Abe (given name)
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This article is about the given name Abe. For other uses of Abe or ABE, see Abe (disambiguation).
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Abe (
/ˈeɪb/) is commonly used in English-speaking countries as a shortened form of the name "Abraham", or as a personal name in its own right.
People with the given name Abe:
- Abe Attell ("The Little Hebrew"; 1884-1970), American world champion Hall of Fame featherweight boxer
- Abe Burrows (1910–1985), American playwright/director
- Abe Goldstein (1898-1977), American world champion bantamweight boxer
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th president of the United States
- Abe Vigoda (born 1921), American actor
- Abe Fortas (1910–1982), Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Abe (Glenn) Osser (born 1914), American musician
- Abe Saperstein (1908-66), UK-born American founder & owner of the Harlem Globetrotters
Fictional characters with the given name Abe:
- Abraham Simpson, Famous cartoon grandfather
- Abe (Oddworld), primary protagonist in the Oddworld fictional universe.
- Abe Pollack, Fictional time travel theorist.
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- Old Abe (died 1881), a bald eagle, the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in the American Civil War.
- Abe (surname)
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