Axel may refer to:
People
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Axel (name)
Axel (also ''Aksel'') is a Scandinavian, German language, German, French language, French, and Dutch language, Dutch masculine given name. In Estonia, Denmark, and Norway the spelling Aksel is more common. The Finnish form of the name is Akseli, w ...
, all persons with the name
Places
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Axel, Netherlands
Axel is a city in the southwest Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Terneuzen, Zeeland, about 31 km southeast of Vlissingen. Axel received city rights in 1213.
History
The city was first established between 987 and 994 as Axl ...
, a town
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Capture of Axel, a battle at Axel in 1586
Arts, entertainment, media
* ''Axel'', a 1988 short film by
Nigel Wingrove
* ''Axel'', a
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 Jun ...
show
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Axël'', an 1890 drama play by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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Axel (dance turn), a type of turn performed in dance
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Axel lift, a movement in pair skating
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Axel jump, a type of jump in figure skating
* "
Axel F", the 1985 instrumental theme song of ''Beverly Hills Cop'' by Harold Faltermeyer
Companies, organizations
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Axel Hotels
Axel Hotels is an international hotel chain, parented by the Axel Corporation aimed to the LGBTQ+ community. It was founded in 2003 by Juan P. Julia Blanch and known as the first LGBT and hetero-friendly hotel chain. Albert Olivé is currently ...
, hotel chain
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Axel Springer SE
Axel Springer SE () is a European multinational corporation, multinational mass media, mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany. The company offers printing and publishing of advertisements, digital classifieds portfolio, marketi ...
, largest digital publishing house in Europe
Other uses
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Axel Maersk
Axel may refer to:
People
* Axel (name), all persons with the name
Places
* Axel, Netherlands, a town
** Capture of Axel, a battle at Axel in 1586
Arts, entertainment, media
* ''Axel'', a 1988 short film by Nigel Wingrove
* ''Axel'', a Cirqu ...
, Danish container ship
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Citroën Axel
The Oltcit Club is a supermini car, supermini produced between 1981 and 1991 and developed in co-operation by Citroën of France and Oltcit, a joint venture company with the Romanian government.
They were powered by the air-cooled engines from t ...
, automobile made by Citroën
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Typhoon Axel (disambiguation) The name Axel has been used for two tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that p ...
, multiple storms named Axel
* Axel, a character in
Pikwik Pack
''Pikwik Pack'' is an animated television series for preschoolers that debuted on Disney Junior on November 7, 2020, in the United States, and on Treehouse TV on December 26 of the same year in Canada. The program was created by Mary Bredin, Fra ...
* Axel, a coaxial two-wheeler, designed to investigate caves on the moon with the proposed mission
Moon Diver (spacecraft)
Moon Diver is a proposed lunar mission concept by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that would employ a robotic lander and a – distant coaxial – two-wheeled rover called ''Axel'' to investigate the exposed geological layers on the walls of a d ...
See also
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Aksel :''See Kusaila for the 7th-century Berber leader.''
Aksel is a masculine name, used predominantly throughout Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion#Europe, subregion of northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties ...
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Axl (disambiguation)
Axl may refer to:
People
* Axl Rose, lead singer of Guns N' Roses
* Axl Rotten, ring name for former professional wrestler Brian Knighton (1971–2016)
* Axl Hazarika, an Indian musician
* Axl Beats, a British drill music producer
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Axle
An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotation, rotating wheel and axle, wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to the vehicle, with the wheels rotating around the axle. In ...
, a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear
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