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.
Its feminine form, popular in the early 20th century, is Della.
Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
Given name or nickname
People
- Dell Alston, American baseball player
- Dell Curry, American former National Basketball Association player
- Dell L. Dailey, American retired lieutenant general and government official
- Dell Darling, American baseball player
- Dell Demps, American basketball player and executive
- Dell Henderson, Canadian actor, director and writer
- Dell Hymes, American ethnographer, sociolinguist, anthropologist and folklorist
- Dell Morgan, American football player and coach of football, basketball and baseball
- Dell O'Dell, stage name of American magician Odella Newton
- Dell Pettus, American football player
- Dell Raybould, American politician
- Dell Williams, American feminist and businesswoman
Fictional characters
- Dell, in Fields of Mistria
- Dell Conagher, in Team Fortress 2
- Dell Parker, in the TV series Private Practice
- Dell Toledo, in ''American Horror Story: Freak Show''
Surname
- Aaron Dell, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- Alan Dell, British radio broadcaster
- Allan Dell, South African-born Scottish rugby player
- Bernard Dell, Australian botanist
- Christian Dell, German silversmith and designer
- Christopher Dell, American diplomat
- Christopher Dell (cricketer), Australian former cricketer
- Claudia Dell, American showgirl and actress
- Diana Dell, Russian actress
- Dick Dell, American tennis player
- Donald Dell, American tennis player
- Dorothy Dell, American actress
- Edmund Dell, British politician
- Ethel M. Dell, British romance novelist
- Floyd Dell, American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright and poet
- Gabriel Dell, American actor, one of the Dead End Kids
- Gaye Dell, Australian hurdler and children's author
- Glen Dell, South African commercial airline trainer and aerobatics pilot
- Jimmy Dell, British test pilot
- John Henry Dell, English landscape artist and illustrator
- Michael Dell, American businessman, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc.
- Miriam Dell, New Zealand women's advocate
- Peter Dell the Elder, German sculptor
- Philip Dell, American politician in Florida from the 1820s to the 1850s and plantation owner
- Richard Dell, New Zealand malacologist
- Roger L. Dell, American jurist
- Salome Dell, athlete from Papua New Guinea
- Tank Dell, American football player
- Tony Dell, Australian cricketer
- Wheezer Dell, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- William Dell, English clergyman and radical Parliamentarian