Pavel

Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Павел; Czech, Slovene, and Pavel; Paweł; Pavol; Павло) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to:

Given name

 * Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia
 * Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Polish politician
 * Paweł Brożek (born 1983), Polish footballer
 * Paweł Cibicki (born 1994), Swedish footballer
 * Paweł Deląg (born 1970), Polish actor
 * Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Polish hammer thrower
 * Paweł Jasienica (1909–1970), Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier
 * Paweł Kisielow (born 1945), Polish immunologist
 * Pavel Kuzmich (born 1988), Russian luger
 * Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Polish composer
 * Paweł Mąciwoda (born 1967), Polish bassist for the German rock band Scorpions
 * Paweł Mykietyn (born 1971), Polish composer
 * Pavel Nedvěd (born 1972), Czech footballer
 * Paweł Pawlikowski (born 1957), Polish film director
 * Pavel Prigozhin (born 1998), son of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin
 * Pavel Starostin (born 1955), Estonian politician
 * Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797–1873), Polish explorer, geologist, environmentalist and philanthropist
 * Paweł Włodkowic (ca. 1370–1435), Polish scholar, jurist and rector of the Kraków Academy
 * Paweł Wszołek (born 1992), Polish footballer
 * Paweł Zagumny (born 1997), Polish volleyball player
 * Pavel (film director), an Indian Bengali film director

Surname

 * Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian
 * Andrei Pavel (born 1974), Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player
 * Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian pop singer and dancer also known as Claudia Cream
 * Elisabeth Pavel (born 1990), Romanian basketball player
 * Ernst Pavel, Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
 * Harry Pavel (born 1951), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian
 * Marcel Pavel (born 1959), Romanian folk singer
 * Ondřej Pavel (born 2000), Czech ice hockey player
 * Pavel Pavel (born 1957), Czech engineer and experimental archaeologist
 * Petr Pavel (born 1961), president of Czech Republic, former army general
 * Szarlota Pawel (1950–2018), Polish comic book artist

Fictional characters

 * Pavel Korchagin, in How the Steel Was Tempered
 * Pavel Chekov, in Star Trek
 * Doctor Leonid Pavel, in The Dark Knight Rises
 * Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, in The Brothers Karamazov
 * Fra Pavel, in His Dark Materials
 * Pavel, in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
 * Pavel Morozov, in Metro: Last Light
 * Pavel, in Grand Theft Auto Online
 * Pavel, in Epic Seven
 * Pavel Vlasov in The Mother
 * Hodari Pavel, in Palia