# 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 (born 1938), British dramatist and screenwriter
* Juliet Agasha (living), Ugandan politician
* Juliet Akano (born 1963), Nigerian politician
* Juliet Alexander (living), Guyanese-born British educator, journalist and television presenter
* Juliet Appiah (born 1989), Ghanaian police officer and Ghanaian association football referee
* Juliet Asante, Ghanaian film actress, producer and director, and philanthropist
* Juliet Aubrey (born 1966), British actress
* Juliet Awwad (born 1951), Jordanian actress and producer of Armenian descent
* Juliet Barker (born 1958), English historian
* Juliet Bashore (born 1956), American film maker
* Juliet Bawuah, Ghanaian sports journalist
* Juliet Bingley (1925–2005), English social worker
* Juliet Biggs, British geologist and academic
* Juliet Blake, British-American film, television and web producer
* Juliet Bredon (1881–1937), 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 (born 1948), American writer and actress
* Juliet Cadzow (born 1951), British actress
* Juliet H. Lewis Campbell (1823–1898), American poet and novelist
* Juliet Jean Campbell (born 1970), Jamaican sprinter and Olympian
* Juliet Jeanne d'Auvergne Campbell (born 1935), British diplomat and academic administrator also known as Juliet Collings
* Juliet Cesario (born 1967), American character actress
* Juliet Chekwel (born 1990), Ugandan long distance runner and Olympian
* Juliet Chibuta, Zambian women's right activist
* Juliet Corson (1841–1897), American leader in cookery education and newspaper columnist
* Juliet Cowan (born 1974), British actress
* Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845–1934), American educator and labor activist
* Juliet Daniel, Barbadian-born Canadian biologist and academic
* Juliet Davenport (born 1968), British businesswoman
* Juliet Dunlop, Scottish freelance broadcast journalist
* Juliet Dymoke (1919–2001), English historical novelist
* Juliet Elu, American economist and academic
* Juliet Escoria, American writer
* Juliet Etherington (born 1979), New Zealand shooting competitor
* Juliet Floyd, American academic
* Juliet Frankland (1929–2013), British mycologist
* Juliet Fraser, British soprano, based in London and specialising in contemporary classical music
* Juliet Gardiner (born 1943), British historian and academic
* Juliet Gerrard (born 1967), New Zealand biochemistry academic
* Juliet Gilkes Romero, British stage and screen writer
* Juliet Gopinath (born 1976), American optical engineer and academic
* Juliet Greer (1871–1942), American home economist and college professor
* Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 1953), English actress
* Juliet Harmer (born 1941), English artist, children's author and actress
* Juliet Haslam (born 1969), 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 (born 1969), American journalist
* Anne Perry (née Juliet Hulme; 1938–2023), British mystery writer who was convicted of a murder she committed in New Zealand at age 16
* Juliet Ibrahim (born 1983), Ghanaian actress, film producer and singer of Lebanese, Ghanaian and Liberian descent
* Juliet Itoya (born 1986), Nigerian-born Spanish athlete specialising in the long jump
* Juliet Kabera, Rwandan scientist and civil servant
* Juliet Kac (born 1949), New Zealand artist
* Juliet Kavetuna (born 1974), Namibian politician
* Juliet Kelly, British jazz singer and songwriter
* Juliet Kepes (née Appleby; 1919–1999), British illustrator, painter and sculptor
* Juliet Kono (born 1943), American Hawaiʻian poet and novelist
* Juliet Landau (born 1965), American actress
* Juliet Lapidos, American writer and editor
* Juliet Lee-Franzini (1933–2014), Chinese-born American physicist and academic
* Juliet Lima (born 1981), Venezuelan actress
* Juliet Litman (born 1986), 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 (born 1985), Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist, and medical researcher
* Juliet Man Ray (née Browner; 1911–1991), American dancer, model and muse to Man Ray
* Juliet May, British television director
* Juliet May (born 1961), British judge
* Juliet E. McKenna (born 1965), British fantasy author
* Juliet McMains, American dance scholar and instructor
* Juliet Mills (born 1941), British-American actress
* Juliet Mitchell (born 1940), British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author
* Marion Juliet Mitchell (1836–1917), American poet and educator
* Juliet Morris (born 1965), British television presenter
* Juliet Morrow, American archaeologist and academic
* Juliet Murphy (born 1980), Irish sportswoman
* Juliet Murrell, British set designer in the fashion, film and design industry
* Juliet Nicolson (born 1954), British author and journalist
* Juliet Osborne, British entomologist and ecologist
* Juliet Peddle (1899–1979), American modernist architect
* Juliët Post (born 1997), Dutch cricketer
* Juliet Stuart Poyntz (1886–c. 1937), American suffragist, trade unionist and communist spy
* Juliet Prowse (1936–1996), British-American dancer and actress
* Juliet Reagh (born 1964), American actress and model
* Mary Miles Minter (born Juliet Reilly; 1902–1984), American actress
* Juliet Rhys-Williams (1898–1964), British writer and politician
* Juliet Richardson (born 1980), American musician
* Juliet Roberts (born 1962), British jazz, rock, soul and house music singer of Grenadian descent
* Juliet Roper (born 1953), New Zealand management communications academic
* Juliet Barrett Rublee (1875–1966), American birth control advocate, suffragist, and film producer
* Juliet Rylance (née van Kampen; born 1979), English actress and producer
* Juliet Sargeant (born 1965), British garden designer
* Juliet Schor (born 1955), American economist and academic
* Juliet Sear (born 1974), English baker and television personality
* Juliet Simms (born 1986), American musician
* Juliet Snowden, American screenwriter, film director, and producer
* Juliet Sorensen (born 1972–73; American academic)
* Juliet Sorci (born 1979), American actress
* Juliet Soskice (née Hueffer; 1881–1944), English translator and writer
* Juliet Starrett (born 1973), American whitewater rafting world champion, entrepreneur, bestselling author, athlete, and podcaster
* Juliet Stevenson (born 1956), English actress
* Juliet V. Strauss (1863–1918), American journalist and public speaker
* Juliet Kyinyamatama Suubi (born 1988), Ugandan politician
* Lady Juliet Tadgell (née Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; born 1935), British heiress, race horse breeder, and landowner
* Juliet Taylor, American casting director
* Juliet Thompson (1873–1956), American painter, and disciple of Baháʼí Faith leader ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
* Juliet Thompson (born 1967), American rower, triathlete, and coach
* Juliet Wilbor Tompkins (1871–1956), American writer and editor
* Lady Juliet Townsend (née Smith; 1941–2014), British writer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire from 1998 to 2014
* Juliet Turner, British singer-songwriter
* Juliet Valpy (1835–1911), New Zealand artist
* Juliet "Julie" Warner (born 1965), American actress
* Juliet Wege (born 1971), Australian botanist)
* Juliet Wheldon (1950–2013), British civil servant
* Juliet Wilson–Bareau (born 1935), British art historian, curator, and independent scholar
* Juliet Wyers, American singer-songwriter

## Stage name

* Juliet Alexander (born Judith Carr; 1938–2010), American pornographic actress and adult movie producer
* Juliet Berto (born Annie Jamet; 1947–1990), 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