Samuel


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
5286 famous people named Samuel found on Wikipedia.
759651 male, 2823 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 21-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 17-th in year 1884
Used in: Biblical, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish

Meanings

A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “name of God.”.

Samuel (Sometimes spelled Samual) is a male given name and a surname of Hebrew origin meaning either "name of God" or "God has heard" (שם האלוהים Shem Alohim) (שמע אלוהים Sh'ma Alohim). Samuel was the last of the ruling judges in the Old Testament. He anointed Saul to be the first King of Israel and later anointed David.
As a Christian name, Samuel came into common use after the Protestant Reformation. Famous bearers include the American inventor Samuel F.B. Morse (1791–1872), the Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906–89) and the American author Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.
The name Samuel is popular among Black Africans, as well as among African Americans. It is also widespread among the modern Jewish communities, especially Sephardic Jews.

Masc. proper name, Biblical judge and prophet, from Late Latin, from Greek Samouel, from Hebrew Shemiel, literally "the name of God," from shem "name" + El "God."

God hears, or his name is God.

Famous People: 5286 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Samuel L. Jackson 1948 American actor and film producer
2 Samuel Eto'o 1981 Cameroonian footballer
3 Samuel Adams 1722 American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
4 Samuel Beckett 1906 Irish novelist, playwright, and poet
5 Samuel Alito 1950 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
6 Samuel Umtiti 1993 French football player
7 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 English poet, literary critic and philosopher
8 Samuel de Champlain 1567 Navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer
9 Samuel Morse 1791 American painter and inventor
10 Samuel Pepys 1633 English naval administrator and member of parliament
11 Xavier Samuel 1983 Australian television actor, actor and film actor
12 Samuel Bible character
13 Samuel West 1966 English actor and director
14 Samuel Witwer 1977 Actor and musician from the United States
15 Samuel Koch 1987 German actor
16 Samuel Maréchal 1967 French politician
17 Samuel Étienne 1971 French journalist
18 Samuel Barnett 1980 English actor
19 Benedict Samuel 1988 Actor, writer and director
20 Samuel Page 1976 American actor
21 Samuel P. Huntington 1927 American political scientist
22 Samuel Doe 1951 21st President of Liberia
23 Samuel Barber 1910 American composer
24 Samuel Goldwyn 1879 American film producer (1879-1974).
25 Samuel Gompers 1850 American Labor Leader[AFL]
26 Samuel Mudd 1833 Medical doctor implicated in the Lincoln assassination
27 Samuel P. Bush 1863 American businessman
28 Samuel Reshevsky 1911 American chess player
29 Samuel Peter 1980 Nigerian boxer
30 Walter Samuel 1978 Argentine footballer
31 Samuel E. Wright 1946 American actor
32 Samuel Bellamy 1689 English pirate
33 Samuel Chase 1741 American judge
34 Asante Samuel 1981 American football player, defensive back, cornerback
35 Samuel Slater 1768 English-American industrialist
36 Samuel Hahnemann 1755 German physician best known for creating a system of alternative medicine called homeopathy
37 Samuel J. Tilden 1814 American politician
38 Samuel R. Delany 1942 American author, professor and literary critic
39 Samuel Johnson 1978 Australian actor
40 Samuel Vincent 1971 Canadian voice actor and singer
41 Samuel Benchetrit 1973 French actor and film director
42 Samuel Wilson 1766 American meat packer
43 Samuel Roukin 1980 British actor
44 Samuel Zylgwyn 1988 Indonesian actor
45 Samuel Larsen 1991 American singer
46 Samuel Eliot Morison 1887 United States admiral
47 Samuel Richardson 1689 English writer and printer
48 Samuel Anderson 1982 British actor
49 Samuel Dalembert 1981 American basketball player
50 Samuel Loomis
51 Samuel Fuller 1912 American screenwriter, actor and film director
52 Samuel Hui 1948 Hong Kong singer, lyricist, and actor
53 Samuel Sachs 1851 American businessman
54 Samuel Kane 1968 English television and soap opera actor
55 Kim Samuel 2002 Singer based in South Korean
56 Samuel Pierpont Langley 1834 American physicist and pioneer of aviation
57 Samuel Whittemore 1696 Oldest soldier in the American Revolution
58 Joanne Samuel 1957 Australian actress
59 Samuel Seabury 1729 II Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; I Bishop of Connecticut and of Rhode Island
60 Samuel Badree 1981 West Indian cricketer
61 Samuel Parris 1653 Colonial merchant and clergyman
62 Samuel Byck 1930 American murderer
63 Samuel Bowers 1924 American white supremacist
64 Samuel Kuffour 1976 Ghanaian footballer
65 Ajayi Crowther 1809 Bishop on the Niger; first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria
66 Samuel Insull 1859 Creator of American electrical infrastructure
67 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875 English composer
68 Samuel Brannan 1819 American politician
69 Samuel J. Palmisano 1951 American businessman
70 Samuel Smiles 1812 Scottish author
71 Samuel Sullivan Fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes
72 Samuel Ramey 1942 Operatic bass
73 Samuel J. Seymour 1860 Witness of Lincoln assassination
74 Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood 1724 British Admiral known particularly for his service in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars
75 Samuel T. Francis 1947 Journalist, historian
76 Samuel Lincoln 1622 Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
77 Samuel Peploe 1871 British artist
78 Samuel Wanjiru 1986 Kenyan athlete
79 Samuel Bronfman 1889 Canadian businessman, philanthropist
80 Samuel Crompton 1753 Inventor, pioneer of the spinning industry
81 Samuel Beckwith 1837
82 Samuel Bayer 1965 American film editor and cinematographer
83 Samuel Sharpe 1801 Slave rebellion leader
84 Samuel Willenberg 1923 Polish survivor of Treblinka
85 Curtis Samuel 1996
86 Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers 1854 British occultist
87 Samuel of Bulgaria 0958 Tsar of Bulgaria
88 Samuel Rodriguez 1969 American evangelist
89 Samuel Armenteros 1990 Swedish footballers
90 Samuel Sáiz 1991 Spanish footballer
91 Samuel P. Cowley 1899 FBI agent
92 Sam Shaw 1984 Professional wrestler
93 Samuel Sevian 2000 American chess player
94 Samuel García Sánchez 1990 Spanish footballer
95 Samuel Palmer 1805 British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker
96 Arthur Samuel 1901 American computer scientist
97 Samuel Wilberforce 1805 Bishop in the Church of England
98 Samuel Armas 1999 Famous in a picture
99 Jlloyd Samuel 1981 Footballer
100 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel 1870 British politician
101 Samuel Okwaraji 1964 Footballer
102 Samuel Nicholas 1744 1st Commandant of the Marine Corps
103 Samuel J. Battle 1883 American police officer
104 Samuel Monroe, Jr. 1973 American actor
105 Samuel Cummings 1927 American businessman
106 Samuel Francis Du Pont 1803 United States Navy admiral
107 Samuel Reoli 1973 Brazilian musician
108 Samuel S. Hinds 1875 Actor
109 Samuel C. C. Ting 1936 Physicist
110 Samuel Rowbotham 1816 British writer
111 Samuel K. Skinner 1938 White House chief of staff
112 Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood 1880 British Conservative politician
113 Samuel Holmén 1984 Swedish footballer
114 Samuel George Morton 1799 American physician
115 Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. 1927 American publisher, media owner, art collector, philanthropist
116 Samuel Cooper 1798 Confederate general in the American Civil War
117 Samuel Hearne 1745 British explorer
118 Samuel Prescott 1751 American surgeon
119 Samuel Franklin Cody 1867 American aviator
120 Samuel Adams Green 1940 American art curator
121 Samuel Carlisi 1914 Chicago mobster
122 Samuel Sewall 1652 Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts
123 Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey 1941 British Baron
124 Samuel Peron 1982
125 Samuel Vargas 1989 Canadian boxer
126 Samuel Green 1890 American Ku Klux Klan leader
127 Samuel Baker 1821 British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist
128 Samuel V. Wilson 1923 United States Army general
129 Samuel Gridley Howe 1801 American abolitionist
130 Samuel Maverick 1803 American politician
131 Samuel Inkoom 1989 Ghanaian footballer
132 Samuel Bastien 1996 Belgian footballer
133 Samuel Dixon 1973 Musician songwriter
134 Samuel Israel III 1959 Former hedge fund manager, investment advisor, convicted fraudster
135 Dominic Samuel 1994 Footballer
136 Samuel Edward Konkin III 1947 American anarchist
137 Samuel Akintola 1910 Nigerian politician
138 Sandra Samuel 1964 Indian nannygirl
139 Samuel A. Adams 1934 CIA analyst
140 Samuel Sánchez 1978 Spanish road bicycle racer
141 Monique Samuel 1989 Dutch writer
142 Samuel A. Cartwright 1793 American physician
143 Samuel von Pufendorf 1632 German philosopher
144 Samuel Sheinbein 1980 U.S. murderer convicted in Israel
145 Samuel Fields Union Army general
146 Samuel R. Scottron 1841 African-American inventor from Brooklyn, N.Y.
147 Samuel Le Bihan 1965 French actor
148 Samuel Gelblung 1944 Argentinian journalist
149 Samuel Leibowitz 1893 American judge
150 Samuel Hill 1857 American businessman, lawyer and railroad executive
151 Samuel Rutherford Scottish Reformed theologian
152 Samuel Mason 1739 American judge
153 Samuel Bodman 1938 Samuel Bodman (born November 26, 1938) was a United States Secretary of Energy and was previously Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department.
154 Samuel D. Waksal 1947 American businessman
155 Samuel Plimsoll 1824 British politician
156 Samuel Washington 1734 Brother of George Washington
157 Juan Samuel 1960 Dominican Republic baseball player and coach
158 Samuel Bowles 1939 American economist
159 Samuel Hamilton Walker 1817 Texas ranger and military officer
160 Samuel Freeman Miller 1816 American judge
161 Samuel Ealy Johnson 1877 American politician
162 Samuel Marsden 1764 Australian priest
163 Samuel Jouy 1975 French actor
164 Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. 1926 American film producer
165 Samuel Kaboo Morris 1873 Liberian missionary
166 Samuel Hopkins Adams 1871 Investigative journalist
167 Samuel Dickstein 1885 American politician
168 Samuel Flores Borrego 1972 Mexican drug trafficker
169 Samuel David Dealey 1906 United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
170 Samuel Noah Kramer 1897 American Assyriologist
171 Samuel Ryder 1858 Entrepreneur
172 Samuel T. Cohen 1921 American physicist
173 Samuel Pierce 1922 American government official
174 Samuel W. Koster 1919 United States general
175 Samuel Wardwell 1643 Hanged as part of the Salem witch trials
176 Samuel Worcester 1798 Christian missionary to Cherokee, civil rights advocate
177 Samuel J. LeFrak 1918 American businessman
178 Samuel James British actor
179 Samuel Pagdilao, Jr. 1957
180 Samuel B. Kent 1949 American judge
181 Samuel Oshoffa 1909 Nigerian pastor
182 Samuel Balto 1861 Norwegian explorer
183 Samuel Andrews 1836 Chemist/inventor
184 Samuel Daniel 1562 Poet and historian
185 Samuel Ball 1973 American actor
186 Samuel Fraunces 1722 American restaurateur
187 Andy Samuel 1909 Film actor
188 Samuel Piette 1994 Canadian soccer player
189 Samuel Osgood 1747 American politician
190 Samuel Morin 1995 Canadian ice hockey player
191 Samuel Cunard 1787 Canadian businessman
192 Samuel Irving Rosenman 1896 American politician
193 Samuel Honywood 1996 British actor
194 Samuel Chamberlain 1829 American general
195 Samuel J. Locklear 1954 United States admiral
196 Samuel Goudsmit 1902 Dutch physicist
197 Samuel Ullman 1840 American businessman, poet, humanitarian
198 Samuel Kahanamoku 1902 American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist
199 Samuel Clarke 1675 English philosopher and clergyman
200 Samuel Tetteh 1996