Abel (surname)
Abel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Arts
- Alan Abel, American prankster and writer
- Alfred Abel, German film actor, director, and producer
- Bernhard, Arnold, and Florian Abel, two sculptors and a painter in the 16th century
- Clamor Heinrich Abel, German baroque composer
- * Christian Ferdinand Abel, German baroque composer, son of former
- ** Carl Friedrich Abel, German classical composer, son of former
- Clementine Abel, German writer
- David Abel , American cinematographer
- Inga Abel, German actress
- Jack Abel, American comic book artist
- Jake Abel, American actor
- Jessica Abel, American comics writer
- John Abel, English master carpenter
- Josef Abel, Austrian painter and etcher
- Ludwig Abel, German violinist, composer, and conductor
- Morten Abel, Norwegian singer
- Myriam Abel, French singer
- Robert Abel , American visual effects artist
- Sam Abell, American photographer
- Steve Abel, New Zealand singer-songwriter and environmental activist
- Walter Abel, American actor
- Yves Abel, Canadian conductor
- Zak Abel, English singer/songwriter, musician, and table tennis player
History
- Annie Heloise Abel, British historian
- Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet
- Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel, German historian
- Sigurd Abel, German historian
- Félix-Marie Abel, French archaeologist, geographer and professor
- Frederick Abel, chemist who made a special study of explosives
- John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist
- Kathryn Abel, British clinical psychologist
- Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
- Othenio Abel, Austrian paleontologist
- Ted Abel, American neuroscientist
- Tom Abel, German astrophysicist
- Wolfgang Abel, German anthropologist
Medicine
- Clarke Abel, British surgeon and naturalist
- Friedrich Gottfried Abel, German physician and son of Caspar Abel
Politics
- Donald Abel, Canadian politician
- Hazel Abel, American politician
- John Abel , Australian politician
- Johnny Abel, Canadian politician
- Karl von Abel, Bavarian statesman
- Leighton Abel, American businessman and politician
Religion
- Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet
- Elijah Abel, Elder and Seventy in the Latter Day Saint movement
- Shlomo Zalman Abel, Lithuanian rabbi
- Thomas Abel, English priest
Sports
- Bobby Abel, British cricketer
- Bobby Abel , racecar driver
- Fred Abel, American football player
- George Abel, Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Abel, English footballer
- Hans-Joachim Abel, German footballer
- Jennifer Abel, Canadian Olympic diver
- Mathias Abel, German footballer
- Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player and coach
- Sten Abel, Norwegian Olympic sailor
- Taffy Abel, American ice hockey player
- Thomas Abel , Danish footballer
- Tom Abel , first class cricketer
- William Abel, English cricketer
Other
- Carl Abel, German philologist
- Elie Abel, Canadian-American journalist, author and academic
- Greg Abel, Canadian businessman
- Iorwith Wilbur Abel, American labor leader
- Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher, teacher of Schiller
- Richard Abel, professor of law
- Rudolf Abel, an alias of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, Soviet spy
