All articles starting with J

Julia Sawalha

Julia Sawalha (born 1968, Wandsworth, London) is an English actress, daughter of actor Nadim Sawalha and sister of Nadia; Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous, Lynda Day in Press Gang, Lydia Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1995), voice of Ginger in Chicken Run, and Dorcas Lane in Lark Rise to Candleford, with an RTS Best Actress win.

Julia set

The Julia set, or Julia fractal, is the boundary of complex points whose orbits stay bounded under iteration of a function, a fractal studied by Fatou and Julia around 1918.

Oct 10, 2026

Julia Shaw (criminal psychologist)

Julia Shaw is a criminal psychologist whose 2015 study showed 70% of participants developed false memories of committing crime, and who works as an expert witness on memory reliability.

Julia Shelton

Julia "Jessie" Shelton is an American theoretical high-energy particle physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for research on dark matter, top quarks, and the Higgs boson.

Julia Smit

Julia Smit is an American former swimmer who won two relay medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, set short course world records, and earned six Pan American golds.

Julia Somerville

Julia Somerville (Julia Mary Fownes Somerville, born 1947) is an English newsreader who presented the BBC Nine O'Clock News and ITN's News at Ten, now co-presents Rip Off Britain, and received an OBE in 2013 for chairing the Government Art Collection advisory committee.

Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles, American actress born 1981 in New York City, known for Kat in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Nicky in the Bourne films, Dexter, Riviera, and her 2025 directorial debut Wish You Were Here.

Julia Stowers

Julia Stowers (Julia Gray Stowers, later Julia Stowers Dilworth), born 1982 in Knoxville, is an American freestyle swimmer who won gold in the 4x200 m relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, silver at the 1999 Pan American Games, and later became a Memphis assistant district attorney.

Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney (born 1959, Spokane) is an American actress, comedian, and author, an SNL cast member 1990-1994 known for the androgynous Pat, and creator of the monologues God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God.

Julia Szczurowska

Julia Szczurowska (born 2001, Olsztyn) is a Polish volleyball opposite spiker; VNL 2026 debutant for Poland with 104 points, formerly RC Cannes, VolleyWrocław, Beşiktaş, now Kuzeyboru.

Julia Taubitz

Julia Taubitz, German luger (born 1996, Annaberg-Buchholz), 2026 Olympic gold medalist in women's singles and mixed team relay, eight-time world champion, five-time consecutive overall World Cup winner.

Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder (Julia Augusti filia), 39 BC–AD 14, only child of Emperor Augustus and Scribonia; married Marcellus, Agrippa, and Tiberius; mother of Gaius, Lucius, Julia the Younger, Agrippina the Elder, and Agrippa Postumus; exiled in 2 BC for adultery under the Lex Julia and died in exile in AD 14.

Julia Volkova (Юлия Олеговна Волкова)

Julia Volkova (Юлия Олеговна Волкова, also Yulia Volkova), Russian singer and actress born 1985 in Moscow, one half of t.A.T.u. with Lena Katina; 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane sold over 12 million copies, Eurovision 2003 third place, solo career from 2011, 2025 reunion.

Sep 20, 2026

Julia Vorholt

Julia A. Vorholt is a German microbiologist and full professor of microbiology at ETH Zurich, known for research on plant microbiomes, synthetic methylotrophy, and single-cell FluidFM methods.

Julia Ward Howe

Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910), American poet, abolitionist, and suffragist, wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (1862), co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone, launched Mother's Peace Day, and was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Oct 10, 2026

Julia Watson

Julia Watson is an Australian-born designer, author, and educator who coined Lo—TEK, a design movement built on Indigenous technologies, writing its TASCHEN volumes in 2019 and 2025.

Julia Wendon

Julia A. Wendon is a British intensive-care physician who established the Liver Intensive Care Unit at King's College Hospital, London, and is known for work on acute liver failure.

Julia Yeomans

Julia Yeomans is a British theoretical physicist who led Oxford's Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and is known for work on active matter, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013.

Julia Zeitlinger

Julia Zeitlinger is a developmental and computational biologist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City who studies how DNA sequence controls gene expression.

Julia Zemiro

Julia Zemiro (born 1967, Aix-en-Provence) is a French-born Australian TV presenter, actor and comedian, host of RocKwiz (2005–2016), SBS Eurovision co-commentator with Sam Pang (2009–2016), Home Delivery host, and 2025 Silver Logie winner for Fisk.

Julia Zwehl

Julia Zwehl, born 1976 in Hannover, German field hockey goalkeeper; 93 caps (11 indoor), 7th at Sydney 2000, Olympic gold at Athens 2004, 1998 World Cup bronze, 1999 European silver.

Julia's Eyes

Julia's Eyes (Los ojos de Julia) is a 2010 Spanish thriller directed by Guillem Morales, starring Belén Rueda as blind twins, produced by Guillermo del Toro, released 29 October 2010.

Oct 20, 2026

Juliaca

Juliaca, capital of San Román province in Puno, Peru, is a high-altitude (3,824 m) altiplano commercial and transport hub, formerly Xullasca, province created 1926, population about 351,000 in 2025.

JuliaHub, Inc.

JuliaHub, Inc., formerly Julia Computing, Inc., is a Boston, Massachusetts software company founded in 2015 by the co-creators of the Julia programming language, selling a SaaS platform for developing and scaling Julia programs.

Julian (emperor)

Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus, 331/332–363), called Julian the Apostate, last pagan Roman emperor: nephew of Constantine, Caesar in Gaul 355, Augustus 360, sole ruler 361–363, pagan restoration, killed in the Persian campaign.

Julián (film)

Julián (2026) is an animated feature from Cartoon Saloon, the feature debut of director Louise Bagnall, adapting Jessica Love's picture book Julián Is a Mermaid about a Brooklyn boy, his Dominican grandmother, and the Coney Island Mermaid Parade; it premiered at Annecy 2026.

Julian A. Dowdeswell

Julian A. Dowdeswell, born 1957, is a British glaciologist, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography at Cambridge, and former Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, known for work on ice-sheet retreat.

Oct 10, 2026

Julian Adams

Julian Adams is a drug discoverer trained at McGill University and MIT who led the discovery and development of bortezomib (Velcade), the first FDA-approved proteasome inhibitor, for multiple myeloma.

Julian Alaphilippe

Julian Alaphilippe (born 1992) is a French retired road cyclist, two-time UCI road world champion (2020, 2021), Milan-San Remo 2019 winner, and six-time Tour de France stage winner who rode for QuickStep 2014-2024 and Tudor Pro Cycling before retiring in August 2026.