Ariel

Not to be confused with Aerial, Arial, or Airiel.

Ariel may refer to:

• Ariel (name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)

Places

• Ariel (moon), a moon of Uranus
• Jerusalem or Ariel, Israel
• Ariel (city), an Israeli settlement and city in the central West Bank
  • Ariel University, an Israeli university
• The Ariel, a pair of apartment buildings on Broadway, New York City
• Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, a town and its namesake lake in the United States
• Ariel, Washington
• Ariel School, an independent school in Ruwa, Zimbabwe

People

• Shelly Martinez or Ariel (born 1980), American professional wrestler and model
• Nazril Irham or Ariel (born 1981), vocalist of Noah, an Indonesian pop band
• Ana Rocha or Ariel (born 1984), Portuguese professional wrestler

Characters

• Ariel (The Tempest), a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
• Ariel (angel), an angel in Judaism, Christianity (Gnostic) and occult lore
• Ariel (Disney), a character of the 1989 film The Little Mermaid
• Kitty Pryde, a Marvel Comics character previously known by the codename Ariel
• Ariel (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics Universe
• Ariel (Once Upon a Time character)
• Ariel (Robotech), a character from Robotech

Publications

• "Ariel" (poem), a 1965 poem by Sylvia Plath
  • Ariel (poetry collection), a 1965 collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath containing the eponymous poem
• T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems, a series of poems by T. S. Eliot
• Ariel (novel), a 1941 science fiction novel by Alexander Beliaev
• Ariel, a 1900 work by José Enrique Rodó
• Ariel, a biography of Shelley by André Maurois
• Ariel, a 1983 post-apocalyptic fantasy by Steve Boyett

Journals and magazines

• Ariel (newspaper), the in-house magazine of the BBC
• Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, a periodical published in the 1970s in book form
• Ariel (campus newspaper), a former campus newspaper at the University of Minnesota
• Ariel, a comedic newspaper by Israel Zangwill

Transport

Cars and motorbikes

• Ariel (American automobile)
• Ariel Atom, a British sports car with an exoskeletal chassis
• Ariel Motor Company, a modern British car company
• Ariel Motorcycles, a former manufacturer of motorcycles, bicycles, and cars, including a car of the same name
• Ariel 3, the first artificial satellite designed and built in the United Kingdom
• Ariel Square Four, motorbike

Ships

• Ariel-class gunboat, a class of Royal Navy gunboats
• Ariel (clipper), a British clipper ship
• Ariel (schooner), a 4-masted schooner built by Matthew Turner
• HMS Ariel (1777), a 20-gun sixth rate, captured by the French in 1779 and lent to the Americans as USS Ariel
• HMS Ariel (1897), a D-class destroyer
• HMS Ariel (1911), an Acheron-class destroyer
• ST Ariel, a tugboat
• USS Ariel (1777), a 16-gun sloop-of-war, originally the Royal Navy's HMS Ariel
• USS Ariel (1813), a schooner launched on Lake Erie
• USS Ariel (1862), a schooner captured in the American Civil War and used by the Navy
• USS Ariel (AF-22), a passenger and refrigerated cargo liner leased from the United Fruit Company and used from 1942 to 1946

Film and television

• Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award
• Ariel (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki
• "Ariel" (Firefly episode) (2002)
• "Ariel" (Once Upon a Time), a 2013 episode of Once Upon a Time
• Ariel (anime), a 1991 anime video series
• Ariel, a planet visited in "The Last Sunset", an episode of Space: 1999

Music

Bands

• Ariel (Australian band), an Australian rock band of the mid-1970s
• Ariel (Russian band), a band based in Chelyabinsk, Russia

Albums

• Ariels (album), a 2004 album by Bent
• Ariel, an EP by Alpha

Songs

• "Ariel" (song), a 1977 song by Dean Friedman
• "Ariel", a song by The Cure from The Top
• "Ariel", a song by Rainbow from Stranger in Us All
• "Ariel", a song by Babes In Toyland from Nemesisters
• "Ariel", a song by Diane Birch from Bible Belt
• "Ariel", a song by Braid from Frame & Canvas

Classical

• Ariel, a 1971 vocal work by Ned Rorem
• Ariel Fantasy, a 2001 work for solo instrument and piano by Paul Moravec
• Ariel, a ballet by Roberto Gerhard

Other uses

• Ariel (detergent), a fabric care brand
• Ariel programme, a British satellite research programme
• Operation Ariel, the British military evacuation from western France in World War II
• ARIEL, an ESA mission to study exoplanet atmospheres
• Dorcas gazelle or ariel gazelle

People with the surname

• Meir Ariel (1942–1999), Israeli singer-songwriter
• Uri Ariel (born 1952), Israeli politician

See also

• Arielle (given name)
• Aerial (disambiguation)
• Arial, a font
• Ari (lion)
• Ari (name)
• HMS Ariel, a list of ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Ariel, a list of ships of the US Navy