Aksel

Aksel is a masculine name, used predominantly throughout Scandinavia, a variant of Axel.

See Kusaila for the 7th-century Berber leader.

People with the name include:

• Aksel Agerby (1889–1942), Danish composer, organist, and music administrator
• Aksel Airo (1898–1985), Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner
• Aksel Andersen (1912–1977), Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist
• Aksel Frederik Andersen (1891–1972), Danish mathematician
• Aksel Arstal (1855–1940), Norwegian theologist, schoolteacher and geographer
• Aksel Bender Madsen (1916–2000), Danish furniture designer
• Aksel Berg (1893–1979), Soviet scientist and Navy Admiral (in Engineering)
• Aksel Berget Skjølsvik (born 1987), Norwegian professional football player
• Aksel Bonde (1918–1996), Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics
• Aksel Brehm (1889-?), Estonian politician
• Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen
• Aksel Duun (1921–1987), Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s
• Aksel Fossen (1919–2009), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
• Aksel Gresvig (1876–1958), Norwegian track cyclist, sports administrator and businessman
• Aksel Gürcan Demirtaş (born 1973), Turkish track and field athlete
• Aksel Hagen (born 1953), Norwegian politician and member of the Storting
• Aksel Hennie (born 1975), Norwegian actor, director and writer
• Aksel Hansen (1853–1933), Danish sculptor
• Kaj Aksel Hansen (1917–1987), Danish footballer and manager
• Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff (1922–1971, Norwegian communist and one of the last generations on Lille Ekkerøy
• Aksel V. Johannesen (born 1972), Faroese lawyer and politician
• Aksel Kallas (1890–1922), Estonian politician
• Aksel Kankaanranta (born 1998), Finnish singer who would've represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020
• Aksel Kuuse (1913–1942), Estonian track and field athlete
• Aksel Larsen (1897–1972), Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark
• Aksel Lund Svindal (born 1982), Norwegian alpine skier
• Aksel Lydersen (1919–1995), Norwegian engineer and professor of chemical engineering
• Aksel Madsen (1899–1988), Danish long-distance runner
• Aksel Magdahl (born 1979), Norwegian navigator
• Aksel Mark (1913–2014), Estonian politician, journalist, newspaper editor and agronomist
• Aksel Mikkelsen (1849–1929), Danish educator
• Aksel Møller (1906–1958), Danish politician
• Aksel Nielsen (1901–1984), Danish-born American philanthropist, founder of the Mortgage Banking Association's School of Mortgage Banking
• Aksel Nõmmela (born 1994), Estonian cyclist
• Aksel Orav (1929–2003), Estonian actor
• Aksel Herman Rüütli (1893–1976), Estonian politician
• Aksel Sørensen (1891–1955), Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Aksel Sandemose (1899–1965), novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark
• Aksel Schiøtz (1906–1975), Danish tenor and Lieder singer
• Aksel Vartanyan (born 1938), Soviet and Russian journalist and sports historian
• Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), Danish meteorologist and professor of meteorology
• Aksel Zachariassen (1898–1987), Norwegian politician, newspaper editor, secretary and writer