Emanuel

Emanuel, Emmanuel, Emmanuil or Immanuel are personal names and surnames deriving from (Hebrew: עמנואל, God is with us), a prophetic name used in Isaiah 7:14. The middle letter "m" is doubled in Hebrew causing that single "m" and double "mm" variants co-exist in many languages.

The name is common to both Jewish and Christian naming traditions, interpreted in Judaism without messianic significance, but by Christians in the light of Gospel of Matthew 1:23 as a name or title relating to Jesus.

The name has many variant spellings, including Emanuele in Italy, Imanol in Basque and Manuel in Portugal and Spain.

Notable people with the name or surname include:

People

Royalty

• Manuel I of Portugal (1469-1521)
• Manuel II of Portugal (1889-1932)
• Victor Emmanuel I of Savoy (1759-1824)
• Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820-1878)
• Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (1869-1947)
• Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples (b. 1937)
• Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy (1562-1630)
• Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy (1634-1675)
• Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy (1701-1773)
• Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy (1751-1819))

Surname

• Ari Emanuel (born 1961), American talent agent, brother of Ezekiel and Rahm
• Ezekiel Emanuel (born 1957), American bioethicist, brother of Ari and Rahm
• James Emanuel (1921–2013), American poet and scholar
• Kerry Emanuel, born 1955, American climate scientist
• Lee Emanuel (born 1985), British middle-distance runner
• Maurice Emmanuel (1862-1938), French composer, teacher and musicologist
• Rahm Emanuel (born 1959), American politician and current mayor of Chicago, brother of Ari and Ezekiel
• Tom Emanuel (1915–1997), a Welsh footballer
• Tommy Emmanuel (born 1955), Australian guitar player

Mononym

• Emmanuel (singer), Mexican singer

Given name

• Emmanuel Adebayor (born 1984), Togolese football striker
• Immanuel the Roman (1261-1328)
• Emmanuel Bett (born 1985), Kenyan long-distance runner
• Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau (1857-1923), French mountain climber
• Emmanuel Callender (born 1984), Trinidadian sprint athlete
• Emmanuel Collard (born 1971), French racing driver
• Emanuel Cvjetićanin (1833-1919) general
• Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy (1766-1847)
• Emanuel Gandolfo, Argentine illusionist
• Emanuel Ginóbili, better known as Manu Ginóbili (born 1977), Argentine basketball player
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher
• Emmanuel Levinas, French-Lithuanian Philosopher and Talmudic commentator
• Emmanuel Kriaras, Greek lexicographer and philologist
• Emmanuel Lewis, American actor
• Emanuel Newton (born 1984), American mixed martial artist
• Emmanuel Christopher Loblack (1898–1995), Dominican trade unionist and politician
• Emmanouil A. Miaoulis, Greek navy officer
• Emanuel Pogatetz (born 1983), Austrian football defender
• Emmanouel Pappas, Greek revolutionary
• Emmanuel Rhoides, Greek writer and journalist
• Emanuel Rodriguez (born 1986), Mexican-American professional wrestler
• Emmanuel Schaefer, German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian.
• Emmanuel Danilo Clementino Silva, naturalized Equatoguinean football goalkeeper
• Emmanuel Yáñez, Uruguayan road cyclist
• Immanuel Wallerstein, social scientist
• Emanuel Rego, Beach volley player, Olympic gold medalist.

Other

University Colleges

• Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Schools

• Emanuel School, Australia, Sydney, Australia
• Emmanuel City Technology College, Gateshead, England
• Emmanuel College, Boston, Massachusetts
• Emanuel School, Battersea, London

Places

• Emanuel County, Georgia
• Immanuel, Israeli settlement in the West Bank
• Camp Immanuel Army Base, Kiryat Malakhi, Israel

Other

• Emanu-El (disambiguation) is a common name for Jewish synagogues
• Emanuel (band)
• Immanuel (film), a 2013 film

See also

• Emmanuelle (disambiguation)
• Imanol (disambiguation), the Basque form of this name

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