List of Famous people named Neil

Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "America", "Yesterday's Songs" and "Heartlight". 38 songs by Diamond have featured in the Top 10 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts.

Neil Sedaka is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer. Since his music career began in 1957 as a short-lived founding member of the Tokens, he has sold millions of records as a performer and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and others, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.

Neil Jones is a British dancer and choreographer, best known for his role as a professional dancer in the BBC One dance series Strictly Come Dancing.

Neil "Razor" Ruddock is an English former professional footballer and television personality, who is currently a coach at Enfield. As a footballer he played as a central defender from 1986 to 2003, and was voted the 17th "hardest footballer of all time".

Aoutneil "Neil" Jacques Magny is an American professional mixed martial artist. He currently competes in the Welterweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). A professional MMA competitor since 2010, Magny made a name for himself as a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson. As of December 18, 2020, he is No. 9 in the UFC welterweight rankings.

Neil Niren Connery is a Scottish former actor and the younger brother of actor Sean Connery.

Neil Robertson is an Australian professional snooker player. He made his first breakthrough into the top professional ranks in the 2006–07 season. He won the 2010 World Championship and was the world number one later in the same year, a ranking that he attained again in 2013 and 2014. On 10 November, Neil Robertson won the 2019 Champion of Champions tournament for the second time in his career and secured his 19th ranking event.

Neil Francis Lennon is a football coach and former player from Northern Ireland who is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. He is in his second term as manager since 2019.

Cornelius "Neil" Horan, sometimes referred to as The Grand Prix Priest or The Dancing Priest, is a laicised Irish Roman Catholic priest who is noted for his interference with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the world is near.

Neil Druckmann is an Israeli-American writer, creative director, programmer and co-president of Naughty Dog, best known for his work on the Uncharted and The Last of Us video game franchises. He was born and raised until the age of 10 in Israel, where his experiences with entertainment would later influence his storytelling techniques. He studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University before searching for work in the video game industry.