Manuel (name)
Manuel is a male given name originating in the Hebrew name עִמָּנוּאֵל (Immanu'el), which means "God with us."[1] It was possibly brought from the Byzantine Empire (as Μανουήλ) to Spain and Portugal, where it has been used since at least the 13th century.[2] Manuel is popular in Spanish, Portuguese and German. It is also used in Italian, French, Romanian, Greek (Latinized) and English, where Manny is used as a nickname.
Royalty
- East Roman / Byzantine Emperors
- Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180)
- Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)
- Emperors of Trebizond
- Manuel I of Trebizond (1218–1263)
- Manuel II of Trebizond (1324–1333)
- Manuel III of Trebizond (1364–1417)
- Kings and Princes of Portugal
- Manuel I of Portugal (1469–1521)
- Manuel II of Portugal (1889–1932)
- Manuel, Prince of Portugal (1531–1537), son of John III of Portugal
- Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, Portuguese prince, son of Peter II of Portugal
- Infante of Castile
- Manuel of Castile (1234–1283), son of Ferdinand III of Castile
Religious figures
- Patriarchs of Constantinople
- Manuel I, patriarch of Constantinople in 1216–22
- Manuel II, patriarch of Constantinople in 1244–55
- Manuel Christonymos, birth name of Patriarch Maximus III of Constantinople, reigned 1476–1482
- Patriarchs of Lisbon
- Manuel II, 14th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (1929–71)
- Manuel III, 17th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (since 2013) -current-
Others
Given name
- Manuel Agogo (born 1979, English-Ghanaian football player
- Manuel Alegre (born 1936), Portuguese poet
- Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968), Brazilian writer
- Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820), Argentine politician and military leader during the Argentine War of Independence
- Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805), Portuguese poet
- Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650), Portuguese composer
- Manuel Cuevas (born 1933), fashion designer, known simply as "Manuel"
- Manuel Fettner (born 1985), Austrian ski jumper
- Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1681–1773), Portuguese nobleman and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1860–1941), Portuguese politician and writer, 7th President of Portugal
- Manuel Göttsching (born 1952), German musician, member of Ash Ra Tempel
- Manuel Hassassian (born 1953), is an Armenian-Palestinian professor
- Manuel Machata (born 1984), German bobsledder and World Champion of 2011
- Manuel Mamikonian was the real leader of Armenia after the death of King Varasdates (Varazdat).
- Manuel Neuer (born 1986), German football goalkeeper
- Manuel da Nóbrega (1517–1570), Portuguese Jesuit and missionary in the early Colonial Brazil
- Manuel Noriega (born 1934), Panamanian dictator and criminal
- Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015), Portuguese film director
- Manuel Pellegrini (born 1953), Chilean football manager
- Manuel Pinho (born 1954), Portuguese politician and economist
- Manuel Poppinger (born 1989), Austrian ski jumper
- Manuel L. Quezón (1878–1944), first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
- Manny Ramírez (born 1972), Dominican-American Major League Baseball player
- Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968), American photographer
- Manuel Rocha, American diplomat
- Manuel Acuña Roxas (1892–1948), first President of the Third Philippine Republic
- Manuel Sanhouse (born 1975), Venezuelan football goalkeeper
- Manuel Seco (born 1928), Spanish lexicographer
- Manuel Tenenbaum (1934–2016), Uruguayan educator, historian and philanthropist.
- Manuel Uribe (1965–2014), Mexican who was at one time considered to be the heaviest man in the world
Surname
- Herman E. Manuel (1849–1918), American politician
- Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775–1827), French politician
- Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1232–1328), Spanish noble and medieval writer, son of Infante Manuel of Castile
- Laurent Manuel, an American association football (soccer) player
- Louis Pierre Manuel (1751–1793), political figure of the French Revolution
- Niklaus Manuel (~1484–1530), Swiss painter
- Richard Manuel (1943–1986), Canadian composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist with The Band
- Rod Manuel (born 1974), American football player
- Vic Manuel (born 1987), Filipino basketball player
Fictional characters
- Manuel (Fawlty Towers), waiter in the BBC TV sitcom
- Manny (Ice Age), a fictional bull wooly mammoth, who appears in the Ice Age movie series
- Manny Calavera, protagonist of the adventure game Grim Fandango
See also
References
- ↑ jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/. JewishEncyclopedia.com
- ↑ http://www.behindthename.com/name/manuel
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