Cecil may refer to:

People with the name

Cecil (given name) Cecil is a given name of Wales, Welsh origin. The name was associated with Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire and derives from the Old Welsh personal name ''Seisyllt''. The name may be related to that of the local Celtic tribe (the Silures) ...

, a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) * Cecil (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)

Places

Canada

* Cecil, Alberta, Canada

United States

* Cecil, Alabama * Cecil, Georgia * Cecil, Ohio * Cecil, Oregon * Cecil, Pennsylvania * Cecil, West Virginia *

Cecil, Wisconsin Cecil is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 529 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History The village was named after a railroad man, Cecil Leavitt when the railroad w ...

* Cecil Airport, in Jacksonville, Florida *

Cecil County, Maryland Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland at the northeastern corner of the state, bordering both Pennsylvania and Delaware. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 103,725. The county seat is Elkton. The ...

Computing and technology

Cecil (programming language) Cecil is a pure Object-oriented programming, object-oriented programming language that was developed by Craig Chambers at the University of Washington in 1992 to be part of the Vortex project there. Cecil has many similarities to other object-or ...

, prototype-based programming language *Computer Supported Learning, a learning management system by the University of Auckland, New Zealand

Music

Cecil (British band) Cecil were an English rock band from Liverpool. They released two albums, ''Bombar Diddlah'' (1996) and ''Subtitles'' (1998). They gained a small degree of commercial success in the UK charts, with their singles, "Hostage in a Frock" (1997) an ...

, a band from Liverpool, active 1993-2000 *

Cecil (Japanese band) Cecil ( Japanese: セシル, stylized as CECIL) is a Japanese pop music group, best known for their song, "Super Shomin Car" appearing in the film Kamikaze Girls. While the band has never formally disbanded, no activity from the band has taken ...

, a band from Kajigaya, Japan, active 2000-2006

Other uses

* ''Cecil'' (novel), an 1841 novel by Catherine Gore *

Cecil (lion) Cecil ( 2002 – 2 July 2015) was a male African lion ('' Panthera leo leo'') who lived primarily in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. He was being studied and tracked by a research team of the University of Oxford as ...

, a famed lion killed in Zimbabwe in 2015 * Cecil (''Passions''), a minor character from the NBC soap opera ''Passions'' *

Cecil (soil) Originally mapped in Cecil County, Maryland in 1899, more than 10 million acres (40,000 km2) of the Cecil soil series (Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults) are now mapped in the Piedmont region of the southeastern United States. It ...

, the dominant red clay soil in the American South *

Cecil College Cecil College is a public community college in North East, Maryland in Cecil County. History Cecil College was founded in 1968 to meet the educational needs of Cecil County residents. On June 13, 2007, the Maryland Higher Education Commissio ...

, a community college *

The Cecil The Cecil is a historic luxury hotel located in the hill station Shimla, India. The Cecil's address is at Chaura Maidan Rd, Nabha, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 171004, India. At an elevation of 7,000 it sits at the foothills of the Himalayas and ...

, a heritage hotel in Shimla, India, built in 1884 *

Long Cecil Long Cecil is a cannon built in the workshops of the De Beers mining company in Kimberley, Northern Cape, Kimberley for use by the British Empire, British in the Siege of Kimberley during the Second Boer War. Construction The defenders at Kim ...

, a gun *Cecil, a Danish cigarette brand by

House of Prince House of Prince A/S, is a Danish cigarette manufacturer. As Denmark's only cigarette manufacturer,Caecilius of Elvira Saint Caecilius (''Cecil, Cecilius, Cäcilius'', ) is venerated as the patron saint of Granada, Spain. Life Tradition makes him a Christian missionary of the 1st century, during the Apostolic Age. Caecilius first worked as an itinerant bishop ...

, patron saint of Granada