{{About||the village|Pavel (village)|the rock band|Pavel (band)}} {{Distinguish|Paval (disambiguation){{!}}Paval}} {{Infobox given name |name = Pavel |image= |imagesize= |caption= |pronunciation= |gender = Male |meaning = |region = |origin = Latin |related names = Paul, Paulus, Pavol
|footnotes = }} '''Pavel''' (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and {{langx|ro|Pavel}} (although Romanian also uses Paul); {{langx|pl|Paweł}}; {{langx|sk|Pavol}}; {{langx|uk|Павло|Pavlo}}) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos).<ref>[http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/p/origin-and-meaning-of-pavel.htm MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Pavel]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/p/origin-and-meaning-of-paul.htm |title=MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Paul |access-date=2009-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006160639/http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/p/origin-and-meaning-of-paul.htm |archive-date=2014-10-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Pavel may refer to:
==People== ===Given name=== *Pavel I of Russia (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia *Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Polish politician *Paweł Brożek (born 1983), Polish footballer *Paweł Cibicki (born 1994), Swedish footballer *Paweł Deląg (born 1970), Polish actor *Pavel Durov (born 1984), Telegram founder *Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Polish hammer thrower *Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust *Paweł Jasienica (1909–1970), Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier *Pavel Kastusik (born 1978), Belarusian artist *Paweł Kisielow (born 1945), Polish immunologist *Paweł Kontny (1910–1945), Polish Roman Catholic priest, killed by Soviet soldiers *Pavel Kustov (born 1965), Soviet ski jumper *Pavel Kuzmich (born 1988), Russian luger *Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Polish composer *Paweł Mąciwoda (born 1967), Polish bassist for the German rock band Scorpions *Paweł Mykietyn (born 1971), Polish composer *Pavel Nedvěd (born 1972), Czech footballer *Paweł Pawlikowski (born 1957), Polish film director *Pavel Prigozhin (born 1998), son of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin *Pavel Schenk (1941–2025), Czech volleyball player *Pavel Starostin (born 1955), Estonian politician *Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797–1873), Polish explorer, geologist, environmentalist and philanthropist *Pavel Traubner (1941–2024), Slovak neurologist *Paweł Warszawski (born 1981), Polish equestrian *Paweł Włodkowic (ca. 1370–1435), Polish scholar, jurist and rector of the Kraków Academy *Paweł Wszołek (born 1992), Polish footballer *Paweł Zagumny (born 1997), Polish volleyball player *Pavel (film director), an Indian Bengali film director *{{starts with|Pavel}}
===Surname=== *Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian *Andrei Pavel (born 1974), Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player *Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian pop singer and dancer also known as Claudia Cream *Elisabeth Pavel (born 1990), Romanian basketball player *Ernst Pavel, Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s *Harry Pavel (born 1951), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian *Lacra Pavel (born 1965), Romanian and Canadian game theorist *Marcel Pavel (born 1959), Romanian folk singer *Ondřej Pavel (born 2000), Czech ice hockey player *Pavel Pavel (born 1957), Czech engineer and experimental archaeologist *Petr Pavel (born 1961), Czech army general, president of Czech Republic *Szarlota Pawel (1950–2018), Polish comic book artist
==Fictional characters== *Pavel Korchagin, in ''How the Steel Was Tempered'' *Pavel Chekov, in ''Star Trek'' *Doctor Leonid Pavel, in ''The Dark Knight Rises'' *Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, in ''The Brothers Karamazov'' *Fra Pavel, in ''His Dark Materials'' *Pavel, in ''The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas'' *Pavel Morozov, in ''Metro: Last Light'' *Pavel, in ''Grand Theft Auto Online'' *Pavel, in ''Epic Seven'' *Pavel Vlasov in The Mother *Hodari Pavel, ''in Palia'' *Pavol, in Felvidék *Pavel Yudin, ''Fear & Hunger 2: Termina'' *Pavel Pavlovich Antipov / Strelnikov, in ''Doctor Zhivago''
==See also== * Paval (disambiguation) * Pavol * Pavao (given name) * Pavle * {{lookfrom|pavel}} * {{lookfrom|paweł}} * {{intitle|pavel}}
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