Basil
Basil is a male given name and a family name .
Origin and meaning
Basil is a short form of the Latin name Basilius , which is derived from the Greek name Basileus ( Βασιλεύς ) meaning " king " - possibly also via the variant Βασιλείος Basileios "the royal".
In the Arabic-speaking world, Basil ( Arabic باسل, DMG Bāsil ) means “brave”, “brave”.
Well-known namesake
First name
- Basil al-Assad (1962–1994), Syrian political figure
- Basil Bernstein (1924–2000), British sociolinguist
- Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough (1888–1973), Northern Irish-British politician
- Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935), British Japanese scholar
- Basil Davidson (1914-2010), British journalist, historian and Africanist
- Basil Dearden (1911–1971), British film director
- Basil D'Oliveira (1931–2011), English-South African cricketer
- Basil Wilson Duke (1838–1916), Brigadier General of the Confederate Army in the Civil War
- Basile Gras (1836–1901), French general
- Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970), British military historian, correspondent and strategist
- Basil Hume OSB (1923–1999), Archbishop of Westminster
- Basil Johnston (1929–2015), Canadian ethnologist and author
- Basil Kerski (* 1969), German-Polish journalist, political scientist and essayist
- Basil McRae (born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player
- Basil Moses (1941–2011), South African jazz musician
- Basil Nikitin (1885–1960), Russian orientalist and Kurdologist
- Basil O'Connor (1892–1972), American lawyer and philanthropist
- Basil Poledouris (1945–2006), American film composer
- Basil Rathbone (1892–1967), British-American actor
- Basil Ruysdael (1878–1960), American actor
- Basil Schonland (1896–1972), South African physicist and meteorologist
- Basil Myron Schott (1939-2010), American Roman Catholic bishop
- Basil Spalding de Garmendia (1860–1932), American tennis player, golfer, polo player and military attaché
- Basil Sydney (1894–1968), British actor
- Basil Wolfrhine , rock musician, painter and action artist
- Basil Wolverton (1909–1978), American comic artist
- Basil Wright (1907–1987), British documentary filmmaker and producer
- Basil Zaharoff (1849–1936), Greek arms dealer and casino owner
family name
- Adam Basil (* 1975), Australian athlete
- Otto Basil (1901–1983), Austrian writer, publicist and journalist
- Priya Basil (* 1977), British writer
- Gibran Basil (* 1970), Lebanese minister
stage name
- Basil, a pseudonym of the German author Wolf Uecker (1921–1999)
- Colonel de Basil (1888–1951), Russian-English ballet manager
- Friedrich Basil (1862–1938), German theater actor, director and acting teacher
- Hans Basil (1872 – after 1914), German opera singer and theater actor
- Toni Basil (* 1943), American pop singer and choreographer
Fictional character
- Basil, the great mouse detective , cartoon
- Basil Fawlty, main character in the British television series Fawlty Towers , portrayed by John Cleese
- Basil Hallward, painter of the eponymous portrait of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde's novel
variants
- Basile , Basilio , Basilius , Vasilios , Wassili - other forms of the name
- Basileus , title of Eastern Roman Emperor from 629
additional
- Basil Green Motors , former South African rally team and former automobile manufacturer
See also
- Wiktionary: Basil - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
- Basel Yaldo
