axe An axe ( sometimes ax in American English; see spelling differences) is an implement that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, to harvest timber, as a weapon, and as a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. The axe has many for ...

is an implement with a blade, used as a tool and a weapon. Axe may also refer to:

Comic Books

* '' A.X.E.: Judgment Day'', a crossover from Marvel Comics; tie-in comics only refer to it as "A.X.E."

Film

* ''Axe'' (film), a 1977 American horror film * ''The Axe'' (film), a 2005 film

Music

Axé (music) Axé () is a popular music genre originated in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the 1980s, fusing different Afro-Caribbean genres, such as marcha, reggae, and calypso. It also includes influences of Brazilian music such as frevo, forró and carixada ...

, a form of Brazilian popular music *

Axe (band) Axe (stylized as AXE) was an American hard rock band from Gainesville, Florida, formed in 1979 and disbanded in 2012. The band is best known for their 1982 song "Rock 'N' Roll Party in the Streets", and had other hits such as "Now or Never", ...

, an American rock band * Axe (other band), a psychedelic rock band

Rivers

River Axe (Bristol Channel) The River Axe is a river in South West England. The river is formed by water entering swallets in the limestone and rises from the ground at Wookey Hole Caves in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, and runs through a V-shaped valley. The geology ...

River Axe (Lyme Bay) The River Axe is a long river in the counties of Dorset, Somerset and Devon, in the south-west of England. It rises in Dorset and flows south to Lyme Bay which it enters through the Axe Estuary in Devon. It is a shallow, non-navigable river, a ...

Sports

Axe (gamer) Jeffrey Williamson (born 1991), known professionally as Axe, is an American professional '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player. , he is ranked as the fourth best ''Melee'' player in the world and has finished in the top ten of formal rankings pres ...

, American esports player *

Paul Bunyan's Axe Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

, a prize in college football *

Stanford Axe The Stanford Axe is a trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Big Game, a college football match-up between the University of California Golden Bears and the Stanford University Cardinal. The trophy consists of an axe-head mounted on a lar ...

, a college football trophy

Transport

Mahindra Axe The Mahindra Axe is a Light Military Utility Tactical Vehicle designed by Mahindra & Mahindra. Prototypes of the vehicle were customized to meet Indian Army specifications, but after evaluating the vehicles the Indian Army decided not to place an ...

, a 4WD military vehicle *

AirExplore AirExplore is a Slovak charter airline headquartered and based at Bratislava Airport. The airline is IOSA certified and is a member of AIR-E, Airlines International Representation in Europe. Operations AirExplore operates a fleet of 8 passenger ...

's ICAO code

Other uses

Axe (brand) Axe or Lynx is a brand of male grooming products owned by the British company Unilever and marketed toward the younger male demographic. It is marketed as Lynx in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and China. Products ...

, a brand of men's grooming products * AXE method (chemistry), a method to determine the geometry of simple molecules *

aXe Spectral Extraction {{lowercase title The aXe - Spectral Extraction and Visualization software is designed to process large format astronomical slitless spectroscopic images such as those obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the Hubble Space Telesc ...

, astronomical spectroscopic data extraction software *

AXE telephone exchange The AXE telephone exchange is a product line of circuit switched digital telephone exchanges manufactured by Ericsson, a Swedish telecom company. It was developed in 1974 by Ellemtel, a research and development subsidiary of Ericsson and Televe ...

, of telephone exchange by Ericsson *

Glaze3D Glaze3D was a family of graphics cards announced by BitBoys Oy on August 2, 1999, that would have produced substantially better performance than other consumerPetri Nordlund. "Glaze3D". Bitboys Oy. products available at the time. The family, which ...

or Axe, a graphics card * ''The Axe'', a 1966 novel by

Ludvík Vaculík Ludvík Vaculík (23 July 1926 – 6 June 2015) was a Czech writer and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the " Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968. Pre- ...

People with the surname

David Axe David Axe (born on April 11, 1978) is an American military correspondent, blogger, and graphic novelist. Axe founded the website ''War Is Boring'' in 2007 as a webcomic, and later developed it into a news blog. Early life and education David Ax ...

, military correspondent * Lisa Axe, American chemical engineer *

Samuel Axe Samuel Axe was an English privateer in Dutch service during the early 17th century. Serving with English forces in the Netherlands during the Dutch War of Independence, Axe traveled to the British Providence Island colony in the western Caribbe ...

, English privateer during the early 17th century

Fictional

Sam Axe Commander'' Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe'' Samuel "Sam" Axe, USN ( ret.) is a fictional character in the television series ''Burn Notice'' and TV movie '' Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe'', and is played by Bruce Campbell. He is the best f ...

, a character in the television series ''Burn Notice''

People with the nickname

David Axelrod (political consultant) David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant and political analyst, analyst and former White House official. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. After Obama ...

or "Axe", advisor to US President Barack Obama *

Martin Axenrot Erik Martin "Axe" Axenrot (born 5 March 1979 in Linköping, Sweden) is a Swedish death metal drummer, best known as the former drummer for progressive death metal band Opeth from 2006 to 2021. Since 2004, he is the drummer for Bloodbath. Known f ...

or "Axe", drummer for Opeth and Bloodbath *

Larry Hennig Larry Hennig (June 18, 1936 – December 6, 2018) was an American professional wrestler. He was the father of "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, and the grandfather of Curtis Axel and Amy "Ms. Perfect" Hennig. He worked in the American Wrestling Associa ...

or "The Axe", retired professional wrestler *

Jeffrey Williamson Jeffrey Gale Williamson (born 1935) is the ''Laird Bell'' Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Harvard University; an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin (Madison); Research Associate at the National Bureau ...

or "Axe", professional ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player