Jules
Jules is the French form of the Latin "Julius".
In the anglosphere, it is also used for females although it is a predominantly masculine name.One of the few notable examples of a female fictional character with the name is Jules Lee from the American TV series Orphan Black: Echoes.
It is the given name of:
People with the name
- Jules Aarons, American space physicist and photographer
- Jules Abadie, French politician and surgeon
- Jules Accorsi, French football player and manager
- Jules Adenis, French playwright and opera librettist
- Jules Adler, French painter
- Jules Asner, American television personality
- Jules Aimé Battandier, French botanist
- Jules Bernard, American basketball player
- Jules Bianchi, French Formula One driver
- Jules Breton, French artist
- Jules-André Brillant, Canadian entrepreneur
- Jules Brunard, French politician
- Jules Brunet, French Army general
- Jules Charles-Roux, French businessman and politician
- Jules Dewaquez, French footballer
- Jules Marie Alphonse Jacques de Dixmude, Belgian Army general
- Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman
- Jules Engel, American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, and animator
- Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist
- Jules Gervais-Courtellemont, French war photographer from World War I
- Jules Greenbaum, German film producer
- Jules Jordan (composer), American composer, operatic tenor, vocal instructor and conductor
- Jules Jordan, American pornographic actor, director and producer
- Jules "Skip" Kendall, American golfer
- Jules Gilmer Korner Jr., American judge
- Jules G. Körner III, American judge
- Jules Koundé, French footballer
- Jules LaDuron, American physician
- Jules Lefèvre, French biochemist and writer
- Jules Maenen, Dutch cyclist
- Jules Massenet, French composer
- Jules Michelet, French historian
- Jules Monge, French painter
- Jules Auguste Muraire, French actor
- Jules Achille Noël, French artist
- Jules Pastré, French banker, businessman and equestrian active in Egypt
- Jules Rimet, French football administrator and FIFA president
- Jules Shear, American singer, songwriter & guitarist
- Jules Védrines, French aviator
- Jules Verne, French author
- Jules Walter, Antiguan actor
- Jules White, American film director and producer
- Jules Wright (theatre director), Australian-English theatre director
- Jules Wright (politician), American politician and businessman
- Jules Wuidart, British glass merchant
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, a fictional artist from the musical Sunday in the Park with George
- 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), a 2023 feature film starring Ben Kingsley and Jane Curtin.