Abel (surname)

Abel

Origin
Word/name	Biblical
Meaning	"breath" from the given name Abel, the second son of Adam and Eve
Other names
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

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
• 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

See also

• Abel (disambiguation)