Ariel (given name) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ariel is a given name from Biblical Hebrew אריאל Ariel that literally means "lion of God".

Ariel

Ariel

Ariel may refer to:-Film:*Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award*Ariel , a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki-People:*Ariel , any of several real or fictional people of that name...

is also a reference to one of the Biblical angels.

In modern Hebrew, it is primarily used as a male name. However, in recent years in English-speaking countries, it has been more commonly used as a female name. A common modern Hebrew female equivalent is Ariella. An alternative English and French spelling is Arielle.

Common short forms of Ariel are Ari and Arik for boys (primarily in Hebrew-speaking areas) and Arie, Elle, and Ella for girls (primarily in English and French-speaking areas).

List of people with the given name Ariel

Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen
Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen
Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen was a writer, Temperance movement activist, and professor of music at Clark University in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Twentieth Century Negro Literature noted that "she is regarded as one of the foremost and best cultured women of her...

(1862—1904), American writer and activist
Ariel Bybee
Ariel Bybee
Ariel Bybee is a mezzo-soprano who has had a distinguished career as a soloist, voice teacher and university opera director...

(born 1943), American singer
Ariel
Nazril Irham
Nazril Irham or more popularly known as Ariel or Ariel Peterpan is an Indonesian rock star. He is the lead singer vocalist of multiplatinum band Peterpan. Irham is the youngest of the three Malay brothers in his family. He has also appeared in advertisements...

(born 1981), Indonesian pop singer
Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman
Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina since 1985.-Personal...

(born 1942), Chilean-American writer
Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant
Ariel Durant was the co-author of The Story of Civilization.-Biography:Durant was born in Proskurov as Chaya Kaufman to Ethel Appel Kaufman and Joseph Kaufman. The family emigrated to the United States in 1901. She met her future husband, Will Durant, while a student at Ferrer Modern School in...

(1898—1981), American historian
Ariel Gade
Ariel Gade
Ariel Gade is an American child actress from San Jose, California. She made her first acting appearance on an episode of television’s Strong Medicine, and followed this with a performance in Barry Levinson’s Envy .-Career:...

(born 1997), American actress
Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore is a journalist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood...

(born 1970), American writer
Ariel Kadynsky (born 1968), American painter, known as Alan Kadynsky
Ariel King
Ariel King
Dr. Ariel Rosita King is the founder of the Women Impacting Public Policy and a premanent representative for the United Nations. Dr. King has a consultancy firm, Ariel Consulting International.- Career :...

, American health policy consultant
Ariel Leve (born 1968), British journalist
Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of the book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vogue, Slate, Men's Journal and Blender...

(born 1974), American journalist
Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin
Ariel Lin |Hakka]]: Lim2 Yi3 Sen2) was born 29 October 1982. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer, who won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards...

(born 1982), Taiwanese actress and singer
Ariel Meredith
Ariel Meredith
Ariel Meredith is an American model who appeared in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1986, she did some part-time modeling starting in 1998 until she finished her schooling...

(born 1986), American model
Ariel Muzicant (born 1952), Austrian Jewish community leader
Ariel Nahuelpan
Ariel Nahuelpan
Ariel Gerardo Nahuelpan Osten, commonly known as Ariel Nahuelpan , is an Argentine football striker.-Career:Born in Ciudad Evita, Ariel Nahuelpan started his career in 2006, at Nueva Chicago, playing 42 Primera B Nacional Argentina games and scoring nine goals...

(born 1987), Argentinian soccer player
Ariel Ortega
Ariel Ortega
Arnaldo Ariel Ortega is an Argentine football attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito" , thus he is called "Burrito Ortega"....

(born 1974), Argentinian soccer player
Ariel Pestano
Ariel Pestano
Ariel Pestano Valdés , better known as El Veterano , is a Cuban baseball catcher, and is known as one of the greatest catchers in Cuban history. He has won both silver and gold medals in the Olympic Games and also played catcher on Cuba's World Baseball Classic team in March 2006 and March 2009...

(born 1974), Cuban baseball player
Ariel Pink
Ariel Pink
Ariel Pink is a Los Angeles-based recording artist who is sometimes associated with the freak folk scene.-Biography:...

(born 1978), American musician
Ariel Ramirez
Ariel Ramirez
Ariel Ramírez was an Argentine composer, pianist and music director. He was considered "a chief exponent of Argentine folk music" and noted for his "iconic" musical compositions....

(1921—2010), Argentine composer and pianist
Ariel Rebel
Ariel Rebel
Ariel Rebel is an online pornographic actress and model. Her name is meant to sound like 'A real rebel'.She studied to be a fashion designer in Montreal, before she decided to pursue an adult modeling career...

(born 1985), Canadian pornographic model
Ariel Rios
Ariel Rios
Ariel Rios was an undercover special agent for the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives , killed in the line of duty. Member of the Presidential anti-drug task force in South Florida....

(1954—1982), American ATF agent
Ariel Rivera
Ariel Rivera
Jose Ariel Jimenez Rivera was born on September 1, 1966 in Manila, Philippines but has since migrated with his family to Canada. Rivera was an architect in Canada before his singing talent was accidentally discovered while vacationing in the Philippines. He has since become a successful...

(born 1966), Filipino singer and actor
Ana Rocha
Ana Rocha
Ana Rocha is an Portuguese-American professional wrestler and manager known by her ring name "The Portuguese Princess" Ariel, who has competed in Northeastern independent promotions including Ring of Honor, IWA Mid-South and the National Wrestling Alliance.-Early life and career:Born in São...

(born 1984), American professional wrestler who uses the ring name Ariel
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006....

(born 1928), Israeli military officer and politician, Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006
Ariel Waller
Ariel Waller
Ariel Waller is a Canadian child actress who started acting at age six. Her first major role was as James J. Braddock's daughter Rosemarie in Cinderella Man in 2005. She is best known for having starred as Martina "Marti" Venturi in the Canadian TV series Life With Derek.- Filmography :- External...

(born 1998), Canadian actress
Ariel Winter
Ariel Winter
Ariel Winter Workman , known in television shows and films as Ariel Winter, is an American teen actress and singer. Winter is best known for her current role as Alex Dunphy in the TV series Modern Family, for which she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series, along...

(born 1998), American actress
Ariel X
Ariel X
Ariel X is a pornographic actress. She started as an amateur fetish model in 2003 then began appearing in mainstream adult films around 2005 at the age of 25. Since then she has appeared in over 100 movies...

(born 1980), American pornographic actress
Ariel Ze'evi (born 1977), Israeli judoka

In fiction

Ariel (The Tempest)
Ariel (The Tempest)
Ariel is a spirit who appears in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. Ariel is bound to serve the magician Prospero, who rescued him from the tree in which he was imprisoned by Sycorax, the witch who previously inhabited the island. Prospero greets disobedience with a reminder that he saved...

, a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
Ariel, an evil angel and pagan god in John Milton's Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...
Ariel, the narrator in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock
The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 1712 in two cantos , but then revised, expanded and reissued under Pope's name on March 2, 1714, in a much-expanded 5-canto version...
Ariel Moore, a character in the 1984 movie Footloose
Ariel (The Little Mermaid), the title character of Disney's 1989 film The Little Mermaid
Ariel Manto, the protagonist of The End of Mr. Y
The End of Mr. Y
The End of Mr. Y is a novel by British author Scarlett Thomas. The book tells the story of Ariel Manto, a PhD student who has been researching the 19th century writer Thomas Lumas. She finds an extremely rare copy of Lumas' novel The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop...

by Scarlett Thomas
Ariel Maloney, a character in the movie Soapdish
Soapdish
Soapdish is a 1991 comedy film which tells a backstage story of the cast and crew of a popular fictional television soap opera. It stars Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey, Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy...
Ariel Hawksquill, a mage in John Crowley's epic Little, Big
Little, Big
Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982.-Plot synopsis:...
Ariel Schiller, a character in the 2007 movie Starting Out in the Evening
Starting Out in the Evening
Starting Out in the Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Andrew Wagner. The screenplay by Wagner and Fred Parnes is based on the novel of the same name by Brian Morton.-Plot:...
Ariel Truax, a character in the movie Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men (film)
Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ossie Davis, and Buck Henry. Directed by Donald Petrie, the screenplay was written by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote...
Detective Ariel, one of two police inspectors on the case of a triple child murder in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman
The Pillowman
The Pillowman is a 2003 play by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. It received its first public reading in an early version at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995...
Ari Gold (Entourage)
Ari Gold (Entourage)
Ariel "Ari" Gold is a fictional character on the comedy-drama television series Entourage. He was played by Jeremy Piven.-Biography:Ari Gold is Vincent Chase's neurotic movie agent. He is a product of the public school system. He was an undergrad at Harvard University before earning his J.D./M.B.A....

a character in the HBO series Entourage
Ariel DuBois, a character in the NBC drama Medium
Medium (TV series)
Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
Ariel (Robotech)
Ariel (Robotech)
Ariel is a fictional character from the third Robotech chapter The New Generation and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles...

, a character in the science fiction series Robotech
Ariel (comics)
Ariel (comics)
Ariel is a fictional character, an extraterrestrial mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. Her first appearance was in Fallen Angels #1...

, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
Ariel, alias of the Marvel Comics character Kitty Pryde
Kitty Pryde
Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 and was created by writer-artist John Byrne....
Princess Ariel (Thundarr the Barbarian), a main character in the Thundarr the Barbarian animated series
Ariel Kyho (吳彩欣), a character in the TVB television drama A Kindred Spirit
Ariel, the original name of the Transformers character Elita One
Ariel of the Balance, a character in the Legacy of Kain video game series
Ariel Sullivan, a character in the movie In America
Ariel, a character in the ABC Family mini-series Fallen
Ariel, the hero of the concept albums Epica
Epica (album)
Epica is the sixth full-length album by metal band Kamelot. It was released on January 13, 2003 through Noise Records. It was the first concept album by Kamelot. Most of the lyrics were written before the actual music was composed. This album, along with its sequel The Black Halo, is loosely based...

and The Black Halo by American power metal band Kamelot
Ariel, the prime antagonist in Isobelle Carmody's fantasy series The Obernewtyn Chronicles
Obernewtyn Chronicles
The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a series of science fiction and fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. The series has a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world long after its destruction by a global nuclear holocaust....
Ariel Wolfe, a character in the movie Return to House on Haunted Hill
Return to House on Haunted Hill
Return to House on Haunted Hill is a 2007 horror film and sequel to the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill. Directed by Víctor García, the film depicts a group of people searching for a mysterious idol hidden inside a haunted psychiatric asylum...
Ariel, Mage Queen of Loren, the semi-divine queen of the Wood Elves in the Warhammer
Wood Elves (Warhammer)
In Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, the Wood Elves are a variety of Elves who live in an enchanted forest in eastern Bretonnia, referred to as "Athel Loren"....

tabletop wargame setting
Ariel, a unicorn in Steve Boyett
Steve Boyett
Steven R. Boyett, also known as DJ Steve Boyett, is a writer and disc jockey based in Northern California.-Early work:Boyett sold his first novel, Ariel, at the age of 21, and went on to publish The Architect of Sleep, The Gnole , Elegy Beach , as well as numerous short stories and novellas...

's novel Ariel
Ariel Alderman, third season antagonist on the Nip/Tuck television series
Ariel Kirkwood, a character in the novel Truly, Madly Manhattan by Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
Ariel Aldrin, a character in the daytime television series As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...

from 1982–1985
Ariel, a character in the first season episode "Angel One" of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Ariel Hunter, a character in the 1994-95 season of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210
Beverly Hills, 90210
Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...

List of people with the given name Ariel

See also