Pavel

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Field	Value
name	Pavel
gender	Male
origin	Latin
related names	Paul, Paulus, Pavol
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|footnotes = Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian: Павел; Czech, Slovene, and (although Romanian also uses Paul); ; ; ) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel may refer to:

People

Given name

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
Pavel Kastusik (born 1978), Belarusian artist
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 Schenk (1941–2025), Czech volleyball player
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

Surname

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

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
Pavel Pavlovich Antipov / Strelnikov, in Doctor Zhivago

References

[http://www.mfnames.com/mnames/p/origin-and-meaning-of-pavel.htm MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Pavel]
"MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Paul".

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