{{About|the given name and the surname|Jewish sage|Hillel the Elder|the Jewish student services organisation|Hillel International}} '''Hillel''' ({{langx|he|links=no|הלל|lit=praise}}) is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to: {{TOC right}}
==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 politician; founder of the Iskra party * Hillel Kristal, birth name of Hilly 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 (1948-2007), 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 (born 1942), Canadian political philosopher * Hillel Fuld, Israeli-American technology advisor and blogger
==Surname== * Simeon ben Hillel (1st century), son of Hillel the Elder * Mordechai ben Hillel (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
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