Persons
- Hillel, the father of Abdon, a minor character in the Book of Judges
- Hillel the Elder (110 BCE – 10 CE), one of the most important religious leaders in Jewish history
- Hillel, son of Gamaliel III, a Jewish scholar in the 3rd century CE
- Hillel II, nasi of the ancient Jewish Sanhedrin between 320 and 385 CE
- Hillel ben Eliakim, 11th and 12th century Greek rabbi and Talmud scholar
- Hillel ben Samuel (c. 1220–1295), Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist
- Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi (1615–1690), Lithuanian rabbi
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915–1975), Israeli philosopher, mathematician, and linguist
- Shlomo Hillel (born 1923), Iraqi-born Israeli diplomat and politician
- Hillel Slovak (1962–1988), Israeli-American guitarist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Hillel Schwartz, Egyptian Jewish founder of the Iskra party
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