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Jules Maigret

Jules Maigret, Simenon's fictional commissaire of the French Judicial Police, hero of 75 novels and 28 stories, adapted in over 300 films and TV series including the BBC Rupert Davies, Jean Richard, and Bruno Cremer series.

Jules Massenet

Jules Massenet (1842-1912), French composer of about 25 operas including Manon, Werther, and Thais; Paris Conservatoire professor 1878-1896 whose melodious operas dominated fin-de-siecle French opera.

Jules Meyer

Jules Meyer was a chemist at the ETH laboratory in Zürich who co-authored, with Hermann Staudinger, the 1919 papers reporting the reaction now called the Staudinger reaction.

Jules Moch

Jules Moch was a French socialist politician and École Polytechnique engineer who served as Interior Minister from 1947 to 1950, directing the response to Communist-led strikes.

Jules Renard

Jules Renard, born Pierre-Jules Renard (1864–1910), was a French novelist, playwright, and diarist known for Poil de Carotte (1894) and his Journal, published after his death in 1910.

Jules Richard (mathematician)

Jules Antoine Richard (1862–1956) was a French mathematician who taught in provincial lycées and is known for Richard's paradox, his 1905 contradiction about real numbers definable in finitely many words.

Jules Rimet

Jules Rimet (1873-1956), French sports administrator, third and longest-serving FIFA president (1921-1954), founder of Red Star club and creator of the FIFA World Cup, first held in Uruguay in 1930.

Jules Romains

Jules Romains, pen name of Louis Farigoule, was a French writer who founded Unanimism and wrote the play Knock and the 27-volume novel Les Hommes de bonne volonté.

Jules Supervielle

Jules Supervielle (1884–1960) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, novelist, playwright, and translator, born in Montevideo and counted among the major French poets of the twentieth century.

Jules Tinel

Jules Tinel (1879–1952) was a French neurologist who described the Tinel sign in 1915, tingling felt when an injured nerve is pressed, and first described paroxysmal hypertension in pheochromocytoma.

Jules Vaughn

Jules Vaughn is a main character in HBO's Euphoria, portrayed by Hunter Schafer in her screen debut; a trans teen who transitioned at 13, central to the Rue romance and the special episode co-written by Schafer.

Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist of Nantes and Amiens, author of the Voyages extraordinaires with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and Around the World in Eighty Days.

Jules Verne bibliography

The Jules Verne bibliography records the works of the French novelist (1828–1905), whose Voyages extraordinaires series comprises roughly 62 to 65 novels, beginning with Cinq semaines en ballon in 1863.

Julga Bahador

Julga Bahador (جلگه بهادر, also Batur) is a region and village in Nawur District, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, at about 2,909 m elevation, populated mainly by Hazara Dari speakers living by farming and livestock.

Juli Feigon

Juli Feigon is an American structural biologist who studies nucleic acid structures and is Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at UCLA, known for NMR and cryo-EM structures of telomerase.

Juli, Peru

Juli is a town in the Chucuito Province of southern Peru, on Lake Titicaca south of Puno, once called the "Rome of America" for its colonial churches.

Julia (1977 film)

Julia (1977), Fred Zinnemann's drama from Lillian Hellman's Pentimento, stars Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave; it won three Oscars from 11 nominations, and its title character's identity was disputed by Muriel Gardiner.

Julia (2022 TV series)

Julia (2022–2023) is an HBO Max comedy-drama created by Daniel Goldfarb about Julia Child launching The French Chef at WGBH. Sarah Lancashire stars; eight-episode season one premiered March 31, 2022; critics consensus: infectious joie de vivre.

Julia (programming language)

Julia, also known as the Julia language, is a high-level programming language for scientific and numerical computing, announced in 2012, that matches C's speed through just-in-time compilation.

Julia A. Segre

Julia A. Segre, also published as Julie A. Segre, is an American microbial genomics researcher at NIH who maps the skin microbiome and traces hospital outbreaks of drug-resistant pathogens.

Julia Ann

Julia Ann is an American adult-film performer and feature dancer, formerly part of Blondage, known for major studio contracts, a 2004 AVN acting award, and hall-of-fame honors.

Julia Bailey-Serres

Julia Bailey-Serres is an American plant biologist, Distinguished Professor of Genetics at UC Riverside, known for dissecting the rice SUB1A gene and enabling flood-tolerant rice varieties grown in Asia.

Julia Barr

Julia Barr (born 1949, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress who played Brooke English on All My Children for over 30 years from 1976, winning Daytime Emmys in 1990 and 1998, and reprised the role in the 2013 online revival.

Julia Barretto

Julia Barretto (born 1997, Marikina City) is a Filipina actress of the Barretto showbiz family, star of Vince & Kath & James, Expensive Candy, and Un/Happy for You, half of the JoshLia love team, and independently managed since 2026.

Julia Beljajeva

Julia Beljajeva, born 1992 in Tartu, Estonia, is a right-handed épée fencer who won team gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and individual world gold in 2013.

Julia Bliss

Julia Bliss is an international DJ and producer based in Dubai, ranked #2 Best Female DJ in India by DjaneMag In and a Sunburn Festival main-stage artist.

Julia Bogdanova

Julia Bogdanova, born 1964 in Leningrad, is a Soviet breaststroke swimmer who won the 1978 world 100 m breaststroke title at 14 and took 200 m bronze at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Julia Boorstin

Julia Boorstin (born 1978) is CNBC's Senior Media & Tech Correspondent in Los Angeles, creator of the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and author of When Women Lead (2022), based on interviews with more than 100 women leaders.

Julia Bradbury

Julia Bradbury (born 1970, Dublin) is an English TV presenter of Countryfile, Watchdog, and Wainwright Walks, a Sunday Times bestselling author of Walk Yourself Happy and Hack Yourself Healthy, and a breast cancer advocate co-founding The Outdoor Guide.

Julia Brownley

Julia Brownley is an American Democratic politician who has represented California's 26th district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving in the California State Assembly.