Pavel

For the village, see Pavel (village). For the rock band, see Pavel (band).

Not to be confused with Paval.

PavelGender| Male

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Origin
Word/name| Latin
Other names
Related names| Paul, Paulus, Pavol

Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and Romanian: Pavel (although Romanian also uses Paul); Polish: Paweł; Slovak: Pavol; Ukrainian: Павло, romanized: Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos).[1][2] Pavel may refer to:

## People

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### Given name

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* Pavel I of Russia (1754-1801), Emperor of Russia
* Paweł Adamowicz (1965–2019), Polish politician
* Paweł Brożek (born 1983), Polish footballer
* Paweł Cibicki (born 1994), Swedish footballer
* Paweł Deląg (born 1970), Polish actor
* Pavel Durov (born 1984), Telegram founder
* Paweł Fajdek (born 1989), Polish hammer thrower
* Pavel Haas (1899–1944), Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust
* Paweł Jasienica (1909–1970), Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier
* Paweł Kisielow (born 1945), Polish immunologist
* Paweł Kontny (1910–1945), Polish Roman Catholic priest, killed by Soviet soldiers
* Pavel Kustov (born 1965), Soviet ski jumper
* Pavel Kuzmich (born 1988), Russian luger
* Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Polish composer
* Paweł Mąciwoda (born 1967), Polish bassist for the German rock band Scorpions
* Paweł Mykietyn (born 1971), Polish composer
* Pavel Nedvěd (born 1972), Czech footballer
* Paweł Pawlikowski (born 1957), Polish film director
* Pavel Prigozhin (born 1998), son of Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin
* Pavel Starostin (born 1955), Estonian politician
* Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797–1873), Polish explorer, geologist, environmentalist and philanthropist
* Pavel Traubner (1941–2024), Slovak neurologist
* Paweł Warszawski (born 1981), Polish equestrian
* Paweł Włodkowic (ca. 1370–1435), Polish scholar, jurist and rector of the Kraków Academy
* Paweł Wszołek (born 1992), Polish footballer
* Paweł Zagumny (born 1997), Polish volleyball player
* Pavel (film director), an Indian Bengali film director
* All pages with titles beginning with Pavel

### Surname

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* Ágoston Pável (1886–1946), Hungarian Slovene writer, poet, ethnologist, linguist and historian
* Andrei Pavel (born 1974), Romanian tennis coach and former professional tennis player
* Claudia Pavel (born 1984), Romanian pop singer and dancer also known as Claudia Cream
* Elisabeth Pavel (born 1990), Romanian basketball player
* Ernst Pavel, Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
* Harry Pavel (born 1951), German wheelchair curler, 2018 Winter Paralympian
* Lacra Pavel (born 1965), Romanian and Canadian game theorist
* Marcel Pavel (born 1959), Romanian folk singer
* Ondřej Pavel (born 2000), Czech ice hockey player
* Pavel Pavel (born 1957), Czech engineer and experimental archaeologist
* Petr Pavel (born 1961), Czech army general, president of Czech Republic
* Szarlota Pawel (1950–2018), Polish comic book artist

## Fictional characters

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* Pavel Korchagin, in How the Steel Was Tempered
* Pavel Chekov, in Star Trek
* Doctor Leonid Pavel, in The Dark Knight Rises
* Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov, in The Brothers Karamazov
* Fra Pavel, in His Dark Materials
* Pavel, in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
* Pavel Morozov, in Metro: Last Light
* Pavel, in Grand Theft Auto Online
* Pavel, in Epic Seven
* Pavel Vlasov in The Mother
* Hodari Pavel, in Palia
* Pavol, in Felvidék
* Pavel Yudin, Fear & Hunger 2: Termina

## See also

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* Paval (disambiguation)
* Pavol
* Pavao (given name)
* Pavle
* All pages with titles beginning with pavel
* All pages with titles beginning with paweł
* All pages with titles containing pavel

## References

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1. ^ MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Pavel
2. ^ "MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Paul". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2009-03-16.

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