Abel (surname)

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| meaning = English Variation : "breath" from the given name Abel, the second son of Adam and Eve,

German Variation: “Noble one” in Old German

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Abel can be either a German or English surname. The German variant of the surname is a patronymic name, derived from the Old German personal name Abel, which means "noble one." The German variation does not appear to be derived from the biblical name Abel. The surname is associated with Swabia, in the southwest of Germany. {{cite book |last=Hanks |first=P. |title=Dictionary of American Family Names: 3-Volume Set |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |issue=v. 3 |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-19-508137-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vG7MZ9J6dAgC&pg=PA3 |access-date=2 September 2018 |page=3}}

Notable people with the surname include:

Arts

Alan Abel (1924–2018), American prankster and writer
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
Clementine Abel (1826–1905), German writer
David Abel (cinematographer) (1884–1973), American cinematographer
Ervin Abel (1929–1984), Estonian actor
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 (carpenter) (1578/9–1675), English master carpenter
Josef Abel (1768–1818), Austrian painter and etcher
Ludwig Abel (1834–1895), German violinist, composer, and conductor
Mari Abel (born 1975), Estonian actress
Morten Abel (born 1962), Norwegian singer
Myriam Abel (born 1981), French singer
Robert Abel (1937–2001), American visual effects artist
Robert H. Abel (1941–2017), American author
Rudolph E. Abel (1902–1974), American film and television producer
Sam Abell (born 1945), American photographer
Steve Abel (born 1970), New Zealand singer-songwriter and environmental activist
Walter Abel (1898–1987), American actor
Yves Abel (born 1963), Canadian conductor
Zak Abel (born 1995), English singer/songwriter, musician, and table tennis player

History

Annie Heloise Abel (1873–1947), British historian
Caspar Abel (1676–1763), German theologian, historian and poet
Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel (1824–1854), German historian
Sigurd Abel (1837–1873), German historian

Mathematics, science and technology

Félix-Marie Abel (1878–1953), French archaeologist, geographer and professor
Frederick Abel (1827–1902), chemist who made a special study of explosives
John Jacob Abel (1857–1938), American pharmacologist
Kathryn Abel (born 1961), British clinical psychologist
Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), Norwegian mathematician
Othenio Abel (1875–1945), Austrian paleontologist
Ted Abel, American neuroscientist
Theodore Fred Abel (1896–1988), American sociologist
Tom Abel (cosmologist) (born 1970), German astrophysicist
Wolfgang Abel (1905–1997), German anthropologist

Medicine

Clarke Abel (1780–1826), British surgeon and naturalist
Friedrich Gottfried Abel (1714–1794), German physician and son of Caspar Abel

Politics

Donald Abel (born 1952), Canadian politician
Hazel Abel (1888–1966), American politician
I. W. Abel (1908–1987), American labor leader
John Abel (Australian politician) (1939–2019), Australian politician
Johnny Abel (1947–1995), Canadian politician
Karl von Abel (1788–1859), Bavarian statesman
Leighton Abel (1900–1975), American businessman and politician
Søren Georg Abel (1772–1820), Norwegian priest and politician
Valentin Abel (born 1991), German politician

Religion

Caspar Abel (1676–1763), German theologian, historian and poet
Elijah Abel (1810–1884), Elder and Seventy in the Latter Day Saint movement
Shlomo Zalman Abel (1857–1866), Lithuanian rabbi
Thomas Abel (martyr) (c. 1490–1540), English priest

Sports

Anicet Abel (born 1990), Malagasy footballer
Bobby Abel (1857–1936), British cricketer
Chris Abel (1912–1986), English footballer
Florian Abel (born 1989), German footballer
Fred Abel (1903–1980), American football player
George Abel (1916–1996), Canadian ice hockey player
Gerry Abel (1944–2021), American ice hockey player
Graham Abel (born 1960), English footballer
Hans-Joachim Abel (born 1952), German footballer
Jacob Abel (racing driver) (born 2001), American racing driver
Jennifer Abel (born 1991), Canadian Olympic diver
Katrine Abel (born 1990), Danish footballer
Mathias Abel (born 1981), German footballer
Mick Abel (born 2001), American baseball 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 footballer
Tom Abel (cricketer) (1890–1937), first class cricketer
Torsten Abel (born 1974), German triathlete
William Abel (1887–1934), English cricketer

Other

Carl Abel (1837–1906), German philologist
Elie Abel (1921–2004), Canadian-American journalist, author and academic
Greg Abel (born 1962), Canadian businessman
Iorwith Wilbur Abel (1908–1987), American labor leader
Jacob Friedrich von Abel (1751–1829), German philosopher, teacher of Schiller
Richard Abel (lawyer), professor of law
Rudolf Abel, an alias of Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (1903–1971), Soviet spy