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List of people with the given name Emil

* Emil Aaltonen (1869—1949), Finnish industrialist and philanthropist *

Emil Andersson (sport shooter) Emil Martinsson, sometimes known as Emil Andersson (born 14 November 1979) is a Swedish running target sport shooter who won several medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships. He competed with his birth name Emil Andersson until 2009, wh ...

(born 1979), Swedish running target shooter * Emil Andersson (table tennis) (born 1993), Swedish table tennis player * Emil Artin (1898–1962), Austrian mathematician *

Emil Atlason Emil Atlason (born 22 July 1993) is an Icelandic footballer, who currently plays for Stjarnan. Club career Emil Atlason began his career with FH but did not make a senior debut for the club. In 2012, he joined KR. In 2015, Emil had loan spells ...

(born 1993), Icelandic footballer *

Emil Bachrach Emanuel Maurice "Emil" Bachrach (4 July 1874 – 28 September 1937) was a Russian Jewish-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist in the Philippines. Career Emil arrived in the United States from Russia at the age of 18. Soon after, in 1901, ...

(1874–1937), Russian-American entrepreneur * Emil Barth (1879–1941), German Social Democratic party worker * Emil von Behring (1854–1917), German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine *

Emil Berg Emil Berg is a Swedish singer-songwriter from Linköping. He had a debut hit with "Du swipa höger" making it to number 2 on the Swedish Singles Chart. His follow-up release was the single "Jag kommer aldrig kunna dö med dig". Discography Adap ...

, Swedish singer *

Emil Berna Emil Berna (2 April 1907 – 16 October 2000) was a Swiss cinematographer. He also co-directed one film, the 1952 drama '' Palace Hotel''. For several decades Berna was employed on almost all the major Swiss film productions. He worked on the 194 ...

(1907–2000), Swiss cinematographer * Emil Brown (born 1974), American baseball outfielder * Emil Brunner (1889–1966), Swiss theologian *

Emil Calmanovici Emil Calmanovici (March 1896 – March 12, 1956) was a Romanian engineer, businessman, and communist militant. Known for the financial support he gave to the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) during the late 1930s and early 1940s, he became a politic ...

(1896–1956), Romanian businessman and communist militant * Emil Cedercreutz (1879–1949), Finnish sculptor *

Emil Chuprenski Emil Todorov Chuprenski ( bg, Емил Тодоров Чупренски; born 14 September, 1960 in Sofia) is a retired boxer from Bulgaria, who competed for his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he was ...

(born 1960), Bulgarian boxer * Emil Cioran (1911–1995), French-Romanian writer * Emil Constantinescu (born 1939), President of Romania from 1996 to 2000 *

Emil Dardak Emil Elestianto Dardak (born 20 May 1984) is an Indonesian politician who is the Vice Governor of East Java. Before becoming Vice Governor, he was the regent of Trenggalek Regency between 2016 and 2019. Early life and education Emil Dardak was b ...

(born 1984), Indonesian politician * Emil (Fritz) Dietrich (1898–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes *

Emil Dill Emil Dill (15 April 1861, Pratteln - 23 May 1938, Liestal) was a Swiss painter, watercolorist and art teacher. Biography He was born to a family of merchants. He began his training in 1877 at the (a type of trade school) in Basel. The followi ...

(1861–1938), Swiss painter *

Emil Dimitriev Emil Dimitriev ( mk, Емил Димитриев, born 19 March 1979) is a Macedonian conservative politician, sociologist, and general secretary of the VMRO-DPMNE. He served as Prime Minister of Macedonia, following the resignation of Nikola Gru ...

(born 1979), interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia * Emil Dimitrov (1940–2005), Bulgarian singer *

Emil Dorian Emil Dorian (born Emil Lustig; February 16, 1893–1956) was a Romanian poet and prose writer, as well as a physician. Born into a Jewish family in Bucharest, his parents were Herman Lustig and his wife Ernestina (''née'' Picher). He attended ...

(1893–1956), Romanian poet and prose writer * Emil Fischer (1852–1919), German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry * Emil Fjellström (1884–1944), Swedish actor *

Emil Forsberg Emil Peter Forsberg (; born 23 October 1991) is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Sweden national team. Forsberg was awarded Guldbollen in 2021 as Sweden's best foot ...

(born 1991), Swedish international footballer * Emil Forselius (1974–2010), Swedish actor * Emil Gilels (1916–1985), Russian pianist * Emil Giurgiuca (1906–1992), Romanian poet * Emil Hácha (1872–1945), president of Czechoslovakia *

Emil Hedvall Emil Hedvall (born 9 June 1983) is a retired Swedish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He holds the record of most consecutives games on the bench in Allsvenskan without getting any playing time. After 119 straight games on the bench he fin ...

(born 1983), Swedish footballer * Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi * Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor * Emil Johnson (born c. 1966), drummer for Black Flag * Emil Jones (born 1935), American politician, president of the Illinois State Senate * Emil Jones, III (born 1978), American politician, Illinois Senate member *

Emil Kapaun Emil Joseph Kapaun (April 20, 1916 – May 23, 1951) was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army captain who served as a United States Army chaplain during World War II and the Korean War. Kapaun was a chaplain in the Burma Theater ...

(1916–1951), Roman Catholic priest, US Army Chaplain who died in the Korean War, US Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013 *

Emil Karas Emil Karas (December 13, 1933 – November 25, 1974) was an American professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins and in the American Football League (AFL) with the Los Ang ...

(1933–1974), American football linebacker for the San Diego Chargers *

Emil Theodor Kocher Emil Theodor Kocher (25 August 1841 – 27 July 1917) was a Swiss physician and medical researcher who received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid. Among his many ...

(1841–1917), Swiss physician and researcher, received the 1909

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( sv, Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or ...

* Emil Kostadinov (born 1967), Bulgarian football player * Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist * Emil Lenz, Russian physicist and creator of Lenzs law * Emil Lerp (1886–1966), German businessman and inventor *

Emil Lindenfeld Emil Lindenfeld (1905 – 1986) was a Hungarian-American oil-painter. He is best known for his vibrant choice of colors painting working people, idyllic pastoral landscapes, sensuous nudes, peasants on the field but, perhaps his most dramatic ...

(1905–1986), Hungarian-American oil-painter * Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), biographer *

Emil Mangelsdorff Emil Mangelsdorff (; 11 April 1925 – 20 January 2022) was a German jazz musician who played alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet and flute. He was a jazz pioneer under the Nazi regime which led to his imprisonment. After World War II a ...

(1925–2022), German jazz musician * Emil Maurice (1897–1972), founding member of the SS and Hitler's personal chauffeur during the 1920s * Emil Minty (born 1972), Australian former child actor * Emil Molt (1876–1936), German industrialist, social reformer, and anthroposophist * Emil Nödtveidt (born 1976), Swedish guitarist in the band Deathstars * Emil Nolde (1867–1956), German painter and printmaker *

Emil Paleček Emil Paleček (3 October 1930 – 30 October 2018) was a Czech biochemist, who researched how DNA can be used to diagnose genetic diseases. Paleček discovered that nucleic acids could be analysed by electrochemical research, contradicting p ...

(1930–2018), Czech biochemist * Emil Leon Post (1897–1954), American mathematician *

Emil Perttilä Jacob Emil Perttilä (born Ahlberg, since 1909 Palander, 18 February 1875 – 21 August 1933) was a Finnish politician and trade unionist. He was a Member of the Parliament of Finland for the Social Democratic Party in 1907-1908. Perttilä was a ...

(1875–1933), Finnish politician *

Emil Puhl Emil Johann Rudolf Puhl (28 August 1889 in Berlin – 30 March 1962 in Hamburg) was a Nazi economist and banking official during World War II. Career A Nazi, Puhl was director and vice-president of Germany's Reichsbank during World War II and ...

(1889–1962), German Nazi-era economist and banking official * Emil Rebreanu (died 1917), Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer *

Emil Salim Emil Salim (born in Lahat, South Sumatra, Indonesia, 8 June 1930) is an Indonesian economist and former politician. Born of Minangkabau parents, both from the village of Koto Gadang in West Sumatra. His uncle is Agus Salim, one of the found ...

(born 1930), Indonesian politician and economist *

Emil Savundra Michael Marion Emil Anacletus Pierre Savundranayagam (6 July 1923 – 21 December 1976), usually known as Emil Savundra, was a Sri Lankan swindler. The collapse of his Fire, Auto and Marine Insurance Company left about 400,000 motorists in t ...

(1923–1976), British-Tamil businessman convicted of fraud *

Emil Ludwig Schmidt Emil Ludwig Schmidt (7 April 1837 – 22 October 1906) was a German anthropologist and ethnologist. He was son-in-law to art historian Johannes Adolph Overbeck (1826–1895). Schmidt was born in Upper Eichstätt. Originally trained as a doctor ...

(1837–1906), German anthropologist and ethnologist * Emil Schult (born 1946), German artist and collaborator with seminal electronic music group Kraftwerk * Emil Schulz (1938–2010), German boxer * Emil Seckel (1864–1924), German jurist and law historian * Emil Sitka (1914–1998), American actor * Emil Škoda (1839–1900), Czech engineer * Emil Steinberger (born 1933), Swiss comedian * Emil Stoyanov (born 1959), Bulgarian politician *

Emil Szolomajer Emil Attila Szolomajer (born 24 January 1974) is a Romanian former football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the f ...

(born 1974), Romanian soccer player *

Emil Unanue Emil Raphael Unanue (September 13, 1934 – December 16, 2022) was a Cuban-American immunologist and Paul & Ellen Lacy Professor Emeritus at Washington University School of Medicine. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Amer ...

(born 1934), Cuban immunologist *

Emil Unfried Emil Unfried (21 April 1892 – 16 June 1949) was a German communist politician. He served in various capacities in the Communist Party of Germany, Communist Party until 1924. Then he involved in film industry. He resumed his political activity i ...

(1892–1949), German communist politician and businessman *

Emil Urbel Emil Urbel (born 13 November 1959 in Pärnu) is an Estonian architect. Emil Urbel studied in the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (today's Estonian Academy of Arts) in the department of architecture. He graduated from the institute in 1 ...

(born 1959), Estonian architect * Emil Utitz (1883–1956), Czech philosopher * Emil "Teddy" Vorster (1910–1976), German racing driver and entrepreneur * Emil Werstler, American guitarist for death metal band Dååth *

Emil Wingstedt Emil Wingstedt (born 9 May 1975) is a Swedish orienteering competitor. He won the 2005 and 2006 Sprint World Orienteering Championships,Emil Wojtaszek (1927–2017), Polish politician * Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czech long distance runner *

Emil Zsigmondy Emil Zsigmondy (11 August 1861 – 6 August 1885) was an Austrian physician and mountaineer. Life Zsigmondy's parents were Hungarians: Adolf Zsigmondy, born in Pozsony, and Irma von Szakmáry, born in Martonvásár. Zsigmondy was an excellent ...

(1861–1885), Austrian physician and mountain climber

List of people with the given name Emile or Émile

Emile Abraham Emile Abraham (born 28 April 1974) is a professional cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago. He won the silver medal in the men's individual road race at the 2007 Pan American Games, just behind Dominican Republic's Wendy Cruz. In 2017 he won the U ...

(born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago cyclist * Émile Baudot (1845–1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor *

Émile Bilodeau Émile Bilodeau (born June 28, 1996 in Longueuil, Quebec is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Career Born in Longueuil, Émile Bilodeau started playing drums at the age of fifteen, then he started playing guitar. He composed his first songs at th ...

(born 1996), French Canadian singer-songwriter * Émile Borel (1871–1956), French mathematician and politician *

Émile Camut Émile Camut (1849-1905) was a French architect. Some of the buildings he designed, like the Hôtel Côte-Blatin in Clermont-Ferrand, are listed as monument historique, official historic monuments. He also redesigned the spa in Le Mont-Dore (Franc ...

(1849–1905), French architect * Émile Cohl (1857–1938), French caricaturist and animator *

Émile Durkheim David Émile Durkheim ( or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, al ...

(1858–1917), French sociologist * Emile Ford (born 1937), pop singer born in Saint Lucia * Émile de Girardin (1802–1881), French politician and journalist *

Emile Griffith Emile Alphonse Griffith (February 3, 1938 – July 23, 2013) was a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who won world titles in three weight divisions. He held the world light middleweight, undisputed welterweight, and middleweight t ...

(1938-2013), US Virgin Islands boxer * Emile Habibi (1922–1996), Palestinian-Israeli writer and politician * Emile Haynie (born 1980), American record producer * Émile Henry (anarchist) (1872–1894), French anarchist bomber * Emile Heskey (born 1978), English footballer * Emile Hirsch (born 1985), American actor *

Emile Kuri Emile Kuri (June 11, 1907 – October 10, 2000) was a Mexican-born American set decorator of Lebanese parentage. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for six more in the category Best Art Direction. He was born in Cuernavaca, Morelo ...

(1907–2000), Mexican-born American movie set decorator * Émile Lahoud (born 1936), former President of Lebanon *

Emile Lahoud Jr. Emile Lahoud Jr., more commonly Emile Emile Lahoud, (born 21 January 1975) is a Lebanese politician and businessman. Early life Emile Lahoud Jr. was born in Baabdat, Lebanon on 21 January 1975. He is the eldest son of former Lebanese President ...

(born 1975), Lebanese businessman and the son of Émile Lahoud *

Émile Legault Émile Legault (born April 10, 2000) is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a defender. Early life Legault was born in Longueuil, Quebec, and grew up in nearby Saint-Lambert. He began playing soccer at age four with local club AS Saint-La ...

(born 2000), Canadian soccer player * Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), French Canadian poet * Émile Renouf (1845–1894), French painter and draughtsman *

Émile Ripert Émile Ripert (1882–1948) was a French academic, poet, novelist and playwright. He served as the inaugural Chair of Provençal Language and Literature at Aix-Marseille University. He was the author of three novels, four poetry collections, three ...

(1882-1948), French academic, poet, novelist and playwright *

Emile Roemer Emile Gerardus Maria Roemer (born 24 August 1962) is a Dutch politician serving as King's Commissioner of Limburg since December 2021. A member of the Socialist Party (SP), he was its leader and parliamentary leader in the House of Represent ...

(born 1962), Dutch politician *

Emile St. Godard Emile St. Godard (15 August 1905 - 26 March 1948) was a Canadian dog musher and dog sled racer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was a renowned musher in the 1920s and 1930s, with much of his fame derived from racing Leonard Seppala and his victory in ...

(1905–1948), Canadian dog sled racer *

Emile Santiago Emile Santiago (February 21, 1899 –June 23, 1995) was an American costume designer who won an Oscar for the film ''The Robe'' in the category Best Costume design-Color during the 1953 Academy Awards, that she won along with Charles LeMaire. ...

(1899-1995), American costume designer * Émile Servan-Schreiber (1888-1967), French journalist *

Emile Smith Rowe Emile Smith Rowe (born 28 July 2000) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for club Arsenal and the England national team. Smith Rowe was a highly anticipated youth player at Arsenal, whilst a ...

(born 2000), English footballer *

Émile Waldteufel Charles Émile Waldteufel (9 December 1837 – 12 February 1915) was a French pianist, conductor and composer known for his numerous popular salon pieces. Life Émile Waldteufel (German for ''forest devil'') was born at 84 Grand'Rue in the c ...

(1837–1915), French composer * Émile Zola (1840–1902), French novelist and journalist

Fictional characters

*Emile, title character of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ''

Emile, or On Education ''Emile, or On Education'' (french: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. Due ...

'' *Emile, a character in '' Gambit'' *Emil, a survivor in the video game ''

Identity V ''Identity V'' is a free-to-play asymmetrical multiplayer survival horror game developed and published by Chinese company NetEase. It was released in July 2018 for mobile devices. It is available on the iOS App Store, Android Google Play Stor ...

'' *Emil, an NPC who accompanies the main character in the game ''Nier'' *"Baby" Emile, a character in the film '' The Principal'' *Émile, a character in '' Ratatouille'' *Emile-A239, a Spartan in '' Halo: Reach'' *Emil Antonowsky, a villain in '' RoboCop'' *Emile de Becque, a character in ''

South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

'' *Emil Bleehall, a character at the Adventurers Club *Emil Blonsky, alter ego of comic supervillain Abomination *Dr. Emil Breton, a character in Brian DePalma's '' Sisters'' * Emil Castagnier, main character of the video game ''Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World'' *Emile Dufresne, a villain in '' Splinter Cell: Double Agent'' * Emil Eagle, a villain in the Disney comics' Donald Duck universe *Emile Antoon Khadaji, title character of the military science-fiction

Matador series Steve Perry (born August 31, 1947) is an American television writer and science fiction author. Biography Perry is a native of the Deep South. His residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-ti ...

*Sergeant Emile Klinger, a character in '' North by Northwest'' *Emil Kolar, a supporting character in the pilot of ''

The Sopranos ''The Sopranos'' is an American Crime film#Crime drama, crime drama television series created by David Chase. The story revolves around Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), a New Jersey-based American Mafia, Italian-American mobster, portraying h ...

''. Emil Kolar is the first on-screen death in the series. *Dr. Emil Lang from the '' Robotech'' animated series *Emil Muzz, character played by Jack O'Halloran in '' Dragnet'' *Emil Narud, a scientist in '' StarCraft II'' *Dr. Emile Picani, a character in the Youtube series "Cartoon Therapy" created by Thomas Sanders *Emil Sinclair, the main character in '' Demian'' by Hermann Hesse * Emil Skoda, M.D., a character on the TV crime dramas '' Law & Order'' and ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' * Emil Svensson, title character of the children's book series ''

Emil i Lönneberga ''Emil of Lönneberga'' (from Swedish: ''Emil i Lönneberga'') is a series of children's novels, written by Astrid Lindgren in 1963, 1966 and 1970 respectively, about the prankster Emil Svensson who lives on a farm in the Lönneberga village of ...

'' by Astrid Lindgren *Emil Tischbein, title character of the children's books ''

Emil and the Detectives ''Emil and the Detectives'' () is a 1929 novel set mainly in Berlin, by the German writer Erich Kästner and illustrated by Walter Trier. It was Kästner's first major success and the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship. T ...

'' and its sequel, ''Emil und die Drei Zwillinge (Emil and the Three Twins)''

List of people with the given name Emil

List of people with the given name Emile or Émile

Fictional characters

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