Jamil

Jamil (Arabic: جميل) is an Arabic given name. It means "handsome" or "beautiful" in Arabic.^[1] The Latin spelling variants include Gamil (used mainly in Egypt), Cemil (in Turkish), Djemil or Djamel (mainly in North African countries influenced by French spelling), Djamil, Jameel (mainly among African Americans influenced by English spelling) and Yamil (Spanish spelling). The feminine equivalent is Jamila or Jamilah (Djamila).

Notable people with the given name Jamil

Tariq Jamil (born 1953) , Islamic Scholar
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (né Hubert Gerold Brown, born 1943), American civil rights activist and convicted murderer
Jamil Adam (born 1991), English football player
Jamil al-Assad (1932–2004), Syrian politician
Jamil Azzaoui (born 1961), Canadian comedian, radio personality, and musician
Jamil Bachir (1920–1977), Iraqi musician and sibling of Munir Bashir
Jamil al-Banna (born 1952), Palestinian-Jordanian refugee formerly held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Jamil Canal, Brazilian soccer player in the American Soccer League
Jamil Dehlavi (born 1944), British film/director/producer of Indian descent
Jamil Demby (born 1996), American football player
Jamil Fearrington (born 1986), Danish American football player
Jamil Ibrahim Hejailan (born 1927), Saudi diplomat
Jamil James, Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
Jamil Jean-Jacques, Haitian soccer player
Jamil al-Midfai, Iraqi politician
Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador (1998–2000)
Jamil Majdalawi, Palestinian politician
Jamil Mardam Bey, Syrian politician
Jamil Moledina, American video game industry event director
Jamil Naqsh, Pakistani painter
Jamil Nasser, American jazz musician
Jamil Othman Nasser, Palestinian politician
Jamil Popal, Actor
Jamil El Reedy, Egyptian alpine skier
Jamil Roberts (soccer, born 1986), American soccer player
Jamil Rostami, Kurdish-Iranian film director
Jamil Sahid Mohamed, Sierra Leonean businessman of Lebanese descent
Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi, Iraqi poet/philosopher
Jamil Smith, American journalist
Brigadier-General Jamil Uddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi military officer
Jamil al-Ulshi, Syrian politician and former acting head of state in Syria
Jamil Walker, American soccer player
Jamil Walker Smith, American actor
Jamil Wilson (born 1990), American basketball player
Jamil Yamani, video artist

References

^ Judith Rosenhouse (Spring 2002). "Personal Names in Hebrew and Arabic: Modern Trends Compared to the Past". Journal of Semitic Studies. 47 (1): 106. doi:10.1093/jss/47.1.97.

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