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)