Jules

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title: "Jules" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["french-masculine-given-names", "masculine-given-names"] topic_path: "geography/france" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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name	Jules
image	File:Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne.jpg
caption	Jules Verne
pronunciation

| | gender | Male (as an anglophone name) Male (as a francophone name) | | languageorigin | 1. Greek 2. Latin | | meaning | 1. "devoted to Jove" | | related names | Julia, Julian, Julie, Julien, Julio, Julius, Jolyon | ::

| name = Jules | image= File:Félix Nadar 1820-1910 portraits Jules Verne.jpg | imagesize= | caption= Jules Verne | pronunciation=

| gender = Male (as an anglophone name) Male (as a francophone name) | region = | languageorigin = 1. Greek 2. Latin | meaning = 1. "devoted to Jove" | related names = Julia, Julian, Julie, Julien, Julio, Julius, Jolyon | footnotes =

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

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 (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 artist
• 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, and animator
• Jules Feiffer (1929–2025), American cartoonist
• Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863–1931), French war photographer from World War I
• Jules Greenbaum (1867–1924), German film producer
• Jules Jordan (composer) (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 golfer
• Jules Gilmer Korner Jr. (1888–1967), American judge
• Jules G. Körner III (1922–2000), American judge
• Jules Koundé (born 1998), French footballer
• Jules LaDuron (1893–1980), American physician
• Jules Lefèvre (1863–1944), French biochemist and writer
• Jules Maenen (1932–2007), Dutch 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 artist
• Jules Pastré (1809–1899), French banker, businessman and equestrian active in Egypt
• Jules Rimet (1878–1956), French football administrator and FIFA president
• Jules Shear (born 1952), American singer, songwriter & guitarist
• Jules Védrines (1881–1919), French aviator
• Jules Verne (1828–1905), French author
• Jules Walter (1929–2025), Antiguan actor
• Jules White (1900–1985), American film director and producer
• Jules Wright (theatre director) (1948-2015), Australian-English theatre director
• Jules Wright (politician) (1933-2022), American politician and businessman
• Jules Wuidart (1849–1932), 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.

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