Cavell (name)

Cavell was originally the name of a township in East Riding of Yorkshire. Its meaning was taken from Old English 'Cafeld' meaning a 'field of jackdaws'. In the Domesday Book it is spelt in a Norman variant as 'Cheuede', but later developed into Cavil. The Pipe Rolls record Thomas de Kauill in 1190 living in Yorkshire. Robert de Cavilla appears in the Hundred Rolls of Lincolnshire the following century. By the early modern period the name is also spelt Cavell and Cavill.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Cavell Brownie, American statistician
 * Gordon Cavell Johnson (born 1985), known professionally as Cavell Johnson, American basketball player and coach

Surname

 * Edith Cavell (1865–1915), British First-World-War nurse, Anglican saint
 * Humphrey Cavell, 16th-century Member of Parliament
 * John Cavell (1813–1887), British department store proprietor and mayor of Oxford, England
 * John Cavell (bishop) (1916–2017), British Anglican cleric, Bishop of Southampton
 * Kingsley Cavell (born 1953), British chemist, professor of inorganic chemistry and head of the school of chemistry at Cardiff University
 * Marc Cavell (actor) (1939–2004), American actor
 * Marc Cavell (artist) (1911–1989), British kinetic artist
 * Stanley Cavell (1926–2018), American writer and philosopher

Fictional characters

 * Mark Cavell, in The Man from the Alamo