Hillel

Hillel (הלל) is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

Given name

 * Hillel the Elder (110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader
 * Hillel, son of Gamaliel III (3rd century), Jewish scholar
 * Hillel II, Jewish communal and religious authority and Nasi of the Jewish Sanhedrin, 320–385
 * Hillel ben Eliakim (11th–12th century), Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar
 * Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist
 * Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi
 * Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), Lithuanian rabbi
 * Hillel Paritcher (1795–1864), Russian Chabad rabbi
 * Hillel Lichtenstein (1814–1891), Hungarian rabbi and writer
 * Hillel Noah Maggid (1829–1903), Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian
 * Hillel Yaffe (1864–1936), Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader
 * Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Russian writer in Yiddish and Hebrew
 * Hillel Poisic (1881–1953), Ukrainian communal worker and Torah scholar
 * Hillel Oppenheimer (1899–1971), German-Israeli botanist
 * Hillel Kook (1915–2001), Russian-Jewish Zionist activist, politician, and leader of the Irgun
 * Hillel Seidel (1920–1999), Israeli politician
 * Hillel Schwartz (1923–2007), Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party
 * Hillel Kristal, birth name of Hilly Kristal (1931–2007), American musician and owner of club CBGB in New York City
 * Hillel Zaks (1931–2015), Polish-Israeli founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Hagedolah
 * Hillel Jonathan Gitelman (1932-2015), American nephrologist who described Gitelman Syndrome
 * Hillel Furstenberg (born 1935), American-Israeli mathematician
 * Hillel Ticktin (born 1937), South African Marxist theorist and economist now at Glasgow University
 * Hillel Halkin (born 1939), American-born Israeli translator, writer, and literary critic
 * Hillel Weiss (born 1945), Israeli professor of literature and Neo-Zionist
 * Hillel Schwartz (born 1948), American cultural historian, poet and translator
 * Hillel Cohen (born 1961), Israeli historian
 * Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
 * Hillel Horowitz (born 1964), Israeli rabbi and politician
 * Hillel Roman (born 1975), American-Israeli visual artist
 * Hillel Fendel, Israeli journalist
 * Hillel Frisch, Israeli political scientist
 * Hillel Neuer, Canadian human-rights lawyer and executive director of UN Watch
 * Hillel Schenker, Israeli editor
 * Hillel Steiner, Canadian political philosopher

Surname

 * Simeon ben Hillel (1st century), son of Hillel the Elder
 * Mordechai ben Hillel c. 1250–1298), German rabbi and posek
 * Abraham Hillel (1820–1920), Iraqi rabbi
 * Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
 * Shlomo Hillel (1923-2021), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician
 * Ayin Hillel (1926–1990), Israeli poet and children's author
 * Stéphane Hillel (born 1955) French actor
 * Gili Bar-Hillel (born 1974) Israeli English-Hebrew translator