Английская Википедия:Cecil (given name)

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Cecil is a usually male given name of Welsh origin.

The name was associated with Monmouthshire and derives from the Old Welsh personal name Seisyllt. The name may be related to that of the local Celtic tribe (the Silures) and the successor kingdom (Essyllwg).

Notable people with the given name include:

People

Male

• Cecil Banes-Walker (1888–1915), English cricketer
• Cecil A. Beasley (1876–1959), American lawyer and politician
• Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English photographer
• Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), British racehorse trainer
• Cecil Brooks III (born 1961), American drummer
• Cecil Calvert (disambiguation), several people
• Cecil Clarke (born 1968), Canadian politician
• Cecil Clementi (1875–1947), Governor of Hong Kong, British colonial administrator
• Cecil Clementi Smith (1840–1916), British colonial administrator
• Cec Cooper (1926–2010), Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach
• Cecil Cooper (born 1949), American baseball player and manager
• Cecil Cooper (bishop) (1882–1964), English-Korean bishop
• Cecil Cooper (priest) (1871–1942), British priest and dean
• Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet
• Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959), American film director and film producer
• Cecil Dolecheck (born 1951), American politician from Iowa
• Cecil Duncan (1893–1979), Canadian ice hockey administrator
• Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American baseball player
• Cecil Gordon (1941-2012), American racecar driver
• Cecil Grigg (1891–1968), American football player
• Cecil Harcourt (1892–1959), British military officer
• Cecil Heftel (1924–2010), American politician in Hawaii
• Cecil Humphery-Smith (1928–2021), British genealogist and heraldist
• Cecil E. Johnson (1888–1955), Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Cecil Kaiser (1916–2011), American baseball player
• Cecil Kellaway (1890–1973), British-South African actor
• Cecil Kirk (died 1944), American politician from Maryland
• Cecil Leonard (1946–2020), American football player
• Cecil Mamiit (born 1977), American tennis player representing the Philippines
• Cecil McBee (born 1935), American jazz bassist
• Cecil Mountford (1919–2009), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
• Cecil Parker (1897–1971), English character and comedy actor
• Cecil Parkinson (1931–2016), British politician
• Cecil Payne (1922–2007), American saxophonist
• Cecil Polhill (1860–1938), British missionary
• Cecil Potter (1888–1975), former professional manager
• Cecil Frank Powell (1903–1969), British physicist
• Cecil Purdy (1906–1979), Australian chess player
• Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), British imperialist and businessman
• Cecil Saint-Laurent, the nom de plume of Jacques Laurent (1919–2000), French writer and journalist
• Cecil Sandford (1928–2023), British motorcycle racer
• Cecil Sandford (footballer) (1874–1946), Australian rules footballer
• Cecil Sharp (1859–1924), English folk-song collector
• Cecil Spring Rice (1859–1918), British diplomat
• Cecil Clyde Squier (died 1951), American politician from Maryland
• Cecil W. Stoughton (1920–2008), American photographer
• Cecil Taylor (1929–2018), American pianist and poet
• Cecil Taylor (playwright) (1929–1981), Scottish playwright
• Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949), British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir
• Cecil Waidyaratne (1938–2001), Sri Lankan military officer
• Cecil Williamson (1909–1999), English screenwriter, film editor, film director and Neopagan warlock
• Cecil Womack (1947–2013), American singer-songwriter and record producer
• Cecil Charles Worster-Drought (1888–1971), English physician

Female

• Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895), Irish hymnist
• Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer
• Cecil Bødker (1927–2020), Danish writer
• Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), American actress
• Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), British historian and biographer
• Cecil Castellucci (born 1969), American writer and musician
• Cecil Kishimoto (born 1990), Japanese fashion model

Fictional characters

• Cecil, minor character from the NBC soap opera Passions
• Cecil, a character from the American animated series Beany and Cecil
• Cecil Adams, an author pseudonym in The Straight Dope newspaper column
• Cecil Aijima, a character in the anime series Uta no Prince-sama
• Cecil Fredericks, a character from the films Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
• Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy), character in the Final Fantasy IV video game
• Cecil Gershwin Palmer, character in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast
• Cecil Putnam, a character in Ninjago
• Cecil Stedman, character in the Invincible comics and its television adaptation.
• Cecil Sudo, the protagonist in the anime series Wizard Barristers
• Cecil Terwilliger, brother of Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons
• Cecil Turtle, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon character
• Cecil Vyse, a character from E. M. Forster's novel A Room with a View
• Cecil the Geek, a Challenge TV character
• Cecil Markowitz, minor character from the novel series «Heroes of Olympus» and «The Trials of Apollo» by Rick Riordan.

Others

• Cecil (lion), a lion that had lived in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, until being killed by an illegal poacher in 2015