Marcel (given name)

Marcel (French: [maʁsɛl], Occitan: [maɾˈsɛl], Catalan: [məɾˈsɛl, maɾ-]) is an Occitan form of the Ancient Roman origin male given name Marcellus, meaning "Belonging to Mars". Used predominantly in France, Switzerland, Catalonia, Belgium, Germany, Canada and partially in Romania. It may refer to:

In the arts

• Marcel (singer) (Marcel Francois Chagnon) (b. 1975), American country music singer and songwriter known by the singular name, Marcel
• Marcel Achard (1899 –1974), French playwright and screenwriter
• Marcel Aymé (1902 –1967), French author screenwriter and playwright
• Marcel Breuer (1902 –1981), Hungarian-born American modernist, architect and furniture designer
• Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), Belgian poet, artist and filmmaker
• Marcel Camus (1912 –1982), French film director
• Marcel Carné (1906 –1996), French film director
• Marcel Dadi (1951–1996), French guitarist and songwriter
• Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French-American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements
• Marcel Dupré (1886–1971), French organist, pianist, composer and pedagogue.
• Marcel Dzama (b. 1974), Canadian artist known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings
• Marcel Everett (b. 1995), American electronic musician better known as XXYYXX.
• Marcel Gotlib (1934 –2016), French comics artist
• Marcel Theo Hall (b. 1964), American rapper better known by his stage name Biz Markie.
• Marcel Iureș (b. 1951), Romanian actor
• Marcel Janco (1895–1984), Israeli painter and architect
• Marcel Jouhandeau (1888 –1979), French writer
• Marcel Khalife (born 1950), Lebanese composer, singer and oud player
• Marcel L'Herbier (1888 –1979), French filmmaker
• Marcel Moyse (1889 –1984), French flutist
• Marcel Mule (1901 –2001), French classical saxophonist
• Marcel Neels (1922 –2016), Belgian cartoonist known as "Marc Sleen"
• Marcel Olinescu (1896-1992), Romanian engraver
• Marcel Pagnol (1895-1975), French novelist, playwright and filmmaker
• Marcel Khalife (b. 1950), Lebanese-French composer, singer and oud player.
• Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French mime artist and actor
• Marcel Martí (b. 1925), Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent
• Marcel Poot (1901 –1988), Belgian composer and music educator
• Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, essayist, and critic
• Marcel Rodríguez-López (b. 1984), member of The Mars Volta and younger brother of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
• Marcel Romanescu (1897-1956), Romanian poet
• Marcel Schwob (1867 –1905), Jewish French symbolist writer
• Marcel Vaid, (b. 1967) Swiss film composer

In sports

• Marcel Balkestein (born 1981), Dutch field hockey player
• Marcel Barthel (b. 1990), German professional wrestler
• Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born 1964), Dutch football player and coach
• Marcel Buysse (1889 –1939), Belgian racing cyclist
• Marcel Cerdan (1916–1949), French pied noir world boxing champion
• Marcel Comeau (b. 1952), Canadian ice hockey coach and NHL executive
• Marcel Coraș (b. 1959), Romanian footballer
• Marcell Dareus (b. 1990), NFL defensive tackle
• Marcel Desailly (b. 1968), French footballer
• Marcel Dionne (born 1931), Canadian ice hockey player
• Marcel Dost (b. 1969), retired decathlete from the Netherlands
• Marcel Felder (b. 1984), Uruguayan tennis player
• Marcel Henrique Garcia Alves Pereira (b. 1992), Brazilian footballer known as Marcel
• Marcel Goc (b. 1983), German professional ice hockey player
• Marcel Granollers (born 1986), Spanish tennis player
• Marcel Hirscher (b. 1989), Austrian alpine skier
• Marcel Hossa (b. 1981), Slovak professional ice hockey player
• Marcell Jansen (b. 1985), German footballer
• Marcel Kint (1914 –2002), Belgian racing cyclist
• Marcel Kittel (born 1988), German racing cyclist
• Marcel Nguyen (b. 1987), Vietnamese-German gymnast
• Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian football player
• Marcel Sabitzer (born 1994), Austrian footballer
• Marcel Schäfer (born 1984), German footballer
• Marcel Schmelzer (b. 1988), German footballer
• Marcel Seip (b. 1982), Dutch footballer
• Marcel Spears Jr. (b. 1997), American football player
• Marcel Toader (1963–2019), Romanian rugby union player
• Marcel Wouda (b. 1972), Dutch swimmer
• Marcel Wyss (b. 1986), Swiss road cyclist

In other fields

• Marcel Alessandri (1895–1968), French Army general
• Marcel Berlins (born 1941), Anglo-French lawyer, legal commentator, broadcaster, and columnist
• Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), French geologist
• Marcel Bich (1914–1994), French manufacturer of ballpoint pens
• Marcel Bigeard (1916–2010), French Army general
• Marcel Bouyer (1920-2000), French politician
• Marcel Cachin (1869-1958), Breton politician, director of the communist newspaper L'Humanité
• Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977), French Army general
• Marcel Ciolacu (born 1967), Romanian politician
• Marcel Desjardins (1941–2003), Canadian journalist, news editor and director
• Marcel Dinu (born 1935), Romanian diplomat
• Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), French aircraft industrialist
• Marcel Deprez (1843–1918), French electrical engineer
• Marcel Grateau (1852–1936), French hairdresser who pioneered the use of hair irons
• Marcel Griaule (1898–1956), French anthropologist
• Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician
• Marcel Gumbs (born 1953), Dutch Prime Minister of Sint Maarten
• Marcel Ichac (1906–1994), French alpinist, explorer, photographer and film director
• Marcel Lefebvre (1905–1991), French Roman Catholic archbishop
• Marcel Mauss (1872–1950), French ethnologist
• Marcel Minnaert (1893–1970), Dutch astronomer of Flemish origin
• Marcel Olteanu (1872–1943), Romanian general
• Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), German-born American documentary film maker
• Marcel Pauker (1896–1938), Romanian communist militant
• Marcel Peyrouton (1887–1983), French diplomat and politician.
• Marcel Pilet-Golaz (1889–1958), Swiss politician
• Marcel Rayman (1923−1944), Polish Jew in the FTP-MOI group of French resistance fighters during World War II
• Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920–2013), Polish-born German literary critic
• Marcel Renault (1871 or 1872–1903), French racing car driver and industrialist
• Marcel Riesz (1886–1969), Hungarian-born Swedish mathematician
• Marcel Trillat (born 1940), French journalist and documentary filmmaker
• Marcel Vigneron (born 1980), American chef and television personality
• Marcel Vonk, Dutch poker player and physicist

In fiction

• Marcel, a villain in the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
• Marcel, Ross Geller's pet monkey in the television series Friends
• Marcel, a fictional marketer in the music video of "Best Song Ever" by One Direction
• Marcel, a villager in the video game series Animal Crossing
• Marcel Gerard, a character in The Originals
• Marcel Galliard, a character in the Attack on Titan manga and anime.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Marcel