Marcel (given name)

Marcel (French: [maʁsɛl], Occitan: [maɾˈsɛl], Catalan: [məɾˈsɛl, maɾ-]) is an Occitan form of the Ancient Roman origin male given name Marcellus, meaning "Belonging to Mars". Used predominantly in France, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium. It may refer to:

In the arts

• Marcel (singer) (Marcel Francois Chagnon) (b. 1975), American country music singer and songwriter known by the singular name, Marcel
• Marcel Achard (1899 –1974), French playwright and screenwriter
• Marcel Aymé (1902 –1967), French author screenwriter and playwright
• Marcel Breuer (1902 –1981), Hungarian-born American modernist, architect and furniture designer
• Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), Belgian poet, artist and filmmaker
• Marcel Budală (1925–1989), Romanian accordionist
• Marcel Camus (1912 –1982), French film director
• Marcel Carné (1906 –1996), French film director
• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French-American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements
• Marcel Dupré (1886–1971), French organist, pianist, composer and pedagogue.
• Marcel Dzama (b. 1974), Canadian artist known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings
• Marcel Everett (b. 1995), American electronic musician better known as XXYYXX.
• Marcel Gotlib (1934 –2016), French comics artist
• Marcel Theo Hall (b. 1964), American rapper better known by his stage name Biz Markie.
• Marcel Iureș (b. 1951), Romanian actor
• Marcel Janco (1895–1984), Israeli painter and architect
• Marcel Jouhandeau (1888 –1979), French writer
• Marcel Khalife (born 1950), Lebanese composer, singer and oud player
• Marcel L'Herbier (1888 –1979), French filmmaker
• Marcel Moyse (1889 –1984), French flutist
• Marcel Mule (1901 –2001), French classical saxophonist
• Marcel Neels (1922 –2016), Belgian cartoonist known as "Marc Sleen"
• Marcel Olinescu (1896-1992), Romanian engraver
• Marcel Pagnol (1895-1975), French novelist, playwright and filmmaker
• Marcel Khalife (b. 1950), Lebanese-French composer, singer and oud player.
• Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French mime artist and actor
• Marcel Martí (b. 1925), Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent
• Marcel Poot (1901 –1988), Belgian composer and music educator
• Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, essayist, and critic
• Marcel Rodríguez-López (b. 1984), member of The Mars Volta and younger brother of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
• Marcel Romanescu (1897-1956), Romanian poet
• Marcel Schwob (1867 –1905), Jewish French symbolist writer
• Marcel Vaid, (b. 1967) Swiss film composer

In sports

• Marcel Balkestein (born 1981), Dutch field hockey player
• Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born 1964), Dutch football player and coach
• Marcel Buysse (1889 –1939), Belgian racing cyclist
• Marcel Cerdan (1916–1949), French pied noir world boxing champion
• Marcel Comeau (b. 1952), Canadian ice hockey coach and NHL executive
• Marcel Coraș (b. 1959), Romanian footballer
• Marcell Dareus (b. 1990), NFL defensive tackle
• Marcel Desailly (b. 1968), French footballer
• Marcel Dionne (born 1931), Canadian ice hockey player
• Marcel Dost (b. 1969), retired decathlete from the Netherlands
• Marcel Felder (b. 1984), Uruguayan tennis player
• Marcel Henrique Garcia Alves Pereira (b. 1992), Brazilian footballer known as Marcel
• Marcel Goc (b. 1983), German professional ice hockey player
• Marcel Granollers (born 1986), Spanish tennis player
• Marcel Hirscher (b. 1989), Austrian alpine skier
• Marcel Hossa (b. 1981), Slovak professional ice hockey player
• Marcell Jansen (b. 1985), German footballer
• Marcel Kint (1914 –2002), Belgian racing cyclist
• Marcel Kittel (born 1988), German racing cyclist
• Marcel Nguyen (b. 1987), Vietnamese-German gymnast
• Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian football player
• Marcel Sabitzer (born 1994), Austrian footballer
• Marcel Schäfer (born 1984), German footballer
• Marcel Schmelzer (b. 1988), German footballer
• Marcel Seip (b. 1982), Dutch footballer
• Marcel Wouda (b. 1972), Dutch swimmer
• Marcel Wyss (b. 1986), Swiss road cyclist

In other fields

• Marcel Alessandri (1895–1968), French Army general
• Marcel Berlins (b. 1941), Anglo-French lawyer, legal commentator, broadcaster, and columnist
• Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847 –1907), French geologist
• Marcel Bich (1914 –1994), French manufacturer of ballpoint pens
• Marcel Bigeard (1916–2010), French Army general
• Marcel Bouyer (1920-2000), French politician
• Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977), French Army general
• Marcel Dinu (b. 1935), Romanian diplomat
• Marcel Dassault (1892 –1986), French aircraft industrialist
• Marcel Deprez (1843 –1918), French electrical engineer
• Marcel Grateau (1852–1936), French hairdresser who pioneered the use of hair irons
• Marcel Griaule (1898 –1956), French anthropologist
• Marcel Grossmann (1878 –1936), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician
• Marcel Gumbs (born 1953), Dutch Prime Minister of Sint Maarten
• Marcel Ichac (1906 –1994), French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director
• Marcel Lefebvre (1905 –1991), French Roman Catholic archbishop
• Marcel Mauss (1872 –1950), French ethonologist
• Marcel Minnaert (1893 –1970), Dutch astronomer of Flemish origin
• Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), German-born American documentary film maker
• Marcel Pauker (1896-1938), Romanian communist militant
• Marcel Peyrouton (1887-1983), French diplomat and politician.
• Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889 –1958), Swiss politician
• Marcel Rayman (1923−1944), Polish Jew in the FTP-MOI group of French resistance fighters during World War II
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920 –2013), Polish-born German literary critic
• Marcel Renault (1871 or 1872–1903), French racing car driver and industrialist
• Marcel Riesz (1886 –1969), Hungarian-born Swedish mathematician
• Marcel Trillat (born 1940), French journalist and documentary filmmaker
• Marcel Vigneron (b. 1980), American chef and television personality
• Marcel Vonk, Dutch poker player, physicist

In fiction

• Marcel, a villain in the television series Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
• Marcel, Ross Geller's pet monkey in the television series Friends
• Marcel, a fictional marketer in the music video of "Best Song Ever" byOne Direction
• Marcel, a villager in the video game series Animal Crossing
• Marcel Gerard, a character in The Originals

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Marcel