Hillel
# Hillel

Hillel (Hebrew: הלל, lit. 'praise') is a Jewish masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

## Given name

* Hillel the Elder (110 BC–10 AD), Babylonian sage, scholar, and Jewish leader
* Hillel, son of Gamaliel III (3rd century), Jewish scholar
* Hillel II, 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 (c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist
* Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi
* Hillel Rivlin (1758–1838), Lithuanian rabbi
* Hillel Paritcher (1795–1864), Russian Chabad rabbi
* Hillel Lichtenstein (1814–1891), Hungarian rabbi and writer
* Hillel Noah Maggid (1829–1903), Russian-Jewish genealogist and historian
* Hillel Yaffe (1864–1936), Russian Jewish physician and Zionist leader
* Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Russian writer in Yiddish and Hebrew
* Hillel Poisic (1881–1953), Ukrainian communal worker and Torah scholar
* Hillel Oppenheimer (1899–1971), German-Israeli botanist
* Hillel Kook (1915–2001), Russian-Jewish Zionist activist, politician, and leader of the Irgun
* Hillel Seidel (1920–1999), Israeli politician
* Hillel Schwartz (1923–2007), Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party
* Hillel Kristal, birth name of Hilly Kristal (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 (born 1935), American-Israeli mathematician
* Hillel Ticktin (born 1937), South African Marxist theorist and economist now at Glasgow University
* Hillel Halkin (born 1939), American-born Israeli translator, writer, and literary critic
* Hillel Weiss (born 1945), Israeli professor of literature and Neo-Zionist
* Hillel Schwartz (born 1948), American cultural historian, poet and translator
* Hillel Cohen (born 1961), Israeli historian
* Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
* Hillel Horowitz (born 1964), Israeli rabbi and politician
* Hillel Roman (born 1975), American-Israeli visual artist
* Hillel Fendel, Israeli journalist
* Hillel Frisch, Israeli political scientist
* Hillel Neuer, Canadian human-rights lawyer and executive director of UN Watch
* Hillel Schenker, Israeli editor
* Hillel Steiner, Canadian political philosopher

## Surname

* Simeon ben Hillel (1st century), son of Hillel the Elder
* Mordechai ben Hillel c. 1250–1298), German rabbi and posek
* Abraham Hillel (1820–1920), Iraqi rabbi
* Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
* Shlomo Hillel (1923-2021), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician
* Ayin Hillel (1926–1990), Israeli poet and children's author
* Stéphane Hillel (born 1955) French actor
* Gili Bar-Hillel (born 1974) Israeli English-Hebrew translator
