Hillel ( he, links=no, הלל, lit=praise) is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

Given name

Hillel the Elder Hillel ( he, הִלֵּל ''Hīllēl''; variously called ''Hillel HaGadol'', ''Hillel HaZaken'', ''Hillel HaBavli'' or ''HaBavli'', was born according to tradition in Babylon c. 110 BCE, died 10 CE in Jerusalem) was a Jewish religious leader, sag ...

(110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader *

Hillel, son of Gamaliel III Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, was a Jewish scholar in the 3rd century CE (second generation of amoraim). Biography He was son of Gamaliel III, brother of Judah II, and probably a pupil of his grandfather Judah I. Of his early history nothing i ...

(3rd century), Jewish scholar *

Hillel II Hillel II (Hebrew: הלל נשיאה, Hillel the Nasi), also known simply as Hillel, was an '' amora'' of the fifth generation in the Land of Israel. He held the office of ''Nasi'' of the Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 CE. He was the son and succes ...

, Jewish communal and religious authority and Nasi of the Jewish Sanhedrin, 320–385 *

Hillel ben Eliakim Hillel ben Eliakim, known in Hebrew to Talmud scholars as ''Rabbeinu Hillel'', ("Our Rabbi Hillel"), was a Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar. He lived during the 11th century and 12th century. In his writings he mentions the name of his city, סלוו ...

(11th–12th century), Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar *

Hillel ben Samuel Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220 – Forlì, c. 1295) was an Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona. Life He spent his youth at Barcelona, where he studied the Talmud a ...

(c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist *

Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi ( he, הלל בן נפתלי צבי) also known as Hillel Ben Naphtali Herz, was a Lithuanian rabbi. Biography He was born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; he died at Zolkiev (Zhovkva) January 3, 1690. After he had studied unde ...

(1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi *

Hillel Rivlin Hillel Rivlin of Shklov ( he, הלל ריבלין; 16 September 1757–- 2 June 1838 and the Hebrew date 2 Tishrei 5518–9 Sivan 5598) was a close disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Along with some other pupils of the Vilna Gaon, he is credited with hav ...

(1758–1838), Lithuanian rabbi *

Hillel Paritcher Hillel HaLevi Malisov of Paritch, a levite by birth, commonly known as Reb Hillel Paritcher (1795-1864) was a famous Orthodox Jewish Chabad Rabbi in Russia. Specifically, he served as a Mashpia (Hasidic mentor) and communal rabbi in the towns of ...

(1795–1864), Russian Chabad rabbi *

Hillel Lichtenstein Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein (1814-1891) was a Hungarian rabbi and the leader of hasidic Orthodoxy in Hungary. Life Hillel Lichtenstein was born at Vécs, Heves county, Hungary (Veča) in 1814 to the dayan R. Baruch Bendit. After studying at the y ...

(1814–1891), Hungarian rabbi and writer * Hillel Noah Maggid (1829–1903), Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian *

Hillel Yaffe Hillel Yaffe (1864–1936) ( he, הלל יפה) was a Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader who immigrated to Palestine during the First Aliyah. He was instrumental in curing malaria among the Jewish population of Palestine in the early 20th ...

(1864–1936), Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader *

Hillel Zeitlin Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942) was a Yiddish and Hebrew writer and poet. A leading pre-Holocaust Jewish journalist, he was a regular contributor to the Yiddish newspaper ''Moment'', among other literary activities. He was the leading thinker in the ...

(1871–1942), Russian writer in Yiddish and Hebrew *

Hillel Poisic Rabbi Hillel Poisic (15.1.1881 Zlatopol, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire – 1953 Tel Aviv, Israel) was a communal worker and Torah scholar. He was an expert in releasing agunot from their husbands, who abandoned them without divorce. The Poisi ...

(1881–1953), Ukrainian communal worker and Torah scholar *

Hillel Oppenheimer Hillel Oppenheimer ( he, הלל אופנהיימר, born Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer; 4 April 1899 – 15 June 1971), was an Israeli professor of botany. Biography Hillel Oppenheimer was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Franz Oppenheimer, ...

(1899–1971), German-Israeli botanist *

Hillel Kook Hillel Kook ( he, הלל קוק, 24 July 1915 –18 August 2001), also known as Peter Bergson (Hebrew: פיטר ברגסון), was a Revisionist Zionist activist and politician. Kook led the Irgun's efforts in the United States during World ...

(1915–2001), Russian-Jewish Zionist activist, politician, and leader of the Irgun * Hillel Seidel (1920–1999), Israeli politician *

Hillel Schwartz Hillel Schwartz (13 February 1923 – 1 August 2007), an Egyptian Jew, was the founder of the Iskra ('al-Sharara') party, a small Communist political party which was one of the Egyptian political groupings advocating full independence from Great ...

(1923–2007), Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party * Hillel Kristal, birth name of

Hilly Kristal Hillel Kristal (September 23, 1931August 28, 2007) was an American club owner, manager and musician who was the owner of the iconic New York City club CBGB, which opened in 1973 and closed in 2006 over a rent dispute. Early years Kristal was bor ...

(1931–2007), American musician and owner of club CBGB in New York City *

Hillel Zaks Hillel Zaks ( he, הלל זקס; February 2, 1931 – January 13, 2015) was the founder and ''rosh yeshiva'' of Yeshivas Knesses Hagedolah in Kiryat Sefer. He was the son of Mendel Zaks, Mendel and Faiga Chaya Zaks, the youngest daughter of Israel ...

(1931–2015), Polish-Israeli founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Hagedolah * Hillel Jonathan Gitelman (1932-2015), American nephrologist who described Gitelman Syndrome *

Hillel Furstenberg Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg ( he, הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג) (born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy o ...

(born 1935), American-Israeli mathematician *

Hillel Ticktin Hillel H. Ticktin is a Marxist theorist and economist. He was born in South Africa in 1937, but had to leave to avoid arrest for political activism. He then lived and studied in the Soviet Union, where his PhD thesis, which was critical of offic ...

(born 1937), South African Marxist theorist and economist now at Glasgow University *

Hillel Halkin Hillel Halkin ( he, הלל הלקין; born 1939) is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist, who has lived in Israel since 1970. Biography Hillel Halkin was born in New York City two months before the outb ...

(born 1939), American-born Israeli translator, writer, and literary critic *

Hillel Weiss Hillel Weiss ( he, הלל ויס; born 1945) is a professor emeritus of literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel. Academic career Hillel Weiss is a tenured professor at the Joseph & Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, ...

(born 1945), Israeli professor of literature and Neo-Zionist *

(born 1948), American cultural historian, poet and translator *

Hillel Cohen Hillel Cohen-Bar (born in Jerusalem, 5 October 1961) is an Israeli scholar who studies and writes about Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine/Israel. He is an associated professor at the Department of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew Unive ...

(born 1961), Israeli historian *

Hillel Slovak Hillel Slovak ( he, הלל סלובק; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar wor ...

(1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers *

Hillel Horowitz Rabbi Hillel Ilan Horowitz ( he, הלל אילן הורוביץ, born 31 March 1964) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician. He briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home in 2015. Biography Horowitz grew up in Merkaz Shapi ...

(born 1964), Israeli rabbi and politician *

Hillel Roman Hillel Roman (הלל רומן) is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Roman was born on April 16, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. At age 24 he joined Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl College, Israel. In 2004 Roman ...

(born 1975), American-Israeli visual artist *

Hillel Fendel Hillel Fendel ( he, הלל פנדל) was, for 16 years, senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News" and also works as an author and editor. He worked as a teacher and rabbi in the past. Fendel has authored both news articl ...

, Israeli journalist *

Hillel Frisch Hillel Frisch is an Israeli political scientist and professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern History at Bar Ilan University. His work focuses on Israeli-Palestinian interactions and military strategies, the political impact of Islam, insti ...

, Israeli political scientist *

Hillel Neuer Hillel C. Neuer (born 1969/1970) is a Canadian-born international lawyer, writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland. Neuer is the founding chairman of Geneva Summit fo ...

, Canadian human-rights lawyer and executive director of UN Watch *

Hillel Schenker Hillel Schenker is co-editor of the '' Palestine-Israel Journal'', a Jerusalem-based independent English language quarterly founded and run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli academics and journalists. Career He was as an editor of New Outlook, ...

, Israeli editor *

Hillel Steiner Hillel Isaac Steiner (; born 1942) is a Canadian political philosopher and is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1999. Work Steiner's writings ar ...

, Canadian political philosopher

Surname

Simeon ben Hillel Shimon or Simeon ben Hillel was the son of Hillel the Elder. Little is known about him. When Hillel died, Shimon may have took over his place as the ''Nasi'' of the Sanhedrin, as is implied by a passage in the Talmud. Simeon was the father of Gam ...

(1st century), son of Hillel the Elder *

Mordechai ben Hillel Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen ( he, "המָּרְדֳּכַי" ,רבי מרדכי בן הלל הכהן; c. 1250–1298), also known as The Mordechai, was a 13th-century German rabbi and posek. His chief legal commentary on the Talmud, referred to as ...

(died 1298), German rabbi and posek *

Abraham Hillel Abraham Moshe Hillel (1820-1920) served as Chief Rabbi of Baghdad during the years 1884, 1886–1889, and 1911–1915. He was a pupil of Rabbi Abdallah Somekh Abdallah (Ovadia) Somekh (1813–September 13, 1889) was an Iraqi Jewish hakham, rosh ...

(1820–1920), Iraqi rabbi *

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ( he, יהושע בר-הלל; 8 September 1915, in Vienna – 25 September 1975, in Jerusalem) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguisti ...

(1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist *

Shlomo Hillel Shlomo Hillel ( he, שלמה הלל, 23 April 1923 – 8 February 2021) was an Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician who served as Speaker of the Knesset, Minister of Police, Minister of Internal Affairs, and ambassador to several countrie ...

(1923-2021), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician *

Ayin Hillel Ayin Hillel ( he, ע. הלל) was the pen name of Hillel Omer (4 August 1926 - 30 June 1990, he, הלל עומר), an Israeli poet and children's author. Biography Hillel Kotovitz (later Omer) was born in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek in the Jezreel V ...

(1926–1990), Israeli poet and children's author *

Stéphane Hillel Stéphane Hillel (born 1955) is a French stage, film and television actor.Prévand p.85 Selected filmography * ''À nous les petites Anglaises ''À nous les petites anglaises'' (''Let's Get Those English Girls'') is a French film directed by Mi ...

(born 1955) French actor *

Gili Bar-Hillel Gili Bar-Hillel Semo ( he, גילי בר-הלל סמו; born Gili Bar-Hillel in 1974) is an English-Hebrew translator from Israel, best known for translating the '' Harry Potter'' series into Hebrew. Biography Bar-Hillel is the daughter of Maya B ...

(born 1974) Israeli English-Hebrew translator

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