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Abel (surname)

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Aapeli

Meaning
  
"breath" from the given name Abel, the second son of Adam and Eve

Abel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Dallen Abel (Spokane WA)

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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
  • 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
  • Leighton Abel (1900-1975), American businessman and politician
  • 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
  • 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

    • References

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