Abel (surname)
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Abel is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alan Abel, American hoaxer
- Bernhard Abel and his brothers Arnold Abel and Florian Abel, sculptors and painters in the XVI century
- Bobby Abel, British cricketer
- Carl Friedrich Abel (Karl Friedrich Abel)
- Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian and poet
- Clarence "Taffy" Abel, American ice hockey player
- Clarke Abel, British surgeon and naturalist
- Donald Abel, Canadian politician
- Elie Abel
- Elijah Abel
- Sir Frederick Augustus Abel (1827 - ?), a chemist who made a special study of explosives.
- Friedrich Gottfried Abel (1714-1794), German physician and son of Caspar Abel
- Hans-Joachim Abel, German football (soccer) player
- Hazel Abel
- Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel
- I. W. Abel, American labor leader
- Inga Abel
- Jacob Friedrich von Abel, German philosopher, teacher of Schiller
- Jack Abel
- Jake Abel
- Jessica Abel, American comics writer
- Johannes Abel
- John Abel, English master carpenter
- John Jacob Abel, American pharmacologist
- Josef Abel, Austrian painter and etcher
- Karl Friedrich Abel, German composer
- Karl von Abel, Bavarian statesman
- Mathias Abel, German football (soccer) player
- Morten Abel, Norwegian singer
- Myriam Abel
- Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
- The Abel Prize given annually by the King of Norway, which is named after Niels Henrik Abel
- Othenio Abel, Austrian paleontologist
- Robert Abel
- Sam Abell, American photographer
- Shlomo Zalman Abel
- Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player and coach
- Sigurd Abel, German historian
- Thomas Abel
- Tom Abel - German astrophysicist
- Abel crater on the Moon, named for Tom Abel
- Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher alias Rudolf Abel, Soviet spy
- Walter Abel, American actor