Shmuel Explained

Shmuel or Schmuel/ Shmeil is a 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
• Shemp Howard (born Shmuel Horvitz; 1895–1955), American Jewish actor known for The Three Stooges
• 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
• 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

• Midrash Shmuel (disambiguation)
  • Midrash Shmuel (aggadah), an aggadic midrash on the Books of Samuel
  • Midrash Shmuel Yeshiva, an English-speaking yeshiva in Jerusalem
• 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)