title: Menzel
text: # Menzel
  
  Menzel may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  Menzel is a surname of German origin. It can also be a transliteration of the Yiddish surname " מענטזעל "- a variant of the German surname.
  
  * Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), German artist
  * Christian Menzel (born 1971), German racecar driver
  * Daniel Menzel (born 1991), Australian footballer
  * Donald Howard Menzel (1901–1976), U.S. astronomer
  * Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr. (1929–2012), U.S. primatologist
  * Gerhard Menzel (1894–1966), German screenwriter
  * Idina Menzel (née Mentzel; born 1971), U.S. actress, singer, and songwriter
  * Jiří Menzel (1938–2020), Czech director
  * Joachim Menzel (1914–2005), German military officer
  * Josef Joachim Menzel (1933-2020), German historian
  * Herman Menzel (1904–1988), American artist
  * Max Menzel (born 1941), Australian politician
  * Paul Julius Menzel (1864–1927), German physician and paleobotanist
  * Paul Menzel (born ?), U.S. actor, writer, and producer
  * Peter Menzel (born 1948), U.S. photojournalist
  * Robert Menzel (born 1991), Polish footballer
  * Roderich Menzel (1907–1987), Czechoslovakian and German tennis player
  * Rudolphina Menzel (1891–1973), Austrian cynologist and animal behaviorist
  * Tim Menzel (born 1992), German rugby player
  * Troy Menzel (born 1994), Australian footballer
  * Wolfgang Menzel (1798–1873), German poet
  
  ## Places
  
  * Cape Menzel, on Thurston Island in Antarctica; named for geologist Reinhard W. Menzel
  
  Menzel is also the transliteration of Arabic word into the Latin alphabet which means "House" or "House of ---" (e.g. "Menzel Bourguiba" means "House of Bourguiba"). Many such place names exist, especially in Tunisia, but also Morocco.
  
     ### Morocco
  * El Menzel
  
     ### Tunisia
  * Menzel Abderrahmane
  * Menzel Bourguiba
  * Menzel Bouzaiane
  * Menzel Bouzelfa
  * Menzel Chaker
  * Menzel Ennour
  * Menzel Farsi
  * Menzel Hayet
  * Menzel Horr
  * Menzel Jemil
  * Menzel Kamel
  * Menzel Mehiri
  * Menzel Salem
  * Menzel Temime
  
  ## Other
  
  * Menzel (crater), a lunar crater named for Donald Howard Menzel
  * Menzel 3, a young bipolar planetary nebula named for Donald Howard Menzel
  * 1967 Menzel, an asteroid named for Donald Howard Menzel
  * Menzel (Djerba), a Tunisian housing type
  