Hillel () is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

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Hillel the Elder Hillel ( ''Hīllēl''; variously called Hillel the Elder or Hillel the Babylonian; died c. 10 CE) was a Jewish religious leader, Sage (philosophy), sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of ...

(110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader *

Hillel, son of Gamaliel III Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, was a Jewish scholar in the 3rd century CE (second generation of amoraim). Biography He was son of Gamaliel III, brother of Judah II, and probably a pupil of his grandfather Judah I. Of his early history nothing is ...

(3rd century), Jewish scholar *

Hillel II Hillel II (Hebrew: הלל נשיאה, Hillel the Nasi), also known simply as Hillel, was an '' amora'' of the fifth generation in the Land of Israel. He held the office of '' Nasi'' of the Sanhedrin between 320 and 365 CE. He was the son and succ ...

, 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 Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220 – Forlì, c. 1295) was an Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar Eliezer ben Samuel of Verona. Life He spent his youth at Barcelona, where he studied the Talmud ...

(c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist * Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi * Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), Lithuanian rabbi *

Hillel Paritcher Hillel HaLevi Malisov of Paritch, a levite by birth, commonly known as Reb (Yiddish), Reb Hillel Paritcher (1795-1864) was a famous Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish Chabad Rabbi born in Khmilnyk, Ukraine. Specifically, he served as a Mashpia (Ha ...

(1795–1864), Russian Chabad rabbi *

Hillel Lichtenstein Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein (1814–1891) was a Hungarian rabbi and the leader of hasidic Orthodoxy in Hungary. Life Hillel Lichtenstein was born at Vécs, Hungary (also called Vágvecse; today Veča, part of Šaľa, Slovakia) in 1814 to the day ...

(1814–1891), Hungarian rabbi and writer * Hillel Noah Maggid (1829–1903), Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian *

Hillel Yaffe Hillel Yaffe (; 1864–1936) was a Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader who immigrated to the Land of Israel in the First Aliyah during the Ottoman Empire. In the early 20th century he was instrumental in curing malaria, which at that tim ...

(1864–1936), Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader *

Hillel Zeitlin Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942) was an Ashkenazi Yiddish language, Yiddish and Hebrew language, Hebrew writer and poet. A leading pre-Holocaust Jewish journalist, he was a regular contributor to the Yiddish newspaper ''Moment'', among other literary ...

(1871–1942), Russian writer in Yiddish and Hebrew *

Hillel Poisic Rabbi Hillel Poisic (; 15.1.1881 Zlatopol, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire – 1953 Tel Aviv, Israel) was a communal worker and Torah scholar. He was an expert in releasing agunot from their husbands, who abandoned them without divorce. The ...

(1881–1953), Ukrainian communal worker and Torah scholar *

Hillel Oppenheimer Hillel Oppenheimer (; born Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer; 4 April 1899 – 15 June 1971), was an Israeli professor of botany. Biography Hillel Oppenheimer was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Franz Oppenheimer, a German-Jewish sociologist an ...

(1899–1971), German-Israeli botanist *

Hillel Kook Hillel Kook (; 24 July 1915 –18 August 2001), also known as Peter Bergson (Hebrew: פיטר ברגסון), was a Revisionist Zionism, Revisionist Zionist activist and politician. Kook led the Irgun's efforts in the United States during W ...

(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 Hillel Kristal (September 23, 1931August 28, 2007) was an American club owner, manager and musician who was the owner of the New York City club CBGB, which opened in 1973 and closed in 2006 over a rent dispute. Early years Kristal was born in ...

(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 Hillel "Harry" Furstenberg (; born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and U.S. Natio ...

(born 1935), American-Israeli mathematician *

Hillel Ticktin Hillel H. Ticktin is a Marxist philosophy, Marxist theorist and economist. He was born in South Africa in 1937, but had to leave to avoid arrest for political activism. He then lived and studied in the Soviet Union, where his PhD thesis, which wa ...

(born 1937), South African Marxist theorist and economist now at Glasgow University *

Hillel Halkin Hillel Halkin (; born 1939) is an American-born Israeli translator, biographer, literary critic, and novelist who has lived in Israel since 1970. Biography Hillel Halkin was born in New York City two months before the outbreak of World War II. ...

(born 1939), American-born Israeli translator, writer, and literary critic *

Hillel Weiss Hillel Weiss (; born 1945) is a professor emeritus of literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel. Academic career Hillel Weiss is a tenured professor at the Joseph & Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Faculty of Jewish ...

(born 1945), Israeli professor of literature and Neo-Zionist * Hillel Schwartz (1948-2007), American cultural historian, poet and translator *

Hillel Cohen Hillel Cohen-Bar (; born in Jerusalem, 5 October 1961) is an Israeli scholar who studies and writes about Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine/Israel. He is an associated professor at the Department of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew Uni ...

(born 1961), Israeli historian *

Hillel Slovak Hillel Slovak (; April 13, 1962 – June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician, best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in fun ...

(1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers *

Hillel Horowitz Rabbi Hillel Ilan Horowitz (; born 31 March 1964) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician. He briefly served as a member of the Knesset for the Jewish Home in 2015. Biography Horowitz grew up in Merkaz Shapira, and attended Yeshivat Or Etzi ...

(born 1964), Israeli rabbi and politician *

Hillel Roman Hillel Roman () is a visual artist living and working in Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography At age 24 he joined Hamidrasha Art School, Beit Berl College, Israel. In 2004 Roman graduated from Tel-Aviv University, the Department for Poetics and Compar ...

(born 1975), American-Israeli visual artist *

Hillel Fendel Hillel Fendel () is an editor and author. For 16 years he worked as senior editor and co-founder of Arutz Sheva's "Israel National News". He has worked as a teacher and rabbi in the past. Fendel has authored both news articles and op-eds on Israel ...

, Israeli journalist *

Hillel Frisch Hillel Frisch (Hebrew: הלל פריש; born 1953) is an Israeli political scientist and professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern History at Bar-Ilan University. His work focuses on Israeli-Palestinian interactions and military strategies, ...

, Israeli political scientist *

Hillel Neuer Hillel C. Neuer (born 1969/1970) is a Canadian-born international lawyer, writer, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland. Neuer is the founding chairman of Geneva Sum ...

, Canadian human-rights lawyer and executive director of UN Watch * Hillel Schenker, Israeli editor *

Hillel Steiner Hillel Isaac Steiner (; born 1942) is a Canadian political philosopher and is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Manchester. He was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy in 1999. Work Steiner's writings ar ...

(born 1942), Canadian political philosopher

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Simeon ben Hillel Shimon or Simeon ben Hillel was the son of Hillel the Elder. Little is known about him. When Hillel died, Shimon may have taken over his place as the '' Nasi'' of the Sanhedrin, as is implied by a passage in the Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the ...

(1st century), son of Hillel the Elder *

Mordechai ben Hillel Mordechai ben Hillel HaKohen (; c. 1250–1298), also known as The Mordechai or, by some Sephardic scholars, as The Mordechie, was a 13th-century German rabbi and posek. His chief legal commentary on the Talmud, referred to as ''The Mordechai'', ...

(1250–1298), German rabbi and posek * Abraham Hillel (1820–1920), Iraqi rabbi *

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (; 8 September 1915 – 25 September 1975) was an Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist. He was a pioneer in the fields of machine translation and formal linguistics. Early life and education Born Oscar Westreich ...

(1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist *

Shlomo Hillel Shlomo Hillel (; 9 April 1923 – 8 February 2021) was an Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician who served as Speaker of the Knesset, Minister of Police, Minister of Internal Affairs, and ambassador to several countries in Africa. As an ag ...

(1923-2021), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician *

Ayin Hillel Ayin Hillel () was the pen name of Hillel Omer (4 August 1926 - 30 June 1990, ), an Israeli poet and children's author. Biography Hillel Kotovitz (later Omer) was born in Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek in the Jezreel Valley to Binyamin and Shlomit Kotov ...

(1926–1990), Israeli poet and children's author *

Stéphane Hillel Stéphane Hillel (born 1955) is a French stage, film and television actor.Prévand p.85 Selected filmography * ''À nous les petites Anglaises ''À nous les petites anglaises'' (''Let's Get Those English Girls'') is a French film directed by M ...

(born 1955) French actor *

Gili Bar-Hillel Gili Bar-Hillel Semo (; born Gili Bar-Hillel on 19 October 1974) is an English-Hebrew translator from Israel, best known for translating the ''Harry Potter'' series into Hebrew. Biography Bar-Hillel is the daughter of Maya Bar-Hillel, a professor ...

(born 1974) Israeli English-Hebrew translator

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