Jamil (Arabic: جميل) is an Arabic given name. It means "handsome" or "beautiful" in Arabic.1 The Latin spelling variants include Gamil (used mainly in Egypt), Cemil (in Turkish), Djemil or Djamel (mainly in North African countries influenced by French spelling), Djamil, Jameel (mainly among African Americans influenced by English spelling) and Yamil (Spanish spelling). The feminine equivalent is Jamila or Jamilah (Djamila).
Notable people with the given name Jamil
- Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (né Hubert Gerold Brown, born 1943), American civil rights activist and convicted murderer
- Jamil Adam (born 1991), English football player
- Jamil al-Assad (1932–2004), Syrian politician
- Jamil Azzaoui (born 1961), Canadian comedian, radio personality, and musician
- Jamil Bachir (1920–1977), Iraqi musician and sibling of Munir Bashir
- Jamil al-Banna (born 1952), Palestinian-Jordanian refugee formerly held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- Jamil Canal (born 1946), Brazilian soccer player in the American Soccer League
- Jamil Dehlavi (born 1944), British film/director/producer of Indian descent
- Jamil Demby (born 1996), American football player
- Jamil Fearrington (born 1986), Danish American football player
- Jamil Ibrahim Hejailan (born 1927), Saudi diplomat
- Jamil James (born 1986), Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
- Jamil Jean-Jacques (born 1975), Haitian soccer player
- Jamil al-Midfai (1890-1958), Iraqi politician
- Jamil Mahuad (born 1949), former president of Ecuador (1998–2000)
- Jamil Majdalawi (born 1946), Palestinian politician
- Jamil Mardam Bey (1895-1960), Syrian politician
- Jamil Moledina, American video game industry event director
- Jamil Naqsh (1939-2019), Pakistani painter
- Jamil Nasser (1932-2010), American jazz musician
- Jamil Othman Nasser (1945-2008), Palestinian politician
- Jamil El Reedy (born 1965), Egyptian alpine skier
- Jamil Roberts (soccer, born 1986) (born 1986), American soccer player
- Jamil Rostami (born 1971), Kurdish-Iranian film director
- Jamil Sahid Mohamed (1936-2000), Sierra Leonean businessman of Lebanese descent
- Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863-1936), Iraqi poet/philosopher
- Jamil Smith (born 1975), American journalist
- Jamil Uddin Ahmed (1933-1975), Bangladeshi military officer
- Jamil al-Ulshi (1883-1951), Syrian politician and former acting head of state in Syria
- Jamil Walker (born 1981), American soccer player
- Jamil Walker Smith (born 1982), American actor
- Jamil Wilson (born 1990), American basketball player
See also
See also
- Professor Jamil, a small municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil
- Cemal
- Gamal (disambiguation)
- Jamal
- Jamila
- Jamill
- Yamil
References
References
- Judith Rosenhouse (Spring 2002). "Personal Names in Hebrew and Arabic: Modern Trends Compared to the Past". Journal of Semitic Studies. 47 (1): 106. doi:10.1093/jss/47.1.97.