Orel (meaning ''eagle'' in some
Slavic languages
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; also a common first name in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
meaning ''Light of God'' in
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
) may refer to:
People
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Orel Hershiser
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958) is an American former baseball pitcher who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1983 to 2000. He later became a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers from 2002 to 2005 and a bro ...
(born 1958), former professional right-handed pitcher
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Vladimir Orel
Vladimir Emmanuilovich Orël (russian: Владимир Эммануилович Орëл; 9 February 1952 – 5 August 2007) was a Russian linguist and etymologist.
Biography
At the Moscow State University he studied theoretical linguistics ...
(1952–2007), Russian linguist
Places
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Orel (Chrudim District), a municipality and village in Pardubice Region, Czech Republic
*Orel, a village in
Sveti Nikole Municipality
Sveti Nikole ( mk, Свети Николе ) is a municipality in eastern Macedonia. ''Sveti Nikole'' is also the name of the town where the municipal seat is found. Sveti Nikole Municipality is part of the Vardar Statistical Region.
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, North Macedonia
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Orel, Russia
Oryol (russian: Орёл), alternatively spelled Orel, is the name of several types of inhabited localities in Russia, inhabited localities in Russia.
;Urban localities
*Oryol, a city in Oryol Oblast;
;Rural localities
*Orel, Altai Krai, a sett ...
(''Oryol''), several inhabited localities in Russia
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Lake Orel, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia
Vehicles
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Orel (spacecraft)
Orel (russian: Орёл, , Eagle) or Oryol, formerly Federation (russian: Федерация, Federatsiya}), and PPPTS (russian: Перспективная Портативный Пилотируемая Транспортная Система, ...
, a Russian crewed spacecraft in development
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Antey-Class SSGN "Orel", a guided missile submarine
Other
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Orel (movement), a Moravian/Czech youth movement and gymnastics organization
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Project 1153 Orel, a Soviet aircraft carrier project
*Orel, a nickname given to French rapper and songwriter
Orelsan
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Orel Anzio, an Italian Baseball League club
See also
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Moral Orel
''Moral Orel'' is an American adult stop-motion animated sitcom created by Dino Stamatopoulos which originally aired on Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim from December 13, 2005 to December 18, 2008. The series has been d ...
'', a television show on Adult Swim
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Oryol (disambiguation)
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