Pele (disambiguation)

Pelé is a Brazilian footballer, born Edison "Edson" Arantes do Nascimento in 1940.

Pele or Pelé may also refer to:

Film

• Pelé: Birth of a Legend, 2016 film about the Brazilian football player Pelé

Music

• Pele (American band)
• Pele (English band)
• "Pelé", a song by Pólo Norte from the album Deixa o Mundo Girar

People

This section lists people commonly referred to solely by this name.

• Pelé (footballer born 1978), Cape Verdean-Portuguese football defender
• Pelé (footballer born 1987), Portuguese football midfielder
• Pelé (footballer born 1991), Portuguese football midfielder of Guinea-Bissau descent
• Pelé, nickname for Macau football striker José Maria da Cruz Martins, manager of São Tomé e Príncipe

As surname

• Abédi Pelé (born Abédi Ayew), retired Ghanaian international footballer and captain
• Steven Pelé, French football goalkeeper
• Yohann Pelé, French football goalkeeper
• Bryan Pelé, French football defender
• Graziano Pellè, Italian football forward
• Eric Pele, American mixed martial artist and tattoo artist

As given name

• Pele Paelay, American basketball player
• Pelé Reid, British boxer

Science

• 2202 Pele, an asteroid
• Pele Island, located in the Shefa Province in Vanuatu
• Pele (volcano), an active volcano on Jupiter's moon Io

Other uses

• Pele (deity), the Fire Goddess, is the goddess of fire, lightning, wind and volcanoes and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands
• Pele, the Hungarian name for Becheni village, Săuca Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania

See also

• Pelee (disambiguation)
• Pelle (disambiguation)
• Boys for Pele, third album by American musician Tori Amos
• Pele's hair, a form of lava
• Peléan eruption, a type of volcanic eruption
• Pele FC, an association football club from Guyana
• Pelé's Soccer, a 1981 video game
• Pele tower, small fortified keep along the English and Scottish Borders
• Pelé dos Santos, character in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou