Ansel
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Ansel may refer to:
[edit] General
- ANSEL, American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use, is a character set used in text encoding
- Ansel Adams Award (disambiguation), various awards
[edit] People
[edit] Given name
Ansel is derived from the same root as Anselm. Medieaval Germanic name of uncertain meaning, perhaps 'follower of a nobleman' or 'god's helmet'. Also spelt Ancel.
- Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley
- Ansel Briggs (1806–1881), first governor of Iowa (1846-1850)
- Ansel Franklin Hall (1894–1962), American naturalist
- Ansel Sterling (1782-1853), United States Representative from Connecticut
- Ansel Talbert (?-1987), American aviation journalist
- Ansel Williamson, African American thoroughbred horse racing trainer (19th century)
- Ansel Watrous, U.S. newspaper editor and historian
- Edgar Ansel Mowrer, American journalist, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his reporting on the rise of Adolf Hitler
[edit] Family name
- Karen Ansel, noted film and TV computer graphics specialist in the United States
- Martin Frederick Ansel (1850–1945), Democratic Governor of South Carolina (1907-1911)
[edit] Places
- Ansel, California, in Kern County
- Ansel Adams Wilderness, wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California,USA
- Ansel Township, Cass County, Minnesota, township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States
- Mount Ansel Adams, 11,760-foot peak in the Sierra Nevada
[edit] See also
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