Cornel Explained

Cornel may refer to:

People

• Cornel (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname
• Cornel Wilde (1915–1989), American actor and director born Kornél Lajos Weisz
• Eric Cornel (born 1996), Canadian hockey player
• Cornel West (born 1953), American philosopher and political activist

Plants

Several species of the dogwood family:

• Cornus amomum, also known as the silky cornel
• Cornus canadensis, Canadian dwarf cornel
• Cornus mas, Cornelian cherry or European cornel
• Cornus officinalis, Japanese cornel or Japanese cornelian cherry
• Cornus suecica, dwarf cornel
• Cornus capitata, Bentham's cornel

Ships

• HMS Cornel (K-278), a British corvette transferred to the US Navy as USS Alacrity (PG-87)
• USS Cornel (AN-45), a net-laying ship that served in the Pacific theater during World War II

See also

• Cornell (disambiguation)