Shmuel or Schmuel/ Shmeil is the Hebrew equivalent of the name Samuel. It is popular also in Polish Yiddish versions of the name: Szmul or Szmuel and Szmulik or Szmulek. Shmuel and variations may refer to: Samuel (Bible), the Hebrew Bible prophet Books of Samuel, the book of the Tanach Shmuel Hakatan, the Tanna (Mishnaic sage) Samuel of Nehardea, the Amora (Talmudic sage) People Given name Shmuel Ben David (1884–1927), illustrator, painter, typographer and designer Shmuel Ben-Dror (1924–2009), Israeli footballer Shmuel Ben Eliezer (born 1981), American record executive Shmuel Bornsztain (disambiguation) Shmuel Bornsztain (second Sochatchover rebbe), (1856–1926), author of Shem Mishmuel Shmuel Bornsztain (sixth Sochatchover rebbe), (born 1961), Israeli rabbi Leonard Chess (born Lejzor Szmuel Czyż; 1917–1969), Polish-born American record company executive Shmuel Dayan (1891–1968), Israeli politician Shmuel Ehrenfeld (1891–1980), rabbi Shmuel Flatto-Sharon (1930–2018), French-Israeli businessman, radio talk-show host and politician Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz; 1882–1974), Polish-American film producer Szmul Hirsz Peltyn (1831–1896), Polish Jewish writer, translator, and publisher Shmuʾel Jamīl (1847–1917), Assyrian scholar and author Shmuel Kamenetsky (born 1924), American Haredi rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky (born 1965), chief rabbi of Dnipro and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Shmuel Kozokin (born 1987), Israeli footballer Shmuel Malika-Aharon (1947–2011), Israeli footballer Shmuel Onn (born 1960), professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Shmuel Pinchasi, rabbi Sam Pivnik (born Szmuel Pivnik; 1926–2017), Holocaust survivor, author Shmuel Rabinovitch (born 1970), Orthodox rabbi Shmuel Rodensky (1902–1989), Israeli actor Samuel Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; 1911–1992), Polish American chess player Shmuel Schneersohn (1834–1882), Orthodox rabbi Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Nobel Prize laureate writer Sam Warner (born Szmuel Wonsal; 1887–1927), American film producer Shmuel Winograd (1936–2019), Israeli-American computer scientist Shmuel Zaks (born 1949), computer scientist and mathematician Sam Zell (born 1941 as Shmuel Zielonka), American billionaire businessman and philanthropist Szmul Zygielbojm (1895–1943), Polish Jewish socialist politician Shmuel Zytomirski (1900–1944), figure of the Jewish community of Lublin Surname Midrash Shmuel (disambiguation) Midrash Shmuel (aggadah), an aggadic midrash on the Books of Samuel Midrash Shmuel Yeshiva, an English-speaking yeshiva in Jerusalem Ya'acov Shmuel (born 1968), Israeli Olympic boxer Characters Shmuel, a character in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (novel) and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) Shmuel, a character in the television series The Chosen See also Shmuel-Bukh, a midrashic verse epic written in Yiddish Gan Shmuel, a kibbutz in northern Israel Giv'at Shmuel, a city in the Center District of Israel Kiryat Shmuel, Haifa, neighborhood at city of Haifa