# Who is Julia!?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/who-is-julia/4209
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [June 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/who-is-julia/4209 "2017-06-11T17:19:49Z")
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### Author: ![mohamed82008](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mohamed82008/32/18171_2.png) [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/who-is-julia/4209/1 "2017-06-11T17:19:49Z")

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Was Julia named after a certain someone?

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### Author: ![DNF](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dnf/32/10191_2.png) [@DNF](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DNF)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/who-is-julia/4209/2 "2017-06-11T17:41:44Z")

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> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29290780/what-does-the-name-of-julia-the-programming-language-refer-to>

> <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5499>
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> I've searched as many places as I can think of:
> \- The files in the first commits… in this repo
> \- The files in the first commits in loladiro's repo (contains actual first commits)
> \- The first readme files in loladiro's repo
> \- The google group
> \- This repo's issues
> \- The blog
> 
> But no luck. So what's the story?