Shmuel or Schmuel is the Modern Hebrew form of the name Samuel. 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
  • Shmuel Greenberg (born 1975), Israeli politician
  • 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
  • Szmulek Rozental (Stephan Ross, 1931–2020), Polish-American holocaust survivor
  • 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 Wolf (1934–2019), Israeli actor
  • 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

  • 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

See also

  • Shmueli (disambiguation)

References