Immanuel (name)
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Immanuel is a name originating in the biblical Hebrew name עִמָּנוּאֵל, meaning "God with us". The name, now common to both Jewish and Christian naming traditions, originates with the biblical character Immanuel, with numerous variants appearing over time, including first names Amanuel (አማኑኤል) in Ethiopia and Eritrea, Emanuele in Italy, Imanol in Basque, Manuel in Portuguese and Spanish, Emmanouil (Εμμανουήλ) in Greek, and a French female variation, Emmanuelle.
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Immanuel Aboab (c. 1555–1628), Portuguese Jewish scholar
Immanuel Alm (1767–1809), Finnish painter
Immanuel Bäck (1876–1939), Finnish clergyman and politician
Immanuel Benveniste (1608–c. 1660), Italian Jewish printer
Immanuel Bloch (born 1972), German experimental physicist
Immanuel Bomze, (born 1958), Austrian mathematician
Immanuel Bonfils (c. 1300–1377), French-Jewish mathematician and astronomer
Immanuel Bourne (1590–1672), English cleric
Immanuel Casto (born 1983), stage name of Manuel Cuni, Italian singer-songwriter and activist
Immanuel De Reuse (born 1971), Belgian-Flemish politician
Immanuel Estermann (1900–1973), Jewish German-born nuclear physicist and professor
Immanuel Faisst (1823–1894), German composer
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso (born 2002), Welsh rugby union player
Immanuel Frances (1618–1703), Italian Jewish poet and rabbinical scholar
Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), German historian
Immanuel Gottlieb Huschke (1761–1828), German classical philologist
Immanuel Hai Ricchi (1688–1743), Italian rabbi, kabbalist and poet
Immanuel Halton (1628–1699), English astronomer and mathematician
Immanuel Heita (born 1992), Namibian footballer
Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796–1879), German philosopher
Immanuel Höhn (born 1991), German footballer
Immanuel C. Y. Hsu (1923–2005), Chinese sinologist
Immanuel Iheanacho (born c. 2008), American college football player
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits (1921–1999), German rabbi
Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller (1735–1803), German classical philologist and lexicographer
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher
Immanuel Kauluma Elifas (1934–2019), Namibian chief
Immanuel Klette (1918–1988), American bomber pilot and squadron commander
Imanuel Lalthazuala (born 1994), Indian footballer
Imanuel Lauster (1873–1948), German engineer and businessman
Immanuel Löw (1854–1944), Hungarian rabbi, scholar, botanist and politician
Immanuel McElroy (born 1980), American basketball player
Immanuel Mifsud (born 1967), Maltese writer
Immanuel Mulunga, Namibian businessman
Immanuel Munk (1852–1903), German physiologist
Immanuel Naidjala (born 1984), Namibian boxer
Immanuel Ness (born 1958), American scholar, activist and professor
Immanuel Ngatjizeko (1952–2022), Namibian politician
Immanuel Nobel (1801–1872), Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist
Immanuel Obeng-Darko (born 1952), Ghanaian politician
Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch (1829–1873), German Jewish scholar
Imanuel Padwa (born 1984), Indonesian footballer
Immanuel Pherai (born 2001), Dutch footballer
Immanuel Quickley (born 1999), American basketball player
Immanuel the Roman (1261–c.
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