Abel (surname)
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Meaning | "breath" from the given name Abel, the second son of Adam and Eve |
Related names | Aapeli |
Abel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arts
- Alan Abel (born 1930), American actor
- Alfred Abel (1879–1937), German film actor, director, and producer
- Bernhard, Arnold, and Florian Abel, two sculptors and a painter in the 16th century
- Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634–1696), German baroque composer
- Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682-1761), German baroque composer, son of former
- Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787), German classical composer, son of former
- Christian Ferdinand Abel (1682-1761), German baroque composer, son of former
- David Abel (1884–1973), American cinematographer
- Inga Abel (1946–2000), German actress
- Jack Abel (1927–1996), American comic book artist
- Jake Abel (born 1987), American actor
- Jessica Abel (born 1969), American comics writer
- John Abel (c. 1570–1675), English master carpenter
- Josef Abel (1768–1818), Austrian painter and etcher
- Ludwig Abel (1834–1895), German violinist, composer, and conductor
- Morten Abel (born 1962), Norwegian singer
- Myriam Abel (born 1981), French singer
- Robert Abel (animator) (1937–2001), American visual effects artist
- Sam Abell (born 1945), American photographer
- Steve Abel (born 1970), New Zealand singer-songwriter and environmental activist
- Walter Abel (1898–1987), American actor
History, medicine, religion, and politics
- Annie Heloise Abel (1873–1947), British historian
- Caspar Abel (1676–1763), German theologian, historian and poet
- Clarke Abel (1780–1826), British surgeon and naturalist
- Donald Abel (born 1952), Canadian politician
- Elie Abel (1921–2004), Canadian-American journalist, author and academic
- Elijah Abel (1810–1884), Elder and Seventy in the Latter Day Saint movement
- Friedrich Gottfried Abel (1714–1794), German physician and son of Caspar Abel
- Hazel Abel (1888–1966), American politician
- Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel (1824–1854), German historian
- Iorwith Wilbur Abel (1908–1987), American labor leader
- John Abel (Australian politician) (born 1939), Australian politician
- Johnny Abel (1947–1995), Canadian politician
- Karl von Abel (1788–1859), Bavarian statesman
- Richard Abel (lawyer), Professor of Law (now emeritus), specialist in African Law Studies and renowned socio-legal scholar
- Rudolf Abel, an alias of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (1903–1971), Soviet spy
- Sigurd Abel (1837–1873), German historian
- Shlomo Zalman Abel (1857–1866), Lithuanian rabbi
- Thomas Abel (c. 1490–1540), English priest
Mathematics, philosophy, science, and technology
- Carl Abel (1837–1906), German philologist
- Sir Frederick Abel (1827–1902), chemist who made a special study of explosives
- Jacob Friedrich von Abel (1751–1829), German philosopher, teacher of Schiller
- John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), American pharmacologist
- Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), Norwegian mathematician
- The Abel Prize given annually by the King of Norway and named after Niels Henrik Abel
- Abel (crater) on the Moon, named for Niels Henrik Abel[1]
- Othenio Abel (1875–1945), Austrian paleontologist
- Tom Abel (born 1970), German astrophysicist
- Wolfgang Abel (1905–1997), German anthropologist
Sports
- Bobby Abel (1857–1936), British cricketer
- Bobby Abel (racing driver) (1930–1995), racecar driver
- Fred Abel (1903-1980), American football player
- George Abel (1916–1996), Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Abel (born 1960), English footballer
- Hans-Joachim Abel (born 1952), German football (soccer) player
- Jennifer Abel (born 1991), Canadian Olympic diver
- Mathias Abel (born 1981), German football (soccer) player
- Neil Abel (born 1960), British ice hockey player
- Sid Abel (1918–2000), Canadian hockey player and coach
- Sten Abel (1872–1942), Norwegian Olympic sailor
- Taffy Abel (1900–1964), American ice hockey player
- Thomas Abel (footballer) (born 1974), Danish football player
- Tom Abel (cricketer) (1890–1937), first class cricketer who played for Surrey and Glamorgan
- William Abel (1887–1934), English cricketer
See also
References
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