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Menzel is a surname, and a place name. It may refer to:

People

Places

  • Cape Menzel, on Thurston Island in Antarctica; named for geologist Reinhard W. Menzel

Menzel is also an Arabic word transliterated into the Latin alphabet which means "House" or "House of ---" (e.g. "Menzel Bourguiba" means "House of Bourguiba"). Many such place names exist, especially in Tunisia, but also Morocco.

Morocco
Tunisia

Other

  • Menzel (crater), a lunar crater named for Donald Howard Menzel
  • Menzel 3, a young bipolar planetary nebula named for Donald Howard Menzel
  • 1967 Menzel, an asteroid named for Donald Howard Menzel