Juliet (given name)
Juliet is a feminine given name, an English form of the Italian Giulietta, which is a diminutive form of Italian Giulia. It is also an English form of the French Juliette, which is a diminutive form of the French Julie. All forms of the name are ultimately derived from the Latin Julia, a name which originated with the Julia gens of Ancient Rome. The name is best known in the Anglosphere as the tragic heroine of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Usage
Juliet has seen regular use for girls born in both the United Kingdom and the United States.Women
- Juliet Ace, British dramatist and screenwriter
- Juliet Agasha, Ugandan politician
- Juliet Akano, Nigerian politician
- Juliet Alexander, Guyanese-born British educator, journalist and television presenter
- Juliet Appiah, Ghanaian police officer and Ghanaian association football referee
- Juliet Asante, Ghanaian film actress, producer and director, and philanthropist
- Juliet Aubrey, British actress
- Juliet Awwad, Jordanian actress and producer of Armenian descent
- Juliet Barker, English historian
- Juliet Bashore, American film maker
- Juliet Bawuah, Ghanaian sports journalist
- Juliet Bingley, English social worker
- Juliet Biggs, British geologist and academic
- Juliet Blake, British-American film, television and web producer
- Juliet Bredon, writer; a British citizen born and raised in China who ultimately settled in the United States
- Juliet Bressan, Irish novelist and doctor
- Joan Juliet Buck, American writer and actress
- Juliet Cadzow, British actress
- Juliet H. Lewis Campbell, American poet and novelist
- Juliet Jean Campbell, Jamaican sprinter and Olympian
- Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne Campbell, British diplomat and academic administrator also known as Juliet Collings
- Juliet Cesario, American character actress
- Juliet Chekwel, Ugandan long distance runner and Olympian
- Juliet Chibuta, Zambian women's right activist
- Juliet Corson, American leader in cookery education and newspaper columnist
- Juliet Cowan, British actress
- Juliet Clannon Cushing, American educator and labor activist
- Juliet Daniel, Barbadian-born Canadian biologist and academic
- Juliet Davenport, British businesswoman
- Juliet Dunlop, Scottish freelance broadcast journalist
- Juliet Dymoke, English historical novelist
- Juliet Elu, American economist and academic
- Juliet Escoria, American writer
- Juliet Etherington, New Zealand shooting competitor
- Juliet Floyd, American academic
- Juliet Frankland, British mycologist
- Juliet Fraser, British soprano, based in London and specialising in contemporary classical music
- Juliet Gardiner, British historian and academic
- Juliet Gerrard, New Zealand biochemistry academic
- Juliet Gilkes Romero, British stage and screen writer
- Juliet Gopinath, American optical engineer and academic
- Juliet Greer, American home economist and college professor
- Juliet Hammond-Hill, English actress
- Juliet Harmer, English artist, children's author and actress
- Juliet Haslam, Australian field hockey player
- Juliet Holness, wife of Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness and a Member of the Jamaican House of Representatives
- Juliet Hooker, Nicaraguan-born American political scientist and academic
- Juliet-Jane Horne, Scottish model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Juliet Huddy, American journalist
- Anne Perry, British mystery writer who was convicted of a murder she committed in New Zealand at age 16
- Juliet Ibrahim, Ghanaian actress, film producer and singer of Lebanese, Ghanaian and Liberian descent
- Juliet Itoya, Nigerian-born Spanish athlete specialising in the long jump
- Juliet Kabera, Rwandan scientist and civil servant
- Juliet Kac, New Zealand artist
- Juliet Kavetuna, Namibian politician
- Juliet Kelly, British jazz singer and songwriter
- Juliet Kepes, British illustrator, painter and sculptor
- Juliet Kono, American Hawaiʻian poet and novelist
- Juliet Landau, American actress
- Juliet Lapidos, American writer and editor
- Juliet Lee-Franzini, Chinese-born American physicist and academic
- Juliet Lima, Venezuelan actress
- Juliet Litman, American journalist, editor, and media personality
- Juliet Lyon, British director of the Prison Reform Trust from 2000 to 2016
- Juliet Lyons, American singer, songwriter, and production music composer
- Juliet Macur, American journalist
- Juliet Obanda Makanga, Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist, and medical researcher
- Juliet Man Ray, American dancer, model and muse to Man Ray
- Juliet May, British television director
- Juliet May, British judge
- Juliet E. McKenna, British fantasy author
- Juliet McMains, American dance scholar and instructor
- Juliet Mills, British-American actress
- Juliet Mitchell, British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author
- Marion Juliet Mitchell, American poet and educator
- Juliet Morris, British television presenter
- Juliet Morrow, American archaeologist and academic
- Juliet Murphy, Irish sportswoman
- Juliet Murrell, British set designer in the fashion, film and design industry
- Juliet Nicolson, British author and journalist
- Juliet Osborne, British entomologist and ecologist
- Juliet Peddle, American modernist architect
- Juliët Post, Dutch cricketer
- Juliet Stuart Poyntz, American suffragist, trade unionist and communist spy
- Juliet Prowse, British-American dancer and actress
- Juliet Reagh, American actress and model
- Mary Miles Minter, American actress
- Juliet Rhys-Williams, British writer and politician
- Juliet Richardson, American musician
- Juliet Roberts, British jazz, rock, soul and house music singer of Grenadian descent
- Juliet Roper, New Zealand management communications academic
- Juliet Barrett Rublee, American birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer
- Juliet Rylance, English actress and producer
- Juliet Sargeant, British garden designer
- Juliet Schor, American economist and academic
- Juliet Sear, English baker and television personality
- Juliet Simms, American musician
- Juliet Snowden, American screenwriter, film director, and producer
- Juliet Sorensen
- Juliet Sorci, American actress
- Juliet Soskice, English translator and writer
- Juliet Starrett, American whitewater rafting world champion, entrepreneur, bestselling author, athlete, and podcaster
- Juliet Stevenson, English actress
- Juliet V. Strauss, American journalist and public speaker
- Juliet Kyinyamatama Suubi, Ugandan politician
- Lady Juliet Tadgell, British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner
- Juliet Taylor, American casting director
- Juliet Thompson, American painter, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
- Juliet Thompson, American rower, triathlete, and coach
- Juliet Wilbor Tompkins, American writer and editor
- Lady Juliet Townsend, British writer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1998 to 2014
- Juliet Turner, British singer-songwriter
- Juliet Valpy, New Zealand artist
- Juliet "Julie" Warner, American actress
- Juliet Wege
- Juliet Wheldon, British civil servant
- Juliet Wilson–Bareau, British art historian, curator, and independent scholar
- Juliet Wyers, American singer-songwriter
Stage name
- Juliet Alexander, American pornographic actress and adult movie producer
- Juliet Berto, French actress, director and screenwriter
Fictional characters
- Juliet Capulet, the female protagonist in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet
- Juliet Burke, a character in the TV drama Lost
- Juliet Sharp, a character in the TV drama Gossip Girl
- Juliet Starling, a character in Lollipop Chainsaw
- Juliet the Valentine Fairy, a character in Rainbow Magic
- Juliet Van Heusen, a character in Wizards of Waverly Place
- Juliet Butler, a character in the Artemis Fowl series
- Juliet Hobbes, a character in The Simpsons
- Juliet O'Hara, a character in the TV dramedy Psych
- Juliet, a character in Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure
- Juliet Douglas, the alias utilized by Sloth, a character in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime series
- Juliet Nightingale, a character in ''Hollyoaks''