Edel

Edel is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Abraham Edel (1908–2007), North American philosopher and ethicist
• Alfred William Edel (c. 1930–2005), American television news presenter
• Apoula Edel (born 1986), Cameroonian-Armenian footballer
• Leon Edel (1907–1997), North American literary critic and biographer
• Uli Edel (born 1947), German film director

Given name

Male

• Edel (footballer), Ildefonso Soares de Oliveira (born 1958), Brazilian footballer
• Edel Oliva (born 1965), Cuban race walker
• Edel Rodriguez (born 1971), Cuban-American artist and illustrator

Female, Irish

Pronounced /iːˈdɛl/

• Edel Quinn (1907–1944), Irish lay missionary
• Edel Bhreathnach, Irish historian and academic
• Edel McMahon (born 1994), Irish rugby player

Female, Scandinavian

• Edel Eckblad (1914–1994), Norwegian actress
• Edel Hætta Eriksen (1921–2023), Norwegian schoolteacher and politician
• Edele Jernskjæg (died 1512), Danish noble, lady-in-waiting and royal mistress of King John I of Denmark
• Edel Randem (1910–2001), Norwegian figure skater
• Edel Therese Høiseth (born 1966), former speed skater from Norway, who specialised in the shorter distances; the 500 m and 1,000 m

Other uses

• Eðel or ēðel, a name for Œ / œ, a ligature of the Latin script
• Construction Nautic Edel, a French boat builder
• Edel 665, a French sailboat design
• Edel (character), fictional character in the webtoon series Denma
• Edel SE & Co. KGaA, a German independent media company
• Édel de Cléron, a French cheese from Cléron, Franche-Comté
• Edel Land District, a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the North-West Land Division
• Edel-Mega Records, a Danish record company established in 1983. It was renamed Edel-Mega Records when it was acquired by Edel Music in 2001
• EDEL, the ICAO code for Langenlonsheim Airfield
• Edel Paragliders, a defunct South Korean paraglider manufacturing company
• Edel, another name for the logic puzzle nonogram

See also

• Edelmann, a surname of German origin
• Edelstein, a surname of German Origin