Dell (name)
Dell is an English unisex given name, nickname, and surname. It means "small valley or glen" and comes from the Old English word del.[1]
Its feminine form, popular in the early 20th C., is Della.[1]
Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
Given name or nickname
People
- Dell Alston (born 1952), American baseball player
- Dell Curry (born 1964), American former National Basketball Association player
- Dell L. Dailey (born 1949), American retired lieutenant general and government official
- Dell Darling (1861–1904), American baseball player
- Dell Demps (born 1970), American basketball player and executive
- Dell Henderson (1877–1956), Canadian actor, director and writer
- Dell Hymes (1927–2009), American ethnographer, sociolinguist, anthropologist and folklorist
- Dell Morgan (c. 1900–1962), American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball
- Dell O'Dell (1902–1962), stage name of American magician Odella Newton
- Dell Raybould (born 1933), American politician
- Dell Sanchez, former social worker, educator, and broadcasting executive
- Dell Williams (1922–2015), American feminist and businesswoman
Fictional characters
- Dell Conagher, also known as the Engineer, a playable character in the video game Team Fortress 2
- Dell Parker, in the TV series Private Practice
- Dell Toledo, in American Horror Story: Freak Show
Surname
- Aaron Dell (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Alan Dell (1924–1995), British radio broadcaster
- Allan Dell (born 1992), South African-born Scottish rugby player
- Bernard Dell (born 1949), Australian botanist
- Christian Dell (1893–1974), German silversmith and designer
- Christopher Dell (born 1956), American diplomat
- Christopher Dell (cricketer) (born 1960), Australian former cricketer
- Claudia Dell (1910–1977), American showgirl and actress
- Diana Dell (1982), Russian actress
- Dick Dell (born 1947), American tennis player
- Donald Dell (born 1938), American tennis player
- Dorothy Dell (1915–1934), American actress
- Edmund Dell (1921–1999), British politician
- Ethel M. Dell (1881–1939), British romance novelist
- Floyd Dell (1887–1969), American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright and poet
- Gabriel Dell (1919–1988), American actor, one of the Dead End Kids
- Gaye Dell (born 1948), Australian hurdler and children's author
- Glen Dell (1962–2013), South African commercial airline trainer and aerobatics pilot
- Jimmy Dell (1924–2008), British test pilot
- John Henry Dell (1830–1888), English landscape artist and illustrator
- Michael Dell (born 1965), American businessman, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.
- Miriam Dell (1924–2022), New Zealand women's advocate
- Peter Dell the Elder (1490–1552), German sculptor
- Philip Dell, American politician in Florida from the 1820s to the 1850s and plantation owner
- Richard Dell (1920–2002), New Zealand malacologist
- Roger L. Dell (1897–1966), American jurist
- Salome Dell (born 1983), athlete from Papua New Guinea
- Tank Dell (born 1999), American football player
- Tony Dell (born 1947), Australian cricketer
- Wheezer Dell (1886–1966), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- William Dell (c. 1607–1669), English clergyman and radical Parliamentarian
See also
- Big Dell, nickname of Wendell Sailor (born 1974), Australian rugby footballer
- Del (disambiguation), contains list of people with given name Del
- O'Dell, a surname
References
- Norman, Tessa (July 2003). A World of Baby Names. New York: Perigree. p. 126. ISBN 0-399-52894-6.
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