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Julius Mkhwanazi
Julius Mkhwanazi, suspended then dismissed deputy chief of South Africa's Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD), not to be confused with KZN commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, faces five criminal cases including murder and the R14.9 million Killarney gem theft.
Julius Morgenroth
Julius Morgenroth (1871–1924) was a German bacteriologist and immunologist, remembered as a co-founder of antibacterial chemotherapy. Working in Paul Ehrlich's institute, he showed the quinine derivative optochin could kill pneumococci in the human body.
Julius N. Richardson
Julius Ness Richardson (born 1976) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 2018.
Julius Nepos
Julius Nepos (died 480), Western Roman emperor 474–475 and last legitimate western Augustus, ruled Italy, was expelled by Orestes for Romulus Augustulus, and held the title from Dalmatia until murdered, recognized by Odoacer and Zeno.
Julius No
Dr. Julius No is Ian Fleming's James Bond villain from the 1958 novel Dr. No: a Peking-born nuclear scientist and SMERSH agent with metal pincers for hands on Crab Key, played by Joseph Wiseman in the 1962 film as a SPECTRE member.
Julius Nyerere
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (Mwalimu, 1922–1999), first president of Tanganyika and Tanzania, TANU and CCM founder, architect of Ujamaa socialism and the Arusha Declaration, led independence in 1961 and retired in 1985.
Julius Nyerere hydroelectric plant
The Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant is a 2,115 MW facility in southeastern Tanzania. It is the country's largest power plant and key energy source.
Julius Onah
Julius Onah (born 1983, Makurdi, Nigeria) is a Nigerian-American filmmaker, director of The Cloverfield Paradox, Sundance drama Luce (2019), and Captain America: Brave New World (2025). Not the marketing professor Julius Onah.
Julius Peppers
Julius Frazier Peppers, NFL defensive end (2002-2018) for the Panthers, Bears, and Packers; 159.5 sacks, 9 Pro Bowls, two All-Decade Teams; Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024, first ballot.
Julius Petersen (Danish mathematician)
Julius Petersen (1839–1910) was a Danish mathematician and professor at the University of Copenhagen, known for the Petersen graph and his foundational 1891 paper in graph theory.
Julius R. Krevans
Julius R. Krevans (1924–2015) was an American internist and hematologist who served as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 1971 and chancellor from 1982 to 1993.
Julius Randle
Julius Randle, NBA power forward born 1994 in Dallas; Kentucky one-and-done, Lakers 7th pick 2014, Knicks MIP 2020-21, traded to Timberwolves 2024, then Nets; three-time All-Star.
Julius Rebek
Julius Rebek, Jr. is a Hungarian-born American organic chemist and emeritus professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, known for self-assembled molecular capsules that form in solution around guest molecules.
Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald (1862–1932) was an American retail executive who built Sears, Roebuck into America's largest retailer and gave away over $60 million, funding nearly 5,000 schools for Black children in the South.
Julius Saaristo
Julius Saaristo, nicknamed Jussi, was a Finnish javelin thrower and army officer who won the two-handed javelin at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and silver in the single-arm event.
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794–1872), German Nazarene painter and illustrator from Leipzig; painted the Munich Residenz Nibelungen frescoes and the 240-woodcut Bibel in Bildern; directed the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.
Julius Schreck
Julius Schreck (1898–1936), Munich Nazi bodyguard and chauffeur of Hitler; organized the first SS in 1925, led it as SS-Oberleiter (never Reichsführer), co-founded Stoßtrupp Hitler, died of meningitis, honored with a state funeral.
Julius Skutnabb
Julius Ferdinand Skutnabb (1889-1965), Finnish speed skater, won the 10,000 m at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Olympics, plus 5,000 m silver and allround bronze, and 5,000 m silver at St. Moritz 1928; oldest male speed skating Olympic medalist.
Julius Springer
Julius Springer (1817–1877) was a German bookseller and publisher who founded in Berlin in 1842 the firm that grew into Springer-Verlag, later part of Springer Nature.
Julius Sterling Morton
Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), also known as J. Sterling Morton, was a Nebraska newspaper editor, Democrat, and US Secretary of Agriculture (1893-97) under Cleveland, best known as the founder of Arbor Day, first celebrated April 10, 1872.
Julius Stieglitz
Julius Stieglitz (1867–1937) was an American organic chemist at the University of Chicago who applied physical chemistry to organic chemistry and described the Stieglitz rearrangement.
Julius Stone
Julius Stone (1907–1985), born in Leeds, England, was an Australian professor of jurisprudence and international law at Sydney who wrote over 34 books, including The Province and Function of Law.
Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher (1885–1946), Nazi Gauleiter of Franconia and founder of the antisemitic weekly Der Stürmer, organizer of the 1933 anti-Jewish boycott; convicted of crimes against humanity at Nuremberg and hanged in 1946.
Julius Thomas
Julius Thomas (Juice, Orange Julius), born 1988, is a former NFL tight end from Portland State, a college basketball convert drafted by Denver in 2011; two-time Pro Bowler with 226 catches, 2,406 yards, and 36 touchdowns.
Julius Torma
Július Torma (1922–1991), Slovak boxer for Czechoslovakia, 1948 London Olympic welterweight gold medalist, first Czechoslovak Olympic boxing champion, 1949 European champion, later coach in Prague.
Julius von Hann
Julius Ferdinand von Hann (1839–1921) was an Austrian meteorologist, director of the Vienna Zentralanstalt, whose 1866 foehn theory and climatology handbooks made him a founder of scientific climatology.
Julius von Pflug
Julius von Pflug (1499–1564) was a German jurist, humanist, and the last Catholic bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, a reform-minded Catholic who sought reconciliation with Protestants without breaking with Rome.
Julius von Sachs
Julius von Sachs (1832–1897) was a German botanist and plant physiologist who introduced controlled, quantitative experimentation into botany, proved photosynthesis occurs in chloroplasts, and founded modern plant physiology.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940) was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist at Vienna University who won the 1927 Nobel Prize for introducing malaria inoculation to treat general paralysis.
Julius Wess
Julius Erich Wess (1934–2007) was an Austrian theoretical physicist who, with Bruno Zumino, constructed the first renormalizable supersymmetric quantum field theory in four spacetime dimensions in 1974.