Top Celebrity Names Starting With Emil

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   Emil Jones

   Age 76 Male
   

   Politician

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   Emil Jones, Jr. was the President of the Illinois Senate from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Jones served in the Illinois Senate from 1983 to 2009, where he served as President of the Illinois Senate from 2003 to the end of his term. Previously, he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1973 until 1983.… read more

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   Emil Isac

   1886 - 1954 Male
   

   Poet, Politician, Dramatist

   
   

   Emil Isac was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian poet, dramatist, short story writer and critic. Noted as one of the pioneers of Symbolism and modernist literature in his native region of Transylvania, he was in tandem one of the leading young voices of the Symbolist movement in the neighboring Kingdom of Romania.… read more

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   Emil Constantinescu

   Age 72 Male
   

   Politician, Geologist, Professor

   
   

   Emil Constantinescu was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000. He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist. Beginning in 1966, Constantinescu taught in the Geology Faculty of the University of Bucharest, where he also became Propaganda Secretary of the local organisation of the Romanian Communist Party.… read more

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   Emil Rieve

   1892 - 1975 Male
   

   Labor Leader, Actor, Vice President

   
   

   Emil Rieve was a Polish American labor leader. He was president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) from 1939 to 1956, a vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) from 1939 to 1955, and a vice president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1960. Emil Rieve was born in Poland and moved to Pennsylvania as a child. He left school early and first became a union member at age fifteen, quickly rising within the union hierarchy.… read more

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   Emil Artin

   1898 - 1962 Male
   

   Austrian Mathematician

   
   

   Emil Artin was an Austrian-American mathematician of Armenian descent.

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   Emil Savundra

   1923 - 1976 Male
   

   Businessman, Marine

   
   

   Emil Savundra, born Michael Marion Emil Anacletus Pierre Savundranayagam was an indigenous Tamil businessman from Ceylon (known as Sri Lanka from 1972) who later took British citizenship. He is known for having perpetrated financial frauds in several countries, culminating in the scandal of the Fire, Auto and Marine Insurance Company. Savundra twice served jail sentences for his frauds.… read more

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   Emil Gilels

   1916 - 1985 Male
   

   Pianist, Musician

   
   

   Emil Grigoryevich Gilels was a Soviet pianist, widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. His last name is sometimes transliterated Hilels.

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   Emil Sitka

   1915 - 1998 Male
   

   Actor, Comedian

   
   

   Emil Sitka was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with the Three Stooges—nearly 40. He is one of only two actors to have worked with all six Stooges on film in the various incarnations of the group (Harold Brauer was the other).… read more

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   Emil Fackenheim

   1916 - 2003 Male
   

   Philosopher, Historian

   
   

   Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, Ph.D. was a noted Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi. Born in Halle, Germany, he was arrested by Nazis on the night of November 9, 1938, known as Kristallnacht. Briefly interned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (1938–1939), he escaped with his younger brother W0. olfgang to Great Britain, where his parents later joined him. Emil's older brother Ernst-Alexander, who refused to leave Germany, was killed in the Holocaust.… read more

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    Emil Kraepelin

    1856 - 1926 Male
    

    Politician, Psychiatrist, Biologist

    
    

    Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. H.J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, as well as of psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Kraepelin believed the chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction.… read more

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    Emil Kapaun

    1916 - 1951 Male
    

    Priest, Chaplain, Servant

    
    

    Emil Joseph Kapaun was a Roman Catholic priest and United States Army chaplain who died in the Korean War. The Roman Catholic Church has declared him a Servant of God and he is a candidate for sainthood.… read more

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    Emil Boc

    Age 45 Male
    

    Mayor, Politician, Lawyer

    
    

    Emil Boc is a Romanian politician who has been Prime Minister of Romania since December 2008 until his resignation on 6 February 2012. In June 2004, he was elected Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania. Boc is also the president of the Democratic Liberal Party, which designated him as Prime Minister in 2008. On October 13, 2009, his cabinet fell after losing a motion of no confidence in Parliament.… read more

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    Emil Petaja

    1915 - 2000 Male
    

    Writer, Novelist, Poet

    
    

    Emil Petaja was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror stories, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of "weird fiction. " Petaja was also a small press publisher.… read more

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    Emil Jellinek

    1853 - 1918 Male
    

    Entrepreneur

    
    

    Emil Jellinek, known after 1903 as Emil Jellinek-Mercedes was a wealthy European entrepreneur who sat on the board of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft ('DMG') between 1900 and 1909. He specified an engine designed there by Wilhelm Maybach and Gottlieb Daimler for the first 'modern' car. Jellinek required naming the engine after his daughter, Mercedes Jellinek.… read more