Pavel

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 '
• Pavel, in Grand Theft Auto Online
• Pavel, in Epic Seven
• Pavel Vlasov in The Mother
• Hodari Pavel, in Palia
• Pavol, in Felvidék
• Pavel Yudin, '
• Pavel Pavlovich Antipov / Strelnikov, in Doctor Zhivago

See also

• Paval (disambiguation)
• Pavol
• Pavao (given name)
• Pavle

References