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Julián Álvarez

Julián Álvarez, La Araña, Argentine forward born 2000; River Plate, Manchester City (2023 treble), Atlético Madrid; World Cup 2022 and Copa América winner; 2026 transfer dispute with Atlético.

Julián Araujo

Julián Vicente Araujo Zúñiga, Mexican right back born 2001 in Lompoc, California; LA Galaxy academy product, sold to FC Barcelona in 2023 after an 18-second paperwork miss, then Bournemouth and a Celtic loan; 2023 Gold Cup winner with Mexico.

Julian Ashby

Julian Ashby (Frederick Julian Ashby II, born 2002) is an NFL long snapper for the New England Patriots, drafted 251st overall in 2025 after Furman and Vanderbilt; 2023 first-team Academic All-American in physics.

Julian Assange

Julian Assange, also known as Julian Paul Assange, is an Australian publisher and programmer who founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and published classified US documents from 2010.

Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes, English novelist and essayist born in Leicester in 1946; author of Flaubert's Parrot and the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner The Sense of an Ending; wrote crime fiction as Dan Kavanagh; final book Departure(s) (2026).

Julian Barratt

Born in Leeds in 1968, Julian Barratt is an English comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for co-writing and starring in the surreal comedy series The Mighty Boosh.

Julian Beck

Julian Beck (1925–1985), American painter, poet, and director, co-founded The Living Theatre with Judith Malina in 1947; anarcho-pacifist creator of Paradise Now, jailed 12 times, author of The Life of the Theatre and Theandric.

Julian Blow

Julian Blow, publishing as J. Julian Blow, is a cell biologist known for discovering how cells license DNA to replicate exactly once per cell cycle, and dormant replication origins.

Julian Bond

Julian Bond, also known as Horace Julian Bond, was an American civil rights leader and politician. He co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center and served in the Georgia General Assembly.

Julian Bradley (Wisconsin politician)

Julian Bradley, born 1981, is an American Republican politician in the Wisconsin State Senate's 28th district, known for hospital price transparency and film tax credit bills.

Julian Brandt

Julian Brandt, German midfielder born 1996 in Bremen; Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund playmaker, 48 Germany caps, 2017 Confederations Cup winner, joined Ajax Amsterdam in July 2026.

Julian Bunetta

Julian Bunetta (born 1982) is an American songwriter, producer, and publishing executive in Nashville known for One Direction hits and, with John Ryan, Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso."

Julian Burschka

Julian Burschka is a German chemist who, as a doctoral researcher in Michael Grätzel's lab at EPFL, first authored the 2013 Nature paper on sequential perovskite deposition.

Julian C. Knight

Julian C. Knight is a physician-scientist and Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Oxford, known for mapping genetic variants that shape immune responses.

Julian calendar

The Julian calendar is a solar calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC, with a leap day every fourth year, giving an average year of 365.25 days.

Julian Casablancas

Julian Casablancas, frontman and chief songwriter of The Strokes and leader of The Voidz, defined the 2001 garage-rock revival with Is This It and its distorted Peavey-amp vocals; also founder of Cult Records.

Julian Castro

Julián Castro (born 1974), American Democratic politician, San Antonio mayor 2009–2014, 16th U.S. HUD Secretary 2014–2017 under Obama, 2020 presidential candidate who suspended his campaign January 2, 2020.

Julian Cheung

Julian Cheung Chi-Lam (張智霖, Chilam), Hong Kong singer and actor born 1971, known for Legend of the Condor Heroes (1994), Return of the Cuckoo (2000), Triumph in the Skies II (2013), and the L Storm film series; married to Anita Yuen.

Julian Clary

Julian Clary, English camp comedian and novelist, aka The Joan Collins Fan Club; famous for Sticky Moments, the 1993 Norman Lamont joke, Celebrity Big Brother 2012, The Bolds books, and London Palladium pantomime.

Julian Cole

Julian Cole (1925–1999) was an American applied mathematician at Caltech, UCLA, and Rensselaer known for singular perturbation methods and the Murman–Cole transonic calculation, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976.

Julian Cope

Julian Cope (Julian David Cope, born 1957), Welsh-born English musician and author; frontman of post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes (Kilimanjaro, 1980), prolific genre-defying solo artist (Saint Julian, Peggy Suicide, Jehovahkill), and author of The Modern Antiquarian and Krautrocksampler.

Julian Corrie

Julian Corrie is a Glasgow-based Scottish musician and producer. He is known for his electronic pop project Miaoux Miaoux and his contributions to Franz Ferdinand since 2017.

Julian Cyr

Julian Cyr is an American Democratic politician who has represented the Cape and Islands district in the Massachusetts Senate since 2016, serving as Senate Assistant Majority Whip and chairing the Joint Committee on Housing.

Julian D. Gale

Julian D. Gale is an Australian-based theoretical and computational chemist and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University, best known for creating the GULP simulation code.

Julian D. Gillmore

Julian D. Gillmore is a British amyloidosis researcher and UCL Professor of Medicine who leads the first in vivo CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing trials for ATTR amyloidosis.

Julian Davies (microbiologist)

Julian Davies, also known as Julian E. Davies, was a Welsh-born microbiologist who showed how bacteria enzymatically inactivate antibiotics and how resistance genes spread between species.

Julian day

The Julian day, also called the Julian date, is a continuous count of days and fractions since noon on January 1, 4713 BC, used in astronomy.

Julian Dennison

Julian Dennison (born 2002) is a New Zealand actor of Ngāti Haua, known for Ricky Baker in Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), Firefist in Deadpool 2 (2018), Josh Valentine in Godzilla vs. Kong, and leads in Uproar and Y2K.

Julian Downward

Julian Downward is a British cancer biologist who leads the Oncogene Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for work on Ras signaling and apoptosis.

Julian Draxler

Julian Draxler, born 1993 in Gladbeck, German left winger; Schalke academy product and youngest-ever Bundesliga debutant; 2014 World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup winner; later Wolfsburg, PSG, Benfica, and Al-Ahli Doha.