Shmuel

Shmuel or Schmuel/ Shmeil is a Jewish variant of the name Samuel. It comes from שמואל in Hebrew, and is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek. Shmuel and variations may refer to:


 * Samuel (Bible), the Hebrew Bible prophet
 * Books of Samuel, the book of the Tanach
 * Shmuel Hakatan, the Tanna (Mishnaic sage)
 * Samuel of Nehardea, the Amora (Talmudic sage)

Given name

 * Shmuel Ben David (1884–1927), illustrator, painter, typographer and designer
 * Shmuel Ben-Dror (1924–2009), Israeli footballer
 * Shmuel Ben Eliezer (born 1981), American record executive
 * Shmuel Bornsztain (second Sochatchover rebbe), (1856–1926), author of Shem Mishmuel
 * Shmuel Bornsztain (sixth Sochatchover rebbe), (born 1961), Israeli rabbi
 * Leonard Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; 1917–1969), Polish-born American record company executive
 * Shmuel Dayan (1891–1968), Israeli politician
 * Shmuel Ehrenfeld (1891–1980), rabbi
 * Shmuel Flatto-Sharon (1930–2018), French-Israeli businessman, radio talk-show host and politician
 * Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz; 1882–1974), Polish-American film producer
 * Shemp Howard (born Shmuel Horvitz; 1895–1955), American Jewish actor known for The Three Stooges
 * Szmul Hirsz Peltyn (1831–1896), Polish Jewish writer, translator, and publisher
 * Samuel Giamil (1847–1917), Assyrian scholar and author
 * Shmuel Kamenetsky (born 1924), American Haredi rabbi
 * Shmuel Kaminetsky (born 1965), chief rabbi of Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
 * Shmuel Kozokin (born 1987), Israeli footballer
 * Shmuel Malika-Aharon (1947–2011), Israeli footballer
 * Shmuel Onn (born 1960), professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
 * Shmuel Pinchasi, rabbi
 * Sam Pivnik (born Szmuel Pivnik; 1926–2017), Holocaust survivor, author
 * Shmuel Rabinovitch (born 1970), Orthodox rabbi
 * Shmuel Rodensky (1902–1989), Israeli actor
 * Samuel Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; 1911–1992), Polish American chess player
 * Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), Orthodox rabbi
 * Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Nobel Prize laureate writer
 * Sam Warner (born Szmuel Wonsal; 1887–1927), American film producer
 * Shmuel Winograd (1936–2019), Israeli-American computer scientist
 * Shmuel Zaks (born 1949), computer scientist and mathematician
 * Sam Zell (born Shmuel Zielonka; 1941–2023), American billionaire businessman and philanthropist
 * Szmul Zygielbojm (1895–1943), Polish Jewish socialist politician
 * Shmuel Zytomirski (1900–1944), figure of the Jewish community of Lublin

Surname

 * Midrash Shmuel (disambiguation)
 * Midrash Shmuel (aggadah), an aggadic midrash on the Books of Samuel
 * Midrash Shmuel Yeshiva, an English-speaking yeshiva in Jerusalem
 * Ya'acov Shmuel (born 1968), Israeli Olympic boxer

Fictional characters

 * Shmuel, a character in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (novel) and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film)
 * Shmuel, a character in the television series The Chosen