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

• Isaiah 7:14
• List of names referring to El

References