Yankel

Yankel, Yankele, Yankl, Jankiel, Jankel is a Jewish given name. It is a Yiddish diminutive (יאַנקל) of Jacob. It is also used as a surname.

Yankelevich is a Russian-language patronymic surname derived from the name. Other derived surnames include Janklow, Yankelova, Jankelowitz.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Jankel Adler
 * Yankel Feather (1920-2009), British painter
 * Yankele Hershkowitz
 * Jacob Kruger (1869-1940) Jewish Belarusian painter
 * Iankel-Meïer Nokhim-Aronovich Milkin or Jacques Milkin (1877-1944), Jewish Russian and French painter
 * Yankel Rosenthal, the namesake of the Estadio Yankel Rosenthal, Honduras
 * Yankel Talmud (1885-1965_, Hasidic composer
 * Jankiel Wiernik (1889-1972), Holocaust survivor
 * Yankl Yankelevich (1905-1938), Jewish Moldavian writer and poet
 * Yankel was the birth name of Yakov Yurovsky (1878-1938), Jewish Russian revolutionary, best known for the assassination of the family of Tsar Nicholas II
 * Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938), rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union

Surname

 * Annabel Jankel
 * Chaz Jankel
 * Jacques Yankel
 * Jennifer Jankel
 * Lewis Shay Jankel
 * Robert Jankel

Fictional characters

 * Jankiel (Pan Tadeusz) (also translated as Yankel), fictional tavernkeeper and musician in epic poem Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
 * Yankele ben Itzhok, the sidekick of The King of Schnorrers