Abel

Abel is a surname.

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
• Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787), German classical composer
• Clamor Heinrich Abel (1634-1696), German classical composer
• 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
• Josef Abel (1768–1818), Austrian painter and etcher
• Josh Abel (born 1985), Icelandic-Canadian musician
• Ludwig Abel (1834-1895), German violinist, composer, and conductor
• Morten Abel (born 1962), Norwegian singer
• Myriam Abel (born 1981), French singer
• Robert Abel (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

Craft

• John Abel (c.1578–1675), English master carpenter
• Rudolf Abel, an alias of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (1903–1971), Soviet spy

History, medicine, religion, and politics

• Annie Heloise Abel (1873-1947), British historian
• Caspar Abel (1676–1763), German theologian, historian and poet
• Clarke Abel (c.1780-1826), British surgeon and naturalist
• Donald Abel (born 1952), Canadian politician
• Elie Abel (1920-2004), 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
• Sigurd Abel (1837–1873), German historian
• Shlomo Zalman Abel (1857–1886), Lithuanian rabbi
• Thomas Abel (c.1497–1540), English priest

Mathematics, philosophy, science, and technology

• Carl Abel (1837-1906), German philologist
• Sir Frederick Abel (1827–1902), a 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
• Othenio Abel (1875–1945), Austrian paleontologist
• Tom Abel, German astrophysicist
  • Abel (crater) on the Moon, named for Tom Abel
• Wolfgang Abel (1905-1997), German anthropologist

Sports

• Bobby Abel (1857–1936), British cricketer
• Bobby Abel (NASCAR driver) (1930-1995), racecar driver
• George Abel (born 1916), Canadian ice hockey player
• Graham Abel (born 1960), English footballer
• Hans-Joachim Abel (1952–), German football (soccer) player
• 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 (football) (born 1974), Danish football player
• Tom Abel (cricketer), a first class cricketer who played for Surrey and Glamorgan
• William Abel (1887-1934), English cricketer

See also

• Abel (disambiguation)

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