Marcel
Marcel or Marcell is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
Marcel (l) is a variant of Marcellus ; see origin and meaning there. Marcel , the French variant of the name, has been used less and less in France even since the 1920s. In Germany, on the other hand, the name was among the 10 most popular names in the 1990s.
Name bearer
First name
- Marcel Carné (1906–1996), French film director
- Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French artist
- Marcel Eris (* 1988), German web video producer, see MontanaBlack
- Marcel Hirscher (* 1989), Austrian ski racer
- Marcel Lefebvre (1905–1991), French clergyman
- Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French pantomime
- Marcel Nguyen (* 1987), German gymnast
- Marcel Pagnol (1895–1974), French writer
- Marcel Philipp (* 1971), German politician (CDU)
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), German literary critic
- Marcel Reif (* 1949), Swiss television journalist and sports commentator
- Marcel Wagner (* 1982), German radio and television presenter
family name
- Alexandre Marcel (1860–1928), French architect
- Claude Hillaire-Marcel (* 1944), French-Canadian geologist, marine geologist, oceanographer and geochemist
- Ernesto Marcel (* 1948), Panamanian featherweight boxer
- Étienne Marcel († 1358), Parisian cloth merchant
- Gabriel Marcel (geographer) (1843–1909), French geographer and historian
- Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher
- Jan Marcell , Czech shot putter
- Jean-Jacques Marcel (1931-2014), French football player
- Jesse Marcel Jr. († 2013), American contemporary witness
- Joseph Marcell (born 1948), British actor
- Julia Marcell (* 1982), Polish singer, pianist and violist
- Kelly Marcel (* 1974), British screenwriter and actress
- Martin Marcell (* 1971), German pop singer, see Fantasy (pop band)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcel at Meillieurprenoms.com (French, data from INSEE )
- ^ First name in the 1990s from Knud Bielefeld