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Julia Lennon
Julia Lennon (née Stanley, 1914–1958), Liverpool mother of John Lennon; married Alfred Lennon in 1938, taught John banjo chords, died 15 July 1958 struck by an off-duty policeman's car, inspiring "Julia" and "Mother".
Julia Letlow
Julia Letlow (born 1981) is an American politician and Republican U.S. Representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021, and the 2026 Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Louisiana.
Júlia Lopes de Almeida
Júlia Lopes de Almeida, full name Júlia Valentim da Silveira Lopes de Almeida, was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and journalist who published more than 40 books over 53 years.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961) is an American actress and comedian, an Elaine Benes on Seinfeld and Selina Meyer on Veep, holder of 11 Emmys, nine SAG Awards, and the 2018 Mark Twain Prize.
Julia Mahamid
Julia Mahamid is a structural biologist who heads the Molecular Systems Biology Unit at EMBL Heidelberg, imaging molecules inside frozen cells by cryo-electron tomography; she won the 2026 Leibniz Prize.
Julia Majchrzak
Julia Karolina Majchrzak is a Polish-born insurance broker based in London who won series 13 of the British reality dating show Love Island in 2026 with Lorenzo Alessi.
Julia Mancuso
Julia Mancuso, also Julia Marie Mancuso-Fish, "Super Jules," is a retired American alpine skier born 1984 in Reno: 2006 Olympic giant slalom gold, four Olympic medals, seven World Cup wins, retired 2018.
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879), British photographer born in Calcutta, took up photography at 48 on the Isle of Wight; known for soft-focus close-up portraits of Darwin, Herschel, and Tennyson and V&A ties.
Julia McKenzie
Julia McKenzie (Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie, born 1941) is an English actress, singer, and theatre director, a multiple Olivier winner for Sondheim musicals and ITV's Miss Marple from 2008 to 2013.
Julia Michaels
Julia Michaels (Julia Cavazos), American singer-songwriter born 1993 in Davenport, Iowa; hit songwriter for Justin Bieber's "Sorry" and Selena Gomez's "Lose You to Love Me," and multi-platinum solo artist behind "Issues" and "If the World Was Ending."
Julia Montes
Julia Montes (Mara Hautea Schnittka, born 1995), Filipino actress of German descent; breakthrough as Clara in the 2010 Mara Clara remake, lead roles in Walang Hanggan, Doble Kara, Asintado, and Saving Grace, and 2024 Eddys Best Actress for Five Breakups and a Romance.
Julia Morris
Julia Morris is an Australian comedian, actor, and television presenter, a Full Frontal cast member, House Husbands lead, and host of I'm a Celebrity Australia from 2015, a five-time Gold Logie nominee now leading ABC's Class Clowns.
Julia Nesheiwat
Julia Nesheiwat, American energy and national security official; 10th White House Homeland Security Advisor (2020-2021), Florida's first Chief Resilience Officer, Army intelligence veteran with a Bronze Star, and TC Energy executive.
Julia Nickson
Julia Nickson (Julia Nickson-Soul), Singaporean-born American actress born 1958, known as Co Bao in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985); also Noble House, Sidekicks, Babylon 5, Ready Player One; retired from acting in 2025.
Julia Oh
Julia Oh is a microbiome researcher and professor at Duke University, where she directs the Duke Microbiome Center and studies the human skin microbiome; she received an NIH New Innovator Award in 2017.
Julia olefination
The Julia olefination, also called the Julia–Lythgoe olefination, is a reaction that converts an aldehyde or ketone and an aryl sulfone into an alkene, reported in 1973.
Julia Ormond
Julia Ormond (Julia Karin Ormond), British actress born 1965 in Epsom, Surrey; star of Legends of the Fall, First Knight, and Sabrina; Emmy winner for Temple Grandin; UNODC Goodwill Ambassador against trafficking.
Julia Pastrana
Julia Pastrana (1834–1860), Mexican Indigenous singer and dancer with hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, exhibited across Europe and Russia, mummified after death, and finally buried in Sinaloa in 2013.
Julia Pkg
Pkg is the built-in package manager of the Julia programming language, handling installing, updating, and removing packages since its debut with Julia 1.0 in 2018.
Julia Promisel Cooper
Julia Promisel Cooper is an American biochemist and geneticist who studies telomeres in fission yeast and chairs Biochemistry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Julia Quinn
Julia Quinn, pen name of Julie Pottinger (born Julie Cotler, 1970), American historical romance author of the Bridgerton series (The Duke and I, 2000), adapted by Netflix; Harvard art history graduate, Yale medical school dropout, RWA Hall of Fame member.
Julia R. Greer
Julia R. Greer is a materials scientist at Caltech known for 3D-printed nanoarchitected metamaterials and for showing that metal becomes stronger as its dimensions shrink.
Julia R. Weertman
Julia R. Weertman, born Julia Ann Randall (1926–2018), was an American materials scientist and professor at Northwestern University known for research on high-temperature alloys and pioneering studies of nanocrystalline metals.
Julia Rausing
Julia Rausing (died April 2024, aged 63) was a British philanthropist, former Christie's art expert, and wife of Hans Rausing; she co-founded the Julia and Hans Rausing Trust in 2014, commemorated by the Julia Rausing Trust giving £100m yearly to UK causes.
Julia Rehwald
Julia Rehwald (born 1995, Sacramento, California) is an American actress known as Kate Schmidt in Netflix's Fear Street trilogy (2021) and Lizzie in 1666, later voicing Celesta Kami in Young Jedi Adventures and playing Tashigi in One Piece season 2.
Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts (born 1967, Atlanta) is an American actress and Oscar winner for Erin Brockovich (2001), famous for Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, and Runaway Bride; four Oscar nominations and three Golden Globes.
Julia Roberts filmography
Julia Roberts filmography: chronological film and TV credits of the American actress (born 1967), Oscar winner for Erin Brockovich, breakthrough in Pretty Woman (1990), films grossing over $2.5 billion worldwide, through After the Hunt (2025).
Julia Robinson
Julia Robinson, also known as Julia Bowman Robinson, was an American mathematician at UC Berkeley known for the negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, the MRDP theorem.
Julia S. Gibbons
Julia S. Gibbons, born 1950, is an American judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2002, previously a Reagan-appointed Tennessee district judge and first female trial judge in Tennessee.
Julia Salazar
Julia Salazar is an American politician and Democratic member of the New York State Senate from Brooklyn's 18th district, elected in 2018 as the youngest woman in its history.