Abe
Other names
Gender	Male
See also	Abraham, Abey, Avi

Abe /ˈeɪb/ is commonly used in English-speaking countries as a diminutive of the masculine name Abraham, or as a personal name in its own right.^[1] It may refer to:

People

Abe Aaron (1910–1970), Canadian clarinetist and saxophonist
Abe Addams (1926–2017), American football player
Abe Ajay (1919–1998), American artist
Abe Akira (1934–1989), Japanese author
Abe Alvarez (born 1982), American baseball pitcher and coach
Abe Anellis (1914–2001), Russian food microbiologist
Abe Aronovitz (1898–1960), American lawyer and politician
Abe Atkins (1893–1961), American baseball player
Abe Attell (1884–1970), American world champion Hall-of-Fame featherweight boxer
Abe Bailey (1864–1940), South African diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer
Abe Bekker (born 1935), British boxer
Abe Bell, American baseball pitcher
Abe Berenbaum, American table tennis player
Abe Bernstein (1892–1968), American gangster
Abe L. Biglow (1872–1923), American politician and businessman
Abe Bluestein (1909–1997), American anarchist
Abe Bolar (1909–2000), American double bass player
Abe Bonnema (1926–2001), Dutch architect
Abe Bowman (1893–1979), American baseball pitcher
Abe Brault (1909–2007), American lawyer, naval veteran, and politician
Abe Burrows (1910–1985), American playwright, director and humorist
Abe Clark (1894–1973), Australian rugby player
Abe Cohen (1933–2001), American football player
Abe Cohn (1897–1970), American football player and basketball player, coach, and official
Abe Coleman (1905–2007), Polish wrestler, promoter, and referee
Abe Cunningham (born 1973), American drummer of the alternative metal band Deftones
Abe Deutschendorf (1935–2012), American politician
Abe Elenkrig (1878–1965), Russian-American bandleader, cornet player, barber, and recording artist
Abe Elimimian (born 1982), American football player and coach
Abe Eliowitz (1910–1981), American college and Canadian football player, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
Abe Elkinson (born 1969), English businessman
A. L. Erlanger (1859–1930), American theatrical producer, director, designer and theatre owner
Abe Espinosa (1889–1980), American golfer
Abe Feder (1908–1997), American lighting designer
Abe Forsythe (born 1981), Australian film and television actor, director, writer, and producer
Abe Fortas (1910–1982), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
Abe Garver, American investment banker, magazine contributor, television commentator, and conference speaker
Abe Gelbart (1911–1994), American mathematician
Abe Geldenhuys (1932–1998), South African wrestler
Abe Gibron (1925–1997), American football player and coach
Abe Goff (1899–1984), American politician
Abe Goldberg (1929-2016), Polish-born Jewish Australian businessman
Abe Goldstein (1898–1977), American world champion bantamweight boxer
Abe Gray (born 1982), American-New Zealand politician and cannabis activist
Abe Greenhalgh (1920–1982), British weightlifter
Abe Greenthal (1822–1889), American criminal
Abe Gubegna (1933–1980), Ethiopian writer
Abe Gutnajer (1888–1942), Polish art dealer
Abe Harrison (1867–1932), American baseball player
Abe Hartley (1872–1909), Scottish footballer
Abe Hawkins (died 1867), American horse jockey and freed slave
Abe Holzmann (1874–1939), American composer
Abe M. Hudson Jr. (born 1976), American politician
Abe Isoo (1865–1949), Japanese socialist, parliamentarian, and pacifist
Abe Jacob (born 1944), American sound designer and audio engineer
Abe Jacobs (1928–2023), New Zealand professional wrestler
Abe Johnson, American baseball player
Abe Jones (1880–1890), American baseball player
Abe Jones, American attorney
Abe Jones Jr. (1899–1923), English footballer
Abe Kakepetum (1944–2019), Canadian Anishinaabe painter
Abe Katzman (1868–1940), Klezmer violinist, bandleader, composer, and recording artist
Abe Kesh (1933–1989), American DJ and record producer
Abe King (born 1957), Filipino basketball player
Abe Knoop (born 1963), Dutch football goalkeeper
Abe Kovnats (1928–1996), Canadian politician
Abe Kruger (1885–1962), American baseball pitcher
Abe Laboriel Jr. (born 1971), American drummer
Abe Laguna (born 1992), American DJ
Abe Landa (1902–1989), Australian politician
Abe Lastfogel (1898–1984), Russian politician
Abe Lemons (1922–2002), American college basketball player and coach
Abe Lenstra (1920–1985), Dutch footballer
Abe Levitow (1922–1975), American cartoon animator and director
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), 16th president of the United States
Abe Lincoln (1907–2000), American jazz trombonist
Abe Loewen, Canadian drag racer
Abe Lyman (1897–1957), American jazz bandleader
Abe Manley (1885–1952), American baseball executive
Abe Martin (1906–1997), American football player, football, basketball, and baseball coach, and college athletics administrator
Abe Martin (1908–1979), American college football player, head coach and administrator
Glenn Martin (coach) (1906–1997), American college football, basketball and baseball coach
Abe Masahiro (1819–1857), Japanese chief senior councillor
Abe Masakatsu (1541–1600), Japanese samurai
Abe Masakiyo (1850–1878), Japanese daimyō
Abe Masakoto (1860–1925), Japanese daimyō
Abe Masanori (1806–1823), Japanese daimyō
Abe Masatsugu (1569–1647), Japanese daimyō
Abe Masatō (1828–1887), Japanese daimyō
Abe Masayoshi (1769–1808), Japanese daimyō
Abe McDougall (1876–1948), Australian rules footballer
Abe Meyer (1901–1969), American film score composer
Abe Mickal (1912/1913–2001), Lebanese-American college football player and doctor
Abe William Miller (1897–1964), Canadian lawyer and politician
Abe Mitchell (1887–1947), English golfer
Abe Mitchell, American baseball player
Abe Moffat (1896–1975), Scottish trade unionist and communist activist
Abe Mosseri (born 1974), American professional backgammon and poker player
Abe Most (1920–2002), American clarinetist and alto saxophonist
Abe Motozane (1513–1587), Japanese samurai
Abe Munro (1896–1974), New Zealand rugby player
Abe Newborn (1920–1997), American talent agent and theatre producer
Abe Notshweleka (1954–2021), South African Army soldier
Abe Okpik (1928–1997), Canadian Inuit community leader
Abe Olman (1887–1984), American songwriter and music publisher
Abe Orpen (1854–1937), Canadian businessman
Glenn Osser (1914–2014), American musician, musical arranger, orchestra leader and songwriter
Abe Peck (born 1945), American magazine consultant, writer, editor, and professor
Abe Peled, Israeli-American businessman
Abe Piasek (1928–2020), American U.S. Army soldier and slave labor camp survivor
Abe E. Pierce III (1934–2021), American educator and politician
Abe Poffenroth (1917–1997), American football and baseball coach
Abe Pollin (1923–2009), American businessman and owner of several major sports teams
Abe Reles (1906–1941), American-Jewish mobster
Abe Rich (1926–2008), Lithuanian wood craftsman and Holocaust survivor
Abe Rosenthal (1921–1986), English footballer
Abe Ruef (1864–1936), American lawyer and politician
Abe Saffron (1919–2006), Australian hotelier, nightclub owner, and property developer
Abe Saperstein (1908–1966), UK-born American founder and owner of the Harlem Globetrotters
Abe Sarkis (1913–1991), American mobster
Abe Schwartz (1881–1963), Romanian-American Klezmer violinist, composer, Yiddish theater and ethnic recordings bandleader
Abe Segal (1930–2016), South African tennis player
Abe Shannon (1869–1945), Australian pastoralist
Abe Shires (1917–1993), American football player
Abe Silverstein (1908–2001), American engineer
Abe Simon (1913–1969), American heavyweight boxer
Abe Sklar (1925–2020), American mathematician and professor
Abe Stark (1894–1972), American businessman and politician
Abe Stern (1888–1951), American film producer
Abe Tadaaki (1602–1671), Japanese politician
Abe Terry (born 1934), English rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s
Abe Thompson (born 1982), American soccer player
Abe Turner (1924–1962), American chess master
Abe W. Turner (1893–1947), American politician
Abe Vigoda (1921–2016), American actor
Abe Waddington (1893–1959), English cricketer
Abe Walsh (born 1971), American author
Abe Watson (1871–1932), Australian rules footballer
Abe White (1904–1978), American baseball player
Abe Wiersma (born 1994), Dutch rower
Abe Wilson (1899–1981), American football player
Abe Wolstenholme (1861–1916), American baseball player
Abe Woodson (1934–2014), American football player
Abe Yourist (1909–1991), Russian-American basketball player
Abe Zvonkin (1910–2002), Canadian track and field athlete, Canadian football player, and wrestler

Fictional characters

Abe (Oddworld), primary protagonist in the Oddworld fictional universe
Abe Carver, on the soap opera Days of Our Lives
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

References

^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. Retrieved 2018-11-17.

v t e Given names and surnames associated with Abraham / Ibrahim
Given name	Abraham Abrahão/Abraão Abram Abramo Abe Avram Brahim Bram Ibrahim/İbrahim/Ibraheem/Ebrahim/Ebraheem Ibrahima
Surname from Abraham	Abraham Abrahamczyk Abrahami Abrahamowicz Abrahams Abrahamsen Abrahamson Abrahamsson Abrahamyan/Abrahamian/Aprahamyan Abrahamz Abrahão/Abraão Abrahim Ben-Abraham Brahm Brahms Bram
Surname from Abram	Abram Abramashvili Abramavičius Abramchuk Abramczyk Abramenko Abramenkov Abrami Abramič Abramidze Abramishvili Abramovich Abramo Abramofsky Abramoski Abramov Abramović Abramowicz/Abramovich/Abramovitz/Abramowitz Abramovsky Abramowski Abrams Abramsky Abramson Abramsson Abramtsev Abramyan Abromaitis Abromavičius Abromeit
Surname from Avraham	Avraham Avrahami Avram Avramenko Avramescu Avrami Avramidis Avramidou Avramov Avramović
Surname from Ibrahim	Brahim Ebrahimi Ibrahim/Ebrahim Ibragimov/Ibrahimov İbrahimoğlu Ibrahimović
Patronym	Al-Ibrahim bin Ibrahim/ben Ibrahim/bint Ibrahim Ibn Ibrahim Ben Brahim/bin Brahim

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