When the book was published in West Germany in the 1960s, another "Emil" was already well known in children's literature, the boy Emil Tischbein in Erich Kästner's "Emil und die Detektive" from the 1920s.
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | Emil Nolde | Emil Adolf von Behring | Hermann Emil Fischer | Emil Gilels | Emil Fischer | Emil Schult | Emil Constantinescu | Emil Brumaru | Franz Joseph Emil Fischer | Emil Viklický | Emil Steinberger | Emil Rödiger | Emil Nofal | Emil Młynarski | Emil Jakob Schindler | Emil Holub | Emil Haury | Emil Ghuri | Emil du Bois-Reymond | Emil Beaulieau | Emil Zátopek | Emil von Sauer | Emil Theodor Kocher | Emil Savundra | Emil River | Emil Lederer | Emil Kraepelin | Emil Knoevenagel | Emil Kapaun |
Mariannelund is probably mostly known through the stories of Astrid Lindgren, mostly her books about Emil i Lönneberga.
Jan Ohlsson (born 1962), Swedish former child actor, known for his role as Emil in Emil i Lönneberga