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surname, from the given name

Abel Abel ''Hábel''; ar, هابيل, Hābīl is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He was the younger brother of Cain, and the younger son of Adam and Eve, the first couple in Biblical history. He was a shepher ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

Abraham Abell Abraham Abell (11 April 1782 – 12 February 1851) was an Irish antiquarian. Early career Abell was born in Cork, Ireland on 11 April 1782, into a Quaker family of eleven children. His family had long standing in business. He also was succ ...

(1789–1851), Irish antiquarian *Sir

Anthony Abell Sir Anthony Foster Abell (11 December 1906 – 8 October 1994) was a British colonial official who was Governor of Sarawak and High Commissioner to Brunei. Career Abell was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, on 11 December 1906, the son of Georg ...

(1906–1994), British colonial official, Governor of Sarawak *

Adam Abell Adam Abell (ca. 1480ca. 1540) was a Scottish Friar at Jedburgh Abbey. He wrote a chronicle in the 1530s that gives an insight into contemporary thought and contains anecdotes that appear in later writings. The manuscript of the Roit or Quheil o ...

(c.1480–c.1540), Scottish friar * Alexander G. Abell (1818–1890), American diplomat and writer *

Alistair Abell Alistair Abell is a Canadian actor, producer and director who works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has voiced several roles in anime, most notably Colin MacLeod in '' Highlander: The Search for Vengeance'' and Lord Djibril in ''Gunda ...

, Canadian voice actor *

Arunah Shepherdson Abell Arunah Shepherdson Abell (August 10, 1806 – April 19, 1888) was an American publisher from New England who was active in Pennsylvania and Maryland. Born in East Providence, Rhode Island, Abell learned the newspaper business as an apprentice at ...

(1806–1888), American publisher * Ben Abell (born 1932), American meteorologist *

Bud Abell Harry Everett "Bud" Abell (born December 21, 1940) is a former American football linebacker in the American Football League (AFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football at the University of Missouri. Early years Abell was born ...

(born 1940), American football player *

Chris Abell Christopher Abell (11 November 1957Abell, Prof Christopher. In ''Debrett's People of Today 2012'' (accessed 15 January 2012) ''(subscription required)'' – 26 October 2020) was a British biological chemist. He was Professor of Biological Chem ...

(born 1957), British biological chemist * David Abell (disambiguation), several people *

Derek F. Abell Derek F. Abell (born 1938) is the founding president and Professor Emeritus at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. In 2012, he also became the international dean at HSM Educação in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is a pub ...

(born 1938), American businessman and educator *

Earl Abell Earl C. "Tuffy" Abell (May 29, 1892 – May 26, 1956) was an American football player and coach. He played college football as a Tackle (gridiron football position), tackle at Colgate University. He later returned to Colgate as an assistant coac ...

(1892–1956), American football player *

Ferdinand Abell Ferdinand Augustus "Gus" Abell (July 8, 1833 – November 8, 1913) was an American businessman and one of the original founders of the team that became the Brooklyn Dodgers. A Rhode Island casino owner, he put up most of the money to form the tea ...

(died 1928), American businessman * George Abell (disambiguation), several people * Irvin Abell (1876–1949), American surgeon * Joey Abell (born 1981), American heavyweight boxer *

John Abell John Abell (1653 – after 1724) was a Scottish countertenor, composer and lutenist. Life and career John Abell was born in 1653 in Aberdeenshire and by 1 May 1679 he had become a member of the Chapel Royal. He was listed as a singer, lutenist ...

(1653–c.1724), Scottish musician and composer * John Abell (cricketer) (1931–2004), English cricketer *

Kjeld Abell Kjeld Abell (25 August 1901 – 5 March 1961) was a Danish playwright, screenwriter, and theatrical designer. Born in Ribe, Denmark, Abell's first designs were seen in ballets directed by George Balanchine at Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre an ...

(1901–1961), Danish dramatist *

Louis Abell Louis Grenville Abell (July 21, 1884 – October 25, 1962) was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1900, he was the coxswain of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold me ...

(1884–1962), American Olympic rower *

Peter Abell Peter Abell (born 1939) is a British social scientist, currently professor emeritus at the London School of Economics where he has founded and directed the "Interdisciplinary Institute of Management". He has been teaching for many years at LSE ...

(born 1939), British social scientist *

Richard Abell Richard Abell (c.1688 – aft. March 1744) was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1720 to 1727. Abell was the eldest son of William Abell, of East Claydon, Buckinghamshire and his wife Elizabeth ?Mayne. He ...

(c.1688–after 1744), British politician *

Robert Abell Robert Abell was born in about 1605 in Stapenhill, Derbyshire, England. He emigrated to New England in 1630 as part of the first wave of the Great Migration, and was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settling first in Weymo ...

(c.1605–1663), colonial American immigrant and pioneer *

Roy Abell Roy Beverley Abell (21 January 1931 – 30 June 2020) was an English Midlands-based artist. He was born in Small Heath, Birmingham and had a distinguished career as a painter and as an art teacher. He studied at the Birmingham College of Art an ...

(born 1931), English cricketer and artist *

Sam Abell Sam Abell (born 1945 in Sylvania, Ohio) is an American photographer known for his frequent publication of photographs in ''National Geographic''. Sam Abell's love of photography began due to the influence of his father who was a geography tea ...

(born 1945), American photographer *

Stig Abell Stephen "Stig" Paul Abell (born 10 April 1980) is an English journalist, newspaper editor and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the Monday to Thursday breakfast show on Times Radio with Aasmah Mir. Abell was from 2016 to 2020 editor o ...

(born 1980), British journalist *

Thomas Abel Thomas Abel (or Abell) (ca. 1497 – 30 July 1540) was an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. The place and date of his birth are unknown. He was educated at Oxford, where in 1516 he took the degree of Master of ...

(or Abell) (c.1497–1540), English priest and martyr *

Timothy Abell Timothy George Abell (29 April 1930 – 9 March 2009) was an English cricketer and field hockey player. The son of the cricketer George Abell, Abell was born at Lahore while his father worked as a civil servant in the British Raj. He was educ ...

(born 1930), English cricketer *

Tom Abell Thomas Benjamin Abell (born 5 March 1994) is an English first-class cricketer who plays for Somerset County Cricket Club. Primarily a right-handed Batting (cricket), batter, he also bowls right-arm Fast bowling, medium pace. Abell enjoyed a pro ...

(born 1994), English cricketer *

Walter Abell Walter Halsey Abell (1897–1956) was an American Art teacher and theoretician. Early years Walter Halsey Abell was born in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York. The Barnes Foundation sponsored him to study in France. He became a teacher of art and an a ...

(1897–1956), American art teacher and theoretician *

William Abell William Abell (born c. 1584, died in or after 1655) was an English vintner who became master of the Vintners' Company. As a politician he was an alderman and later sheriff of London. He is associated with a controversy over the manner and term ...

, (c.1584–c.1655) English vintner * Westcott Stile Abell, (1877-1961), British naval architect

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