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Julio Peña Fernández

Julio Peña Fernández (born 2000, San Sebastián) is a Spanish actor and singer, star of Disney's Bia (Manuel), Netflix's Through My Window trilogy (Ares Hidalgo), Berlín (Roi), and Amenábar's El Cautivo as Miguel de Cervantes; distinct from the older Spanish film actor Julio Peña (1912–1972).

Julio Ponce Lerou

Julio Ponce Lerou is a Chilean businessman, former son-in-law of Augusto Pinochet, who took control of lithium producer SQM and is known as the "lithium king".

Julio Ramón Ribeyro

Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994) was a Peruvian writer and leading figure of the Generación del 50, best known for the story collection La palabra del mudo.

Julio Rodríguez

Julio Yamel Rodríguez, Dominican MLB center fielder for the Seattle Mariners (debut 2022), 2022 AL Rookie of the Year, 3x All-Star, signed August 2022 extension worth $209.3-210 million guaranteed, up to $450-470 million.

Julio Rosenstock

Julio Rosenstock is a Costa Rica–trained endocrinologist and clinical professor at UT Southwestern who directs the Dallas Diabetes Research Center and led pivotal type 2 diabetes drug trials.

Julio Rotemberg

Julio J. Rotemberg (1953–2017) was an Argentine-born economist at Harvard Business School whose 1982 papers founded Rotemberg pricing, and whose 1997 work with Michael Woodford underlies the DSGE models central banks use.

Julio Ruelas

Julio Ruelas (1870–1907) was a Mexican Symbolist painter, printmaker, and illustrator born in Zacatecas, regarded as Mexico's leading representative of symbolism and a precursor of modernismo.

Julio Saez-Rodriguez

Julio Saez-Rodriguez (Julio Sáez-Rodríguez) is a Spanish computational biologist who has been Head of Research at EMBL-EBI since 2024 and a Heidelberg professor of medical bioinformatics.

Julio Soler

Julio Soler (Julio César Soler Barreto) is a Paraguayan-born Argentine footballer who plays as a left-back for Bournemouth, signed from Lanús in January 2025, and has captained Argentina at youth level.

Julio Torres

Julio Torres, Salvadoran writer, comedian, and director; SNL writer 2016-2021 ("Papyrus," "Wells for Boys"); co-creator of HBO's Los Espookys and Fantasmas; director of A24's Problemista and the HBO special Color Theories.

Julio Urías

Julio Urías (El Culichi), Mexican left-handed pitcher born 1996 in Culiacán; Dodgers star 2016-2023, 60-25, 3.11 ERA, 2020 World Series champion, MLB wins leader 2021; career ended by 2023 domestic violence arrest and 2025 suspension.

Julio V. Santiago

Julio V. Santiago (1942–1997) was an endocrinologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis known for research on childhood diabetes, insulin therapy, and hypoglycemia.

Julio-Claudian dynasty

The Julio-Claudian dynasty, also called the first Roman imperial house, ruled 27 BC–68 AD through Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero; a modern retroactive label for rulers descended from the intermarried Julii and Claudii clans.

Julio-Claudian family tree

Genealogy of Rome's first imperial dynasty, the Julio-Claudians (Julii Caesares plus Claudii Nerones), covering Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, 27 BCE–68 CE, connected by intermarriage, adoption, and women of the domus Augusta.

Julión Álvarez

Julión Álvarez (Julio César Álvarez Montelongo, born 1983), Mexican regional singer from La Concordia, Chiapas; ex-Banda MS vocalist who founded Julión Álvarez y Su Norteño Banda (2006), nicknamed El Rey de la Taquilla, OFAC-sanctioned 2017–2022, multi-Grammy winner.

Julius Adams Stratton

Julius Adams Stratton was an American electrical engineer and mathematical physicist who served as MIT's eleventh president, from 1959 to 1966, and chaired the Ford Foundation.

Julius Adler (biochemist)

Julius Adler (1930–2024) was an American microbiologist and biochemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose work from the 1960s founded the modern field of bacterial chemotaxis.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American couple executed in 1953 for conspiring to spy for the Soviet Union; Venona files confirm Julius's espionage while evidence indicates Ethel did not actively spy.

Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider

Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider (1771–1849) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at Halle for nearly 40 years and became the leading rationalist dogmatician of German Protestantism.

Julius Axelrod

Julius Axelrod (1912–2004) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for showing that norepinephrine is inactivated by reuptake into nerve endings, the mechanism targeted by antidepressants.

Julius Baer Group

Julius Baer Group Ltd, also known as Julius Bär, is a Swiss private banking group focused on wealth management, headquartered in Zurich and founded in 1890.

Julius Beau Lucks

Julius Beau Lucks, also known as Julius B. Lucks, is an American synthetic biologist and RNA engineer who is a professor at Northwestern University and co-founded Stemloop.

Julius Bernstein

Julius Bernstein (1839–1917) was a German physiologist who made the first quantitative measurement of the nerve action potential in 1868 and proposed the membrane theory of bioelectricity in 1902.

Julius Blum GmbH

Julius Blum GmbH is an Austrian, family-owned manufacturer of furniture fittings and hardware, founded by blacksmith Julius Blum in 1952 in Höchst, Vorarlberg, and known for its BLUMOTION soft-close hinge.

Julius Bredt

Julius Bredt, born 1855 in Berlin, was a German organic chemist who held the chair at TH Aachen from 1897 to 1923 and formulated Bredt's rule.

Julius Brennecke

Julius Brennecke is a molecular biologist and senior group leader at IMBA in Vienna who studies genome defense against transposable elements in the fruit fly Drosophila.

Julius Brink

Julius Brink, German beach volleyball player born 1982 in Münster; with Jonas Reckermann won London 2012 Olympic gold, the 2009 world title, and three European titles; later FIVB Athletes' Commission member and DVV vice president.

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BCE), Roman general, statesman, and author; conqueror of Gaul, victor of the civil war after crossing the Rubicon, dictator perpetuo assassinated on the Ides of March, 15 March 44 BCE.

Julius Caesar (play)

Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, first performed at the Globe in September 1599, sourced from North's 1579 Plutarch translation, first printed in the 1623 First Folio, with the assassination at its midpoint.

Julius Carry

Julius Carry (Julius John Carry III, 1952–2008), American actor from Chicago, best known as Sho'nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, in The Last Dragon (1985); also The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993) and The New Guy (2002); died of pancreatic cancer in 2008.