Jules

Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius" (e.g. Jules César, the French name for Julius Caesar). It is the given name of:

Jules

Jules Verne
Pronunciation	French: [ʒyl]
Gender	masculine
Origin
Language(s)	1. Greek 2. Latin
Meaning	1. "devoted to Jove"
Other names
Related names	Julia, Julian, Julie, Julien, Julio, Julius, Jolyon

People with the name

• Jules Aarons (1921–2008), American space physicist and photographer
• Jules Abadie (1876–1953), French politician and surgeon
• Jules Accorsi (born 1937), French football player and manager
• Jules Adenis (1823–1900), French playwright and opera librettist
• Jules Adler 1865–1952), French painter
• Jules Asner (born 1968), American television personality
• Jules Aimé Battandier (1848–1922), French botanist
• Jules Bernard (born 2000), American basketball player
• Jules Bianchi (1989–2015), French Formula One driver
• Jules Breton (1827–1906), French Realist painter
• Jules-André Brillant (1888–1973), Canadian entrepreneur
• Jules Brunard (1837–1910), French politician
• Jules Brunet (1838–1911), French Army general
• Jules Charles-Roux (1841–1918), French businessman and politician
• Jules Dewaquez (1899–1971), French footballer
• Jules Marie Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude (1858–1928), Belgian Army general
• Jules Armand Dufaure (1798–1881), French statesman
• Jules Engel, American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director and teacher
• Jules Feiffer (born 1929), American cartoonist
• Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863–1931), French war photographer from World War I
• Jules Greenbaum (1867-1924), German film producer
• Jules Jordan (1850-1927), American composer, operatic tenor, vocal instructor and conductor
• Jules Jordan (born 1972), American pornographic actor, director and producer
• Jules "Skip" Kendall (born 1964), American professional golfer
• Jules Gilmer Korner Jr. (1888–1967), judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
• Jules Maenen (1932–2007), Dutch road bicycle and track cyclist
• Jules Massenet (1842–1912), French composer
• Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French historian
• Jules Monge (1855–1934), French painter
• Jules Auguste Muraire (1883-1946), French Actor
• Jules Achille Noël (1815–1881), French landscape and maritime painter
• Jules Pastré (1809–1899), French banker, businessman and equestrian active in Egypt.
• Jules Rimet (1878–1956), French football administrator and former FIFA president
• Jules Shear (1952 - current), American singer, songwriter & guitarist
• Jules Védrines (1881–1919), French aviator
• Jules Verne (1828–1905), French author
• Jules Wright (1948-2015), Australian-English theatre director
• Jules Wright (politician) (1933-2022), American politician and businessman

Fictional characters

• Jules, one of the main character of the television series Orphan Black: Echoes
• Jules Cobb, the main character of the US television series Cougar Town

• Jules Maigret, a fictional French police detective, created by writer Georges Simenon.
• Jules Winnfield, a fictional character in the film Pulp Fiction
• Jules Vaughn, one of the main characters in the US television series Euphoria
• Jules, a fictional character featured in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. In this case, the use of the name Jules is assigned to a young woman.
• Jules Hedgehog, fictional father of Sonic featured in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)
• Jules Tournier, the twelve-year-old twin brother of Julie, and one of the two titular characters of the 1990s animated show- The Twins of Destiny
• Jules, a fictional character in the graphic novel On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• Jules Van Patten, a fictional character from the film St. Elmo's Fire
• Jules Verne Durand, a linguist aboard the Daban Urnud in Anathem by Neal Stephenson
• Jules Brown, elder son of Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future franchise

Other

• Jules (film) is a 2023 feature film starring Ben Kingsley and Jane Curtin.

See also

• Jools
• Julian (disambiguation)
• Julien (disambiguation)
• Julius (disambiguation)