Manuel (name)
Manuel is a variation of Immanuel, a Hebrew given name, from the Spanish and Portuguese. It was used by the Byzantine Greeks as Μανουήλ, although now in Modern Greek is more used Emmanuel (Εμμανουήλ). Manny is an English derivative.
Royalty
- East Roman / Byzantine Emperors
- Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180)
- Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)
- Emperors of Trebizond
- Manuel I of Trebizond (1218–1263)
- Manuel II of Trebizond (1324–1333)
- Manuel III of Trebizond (1364–1417)
- Kings and Princes of Portugal
- Manuel I of Portugal (1469–1521)
- Manuel II of Portugal (1889–1932)
- Manuel, Prince of Portugal (1531–1537), son of John III of Portugal
- Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, Portuguese prince, son of Peter II of Portugal
- Infante of Castile
- Manuel of Castile (1234–1283), son of Ferdinand III of Castile
Religious figures
- Patriarchs of Constantinople
- Manuel I, patriarch of Constantinople in 1216-1222
- Manuel II, patriarch of Constantinople in 1244-1255
- Manuel Christonymos, birth name of Patriarch Maximus III of Constantinople, reigned 1476–1482
- Patriarchs of Lisbon
- Manuel II, 14th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (1929-1971)
- Manuel III, 17th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (since 2013) -current-
Others
Given name
- Manuel Agogo, English-Ghanaian football player
- Manuel Alegre (* 1936), Portuguese poet
- Manuel Belgrano (1770-1820), Argentine politician and military leader during the Argentine War of Independence
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765-1805), Portuguese poet
- Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650), Portuguese composer
- Manuel Cuevas, fashion designer, known simply as "Manuel"
- Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1681–1773), Portuguese nobleman and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1860–1941), Portuguese politician and writer, 7th President of Portugal
- Manuel Göttsching, German musician, member of Ash Ra Tempel
- Manuel Hassassian is an Armenian-Palestinian professor
- Manuel Machata, German bobsledder and World Champion of 2011
- Manuel Mamikonian was the real leader of Armenia after the death of King Varasdates (Varazdat).
- Manuel Neuer, German football goalkeeper
- Manuel da Nóbrega (1517–1570), Portuguese Jesuit and missionary in the early Colonial Brazil
- Manuel Noriega (* 1934), Panamanian dictator and criminal
- Manoel de Oliveira (* 1908), Portuguese film director
- Manuel Pinho, Portuguese politician and economist
- Manuel L. Quezón, first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
- Manny Ramírez, Dominican-American Major League Baseball player
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, American photographer
- Manuel Rocha, American diplomat
- Manuel Acuña Roxas, first President of the Third Philippine Republic
- Manuel Sanhouse, Venezuelan football goalkeeper
- Manuel Uribe, Mexican who was at one time considered to be the heaviest man in the world
Surname
- Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775–1827), French politician
- Laurent Manuel, an American association football (soccer) player
- Louis Pierre Manuel (1751–1793), political figure of the French Revolution
- Niklaus Manuel (~1484–1530), Swiss painter
- Richard Manuel (1943–1986), Canadian composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist with The Band
- Rod Manuel (born 1974), American football player
Fictional characters
- Manuel (Fawlty Towers), waiter in the BBC TV sitcom
- Manny (Ice Age), a fictional bull wooly mammoth, who appears in the Ice Age movie series
- Manny Calavera, protagonist of the adventure game Grim Fandango