Cecil (given name)
Cecil is a usually male given name of Welsh origin.
The name was associated with
Essyllwg
).
Notable people with the given name include:
People
Male
- Cecil Banes-Walker (1888–1915), English cricketer
- Cecil A. Beasley (1876–1959), American lawyer and politician
- Cecil Beaton (1904–1980), English photographer
- Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), British racehorse trainer
- Cecil Brooks III (born 1961), American drummer
- C. T. Caldera, Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army from 1976-1977
- Cecil Calvert (disambiguation), several people
- Cecil Clarke (born 1968), Canadian politician
- Cecil Clementi (1875–1947), Governor of Hong Kong, British colonial administrator
- Cecil Clementi Smith (1840–1916), British colonial administrator
- Cec Cooper (1926–2010), Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach
- Cecil Cooper (born 1949), American baseball player and manager
- Cecil Cooper (bishop) (1882–1964), English-Korean bishop
- Cecil Cooper (priest) (1871–1942), British priest and dean
- Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Anglo-Irish poet
- Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959), American film director and film producer
- Cecil Dolecheck (born 1951), American politician from Iowa
- Cecil Duncan (1893–1979), Canadian ice hockey administrator
- Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American baseball player
- Cecil Gordon (1941–2012), American racecar driver
- Cecil Grigg (1891–1968), American football player
- Cecil Harcourt (1892–1959), British military officer
- Cecil Heftel (1924–2010), American politician in Hawaii
- Cecil Humphery-Smith (1928–2021), British genealogist and heraldist
- Cecil E. Johnson (1888–1955), Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
- Cecil Kaiser (1916–2011), American baseball player
- Cecil Kellaway (1890–1973), British-South African actor
- Cecil Kirk (died 1944), American politician from Maryland
- Cecil Leonard (1946–2020), American football player
- Cecil Mamiit (born 1977), American tennis player representing the Philippines
- Cecil McBee (born 1935), American jazz bassist
- Cecil Mountford (1919–2009), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
- Cecil Parker (1897–1971), English character and comedy actor
- Cecil Parkinson (1931–2016), British politician
- Cecil Payne (1922–2007), American saxophonist
- Cecil Polhill (1860–1938), British missionary
- Cecil Potter (1888–1975), former professional manager
- Cecil Frank Powell(1903–1969), British physicist
- Cecil Purdy (1906–1979), Australian chess player
- Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), British imperialist and businessman
- Cecil Saint-Laurent, the nom de plume of Jacques Laurent (1919–2000), French writer and journalist
- Cecil Sandford (1928–2023), British motorcycle racer
- Cecil Sandford (footballer) (1874–1946), Australian rules footballer
- Cecil Sharp (1859–1924), English folk-song collector
- Cecil Spring Rice (1859–1918), British diplomat
- Cecil Clyde Squier (died 1951), American politician from Maryland
- Cecil W. Stoughton (1920–2008), American photographer
- Cecil Taylor (1929–2018), American pianist and poet
- Cecil Taylor (playwright)(1929–1981), Scottish playwright
- Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949), British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir
- Cecil Waidyaratne (1938–2001), Sri Lankan military officer
- Cecil Williamson (1909–1999), English screenwriter, film editor, film director and Neopagan warlock
- Cecil Womack (1947–2013), American singer-songwriter and record producer
- Cecil Charles Worster-Drought (1888–1971), English physician
Female
- Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895), Irish hymnist
- Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer
- Cecil Bødker (1927–2020), Danish writer
- Cecil Cunningham (1888–1959), American actress
- Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), British historian and biographer
- Cecil Castellucci (born 1969), American writer and musician
- Cecil Kishimoto (born 1990), Japanese fashion model
Fictional characters
- Cecil, minor character from the NBC soap opera Passions
- Cecil, a character from the American animated series Beany and Cecil
- Cecil Adams, an author pseudonym in The Straight Dope newspaper column
- Cecil Aijima, a character in the anime series Uta no Prince-sama
- Cecil Fredericks, a character from the films Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
- Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy), character in the Final Fantasy IV video game
- Cecil Gershwin Palmer, character in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast
- Cecil Putnam, a character in Ninjago
- Cecil Stedman, character in the Invincible comics and its television adaptation.
- Cecil Sudo, the protagonist in the anime series Wizard Barristers
- Cecil Terwilliger, brother of Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons
- Cecil Turtle, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon character
- Cecil Vyse, a character from E. M. Forster's novel A Room with a View
- Cecil the Geek, a Challenge TVcharacter
- Cecil Markowitz, minor character from the novel series «Heroes of Olympus» and «The Trials of Apollo» by Rick Riordan.
Others
- Cecil (lion), a lion that had lived in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, until being killed by an illegal poacher in 2015