Hillel

This article is about the given name and the surname. For Jewish sage, seeHillel the Elder.For the Jewish student services organisation, seeHillel International.

Hillel(Hebrew:הלל,lit. 'praise') is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

Given name

• Hillel the Elder(110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader
• Hillel, son of Gamaliel III(3rd century), Jewish scholar
• Hillel II,Jewish communal and religious authority and Nasi of the Jewish Sanhedrin, 320–385
• Hillel ben Eliakim(11th–12th century), Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar
• Hillel ben Samuel(c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist
• Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi(1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi
• Hillel Rivlin(1758–1838), Lithuanian rabbi
• Hillel Paritcher(1795–1864), Russian Chabad rabbi
• Hillel Lichtenstein(1814–1891), Hungarian rabbi and writer
• Hillel Noah Maggid(1829–1903), Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian
• Hillel Yaffe(1864–1936), Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader
• Hillel Zeitlin(1871–1942), Russian writer in Yiddish and Hebrew
• Hillel Poisic(1881–1953), Ukrainian communal worker and Torah scholar
• Hillel Oppenheimer(1899–1971), German-Israeli botanist
• Hillel Kook(1915–2001), Russian-Jewish Zionist activist, politician, and leader of the Irgun
• Hillel Seidel(1920–1999), Israeli politician
• Hillel Schwartz(1923–2007), Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party
• Hillel Kristal, birth name ofHilly Kristal(1931–2007), American musician and owner of club CBGB in New York City
• Hillel Zaks(1931–2015), Polish-Israeli founder and rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Knesses Hagedolah
• Hillel Jonathan Gitelman(1932-2015), American nephrologist who described Gitelman Syndrome
• Hillel Furstenberg(born 1935), American-Israeli mathematician
• Hillel Ticktin(born 1937), South African Marxist theorist and economist now at Glasgow University
• Hillel Halkin(born 1939), American-born Israeli translator, writer, and literary critic
• Hillel Weiss(born 1945), Israeli professor of literature and Neo-Zionist
• Hillel Schwartz(born 1948), American cultural historian, poet and translator
• Hillel Cohen(born 1961), Israeli historian
• Hillel Slovak(1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Hillel Horowitz(born 1964), Israeli rabbi and politician
• Hillel Roman(born 1975), American-Israeli visual artist
• Hillel Fendel,Israeli journalist
• Hillel Frisch,Israeli political scientist
• Hillel Neuer,Canadian human-rights lawyer and executive director of UN Watch
• Hillel Schenker,Israeli editor
• Hillel Steiner,Canadian political philosopher

Surname

• Simeon ben Hillel(1st century), son of Hillel the Elder
• Mordechai ben Hillelc. 1250–1298), German rabbi and posek
• Abraham Hillel(1820–1920), Iraqi rabbi
• Yehoshua Bar-Hillel(1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
• Shlomo Hillel(1923-2021), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician
• Ayin Hillel(1926–1990), Israeli poet and children's author
• Stéphane Hillel(born 1955) French actor
• Gili Bar-Hillel(born 1974) Israeli English-Hebrew translator

See also

• Hallel,a Jewish prayer