Ashbel is masculine given name, and an occasional surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

* Ashbel (biblical figure), a minor biblical figure * Ashbel A. Dean, American politician *

Ashbel H. Barney Ashbel Holmes Barney (September 2, 1816 – December 27, 1886) was an American banker and expressman who served as president of Wells Fargo & Company in 1869-1870. Early life Barney was born on September 2, 1816 at Adams, New York in Jefferson C ...

, American banker and expressman *

Ashbel P. Fitch Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (October 8, 1848 – May 4, 1904) was an American lawyer, financier, and politician. He was a four-term Congressman, and a one-term Comptroller of New York City. From March 4, 1887, until January 30, 1894, he served a ...

, U.S. Representative from New York *

Ashbel Green Ashbel Green (July 6, 1762 – May 19, 1848) was an American Presbyterian minister and academic. Biography Born in Hanover Township, New Jersey, Green served as a sergeant of the New Jersey militia during the American Revolutionary War, and went ...

, American Presbyterian minister and academic *

Ashbel Green (editor) Ashbel Green (March 15, 1928 – September 18, 2012) was an American book editor.Lackeos, Nick.The Write Stuff: Experts share advice on how to get a book published, ''Montgomery Advertiser'', Montgomery, Alabama, volume 167, number 303, October 3 ...

(1928–2013), American editor *

Ashbel Green Gulliver Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897, Connecticut - July 3, 1974, Hanover, New Hampshire) was the dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Pail"—from ashpail. Early life Gulliver went to Groton School for high school ...

, American legal academic *

Ashbel Green Simonton Ashbel Green Simonton (January 20, 1833 – December 9, 1867) was a North-American Presbyterian minister and missionary, the first missionary to settle a Protestant church in Brazil, Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil (Presbyterian Church of Brazil). ...

, North American Presbyterian minister and missionary *

Ashbel Smith Ashbel Smith (August 13, 1805 – January 21, 1886) was a pioneer physician, diplomat, slave owner, and official of the Republic of Texas, Confederate officer and first President of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. Smith was an an ...

, pioneer physician, diplomat and official of the Republic of Texas *

Ashbel P. Willard Ashbel Parsons Willard (October 31, 1820 – October 4, 1860) was state senator, the 12th lieutenant governor, and the 11th governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. His terms in office were marked by increasingly severe partisanship leading to t ...

(1820–1860), the youngest man to be elected governor of the U.S. state of Indiana

Surname

Dan Ashbel Dan Ashbel (Hebrew: דן אשבל; born 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a retired Israeli Ambassador Biography Dan Ashbel was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. He studied Geography and English Literature at the University of Haifa. At a later stage he comp ...

, the Israeli ambassador to Austria and Slovenia {{given name, type=both Masculine given names