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[I recently learnt](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/13044/what-
does-%E4%BD%95%E3%82%82%E3%81%84%E3%81%BE%E3%81%9B%E3%82%93-mean) that だれも
means "everyone" with an affirmative verb and "no-one" with a negative verb.
So, the literal translation of the Japanese "No-one is here" would be
"Everyone is not here". Then how would one go about saying "Not everyone is
here?"
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grammar phrase-requests pronouns
Distinction between "not everyone" and "no-one"
"Not everything is X" is the same logically as "Some things (exist which) are
not X", so in the general case you can do something like

> 青くないものもある  
>  there also exist things that are not blue  
>  = some of them aren't blue  
>  = not every one of them is blue

Unfortunately, for the "is here" case, where our verb is いる, that would give
us something like いない人もいる, which is at best confusing, so we might want to
look for a rephrase.

> 来ていない人もいる there are people who haven't come / not everyone is here  
>  全員そろっていない the group of everyone is not fully gathered

Depending on how you want the emphasis you can also negate the clause
"everything is X" directly by inserting a noun like わけ:

> 誰もがいる **(という)わけ** ではない  
>  **it is** not **that** everyone is here
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`Not everyone is here.' is translated into  
すべての人がここにいるのではない。

Here 「すべて～ではない」is a partial negation.

`Everyne is not here' is translated into  
すべての人がここにいない。(i.e. 誰もいない)

Here「すべて～ない」is a total negation.

> If you are familiar with formal language representations :-),  
>  We can interpret the above situation as below:  
>
>
> When P(x)≡[x is here],  
>  Not everyone is here.  
>  ⇔ ￢(∀xP(x))  
>  ⇔ すべての人がここにいるのではない。
>
> 誰もいない。  
>  ⇔ No one is here.  
>  ⇔ ￢(∃xP(x))  
>  ⇔ ∀x(￢P(x))  
>  ⇔ Everyone is not here.  
>  ⇔ すべての人がここにいない。

In contract to the expresson 「すべての人がここにいない」(total negation),  
the expression 「すべての人はここにいない」is somewhat ambiguous.  
this can be interpreted as both partial negation and total negation.
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