Marcel (French: [maʁsɛl], Occitan: [maɾˈsɛl], Catalan: [məɾˈsɛl, maɾˈsɛl], Romanian: [marˈtʃel]) is an Occitan form of the Ancient Roman origin male given name Marcellus, which in Latin means "Belonging to Mars". The feminine counterpart of the name is Marcelle. It is used predominantly in France, Monaco, Catalonia, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Canada and partially in Poland and Romania. Similar sounding male form "Marcel" (Tatar, Bashkir: Марсел) is very distributed also in Tatarstan and Bashkiria since the middle of the 20th century, but has nothing to do with the Latin origin name Marcel.
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In the arts
Marcel (singer) (Marcel Francois Chagnon) (born 1975), American country music singer and songwriter known by the singular name, Marcel
Marcel Achard (1899–1974), French playwright and screenwriter
Marcel Alcalá (born 1990) American artist
Marcel Aymé (1902–1967), French author, screenwriter and playwright
Marcel Breuer (1902–1981), Hungarian-born American modernist, architect and furniture designer
Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), Belgian poet, artist and filmmaker
Marcel Camus (1912–1982), French film director
Marcel Carné (1906–1996), French film director
Marcel Cuvelier (1924–2015), French actor
Marcel Dadi (1951–1996), French guitarist and songwriter
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), French-American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements
Marcel Dupré (1886–1971), French organist, pianist, composer and pedagogue
Marcel Dzama (born 1974), Canadian artist known for small-scale ink and watercolor drawings
Marcel Everett (born 1995), American electronic musician better known as XXYYXX
Marcel Gotlib (1934–2016), French comics artist
Marcel Iureș (born 1951), Romanian actor
Marcel Janco (1895–1984), Israeli painter and architect
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979), French writer
Marcel Journet (actor) (1895–1973), French film and stage actor
Marcel Khalife (born 1950), Lebanese-French composer, singer and oud player
Marcel L'Herbier (1888–1979), French filmmaker
Marcel Marceau (1923–2007), French mime artist and actor
Marcel Martí (1925–2010), Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent
Marcel Moyse (1889–1984), French flutist
Marcel Mule (1901–2001), French classical saxophonist
Marcel Neels (1922–2016), Belgian cartoonist known as "Marc Sleen"
Marcel Olinescu (1896–1992), Romanian engraver
Marcel Ophuls (1927–2025), German-French documentary film maker and actor
Marcel Pagnol (1895–1975), French novelist, playwright and filmmaker
Marcel Poot (1901–1988), Belgian composer and music educator
Marcel Proust (1871–1922), French novelist, essayist, and critic
Marcel Rodríguez-López (born 1984), member of The Mars Volta and younger brother of Omar Rodriguez-Lopez
Marcel Romanescu (1897–1956), Romanian poet
Marcel Schwob (1867–1905), Jewish French symbolist writer
Marcel Simon (actor) (1872–1958), Belgian actor
Marcel Theo Hall (1964–2021), American rapper better known by his stage name Biz Markie
Marcel Vaid (born 1967), Swiss film composer
In sports
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born 1964), Dutch football player and coach
Marcel (footballer, born 1983), Marcel Silva Cardoso, Brazilian left back
Marcel (footballer, born 1992), Marcel Henrique Garcia Alves Pereira, Brazilian midfielder
Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder
Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian striker
Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian football player
Marcel Balkestein (born 1981), Dutch field hockey player
Marcel Barthel (born 1990), German professional wrestler known by his ring name Ludwig Kaiser
Marcel Braithwaite (born 1994), English professional boxer
Marcel Buysse (1889–1939), Belgian racing cyclist
Marcel Cerdan (1916–1949), French pied noir world boxing champion
Marcel Comeau (born 1952), Canadian ice hockey coach and NHL executive
Marcel Coraș (born 1959), Romanian footballer
Marcel Desailly (born 1968), French footballer
Marcel Dionne (born 1931), Canadian ice hockey player
In other fields
Marcel Alessandri (1895–1968), French Army general
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), French geologist
Marcel Bauer (born 1992), German politician
Marcel Berlins (1941–2019), Anglo-French lawyer, legal commentator, broadcaster, and columnist
Marcel Bich (1914–1994), French manufacturer of ballpoint pens
Marcel Bigeard (1916–2010), French Army general
Marcel Bouyer (1920–2000), French politician
Marcel Cachin (1869–1958), Breton politician, director of the communist newspaper L'Humanité
Marcel Carpentier (1895–1977), French Army general
Marcel Ciolacu (born 1967), Romanian politician
Marcel Claude (born 1957), Chilean economist and political activist
Marcel Dassault (1892–1986), French aircraft industrialist
Marcel Déat (1894–1955), French socialist turned fascist politician
Marcel Deprez (1843–1918), French electrical engineer
Marcel Desjardins (1941–2003), Canadian journalist, news editor, and director
Marcel Deviq (1907–1972), French engineer, businessman, and politician
In fiction
Marcel Galliard, a character in the Attack on Titan manga and anime.
Marcel Gerard, a character in The Originals
Marcel, a fictional marketer in the music video of "Best Song Ever" by One Direction
Marcel, a one inch tall shell that stars in the 2010 YouTube series of short films Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (short film series) and 2021 feature-length film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021 film)
Marcel, a villager in the video game series Animal Crossing
Marcel, a villain in the anime Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
Marcel, Ross Geller's pet monkey in the television series Friends