Abel (disambiguation)
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Abel may refer to:
Origins of the word
Abel is representative one of the Western Germanic and Nordic, and Yiddish lastnames.
In onomastics in Judaism, there are many derivative forms; Abelson, Abelman, Abeles, Abelev.. etc.
assumpted origines of the last names are below:
- Abel: Cain and Abel
- diminutive form of "ābh אָב, father",
- diminutive and shortened form of Abraham
derivated surnames from Abraham make up the forms such as Aber-: Aberl, Aberle/Aberles, Aberlein, Aberlin, Aberlieb, Friml, Bremel, etc.
People
- Abel - the second son of Adam
- Abel of Denmark - Danish monarch
- Abel Ferrara - New York-based film director
- Saint Abel, archbishop of Rheims, abbot of Lobbes
- Adolf Abel
- 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
- Clarke Abel, British surgeon and naturalist
- Donald Abel, Canadian politician
- 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
- Helmuth Abel, composer
- I. W. Abel - American labor leader
- Jacob Friedrich von Abel - German philosopher, teacher of Schiller
- Jessica Abel, American comics writer
- 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
- 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
- Sam Abell, American photographer
- Sid Abel, Canadian hockey player and coach
- Clarence "Taffy" Abel, American ice hockey player
- Sigurd Abel, German historian
- Tom Abel - German astrophysicist
- *Abel crater on the Moon, named for Tom Abel
- Walter Abel, American actor
Other
- ABEL programming language - a language for developing programmable logic devices
- Abel programming language - a language created at HP Labs
- Abel - a fictional character and archetype from the Fire Emblem video game series
- Abel - Mabel Motley's brother in the comic strip Motley's Crew
- Abel - a fictional character from Cain and Abel (comics), based on the biblical Abel, notably featured in The Sandman
- Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) project
- Abel - the remote portion of the Cain and Abel password recovery utility, see Cain (software)
- Abel's theorem - a mathematical tool to calculate the limit of power series
See also
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