Manuel is a male given name originating in the Hebrew name עִמָּנוּאֵל (Immanu'el), which means "God with us." It was possibly brought from the Byzantine Empire (as Μανουήλ) to Spain and Portugal, where it has been used since at least the 13th century. Manuel is popular in Spanish, Portuguese and German. It is also used in Italian, French, Romanian, Greek (Latinized) and English, where Manny is used as a nickname.
East Roman / Byzantine Emperors
Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180)
Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)
Emperors of Trebizond
Manuel I of Trebizond (1218–1263)
Manuel II of Trebizond (1324–1333)
Manuel III of Trebizond (1364–1417)
Kings and Princes of Portugal
Manuel I of Portugal (1469–1521)
Manuel II of Portugal (1889–1932)
Manuel, Prince of Portugal (1531–1537), son of John III of Portugal
Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, Portuguese prince, son of Peter II of Portugal
Infante of Castile
Manuel of Castile (1234–1283), son of Ferdinand III of Castile
Patriarchs of Constantinople
Manuel I, patriarch of Constantinople in 1216–22
Manuel II, patriarch of Constantinople in 1244–55
Manuel Christonymos, birth name of Patriarch Maximus III of Constantinople, reigned 1476–1482
Patriarchs of Lisbon
Manuel II, 14th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (1929–71)
Manuel III, 17th. cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon (since 2013) -current-
Manuel Agogo (born 1979, English-Ghanaian football player
Manuel Alegre (born 1936), Portuguese poet
Manuel Bandeira (1886–1968), Brazilian writer
Manuel Belgrano (1770–1820), Argentine politician and military leader during the Argentine War of Independence
Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805), Portuguese poet
Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650), Portuguese composer
Manuel Cuevas (born 1933), fashion designer, known simply as "Manuel"
Manuel Fettner (born 1985), Austrian ski jumper
Manuel Pinto da Fonseca (1681–1773), Portuguese nobleman and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
Manuel Teixeira Gomes (1860–1941), Portuguese politician and writer, 7th President of Portugal
Manuel Göttsching (born 1952), German musician, member of Ash Ra Tempel
Manuel Hassassian (born 1953), is an Armenian-Palestinian professor
Manuel Machata (born 1984), German bobsledder and World Champion of 2011
Manuel Mamikonian was the real leader of Armenia after the death of King Varasdates (Varazdat).
Manuel Morales (basketball) (born 1987), Peruvian basketball player
Manuel Neuer (born 1986), German football goalkeeper
Manuel da Nóbrega (1517–1570), Portuguese Jesuit and missionary in the early Colonial Brazil
Manuel Noriega (born 1934), Panamanian dictator and criminal
Manoel de Oliveira (1908–2015), Portuguese film director
Manuel Pellegrini (born 1953), Chilean football manager
Manuel Pinho (born 1954), Portuguese politician and economist
Manuel Poppinger (born 1989), Austrian ski jumper
Manuel L. Quezón (1878–1944), first President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
Manny Ramírez (born 1972), Dominican-American Major League Baseball player
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968), American photographer
Manuel Rocha, American diplomat
Manuel Acuña Roxas (1892–1948), first President of the Third Philippine Republic
Manuel Sanhouse (born 1975), Venezuelan football goalkeeper
Manuel Seco (born 1928), Spanish lexicographer
Manuel Tenenbaum (1934–2016), Uruguayan educator, historian and philanthropist.
Manuel Uribe (1965–2014), Mexican who was at one time considered to be the heaviest man in the world
Herman E. Manuel (1849–1918), American politician
Jacques-Antoine Manuel (1775–1827), French politician
Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (1232–1328), Spanish noble and medieval writer, son of Infante Manuel of Castile
Laurent Manuel, an American association football (soccer) player
Louis Pierre Manuel (1751–1793), political figure of the French Revolution
Niklaus Manuel (~1484–1530), Swiss painter
Richard Manuel (1943–1986), Canadian composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist with The Band
Rod Manuel (born 1974), American football player
Vic Manuel (born 1987), Filipino basketball player
Manuel (Fawlty Towers), waiter in the BBC TV sitcom
Manny (Ice Age), a fictional bull wooly mammoth, who appears in the Ice Age movie series
Manny Calavera, protagonist of the adventure game Grim Fandango
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