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
• Bengali language: এমিল (Émil)
• Bulgarian language: Емил (Emil)
• Catalan language: Emili
• Chinese language: 埃米尔 (Āi mǐ'ěr)
• Czech language: Emil
• Danish language: Emil [eˈmiˀl]
• Dutch language: Emiel, Emil, Melis
• English language: Emil, Emile
• Estonian language: Emil
• Finnish language: Eemeli, Eemil, Emil
• French language: Émile, Émilien
• German language: Emil
• Greek language: Αιμίλιος (Emilios)
• Hebrew language: אמיל (Emil)
• Hungarian language: Emil
• Italian language: Emilio
• Japanese language: エミール (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
• Serbo-Croatian language: Емил (Emil)
• Slovak language: Emil
• Slovenian language: Emil
• Spanish language: Emilio, Emiliano
• Swedish language: Emil
• Turkish language: Emil
• Ukrainian language: Омелян (Omelian)

List of people with the given name Emil

• Emil von Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917), was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded, for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin. He was widely known as a "saviour of children," as diphtheria used to be a major cause of child death.
• Emil Kraepelin (15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.
• Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid.
• Emil Fischer FRS FRSE FCS (9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.
• Emil Andersson (sport shooter) (born 1979), Swedish running target shooter
• Emil Andersson (table tennis) (born 1993), Swedish table tennis player
• Emil Artin (1898–1962), Austrian mathematician
• Emil Atlason (born 1993), Icelandic footballer
• Emil Bachrach (1874–1937), Russian-American entrepreneur
• Emil Berg, Swedish singer
• 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 to 2000
• Emil (Fritz) Dietrich (1898–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
• Emil Dimitriev (born 1979), interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• Emil Dimitrov (1940–2005), Bulgarian singer
• Emil Fjellström (1884–1944), Swedish actor
• Emil Forsberg (born 1991), Swedish international footballer
• Emil Forselius (1974–2010), Swedish actor
• Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi
• Emil Gilels (1916–1985), Russian pianist
• Emil Giurgiuca (1906–1992), Romanian poet
• Emil Hácha (1872–1945), president of Czechoslovakia
• Emil Hedvall (born 1983), Swedish footballer
• Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor
• Emil Jones (born 1935), Democratic politician, president of the Illinois State Senate from 2003 to 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 Lenz, Russian physicist and creator of Lenzs law
• 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 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 Wingstedt (born 1975), Swedish orienteering competitor
• Emil Wojtaszek (1927–2017), Polish politician
• Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czech long distance runner
• Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885), Austrian physician and mountain climber
• Emil Galip Sandalcı (:tr) (1922–1993), Turkish journalist and human rights activist

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 Camut (1849–1905), French architect
• 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 Griffith (1938-2013), US Virgin Islands boxer
• Emile Habibi (1922–1996), 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 Legault (born 2000), Canadian soccer player
• Émile Renouf (1845–1894), French painter and draughtsman
• Émile Ripert (1882-1948), French academic, poet, novelist and playwright
• Emile Roemer (born 1962), Dutch politician
• Emile St. Godard (1905–1948), Canadian dog sled racer
• Emile Santiago (1899-1995), American costume designer
• Émile Servan-Schreiber (1888-1967), French journalist
• Émile Waldteufel (1837–1915), French composer
• Émile Zola (1840–1902), French novelist

Fictional characters

• Emile, title character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Emile, or On Education"
• Emile Antoon Khadaji, title character of the military science-fiction Matador series
• Emile, a character in Gambit
• Émile, a character in Ratatouille
• Emil Antonowsky, a villain in RoboCop
• Emile de Becque, a character in South Pacific
• "Baby" Emile, a character in the film The Principal
• 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, a villain in Splinter Cell: Double Agent
• Emil Eagle, a villain 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 Picani, a character in the youtube series "Cartoon Therapy"

See also

• Emil (disambiguation)
• Aemilius (disambiguation)
• Emilio (given name)