Aksel
Aksel is a masculine name, used predominantly throughout Scandinavia, a variant of Axel.
People with the name include:
- Aksel Agerby, Danish composer, organist, and music administrator
- Aksel Airo, Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner
- Aksel Andersen, Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist
- Aksel Frederik Andersen, Danish mathematician
- Aksel Arstal, Norwegian theologist, schoolteacher and geographer
- Aksel Bender Madsen, Danish furniture designer
- Aksel Berg, Soviet scientist and Navy Admiral
- Aksel Berget Skjølsvik, Norwegian professional football player
- Aksel Bonde, Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Aksel Brehm, Estonian politician
- Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen
- Aksel Duun, Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s
- Aksel Fossen, Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
- Aksel Gresvig, Norwegian track cyclist, sports administrator and businessman
- Aksel Gürcan Demirtaş, Turkish track and field athlete
- Aksel Hagen, Norwegian politician and member of the Storting
- Aksel Hennie, Norwegian actor, director and writer
- Aksel Hansen, Danish sculptor
- Kaj Aksel Hansen, Danish footballer and manager
- Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff, Faroese lawyer and politician
- Aksel Kallas, Estonian politician
- Aksel Kankaanranta, Finnish singer who would've represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020
- Aksel Kipper, Estonian astrophysicist and academician
- Aksel Kuuse, Estonian track and field athlete
- Aksel Larsen, Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark
- Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian alpine skier
- Aksel Lydersen, Norwegian engineer and professor of chemical engineering
- Aksel Madsen, Danish long-distance runner
- Aksel Magdahl, Norwegian navigator
- Aksel Mark, Estonian politician, journalist, newspaper editor and agronomist
- Aksel Mikkelsen, Danish educator
- Aksel Møller, Danish politician
- Aksel Nielsen, Danish-born American philanthropist, founder of the Mortgage Banking Association's School of Mortgage Banking
- Aksel Nõmmela, Estonian cyclist
- Aksel Orav, Estonian actor
- Aksel Herman Rüütli, Estonian politician
- Aksel Sørensen, Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Aksel Sandemose, novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark
- Aksel Schiøtz, Danish tenor and Lieder singer
- Aksel Vartanyan, Soviet and Russian journalist and sports historian
- Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, Danish meteorologist and professor of meteorology
- Aksel Zachariassen, Norwegian politician, newspaper editor, secretary and writer