Ariel (name)
Ariel is a given name from Biblical Hebrew אריאל Ariel that literally means "lion of God". The female form is אריאלה. In modern Hebrew, Ariel is primarily used as a male name.
Common short forms of Ariel are Ari 'Arie and Arik' for boys.
It also appears as a surname.
People with the given name Ariel
- Ariel Behar, Uruguayan tennis player
- Ariel Besse, French actress
- Ariel Bibas, Israeli kidnapping and murder victim
- Ariel Bloomer, singer for American rock band Icon for Hire
- Ariel Borysiuk, Polish footballer playing as a defensive midfielder
- Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen, American writer and activist
- Ariel Bybee, American singer
- Ariel Castro, former school bus driver and convicted kidnapper of three women
- Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American writer
- Ariel Durant, American historian
- Ariel Ekblaw, American aerospace architect
- Ariel Gade, American actress
- Ariel Garten, Canadian artist, scientist, and co-founder of InteraXon
- Ariel Gore, American writer
- Ariel Helwani, Canadian journalist
- Nazril Irham, Indonesian singer using the mononym "Ariel"
- Ariel Kalma, French new-age composer and electronic musician
- Ariel Kaplan, Australian actress
- Ariel Leve, British journalist
- Ariel Levy, American journalist
- Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
- Shelly Martinez, American former professional wrestler who performed under the ring name "Ariel"
- Ariel McDonald, American-Slovenian basketball player; 2000 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
- Ariel Meredith, American model
- Ariel Muzicant, Austrian Jewish community leader
- Ariel Nahuelpan, Argentinian soccer player
- Ariel Ortega, Argentinian soccer player
- Ariel Oxaal, American politician
- Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
- Ariel Pink, American musician
- Ariel Porat, Israeli jurist and academic
- Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer and pianist
- Ariel Rios, American ATF agent
- Ariel Rivera, Filipino singer and actor
- Ariel Robles, Costa Rican politician
- Ariel Rot, Argentine musician
- Ariel Schulman, American actor, film director, and producer
- Ariel Sharon, Israeli military officer and politician, Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006
- Ariel Tatum, Indonesian actress, model, and singer
- Ariel Ureta, Filipino actor, host and comedian
- Ariel Vromen, Israeli film director and screenwriter
- Ariel Winter, American actress
- Ariel Ze'evi, Israeli judoka
People with the surname Ariel
- Adam Ariel, Israeli basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Gideon Ariel, Israeli former Olympian in the shot put and discus throw
- Meir Ariel, Israeli singer-songwriter
- Uri Ariel, Israeli politician
Fictional characters
- Ariel (The Tempest), a sylph, a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
- Ariel, an evil angel and pagan god in John Milton's Paradise Lost
- Ariel, a sylph, the protector of Belinda in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock
- Ariel Moore, a character in the 1984 movie Footloose
- Ariel (The Little Mermaid), a mermaid princess from Disney's 1989 film The Little Mermaid
- Ariel, a recurring character in the ABC television series Once Upon a Time
- Ariel Manto, the protagonist of The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
- Ariel Maloney, a character in the movie Soapdish
- Ariel Hawksquill, a mage in John Crowley's epic Little, Big
- Ariel Flyer, a bilingual flight and wildlife specialist from the Mountain Action Command Center Team in Rescue Heroes (TV series) and Rescue Heroes: The Movie
- Ariel Schiller, a character in the 2007 movie Starting Out in the Evening
- Ariel Truax, a character in the movie Grumpy Old Men
- Detective Ariel, one of two police inspectors on the case of a triple child murder in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman
- Ari Gold (Entourage) a character in the HBO series Entourage
- Ariel DuBois, a character in the NBC drama Medium
- Ariel (Robotech), a character in the science fiction series Robotech
- Ariel (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
- Ariel, alias of the Marvel Comics character Kitty Pryde
- Princess Ariel (Thundarr the Barbarian), a main character in the Thundarr the Barbarian animated series
- Ariel Kyho, a character in the TVB television drama A Kindred Spirit
- Ariel (Legacy of Kain), 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 and The Black Halo by American power metal band Kamelot
- Ariel, the prime antagonist in Isobelle Carmody's fantasy series The Obernewtyn Chronicles
- Ariel Wolfe, a character in the movie Return to House on Haunted Hill
- Ariel, Mage Queen of Loren, the semi-divine queen of the Wood Elves in the Warhammer tabletop wargame setting
- Ariel, a unicorn in Steve Boyett'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
- Ariel Aldrin, a character in the daytime television series As the World Turns from 1982 to 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
- Ariel Anemoi Asura, a character in the light novel series Mushoku Tensei
- Demon Lord Ariel from the light novel series So I'm a Spider, So What?
- Ariel, secondary protagonist of the 2018 movie Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
- Ariel Conroy, antagonist in the television series ''You, Me, and the Apocalypse''