Hillel
For other uses, see Hillel (disambiguation).
Hillel is both a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:
- Hillel, the father of Abdon, a minor character in the Book of Judges
- Hillel the Elder (110 BC – 10 AD), one of the most important religious leaders in Jewish history
- Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, a Jewish scholar in the 3rd century AD
- Hillel II, nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 AD
- Hillel ben Eliakim, 11th and 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
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
- Shlomo Hillel (born 1923), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician
- Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rabbi Hillel Haber of Brooklyn, NY. Head of Yeshivat Shaare Torah a prominent Orthodox Jewish school following the Syrian traditions of Allepo. Rabbi Haber also has multiple grandchildren named after him. Most prominently Hillel Sultan. Alumnus of Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia and Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Solovietchik of Jerusalem.
- Hillel Schwartz, Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party
See also
- Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life (aka, Hillel International), the world's largest Jewish campus organization
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