Manuel (name)

Manuel is a variation of Immanuel, a Hebrew given name, from the Spanish and Portuguese. It was used by the Byzantine Greeks as Μανουήλ, although now in Modern Greek is more used Emmanuel (Εμμανουήλ). Manny is an English derivative.

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 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