title: Torquil
text: # Torquil
  
  Torquil is an Anglicised form of the Norwegian and Swedish masculine name Torkel, and the Scottish Gaelic name Torcall. The Scottish Gaelic name Torcall is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse name Þorkell. The Scandinavian Torkel is a contracted form of the Old Norse Þorkell, made up of the two elements: Þór, meaning "Thor" the Norse god of thunder; and kell (in some variants ketill), meaning "(sacrificial) cauldron".
  
  A variant spelling of the Scottish Gaelic Torcall is Torcull. A similar Scottish Gaelic given name is Torcadall, which is also Anglicised as Torquil.
  
  ## Torquil
  
  * Torquil (priest), Archdeacon of Dublin in 1180
  * Torquil Campbell (born 1972), co-lead singer and songwriter of the Canadian band Stars
  * Torquil MacLeod, 14th century Scottish clan chief
  * Torquil MacLeod (clan chief), 16th-century Scottish clan chief
  * Torquil MacNeill, 16th century Scottish clan chief
  * Torquil Neilson, Australian actor
  * Torquil Norman (born 1933), English businessman
  * Torquil Riley-Smith (born 1962), founder of LBH, Britain's first gay radio station
  
  ## Torquhil
  
  * Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll (born 1968), Scottish peer
  * Torquhil Matheson (1871–1963), senior British Army officer of the First World War
  