Emil (given name)
The name Emil, Emile or Émile is a male given name, deriving from the Latin Aemilius of the gens Aemilia. The female given name is Emily.
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List of people with the given name Emil
- Emil Ali, American entrepreneur
- Emil Brown (born 1974), American baseball outfielder
- Emil Brunner (1889 – 1966), Swiss theologian
- Emil Chuprenski (born 1960), Bulgarian boxer
- Emil Constantinescu (born 1939), President of Romania from 1996 – 2000
- Emil Dimitrov (1940 – 2005), Bulgarian singer
- Emil G. Hirsch (1852 – 1923), American rabbi
- Emil Gilels (1916 – 1985), Russian pianist
- Emil Jannings (1884 – 1950), German actor
- Emil Jones (born 1935), Democratic politician, president of the Illinois State Senate from 2003 – 2009
- Emil Jones, III (born 1978), Democratic politician, Illinois Senate member
- Emil Johnson (born ca. 1966), drummer for Black Flag
- Emil Kostadinov (born 1967), Bulgarian football player
- Emil Lindenfeld (1905 – 1986), Hungarian-American oil-painter
- Emil Ludwig (1881-1948), biographer
- Emil Minty (born 1972), Australian former child actor
- Emil Nolde (1867 – 1956), German painter and printmaker
- Emil Leon Post (1897 – 1954), mathematician
- Emil Salim (born 1930), Indonesian politician and economist
- Emil Savundra (1923 – 1976), British-Tamil businessman convicted of fraud
- Emil Schult (born 1946), German artist and collaborator with the seminal electronic music group Kraftwerk
- Emil Schulz (1938 – 2010), German boxer
- Emil Škoda (1839 – 1900), Czech engineer
- Emil Steiner (born 1978), Washington Post journalist and author the novel "Drunk Driving"
- Emil Steinberger (born 1933), Swiss comedian
- Emil Urbel (born 1959), Estonian architect
- Emil Zátopek (1922 – 2000), Czech long distance runner
List of people with the given name Emile
- Emile Abraham (born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago cyclist
- Émile Borel (1871 – 1956), French mathematician and politician
- Émile Cohl (1857 – 1938), French caricaturist and animator
- Émile de Girardin (1802 – 1881), French politician and journalist
- Émile Durkheim (1858 – 1917), French sociologist
- Emile Ford (born 1937), pop singer born in Saint Lucia
- Emile Habibi (1922 – 96), Israeli writer and politician
- Émile Henry (anarchist) (1872 – 1894), French anarchist bomber
- Emile Heskey (born 1978), English footballer
- Emile Hirsch (born 1985), American actor
- Émile Lahoud (born 1936), former President of Lebanon
- Emile Roemer (born 1962), Dutch politician
- Emile St. Godard (1905 – 1948), Canadian dog sled racer
- Émile Waldteufel (1837 – 1915), French composer
- Emil Werstler guitarist for Death Metal band Daath as well as his side project Levi/Werstler
- Émile Zola (1840 – 1902), French novelist
Fictional characters
- Emile Antoon Khadaji, title character of the military science-fiction Matador series
- Émile, a character in Ratatouille
- Emil Antonowsky, a villain in RoboCop
- Emile de Becque, a character in South Pacific
- Emil Bleehall, a character at the Adventurers Club
- Emil Castagnier, main character of the video game Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
- Emil Eagle, a bad guy in the Disney comics universe
- Emil Skoda, M.D., a character on the TV crime dramas Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Emil Svensson, title character of the children's book series Emil i Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren
- Emil Tischbein, title character of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and its sequel, Emil und die Drei Zwillinge (Emil and the Three Twins), by Erich Kästner
- Emile-A239, a Spartan in Halo: Reach
- Emil Narud, a scientist in Starcraft II
- Emil Sinclair, the main character in Demian by Hermann Hesse
See also