Abel (surname)

Abel
Family name
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
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

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

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

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

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