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Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn
Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn, also known as Julius Echter, was prince-bishop of Würzburg from 1573 to 1617, a leading Counter-Reformation ruler who founded the Juliusspital and reopened Würzburg University.
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld
Julius Edgar Lilienfeld was a physicist, born in Lemberg in Austria-Hungary in 1882, who patented the field-effect transistor concept in 1925, two decades before the first working transistor.
Julius Elster
Julius Elster (1854–1920) was a German physicist and gymnasium teacher in Wolfenbüttel who, with his lifelong collaborator Hans Geitel, laid experimental groundwork for atmospheric electricity, radioactivity, and photoelectricity.
Julius Erasmus Hilgard
Julius Erasmus Hilgard was a German-born American geodesist who led the United States Coast Survey from 1881 to 1885 and was an original member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Julius Erving
Julius Erving, "Dr. J" (born 1950), ABA and NBA forward (1971-1987); three ABA MVPs, 1981 NBA MVP, championships 1974, 1976, 1983; 30,026 combined points; sold by the Nets to Philadelphia for $3 million in 1976.
Julius Evola
Julius Evola (Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, 1898–1974), Italian traditionalist philosopher and esotericist; author of Revolt Against the Modern World and Sintesi della dottrina della razza; ideological reference for postwar neo-fascism and the New Right.
Julius Fleischanderl
Julius Fleischanderl is a Swedish actor from Stockholm, known for Sami Blood (2016), Cryptid (2020), and as police officer Valpen in The Sandhamn Murders (2022–2025); also Ante in The Breakthrough (2025).
Julius Freed
Julius Freed was the Los Angeles businessman behind Orange Julius, whose 1926 downtown juice stand grew into an international chain now owned by Dairy Queen.
Julius Fučík (composer)
Julius Fučík (1872–1916), Czech composer and Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, the "Bohemian Sousa"; wrote Entry of the Gladiators, Op. 68, now circus music, and Florentiner March, Op. 214.
Julius Garvey
Julius Winston Garvey (born August 16, 1933, Kingston, Jamaica) is a thoracic and vascular surgeon, son of Marcus Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey, McGill-trained, chief of thoracic surgery at Queens Hospital Center, and leader of the campaign that won his father a 2025 posthumous pardon.
Julius Gersdorff
Julius Gersdorff was a German poet and songwriter, born in Stettin in 1849, who was nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of 600 to 700 songs.
Julius H. Comroe, Jr.
Julius H. Comroe, Jr. (1911–1984) was an American pulmonary physiologist who made body plethysmography a practical clinical test and founded the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF.
Julius Hamberger
Julius Hamberger (1801–1885) was a German Protestant theologian who taught religion at the Munich Cadet Corps for over fifty years and edited the mystic Jakob Böhme.
Julius Hirschberg
Julius Hirschberg (1843–1925) was a German ophthalmologist and medical historian in Berlin, known for the Hirschberg test for measuring eye misalignment and a nine-volume history of ophthalmology.
Julius Hoffman
Julius Hoffman, formally Julius Jennings Hoffman, was an American lawyer and United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed in 1953 and best known for the Chicago Seven trial.
Julius J. Epstein
Julius J. Epstein (1909–2000), American screenwriter and twin brother of Philip G. Epstein, co-wrote the Oscar-winning Casablanca screenplay with Philip and Howard Koch; about 50 screenplays over five decades, four nominations, last film Reuben, Reuben (1983).
Julius J. Harwood
Julius J. Harwood (died 2014) was an American metallurgist who directed Ford's Materials Sciences Laboratory and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Julius Jacob von Haynau
Julius Jacob von Haynau (1786–1853) was an Austrian general, nicknamed the Hyena of Brescia, who crushed the Hungarian Revolution and ordered the 1849 Arad executions.
Julius Kariuki
Julius Kariuki (born 1961, Nyahururu, Kenya), Kenyan steeplechaser; won 1988 Seoul Olympic 3000m steeplechase gold in Olympic-record 8:05.51, nearly breaking Henry Rono's world record; also 1990 Commonwealth champion.
Julius Kollmann
Julius Kollmann, full name Julius Konstantin Ernst Kollmann, was a German anatomist and anthropologist, professor of anatomy at Basel from 1878 to 1913, known for his embryological atlas and craniometric studies.
Julius Korir
Julius Korir, Kenyan steeplechase runner, 1984 Los Angeles Olympic 3000 m steeplechase champion in 8:11.80 and 1982 Commonwealth Games gold medalist; not the later marathoner Julius Kiplagat Korir.
Julius Kuperjanov
Julius Kuperjanov (1894–1919) was an Estonian military officer who formed a partisan battalion that retook Tartu in the War of Independence, dying at 24 after the Battle of Paju.
Julius Lassen
Julius Severin Vilhelm Lassen (1847–1923) was a Danish jurist who held the law chair at the University of Copenhagen from 1881 to 1918 and shaped Nordic obligations law.
Julius Lenhart
Julius Lenhart (1875–1962), Viennese Austrian gymnast with the Philadelphia Turngemeinde; won the 1904 St. Louis Olympic individual all-around (69.80) plus team gold and an apparatus all-around silver, credited to the USA by the IOC.
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš is a Czech parasitologist and protist molecular biologist at the Czech Academy of Sciences, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Julius Maada Bio
Julius Maada Wonie Bio, president of Sierra Leone since 12 May 2018, retired brigadier, and head of state in 1996; re-elected in the disputed June 2023 election and ECOWAS chairman 2025-2026.
Julius Maggi
Julius Maggi (1846–1912) was a Swiss entrepreneur who turned his family's flour mill into a branded convenience-food company, creating Maggi instant soups and the Maggi liquid seasoning sold worldwide today.
Julius Malema
Julius Sello Malema (born 1981) is a South African politician, former ANC Youth League president (2008-2012), and founder and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, known for land expropriation demands, "Kill the Boer" hate-speech litigation, and a 2026 prison sentence.
Julius Marquardt
Julius Marquardt (1849–1932) was a German Catholic theologian and cathedral capitular at Frombork, known for a Latin commentary on the principle lex dubia non obligat.
Julius Martov (Юлий Осипович Цедербаум)
Julius Martov (Yuli Osipovich Tsederbaum, 1873–1923), Russian Marxist, co-founder of Iskra with Lenin, and leader of the Mensheviks after the 1903 RSDLP split; led Menshevik-Internationalists in 1917, opposed Bolshevik rule, died in Berlin exile.