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Széll, Szell is a Hungarian surname. The name comes as an archaic
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loanword with the Chuvash word "ҫил" (śil) which later became the Hungarian word " szél" meaning " wind". The name is topographic in nature, meaning "someone who lived in a spot exposed to the wind". The German equivalent is "Selle" and the English equivalent is "Sell".Charry, Michael. ''George Szell: A Life of Music''. Pg.43. University of Illinois Press. 2011. Széll may refer to: * Christian Szell, a fictional character of ''Marathon Man'' *
Domonkos Széll Domonkos Széll (born 25 July 1989 in Budapest) is a Hungarian rower. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the Men's Pair event together with his teammate Béla Simon Béla Simon (born 4 August 1988) is a Hungarian rower. He ...
(born 1989), Hungarian Olympic rower * George Szell ( hu, Széll György; 1897, Budapest - 1970), a Jewish Hungarian-American conductor * György Széll (politician) (1827, Makó - 1910, Makó), Hungarian politician * György Széll (sociologist) (born 1941), Hungarian-German sociologist * József Széll (1880 - 1956), a Hungarian politician * Kálmán Széll de Duka et Szentgyörgyvölgy (1843, Gasztony - 1915, Rátót), a Hungarian politician, banker ** ''SS Széll Kálmán'' * Susanne Szell (born 1965, Bremen), German actress


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