Cornell (name)

Cornell is an English surname and given derived from a shortened form of Cornwall, Cornwell or Cornhill,^[1] and also a Dutch surname. Sometimes the name is an Americanized form of the Czech Kornel or the German and Swedish Kornell. In Dutch, and sometimes in English, the name derives from the Latin gens Cornelia, one of the most famous tribe in ancient republican Rome, to whom Publio Cornelio Scipio belonged. The name of the tribe survives in Italy as Corneli or Cornelli.

• Alonzo B. Cornell (1832–1904), American businessman and Governor of New York
• Bo Cornell (born 1949), American football player
• Brian Cornell, (born 1960), American businessman
• Charles G. Cornell (1827–1906), New York politician
• Chris Cornell (1964–2017), American musician
• David Cornell (born 1991), Welsh footballer
• Dewey Cornell, American psychologist
• Don Cornell (1919–2004), American singer
• Eric Allin Cornell (born 1961), American physicist
• Erik Cornell (1930–2024), Swedish diplomat
• Ezekiel Cornell (1732–1800), American delegate from Rhode Island to the Continental Congress
• Ezra Cornell (1807–1874), American businessman and co-founder of Cornell University
• George Cornell (c. 1928 – 1966), English criminal and murder victim
• George W. Cornell (1896–1988), New York politician
• James Cornell (1874–1946), Australian politician
• Jaraan Cornell (1976–2025), American basketball player
• Jashon Cornell (born 1997), American football player
• John Cornell (1941–2021), Australian actor and producer
• Joseph Cornell (1903–1972), American artist
• Julien Davies Cornell, American lawyer and pacifist who defended Ezra Pound
• Katharine Cornell (1892–1974), American stage actress
• Lyn Cornell (born 1940), English pop and jazz singer
• Paul Cornell (born 1967), British writer
• Paul Cornell (lawyer) (1822–1904), American lawyer and real estate speculator
• Ralph D. Cornell (1890–1972), an American landscape architect from Los Angeles, California
• Rick Cornell, American professional wrestler
• Robert John Cornell (1919–2009), American priest and politician representing Wisconsin in the House of Representatives
• Thomas Cornell (disambiguation), several people
• Sarah Maria Cornell, victim in the murder trial of Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery
• Vincent Cornell, American scholar of Islam
• Ward Cornell (1924–2000), Canadian broadcaster and educator

• Cornell Armstrong (born 1995), American football player
• Cornell Babendererde (born 1971), German politician
• Cornell N. Dypski (1931–2009), American politician
• Cornell Gowdy (born 1963), American football player
• Cornell Haynes Jr. (born 1974), American rapper, best known as Nelly
• Cornell Powell (born 1997), American football player

• Cornell (disambiguation)