Emil (given name)

The name Emil, Emile, or Émile is a male given name meaning rival, deriving from the Latin Aemilius of the gens Aemilia. A related female given name is Emily.

Notable people and characters named Emil, Emile or Émile include:

Emil

• Emil Aaltonen (1869–1949), Finnish industrialist and philanthropist
• Emil Andersson (sport shooter) (born 1979), Swedish running target shooter
• Emil Andersson (table tennis) (born 1993), Swedish table tennis player
• Emil Artin (1898–1962), Austrian mathematician
• Emil Atlason (born 1993), Icelandic footballer
• Emil Bachrach (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 Bemström (born 1999), Swedish ice hockey player
• Emil Berg, Swedish singer
• Emil Berna (1907–2000), Swiss cinematographer
• Émile Bilodeau (born 1996), French Canadian singer-songwriter
• Emil Brown (born 1974), American baseball outfielder
• Emil Brunner (1889–1966), Swiss theologian
• Emil Calmanovici (1896–1956), Romanian businessman and communist militant
• Emil Cedercreutz (1879–1949), Finnish sculptor
• Emil Chuprenski (born 1960), Bulgarian boxer
• Emil Cioran (1911–1995), French-Romanian writer
• Emil Constantinescu (born 1939), President of Romania from 1996 to 2000
• Emil Dardak (born 1984), Indonesian politician
• Emil (Fritz) Dietrich (1898–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes
• Emil Dill (1861–1938), Swiss painter
• Emil Dimitriev (born 1979), interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia
• Emil Dimitrov (1940–2005), Bulgarian singer
• Emil Dorian (1893–1956), Romanian poet and prose writer
• Emil Ekiyor Jr. (born 2000), American football player
• Emil Fischer (disambiguation), several people
• Emil Fjellström (1884–1944), Swedish actor
• Emil Forsberg (born 1991), Swedish international footballer
• Emil Forselius (1974–2010), Swedish actor
• Emil Gilels (1916–1985), Russian pianist
• Emil Giurgiuca (1906–1992), Romanian poet
• Emil Guillermo (born c. 1959), American Journalist,Comic monologist
• Emil Hácha (1872–1945), president of Czechoslovakia
• Emil Hedvall (born 1983), Swedish footballer
• Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi
• Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor
• Emil Johansson (disambiguation), multiple people
• 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 (1916–1951), Roman Catholic priest, US Army Chaplain who died in the Korean War, US Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013
• Emil Karas (1933–1974), American football linebacker for the San Diego Chargers
• Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), Swiss physician and researcher, received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Emil Kostadinov (born 1967), Bulgarian football player
• Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist
• Emil Lenz, Russian physicist and creator of Lenz's law
• Emil Lerp (1886–1966), German businessman and inventor
• Emil Lindenfeld (1905–1986), Hungarian-American oil-painter
• Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), German-Swiss biographer
• Emil Mangelsdorff (1925–2022), German jazz musician
• Emil Martinec (born 1958), American theoretical physics professor
• 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
• Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), French Canadian poet
• Emil Nödtveidt (born 1976), Swedish guitarist in the band Deathstars
• Emil Nolde (1867–1956), German painter and printmaker
• Emil Paleček (1930–2018), Czech biochemist
• Emil Leon Post (1897–1954), American mathematician
• Emil Perttilä (1875–1933), Finnish politician
• Emil Puhl (1889–1962), German Nazi-era economist and banking official
• Emil Rebreanu (died 1917), Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer
• Emil Salim (born 1930), Indonesian politician and economist
• Emil Savundra (1923–1976), British-Tamil businessman convicted of fraud
• Emil Ludwig Schmidt (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 (actor), Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor
• Emil Steinberger (endocrinologist), American endocrinologist
• Emil Stoyanov (born 1959), Bulgarian politician
• Emil Sumangil, Filipino journalist
• Emil Szolomajer (born 1974), Romanian soccer player
• Emil Unanue (1934–2022), Cuban immunologist
• Emil Unfried (1892–1949), German communist politician and businessman
• Emil Urbel (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 Wilbekin (born 1967), American journalist, media executive, stylist, content creator, culture critic, and human rights activist
• Emil Wingstedt (born 1975), Swedish orienteering competitor
• Emil Wojtaszek (1927–2017), Polish politician
• Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czech long distance runner
• Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885), Austrian physician and mountain climber

Women

• Emil Ferris

Emile or Émile

• Emile Abraham (born 1974), Trinidad and Tobago cyclist
• Émile Baudot (1845–1903), French telegraph engineer and inventor
• Émile Bernard (disambiguation), several people
• Émile Bilodeau (born 1996), French Canadian singer-songwriter
• Émile Borel (1871–1956), French mathematician and politician
• Émile Camut (1849–1905), French architect
• Émile Cohl (1857–1938), French caricaturist and animator
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist
• Emile Ford (1937–2016), pop singer born in Saint Lucia
• Émile de Girardin (1802–1881), French politician and journalist
• Emile Griffith (1938–2013), U.S. 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 (1907–2000), Mexican-born American movie-set decorator
• Émile Lahoud (born 1936), former President of Lebanon
• Emile Lahoud Jr. (born 1975), Lebanese businessman and the son of Émile Lahoud
• Émile Legault (born 2000), Canadian soccer player
• Émile Mallet, Baron of Itapevi (1801–1886), French-Brazilian Marshal
• Émile Nelligan (1879–1941), French Canadian poet
• Émile Renouf (1845–1894), French painter and draughtsman
• Émile Ripert (1882–1948), French academic, poet, novelist and playwright
• Emile Roemer (born 1962), Dutch politician
• Emile St. Godard (1905–1948), Canadian dog-sled racer
• Emile Santiago (1899–1995), American costume designer
• Émile Servan-Schreiber (1888–1967), French journalist
• Emile Smith Rowe (born 2000), English footballer
• Émile Waldteufel (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, a character in Gambit
• Emil, a survivor in the video game Identity V
• 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
• 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
• Emil Hupka, a character in Notorious
• Emile Antoon Khadaji, title character of the military science-fiction Matador series
• Sergeant Emile Klinger, a character in North by Northwest
• Emil Kolar, a supporting character in the pilot of The Sopranos
• 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 by Astrid Lindgren
• Emil Tischbein, title character of the children's books Emil and the Detectives and its sequel, Emil und die Drei Zwillinge (Emil and the Three Twins)

See also

• Emil (disambiguation)
• Aemilius (disambiguation)
• Emilio (given name)