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Cecil (given name)

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Cecil is a given name, usually male. Notable people with the name include:

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Male

  • Cecil Banes-Walker (1888–1915), English first-class cricketer
  • Cecil A. Beasley (1876-1959), American lawyer and politician
  • Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English photographer and Academy Award-winner
  • Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), British thoroughbred racehorse trainer
  • Cecil Brooks III (born 1961), American jazz drummer
  • Cecil Clarke (born 1968), Canadian Legislative Assemblyman
  • Cec Cooper (born 1926), Australian retired professional rugby league player and coach
  • Cecil Cooper (born 1949), American baseball player and manager
  • Cecil Cooper (bishop) (1882-1964), fourth Bishop in Korea from 1931 until 1954
  • Cecil Cooper (priest) (1871-1942), British priest and Dean of Carlisle from 1933 to 1938
  • Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate
  • Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959), American film director and film producer
  • Cecil Dolecheck (born 1951), Iowa State Representative from the 96th District
  • Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American baseball player
  • Cecil Grigg (1891–1968), American football player
  • Cecil Heftel (1924–2010), American politician in Hawaii
  • Cecil Humphery-Smith (born 1928), British genealogist and heraldist
  • Cecil Leonard (born 1946), American football player
  • Cecil Mamiit (born 1977), American tennis player representing the Philippines
  • Cecil McBee (born 1935), American post bop jazz bassist
  • Cecil Mountford (1919–2009), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
  • Cecil Parker (1897–1971), English character and comedy actor
  • Cecil Parkinson (born 1931), British politician
  • Cecil Potter (born 1888), former professional manager
  • Cecil Frank Powell (1903–1969), British physicist and Nobel laureate
  • 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
  • Cecil Sandford (born 1928), British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
  • Cecil Sandford (footballer) (1874-1946), Australian rules footballer
  • Cecil Spring Rice (1859–1918), British diplomat and Ambassador to United States 1912–1918
  • Cecil Taylor (born 1929), 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), 12th Commander of the Sri Lanka Army
  • Cecil Williamson (1909–1999), influential English Neopagan Witch
  • Cecil Charles Worster-Drought (1888–1971), English physician

    • Female

  • Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895), Irish hymnist
  • Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer (mezzo-soprano/contralto)
  • Cecil Bødker (born 1927), Danish writer
  • Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), American film and stage actress
  • Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), British historian and biographer
  • Cecil Castellucci (born 1969), American writer and musician

    • Fictional characters

  • Cecil, main character in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast
  • Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy), main character of Square's Final Fantasy IV video game
  • Cecil Adams, an author pseudonym in The Straight Dope newspaper column
  • Cecil Vyse, character in E. M. Forster's novel A Room with a View
  • Cecil Aijima, one of the main characters in the anime series Uta no Prince-sama
  • Cecil Fredricks, the villain in Night at the Museum
  • Cecil, an alien in Claudio Sanchez's Amory Wars

    • Others

  • Cecil, a lion that had lived in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, until being killed by a hunter in 2015

    • References

    Cecil (given name) Wikipedia
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