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Emil Aaltonen (1869–1949), Finnish industrialist and philanthropist •
Emil Andersson (sport shooter) (born 1979), Swedish running target shooter •
Emil Andersson (table tennis) (born 1993), Swedish table tennis player •
Emil Artin (1898–1962), Austrian mathematician •
Emil Atlason (born 1993), Icelandic footballer •
Emil Bachrach (1874–1937), Russian-American entrepreneur •
Emil Barth (1879–1941), German Social Democratic party worker •
Emil von Behring (1854–1917), German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine •
Emil Bemström (born 1999), Swedish ice hockey player •
Emil Berg, Swedish singer •
Emil Berna (1907–2000), Swiss cinematographer •
Emil Bove (born ), American attorney •
Emil Brown (born 1974), American baseball outfielder •
Emil Brunner (1889–1966), Swiss theologian •
Emil Calmanovici (1896–1956), Romanian businessman and communist militant •
Emil Cedercreutz (1879–1949), Finnish sculptor •
Emil Chuprenski (born 1960), Bulgarian boxer •
Emil Cioran (1911–1995), French-Romanian writer •
Emil Constantinescu (born 1939), President of Romania from 1996 to 2000 •
Emil Dardak (born 1984), Indonesian politician •
Emil (Fritz) Dietrich (1898–1948), German Nazi SS officer executed for war crimes •
Emil Dill (1861–1938), Swiss painter •
Emil Dimitriev (born 1979), interim Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia •
Emil Dimitrov (1940–2005), Bulgarian singer •
Emil Dorian (1893–1956), Romanian poet and prose writer •
Emil Ekiyor Jr. (born 2000), American football player •
Emil Ferris (born 1962), American writer, cartoonist, and designer •
Emil Fischer (disambiguation), several people •
Emil Fjellström (1884–1944), Swedish actor •
Emil Forsberg (born 1991), Swedish international footballer •
Emil Forselius (1974–2010), Swedish actor •
Emil Gilels (1916–1985), Russian pianist •
Emil Giurgiuca (1906–1992), Romanian poet •
Emil Guillermo (born c. 1959), American Journalist,Comic monologist •
Emil Hácha (1872–1945), president of Czechoslovakia •
Emil Hedvall (born 1983), Swedish footballer •
Emil G. Hirsch (1852–1923), American rabbi •
Emil Jannings (1884–1950), German actor •
Emil Johansson (disambiguation), multiple people •
Emil Johnson (born c. 1966), drummer for Black Flag •
Emil Jones (born 1935), American politician, president of the Illinois State Senate •
Emil Jones, III (born 1978), American politician, Illinois Senate member •
Emil Kapaun (1916–1951), Roman Catholic priest, US Army Chaplain who died in the Korean War, US Congressional Medal of Honor in 2013 •
Emil Karas (1933–1974), American football linebacker for the San Diego Chargers •
Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), Swiss physician and researcher, received the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine •
Emil Kostadinov (born 1967), Bulgarian football player •
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist •
Emil Krupa-Krupinsky (1872–1924), German portrait painter, genre painter and graphic artist •
Emil Lenz, Russian physicist and creator of Lenz's law •
Emil Lerp (1886–1966), German businessman and inventor •
Emil Lindenfeld (1905–1986), Hungarian-American oil-painter •
Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), German-Swiss biographer •
Emil Mangelsdorff (1925–2022), German jazz musician •
Emil Martinec (born 1958), American theoretical physics professor •
Emil Maurice (1897–1972), founding member of the SS and Hitler's personal chauffeur during the 1920s •
Emil Miljković (born 1988), Bosnian footballer •
Emil Minty (born 1972), Australian former child actor •
Emil Molt (1876–1936), German industrialist, social reformer, and anthroposophist •
Emil Nödtveidt (born 1976), Swedish guitarist in the band
Deathstars •
Emil Nolde (1867–1956), German painter and printmaker •
Emil Paleček (1930–2018), Czech biochemist •
Emil Leon Post (1897–1954), American mathematician •
Emil Perttilä (1875–1933), Finnish politician •
Emil Puhl (1889–1962), German Nazi-era economist and banking official •
Emil Rebreanu (died 1917), Austro-Hungarian Romanian military officer •
Emil Salim (born 1930), Indonesian politician and economist •
Emil Savundra (1923–1976), British-Tamil businessman convicted of fraud •
Emil Ludwig Schmidt (1837–1906), German anthropologist and ethnologist •
Emil Schult (born 1946), German artist and collaborator with seminal electronic music group Kraftwerk •
Emil Schulz (1938–2010), German boxer •
Emil Seckel (1864–1924), German jurist and law historian •
Emil Sitka (1914–1998), American actor •
Emil Škoda (1839–1900), Czech engineer •
Emil Steinberger (actor), Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor •
Emil Steinberger (endocrinologist), American endocrinologist •
Emil Stoyanov (born 1959), Bulgarian politician •
Emil Sumangil, Filipino journalist •
Emil Szolomajer (born 1974), Romanian soccer player •
Emil Unanue (1934–2022), Cuban immunologist •
Emil Unfried (1892–1949), German communist politician and businessman •
Emil Urbel (born 1959), Estonian architect •
Emil Utitz (1883–1956), Czech philosopher •
Emil "Teddy" Vorster (1910–1976), German racing driver and entrepreneur •
Emil Werstler, American guitarist for death metal band
Dååth •
Emil Wilbekin (born 1967), American journalist •
Emil Wingstedt (born 1975), Swedish orienteering competitor •
Emil Wojtaszek (1927–2017), Polish politician •
Emil Zátopek (1922–2000), Czech long-distance runner •
Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885), Austrian physician and mountain climber == Emile or Émile ==