Cecil

Cecil (/'siːsəl/, /'sɛsəl/) may refer to:

Places

• Cecil, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States
• Cecil, Georgia, United States
• Cecil, Ohio, United States
• Cecil, Oregon, United States
• Cecil, Pennsylvania, United States
• Cecil, West Virginia
• Cecil, Wisconsin, United States
• Cecil College, a community college
• Cecil County, Maryland, United States
• Cecil Airport, an airport in Jacksonville, Florida, United States

People

Given name Cecil

• Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895), Irish hymnist
• Cecil Arden (1894–1989), American opera singer (mezzo-soprano/contralto)
• Cecil Banes-Walker (1888–1915), English first-class cricketer
• Cecil Beaton(1904–1980), English photographer and Academy Award-winner
• Cecil Bødker (born 1927), Danish writer
• Cecil Boyd-Rochfort (1887–1983), British thoroughbred racehorse trainer
• Cecil Brooks III (born 1961), American jazz drummer
• Cecil Castellucci (born 1969), American writer and musician
• Cecil Clarke (born 1968), Canadian Legislative Assemblymen
• Cecil Cooper (born 1949), American baseball player and manager
• Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972), Irish poet and the British Poet Laureate
• Cecil Dolecheck (born 1951), Iowa State Representative from the 96th District
• Cecil Fielder (born 1963), American baseball player
• Cecil Grigg (1891–1968), American football player
• Cecil Heftel (1924–2010), American politician in Hawaii
• Cecil Humphery-Smith (born 1928), British genealogist and heraldist
• Cecil Mamiit (born 1977), American tennis player representing the Philippines
• Cecil McBee (born 1935), American post bop jazz bassist
• Cecil Mountford (1919–2009), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach
• Cecil Parker (1897–1971), English character and comedy actor
• Cecil Parkinson (born 1931), British politician
• Cecil Potter (born 1888), former professional manager
• Cecil Frank Powell (1903–1969), British physicist and Nobel laureate
• Cecil Purdy (1906–1979), Australian chess player
• Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), British imperialist and businessman
• Cecil Saint-Laurent, the nom de plume of Jacques Laurent
• Cecil Sandford (born 1928), British former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
• Cecil Spring-Rice (1859–1918), British diplomat and Ambassador to United States 1912–1918
• Cecil Taylor (born 1929), American pianist and poet
• Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe (1863–1949), British missionary and educationalist, working in Kashmir\
• Cecil Williamson (1909–1999), influential English Neopagan Witch
• Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896–1977), British historian and biographer
• Cecil Charles Worster-Drought (1888–1971), English physician

Surname Cecil

• Brett Cecil (born 1986), Canadian baseball pitcher
• Chuck Cecil (born 1964), American football player
• Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
• Henry Cecil Leon (1902–1976), judge and author
• Malcolm Cecil (born 1937), British jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winning record producer
• Rex Cecil (1916–1966), American baseball pitcher 1944–1945
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley or Lord Burghley (1520–1598), English statesman, the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I

Cecil may also refer to:

• Marquess of Salisbury, which has a family name of Cecil
• Marquess of Exeter, which has a family name of Cecil

Other

• Caecilius of Elvira, patron saint of Granada

Characters

• Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy), main character of Square's Final Fantasy IV video game
• Cecil Adams, an author pseudonym in The Straight Dope newspaper column
• Cecil Vyse (A Room with a View), character in E. M. Forester's novel A Room with a View

Other

• The Cecil, a heritage hotel in Shimla, India, built in 1884
• Cecil (programming language), prototype-based programming language
• CeCILL, a French free software licence
• Beany and Cecil, a 1960s American animated series
• CECIL, a Learning Management System by University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Cecil, Danish cigarette brand by House of Prince
• Cecil (soil), the dominant red clay soil in the American South
• Cecil (Passions), minor character from the NBC soap opera Passions
• Long Cecil, a gun

See also

• Cecil Hotel (disambiguation)