Emil (given name) explained
| Emile |
| Gender: | Male |
| Meaning: | Rival |
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
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
- 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
- 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)
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