Gabel (surname)
family name
Gabel or Gäbel is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andrew Gabel (born 1964), American speed skater
Augustina Gabel (1853–1907), Ukrainian librarian and revolutionary.
Birgitte Sofie Gabel (1746–1769), Danish noblewoman
Christoffer Gabel (1617–1673), Danish statesman
Claudia Gabel (born 1975), American author
Elyes Gabel (born 1983), English actor
Frederik Gabel (1645–1708), Danish-Norwegian nobleman
Jens Gäbel (born 1968), German curler
Joseph Gabel (1912–2004), French sociologist
Keith Gabel (born 1984), American snowboarder
Kristoffer Gabel (1617–1673), Danish statesman
Loren Gabel (born 1997), Canadian ice hockey player
Ludmila Gabel (1876–1967), Ukrainian librarian, public figure and lawyer.
Martin Gabel (1912–1986), American actor, director, and producer
Peter Gabel (1947–2022), American law academic
Robyn Gabel (born 1953), American politician
Scilla Gabel (born 1938), Italian actress
Seth Gabel (born 1981), American actor
Shainee Gabel, film director, A Love Song for Bobby Long
Thuraya Qabil (born 1943), Saudi Arabian poet and journalist whose surname is sometimes spelt 'Gabel'.
Yuri Gabel (1891–1949), Soviet Ukrainian chemist.
“Gabel (surname)” enters the record as family name. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gabel, surname and family can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16870070. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1853, 1907 and 1746.
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