Shmuel
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Shmuel or Schmuel/ Shmeil is an Ashkenazi Jewish variant of the name Samuel. It comes from שמואל in Hebrew, and 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)