Bogomil (name)

Bogomil / Bogumił / Bohumil
Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	Dear to God
Other names
Variant form(s)	Bogomila (f), Bogumiła (f), Bohumila (f)
Related names	Bogusław, Bogdan; Amadeus, Theophil, Gottlieb

Bogomil (Cyrillic: Богомил, also Bogumił in Polish, Bohumil in Czech and Slovak) is a given name of Slavic origin. It is composed of the Slavic words 'bog' (god) and 'mil' (dear) and literally means 'Dear to God'. Thus it is considered as the equivalent to Latin Amadeus, Greek Theophil and German Gottlieb. Its feminine equivalents are Bogomila, Bogumiła, Bohumila. The sound change of 'g' > 'h' occurred in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech and Slovak. The name may refer to:

People

• Bogomil (priest), medieval Bulgarian monk, founder of the Gnostic sect known as Bogomilism
• blessed Bogumilus (Bogumił) (died 1182 or 1204), archbishop of Gniezno and hermit
• Bogomil Avramov, Bulgarian writer
• Bogumil Dawison, German actor
• Bogomil Dyakov, Bulgarian footballer
• Bogomil Gjuzel, Macedonian writer
• Bogumił (Archbishop of Gniezno) (died 1092)
• Bogumil Goltz, German humorist and satirist
• Bogumił Grott, Polish historian, lecturer and professor at the Institute of Religious Studies of Jagiellonian University in Kraków
• Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer
• Bogumił Kobiela, Polish film actor
• Bogumiła Lisocka-Jaegermann, Polish social scientist and writer, specialising in the fields of history and development of the Third World and developing countries
• Bogumil Vošnjak, Slovenian liberal politician

Fictional characters

• Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop

External links

• Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Bogumił