segre

Julia A. Segre, also published as Julie A. Segre, is an American microbial genomics researcher at NIH who maps the skin microbiome and traces hospital outbreaks of drug-resistant pathogens.

Julia Ann

Julia Ann is an American adult-film performer and feature dancer, formerly part of Blondage, known for major studio contracts, a 2004 AVN acting award, and hall-of-fame honors.

Julia Bailey-Serres

Julia Bailey-Serres is an American plant biologist, Distinguished Professor of Genetics at UC Riverside, known for dissecting the rice SUB1A gene and enabling flood-tolerant rice varieties grown in Asia.

Julia Barr

Julia Barr (born 1949, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress who played Brooke English on All My Children for over 30 years from 1976, winning Daytime Emmys in 1990 and 1998, and reprised the role in the 2013 online revival.

Julia Barretto

Julia Barretto (born 1997, Marikina City) is a Filipina actress of the Barretto showbiz family, star of Vince & Kath & James, Expensive Candy, and Un/Happy for You, half of the JoshLia love team, and independently managed since 2026.

Julia Beljajeva

Julia Beljajeva, born 1992 in Tartu, Estonia, is a right-handed épée fencer who won team gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and individual world gold in 2013.

Julia Bliss

Julia Bliss is an international DJ and producer based in Dubai, ranked #2 Best Female DJ in India by DjaneMag In and a Sunburn Festival main-stage artist.

Julia Bogdanova

Julia Bogdanova, born 1964 in Leningrad, is a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who won the 1978 world 100 m breaststroke title at 14 and took 200 m bronze at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Julia Boorstin

Julia Boorstin (born 1978) is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent in Los Angeles, creator of the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and author of When Women Lead (2022), based on interviews with more than 100 women leaders.

Julia Bradbury

Julia Bradbury (born 1970, Dublin) is an English TV presenter of Countryfile, Watchdog, and Wainwright Walks, a Sunday Times bestselling author of Walk Yourself Happy and Hack Yourself Healthy, and a breast cancer advocate co-founding The Outdoor Guide.

Julia Brownley

Julia Brownley is an American Democratic politician who has represented California's 26th district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving in the California State Assembly.

Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Butterfly Hill (Julia Lorraine Hill, born 1974) is an American environmentalist who lived 738 days, December 1997 to December 1999, in the 180-foot-high canopy of Luna, a 1,000-year-old redwood near Stafford, California, saving it from Pacific Lumber in exchange for a $50,000 payment and buffer zone.

Julia Cameron

Julia Cameron (born 1948) is the American author of The Artist's Way (1992), creator of the morning pages and artist dates practices, and a former Rolling Stone journalist and Scorsese collaborator.

Julia Carpenter

Julia Carpenter (Julia Eugenia Carpenter Cornwall), also known as Spider-Woman II, Arachne, and Madame Web, is a Marvel Comics superhero introduced in Secret Wars (1984), given spider powers by a government serum, with psionic webs and precognition.

Julia Chan

Julia Chan, also known as Julia Taylor Ross, is a British actress born 1983 in Cheshire, England, known for Dr. Maggie Lin in Saving Hope, Pepper Smith in Katy Keene, Archive 81, and co-hosting The Great Canadian Baking Show.

Julia Child

Julia Child (1912–2004), American cooking teacher and author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) and the TV series The French Chef, who brought French home cooking to mainstream America.

Julia Collins (game show contestant)

Julia Collins is an American game show contestant who won 20 consecutive Jeopardy! games in 2014, then the second-longest streak in the show's regular-season history.

Julia Davis

Julia Davis, English actress, comedian, writer and director born 1966 in Bath, Somerset; creator and star of Nighty Night, Hunderby, Camping and Sally4Ever, BAFTA-winning for Hunderby. Distinct from the Australian artist and the Russian-media journalist of the same name.

Julia de Burgos

Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) was a Puerto Rican poet and activist known for feminism and themes of Puerto Rican independence, considered a foremother of Nuyorican poetry.

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson, born 1948, is a British children's writer best known for The Gruffalo (1999), UK Children's Laureate from 2011 to 2013, and made a Dame in 2026.

Julia Drusilla

Julia Drusilla (Iulia Drusilla), sister of Caligula, daughter of Germanicus; died 10 June AD 38 and became the first woman of the imperial house deified at Rome, as Diva Drusilla, founding precedent for the female imperial cult.

Julia Ducournau

Julia Ducournau (born 1983, Paris) is a French director and screenwriter, La Fémis graduate, known for Raw (2016), Titane (2021 Palme d'Or), and Alpha (2025), blending body horror with arthouse drama.

Julia Duffy

Julia Duffy (born 1951) is an American actress, also Julia Margaret Hinds, best known as Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart (1982–1990), earning seven Emmy nominations, with later roles in Baby Talk, Designing Women, Palm Royale, and The 'Burbs.