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Jankel Adler •
Yankel Feather (1920-2009), British painter •
Yankele Hershkowitz • (1869-1940) Jewish Belarusian painter • Iankel-Meïer Nokhim-Aronovich Milkin or (1877-1944), Jewish Russian and French painter • Yankel Rosenthal, the namesake of the
Estadio Yankel Rosenthal, Honduras •
Yankel Talmud (1885-1965), Hasidic composer •
Jankiel Wiernik (1889-1972), Holocaust survivor • (1905-1938), Jewish Moldavian writer and poet • Yankel was the birth name of
Yakov Yurovsky (1878-1938), Jewish Russian revolutionary, best known for the assassination of the family of Tsar Nicholas II •
Yankel Zhuravitzer (1897–1938), rabbi and underground Chabad-Lubavitch activist in the Soviet Union ==Surname==