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.
Translations
- Arabic language: إميل (Émil)
- Azerbaijani language: Emil
- Basque language: Emilli
- Bulgarian language: Емил (Émil)
- Catalan language: Emili
- Czech language: Emil
- Danish language: Emil
- Dutch language: Emiel, Melis
- English language: Emil, Emile
- Estonian language: Emil
- Finnish language: Eemeli, Eemil, Emil
- French language: Émile
- German language: Emil
- Greek language: Αιμίλιος (Emilios)
- Hebrew language: אמיל (Emil)
- Hungarian language: Emil
- Italian language: Emilio
- Japanese language: エミル (Emiru)
- Latin: Aemilius
- Latvian language: Emīls
- Lithuanian language: Emilijus, Emilis
- Macedonian language: Емил (Émil)
- Norwegian language: Emil
- Persian language: اميل (Émil)
- Polish language: Emil
- Portuguese language: Emílio
- Romanian language: Emil
- Russian language: Эмиль, Емелья́н
- Serbian language: Емил (Emil)
- Slovak language: Emil
- Slovenian language: Emil
- Spanish language: Emilio
- Swedish language: Emil
- Turkish language: Emil
- Ukrainian language: Омелян (Omelian)
List of people with the given name Emil
- Emil Artin (1898–1962), mathematician
- Emil Brown (born 1974), American baseball outfielder
- Emil Brunner (1889 – 1966), Swiss theologian
- Emil Chuprenski (born 1960), Bulgarian boxer
- Emil Cioran (1911 – 1995), French-Romanian writer
- Emil Constantinescu (born 1939), President of Romania from 1996 – 2000
- Emil Dimitrov (1940 – 2005), Bulgarian singer
- Emil Fjellström (1884 – 1944), Swedish actor
- Emil Forsberg (born 1991), Swedish international footballer
- Emil G. Hirsch (1852 – 1923), American rabbi
- Emil Gilels (1916 – 1985), Russian pianist
- Emil Hácha (1872 – 1945), president of Czechoslovakia
- 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 c. 1966), drummer for Black Flag
- Emil Kapaun (1916 – 1951), Roman Catholic priest, US Army Chaplain who died in the Korean war, US Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013
- Emil Karas (1933 – 1974), American football linebacker for the San Diego Chargers
- Emil Kostadinov (born 1967), Bulgarian football player
- Emil Lindenfeld (1905 – 1986), Hungarian-American oil-painter
- Jyrki Pekka Emil Linnankivi (born 1968), Finnish singer in the band The 69 Eyes
- Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), biographer
- Emil Minty (born 1972), Australian former child actor
- Emil Nolde (1867 – 1956), German painter and printmaker
- Emil Nödtveidt (born 1976), Swedish guitarist in the band Deathstars
- Emil Leon Post (1897 – 1954), American mathematician
- Emil Rebreanu (died 1917), Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer
- 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 of the novel "Drunk Driving"
- Emil Steinberger (born 1933), Swiss comedian
- Emil Stoyanov (born 1959), Bulgarian politician
- Emil Unanue (born 1934), Cuban immunologist
- Emil Urbel (born 1959), Estonian architect
- Emil Werstler, guitarist for Death Metal band Dååth
- Emil Wojtaszek (born 1927), Polish politician
- Emil Zátopek (1922 – 2000), Czech long distance runner
- Emil Zsigmondy (1861 – 1885), Austrian physician and mountain climber
- Emílson Cribari (born 1980), Brazilian footballer
- Emilson Cruz (born 1987), Honduran footballer
List of people with the given name Emile or Émile
- 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), Palestinian-Israeli writer and politician
- Emile Haynie (born 1980), American record producer
- Émile Henry (anarchist) (1872–1894), French anarchist bomber
- Emile Heskey (born 1978), English footballer
- Emile Hirsch (born 1985), American actor
- Emile Kuri (1907–2000), Mexican-born American movie set decorator
- Émile Lahoud (born 1936), former President of Lebanon
- Emile Lahoud Jr. (born 1975), Lebanese businessman and the son of Émile Lahoud
- Émile Renouf (1845–1894), French painter and draughtsman
- Emile Roemer (born 1962), Dutch politician
- Emile St. Godard (1905–1948), Canadian dog sled racer
- Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), French composer
- 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 Blonsky, alter ego of comic supervillain Abomination
- Emil Castagnier, main character of the video game Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
- Emile Dufresne, villain in Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Emil Eagle, a bad guy in the Disney comics, Donald Duck universe
- Sergeant Emile Klinger, a character in North by Northwest
- Dr. Emil Lang from the Robotech animated series.
- 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
- Dr. Emil Breton, a character in Brian DePalma's Sisters
- Emil, an NPC who accompanies the main character in the game Nier
- Emile, a League Mechanic in the video game creating website Gamestar Mechanic
- Dr. Emil Schaffhausen III, main character in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- Emil Steilsson, a given name to the personification of Iceland in the anime of Hetalia: Axis Powers by Hidekaz Himaruya
See also
- Emil (disambiguation)
- Aemilius (disambiguation)