Cecil (given name)

People

Male

• Cecil Banes-Walker, English cricketer
• Cecil A. Beasley, American lawyer and politician
• Cecil Beaton, English photographer
• Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, British racehorse trainer
• Cecil Brooks III, American drummer
• Cecil Calvert, several people
• Cecil Clarke, Canadian politician
• Cecil Clementi, British colonial administrator
• Cec Cooper, Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach
• Cecil Cooper, American baseball player and manager
• Cecil Cooper , English-Korean bishop
• Cecil Cooper , British priest and dean
• Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet
• Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and film producer
• Cecil Dolecheck, American politician from Iowa
• Cecil Duncan, Canadian ice hockey administrator
• Cecil Fielder, American baseball player
• Cecil Grigg, American football player
• Cecil Harcourt, British military officer
• Cecil Heftel, American politician in Hawaii
• Cecil Humphery-Smith, British genealogist and heraldist
• Cecil Kellaway, British-South African actor
• Cecil Leonard, American football player
• Cecil Mamiit, American tennis player representing the Philippines
• Cecil McBee, American jazz bassist
• Cecil Mountford, New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
• Cecil Parker, English character and comedy actor
• Cecil Parkinson, British politician
• Cecil Payne, American saxophonist
• Cecil Potter, former professional manager
• Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist
• Cecil Purdy, Australian chess player
• Cecil Rhodes, British imperialist and businessman
• Cecil Saint-Laurent, the nom de plume of Jacques Laurent, French writer and journalist
• Cecil Sandford, British motorcycle racer
• Cecil Sandford , Australian rules footballer
• Cecil Sharp, English folk-song collector
• Cecil Spring Rice, British diplomat
• Cecil W. Stoughton, American photographer
• Cecil Taylor, American pianist and poet
• Cecil Taylor , Scottish playwright
• Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe, British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir
• Cecil Waidyaratne, Sri Lankan military officer
• Rev. Hon. Cecil E. White, Minister of religion; born in County Antrim, Ireland.
• Cecil Williamson, English screenwriter, film editor, film director and Neopagan warlock
• Cecil Womack, American singer-songwriter and record producer
• Cecil Charles Worster-Drought, English physician

  Female

• Cecil Frances Alexander, Irish hymnist
• Cecil Arden, American opera singer
• Cecil Bødker, Danish writer
• Cecil Cunningham, American actress
• Cecil Woodham-Smith, British historian and biographer
• Cecil Castellucci, American writer and musician
• Cecil Kishimoto, Japanese fashion model

  Fictional characters

• Cecil, minor character from the NBC soap opera Passions
• Cecil, a character from the American animated series Beany and Cecil
• Cecil Adams, an author pseudonym in The Straight Dope newspaper column
• Cecil Aijima, a character in the anime series Uta no Prince-sama
• Cecil Fredericks, a character from the films Night at the Museum and
• Cecil Harvey, character in the Final Fantasy IV video game
• Cecil Gershwin Palmer, character in the Welcome to Night Vale podcast
• Cecil Sheffield, character in the King Falls AM podcast. Typically with Herschel F. Baumgartner.
• Cecil Sudo, the protagonist in the anime series Wizard Barristers
• Cecil Terwilliger, brother of Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons
• Cecil Turtle, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon character
• Cecil Vyse, a character from E. M. Forster's novel A Room with a View

  Others

• Cecil, a lion that had lived in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, until being killed by a hunter in 2015