Abe (given name)
Abe is commonly used in English-speaking countries as a diminutive of the masculine name Abraham, or as a personal name in its own right. It may refer to:
People
- Abe Aaron, Canadian clarinetist and saxophonist
- Abe Addams, American football player
- Abe Ajay, American artist
- Abe Akira, Japanese author
- Abe Alvarez, American baseball pitcher and coach
- Abe Anellis, Russian food microbiologist
- Abe Aronovitz, American lawyer and politician
- Abe Atkins, American baseball player
- Abe Attell, American world champion Hall-of-Fame featherweight boxer
- Abe Bailey, South African diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer
- Abe Bekker, British boxer
- Abe Bell, American baseball pitcher
- Abe Berenbaum, American table tennis player
- Abe Bernstein, American gangster
- Abe L. Biglow, American politician and businessman
- Abe Bluestein, American anarchist
- Abe Bolar, American double bass player
- Abe Bonnema, Dutch architect
- Abe Bowman, American baseball pitcher
- Abe Brault, American lawyer, naval veteran, and politician
- Abe Burrows, American playwright, director and humorist
- Abe Clark, Australian rugby player
- Abe Cohen, American football player
- Abe Cohn, American football player and basketball player, coach, and official
- Abe Coleman, Polish wrestler, promoter, and referee
- Abe Cunningham, American drummer of the alternative metal band Deftones
- Abe Deutschendorf, American politician
- Abe Elenkrig, Russian-American bandleader, cornet player, barber, and recording artist
- Abe Elimimian, American football player and coach
- Abe Eliowitz, American college and Canadian football player, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
- Abe Elkinson, English businessman
- A. L. Erlanger, American theatrical producer, director, designer and theatre owner
- Abe Espinosa, American golfer
- Abe Feder, American lighting designer
- Abe Forsythe, Australian film and television actor, director, writer, and producer
- Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
- Abe Garver, American investment banker, magazine contributor, television commentator, and conference speaker
- Abe Gelbart, American mathematician
- Abe Geldenhuys, South African wrestler
- Abe Gibron, American football player and coach
- Abe Goff, American politician
- Abe Goldberg, Polish-born Jewish Australian businessman
- Abe Goldstein, American world champion bantamweight boxer
- Abe Gray, American-New Zealand politician and cannabis activist
- Abe Greenhalgh, British weightlifter
- Abe Greenthal, American criminal
- Abe Gubegna, Ethiopian writer
- Abe Gutnajer, Polish art dealer
- Abe Harrison, American baseball player
- Abe Hartley, Scottish footballer
- Abe Hawkins, American horse jockey and freed slave
- Abe Holzmann, American composer
- Abe M. Hudson Jr., American politician
- Abe Isoo, Japanese socialist, parliamentarian, and pacifist
- Abe Jacob, American sound designer and audio engineer
- Abe Jacobs, New Zealand professional wrestler
- Abe Johnson, American baseball player
- Abe Jones, American baseball player
- Abe Jones, American attorney
- Abe Jones Jr., English footballer
- Abe Kakepetum, Canadian Anishinaabe painter
- Abe Katzman, Klezmer violinist, bandleader, composer, and recording artist
- Abe Kesh, American DJ and record producer
- Abe King, Filipino basketball player
- Abe Knoop, Dutch football goalkeeper
- Abe Kovnats, Canadian politician
- Abe Kruger, American baseball pitcher
- Abe Laboriel Jr., American drummer
- Abe Laguna, American DJ
- Abe Landa, Australian politician
- Abe Lastfogel, Russian politician
- Abe Lemons, American college basketball player and coach
- Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer
- Abe Levitow, American cartoon animator and director
- Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States
- Abe Lincoln, American jazz trombonist
- Abe Loewen, Canadian drag racer
- Abe Lyman, American jazz bandleader
- Abe Manley, American baseball executive
- Abe Martin, American football player, football, basketball, and baseball coach, and college athletics administrator
- Abe Martin, American college football player, head coach and administrator
- Glenn Martin (coach), American college football, basketball and baseball coach
- Abe Masahiro, Japanese chief senior councillor
- Abe Masakatsu, Japanese samurai
- Abe Masakiyo, Japanese daimyō
- Abe Masakoto, Japanese daimyō
- Abe Masanori, Japanese daimyō
- Abe Masatsugu, Japanese daimyō
- Abe Masatō, Japanese daimyō
- Abe Masayoshi, Japanese daimyō
- Abe McDougall, Australian rules footballer
- Abe Meyer, American film score composer
- Abe Mickal, Lebanese-American college football player and doctor
- Abe William Miller, Canadian lawyer and politician
- Abe Mitchell, English golfer
- Abe Mitchell, American baseball player
- Abe Moffat, Scottish trade unionist and communist activist
- Abe Mosseri, American professional backgammon and poker player
- Abe Most, American clarinetist and alto saxophonist
- Abe Motozane, Japanese samurai
- Abe Munro, New Zealand rugby player
- Abe Newborn, American talent agent and theatre producer
- Abe Notshweleka, South African Army soldier
- Abe Okpik, Canadian Inuit community leader
- Abe Olman, American songwriter and music publisher
- Abe Orpen, Canadian businessman
- Glenn Osser, American musician, musical arranger, orchestra leader and songwriter
- Abe Peck, American magazine consultant, writer, editor, and professor
- Abe Peled, Israeli-American businessman
- Abe Piasek, American U.S. Army soldier and slave labor camp survivor
- Abe E. Pierce III, American educator and politician
- Abe Poffenroth, American football and baseball coach
- Abe Pollin, American businessman and owner of several major sports teams
- Abe Reles, American-Jewish mobster
- Abe Rich, Lithuanian wood craftsman and Holocaust survivor
- Abe Rosenthal, English footballer
- Abe Ruef, American lawyer and politician
- Abe Saffron, Australian hotelier, nightclub owner, and property developer
- Abe Saperstein, UK-born American founder and owner of the Harlem Globetrotters
- Abe Sarkis, American mobster
- Abe Schwartz, Romanian-American Klezmer violinist, composer, Yiddish theater and ethnic recordings bandleader
- Abe Segal, South African tennis player
- Abe Shannon, Australian pastoralist
- Abe Shires, American football player
- Abe Silverstein, American engineer
- Abe Simon, American heavyweight boxer
- Abe Sklar, American mathematician and professor
- Abe Stark, American businessman and politician
- Abe Stern, American film producer
- Abe Tadaaki, Japanese politician
- Abe Terry, English rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s
- Abe Thompson, American soccer player
- Abe Turner, American chess master
- Abe W. Turner, American politician
- Abe Vigoda, American actor
- Abe Waddington, English cricketer
- Abe Walsh, American author
- Abe Watson, Australian rules footballer
- Abe White, American baseball player
- Abe Wiersma, Dutch rower
- Abe Wilson, American football player
- Abe Wolstenholme, American baseball player
- Abe Woodson, American football player
- Abe Yourist, Russian-American basketball player
- Abe Zvonkin, Canadian track and field athlete, Canadian football player, and wrestler
Fictional characters
- Abe (Oddworld), primary protagonist in the Oddworld fictional universe
- Abe, a non-playable Mii opponent in the Wii series
- Abe Carver, on the soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Abe Fielding, on British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Abe Kenarban, Stevie's father from Malcolm in the Middle
- Abe Martin, titular main character of the American comic strip of the same name
- Abe Sapien, in the Hellboy comic book series
- Abraham Simpson, on The Simpsons
- Abe Slaney Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of the Dancing Men