Manuel (name)
Appearance
Manuel is a male given name originating in the Hebrew name Immanu'el (Template:Hebrew, which means "God with us."[1] It was possibly brought from the Byzantine Empire (as Μανουήλ) to Spain and Portugal, where it has been used since at least the 13th century.[2] Manuel is popular in Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Romanian, Greek (Latinized), Polish and Dutch where Manny or Manu is used as a nickname.
Middle Ages
- Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180)
- Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)
- Manuel I of Trebizond (1218–1263)
- Manuel II of Trebizond (1324–1333)
- Manuel III of Trebizond (1364–1417)
- Manuel I of Portugal (1469–1521)
- Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, Portuguese prince, son of Peter II of Portugal
- Manuel of Castile (1234–1283), son of Ferdinand III of Castile
- Manuel I, patriarch of Constantinople in 1216–22
- Manuel II, patriarch of Constantinople in 1244–55
- Manuel Christonymos, birth name of Patriarch Maximus III of Constantinople, reigned 1476–1482
Early modern
- Manuel da Nóbrega (1517–1570), Portuguese Jesuit and missionary in the early Colonial Brazil
- Manuel, Prince of Portugal (1531–1537), son of John III of Portugal
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805), Portuguese poet
- Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650), Portuguese composer
- Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820), Argentine politician and military leader during the Argentine War of Independence
- Manuel Pardo (1834-1878), Peruvian politician
- Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1681–1773), Portuguese nobleman and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
Modern given name
- Patriarchs of Lisbon
- Manuel II, 14th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (1929–71)
- Manuel III, 17th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (since 2013)
- Manuel II of Portugal (1889–1932), the last King of Portugal (1908–1910)
- Manuel Agogo (born 1979), Ghanaian football player
- Manuel Alegre (born 1936), Portuguese poet and politician
- Manny Aparicio (born 1995), Canadian football player
- Manuel Alfonso Andrade Oropeza (born 1989), Mexican professional wrestler known as "Andrade"
- Manuel de Blas (born 1941), Spanish actor
- Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968), Brazilian writer
- Manuel Cuevas (born 1933), Mexican fashion designer
- Manuel Elizalde Sr., Filipino businessman, polo player and sports patron
- Manuel Elizalde Jr. (1936–1997), Filipino businessman
- Manuel Ferrara (born 1975), French pornographic actor and director
- Manuel Fettner (born 1985), Austrian ski jumper
- Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1860–1941), Portuguese politician and writer, 7th President of Portugal
- Manuel Göttsching (born 1952), German musician, member of Ash Ra Tempel
- Manuel Hassassian (born 1953), Armenian-Palestinian professor
- Manuel Machata (born 1984), German bobsledder and World Champion of 2011
- Manuel Mamikonian (fl. 4th century), Armenian general and ruler
- Manuel Morales (basketball) (born 1987), Peruvian basketball player
- Manuel Neuer (born 1986), German football goalkeeper
- Manuel Noriega (1934-2017), Panamanian dictator and criminal
- Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015), Portuguese film director
- Manuel V. Pangilinan (born 1946), Filipino businessman
- Manuel "Manny" Pardo (1956-2012), American serial killer and former police officer
- Manuel Pardo (governor) (1774-????), Spanish soldier and governor
- Manuel Pellegrini (born 1953), Chilean football manager
- Manuel Pinho (born 1954), Portuguese politician and economist
- Manuel Poppinger (born 1989), Austrian ski jumper
- Manuel L. Quezon (1878–1944), first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
- Manny Ramírez (born 1972), Dominican-American Major League Baseball player
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968), American photographer
- Manuel Rocha, American diplomat
- Manuel Roxas (1892–1948), first President of the Third Philippine Republic
- Manuel "Mar" Roxas II (born 1957), Filipino politician, grandson of Manuel Roxas
- Manuel Sanhouse (born 1975), Venezuelan football goalkeeper
- Manuel Seco (born 1928), Spanish lexicographer
- Manuel Sosa (judge) (born 1950), Belizean jurist
- Manuel Tenenbaum (1934–2016), Uruguayan educator, historian and philanthropist.
- Manuel Uribe (1965–2014), Mexican who was at one time considered to be the heaviest man in the world
- Manuel & the Music of the Mountains, pseudonym of composer/arranger Geoff Love (1917–1991)
Surname
- Charlie Manuel (born in 1944), American baseball manager
- EJ Manuel (born 1990), American football player
- Herman E. Manuel (1849–1918), American politician
- Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775–1827), French politician
- Jerry Manuel (born in 1953), American baseball manager
- Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1232–1328), Spanish noble and medieval writer, son of Infante Manuel of Castile
- Laurent Manuel (born 1986), American association football (soccer) player
- Louis Pierre Manuel (1751–1793), political figure of the French Revolution
- Niklaus Manuel (~1484–1530), Swiss painter
- Peter Manuel (1927–1958), American-born Scottish serial killer
- Richard Manuel (1943–1986), Canadian composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist with The Band
- Rob Manuel (born 1973), English developer/producer of humorous/miscellaneous web content
- Rod Manuel (born 1974), American football player
- Simone Manuel (born 1996), American swimmer
- Vic Manuel (born 1987), Filipino basketball player
Fictional characters
- Manuel (Fawlty Towers), waiter in the BBC TV sitcom
- Manny Calavera, protagonist of the adventure game Grim Fandango
- Manny Pardo, a hard-boiled detective in the game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (based on serial killer Manny Pardo)
See also
References
- ^ jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/. JewishEncyclopedia.com
- ^ http://www.behindthename.com/name/manuel
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