Shmuel
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Shmuel or Schmuel/ Shmeil is an Ashkenazi 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
 - 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 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
- All pages with titles containing Shmuel
 - Shmueli (disambiguation)