Abel (disambiguation)

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Abel is a biblical forename which may derive from the Hebrew "Hebel", itself derived from "hevel" ("breath or vapour"), or from the Assyrian for "son". In reference to the biblical story, the name Abel often occurs with that of his brother, as Cain and Abel.

Based on its occurrence in the Bible the name Abel has been used in many European languages; in English it was mostly used by the Puritans in the 17th Century.

urname

* Abel (surname)
* Carl Friedrich Abel, composer of the classical era
* Niels Henrik Abel, the Norwegian mathematician

Given name

*Abel, the second son of Adam
*Abel (saint), a saint of the Syrian church
*Abel of Reims, saint, archbishop of Reims and abbot of Lobbes
*Abel of Denmark, a Danish monarch
*Abel of Tacla Haimonot, a saint of the Abyssinian Church
*Abel, the name given to the first and only specimen ever discovered of "Australopithecus bahrelghazali"
*Abel Balbo, Argentine football player
*Abel Braga, Brazilian football manager
*Abel Chimukoko, Zimbabwean long-distance runner
*Abel Ferrara, American film director
*Abel Garcia, I am real DONT DELETE ME
*Abel Garza III, I am real too
*Abel McAedh, an Irish saint of the Christian church
*Abel Muzorewa, Rhodesian/Zimbabwean politician/bishop
*Abel Pacheco, former president of Costa Rica
*Abel Resino, Spanish football manager and former goalkeeper
*Abel Tapia, an American senator of the Colorado General Assembly
*Abel Tasman, Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant

Fictional characters

*Abel Nightroad, a character in the anime "Trinity Blood"
*Abel Rosnovski, a character in the Jeffrey Archer novel "Kane and Abel"
*Abel Motley, Mabel's brother in the comic strip "Motley's Crew"
*Abel, of "Cain and Abel (comics)", a fictional character in DC Comics
*Abel, the main character in Dragon Warrior
*Abel, a character in the Street Fighter series of games.
*Abel, a character in the "Battle Arena Toshinden" video game series
*Abel, the main enemy of Athena's saints in Legend of Crimson Youth movie in Saint Seiya's anime series.

Other uses

*Abel (album), an EP by Japanese rock band Unsraw
*Abel (crater), a lunar crater
*Abel (film), a 1986 dutch film by Alex van Warmerdam
*Abel (object-oriented programming language), a language created at HP Labs
*Advanced Boolean Expression Language, a hardware description language for developing programmable logic devices
*Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning, a Canadian project to use videoconferencing in schools as an educational resource

ee also

* Abelson
* Abell
* Abele
* Abels
* Abelian