•
Axel (born 1977), Argentine singer-songwriter •
Absalon (1128–1201), Danish archbishop also known as Axel of Lund •
Prince Axel of Denmark (1888–1964) •
Axel Aabrink (1887–1965), Danish painter •
Axel Gustav Adlercreutz (1821–1880), Swedish politician and civil servant •
Axel Alfredsson (1902–1966), Swedish footballer •
Axel Algmark (born 1990), Swedish pop singer •
Axel von Ambesser (1910–1988), German actor and film director •
Axel Anderberg (1860–1937), Swedish architect •
Axel Andersen (1891–1931), Danish gymnast •
Axel Andersen Byrval (1875–1957), Danish football player and manager •
Axel Anderson (1929–2012), German-born Puerto Rican actor, television producer and television host •
Axel Andersson (1887–1951), Swedish track and field athlete •
Axel Andrésson (1895–1961), Icelandic footballer and football club founder •
Axel Óskar Andrésson (born 1998), Icelandic footballer •
Axel Aubert (1873–1943), Norwegian chemical engineer •
Axel Augis (born 1990), French gymnast •
Axel Axelsson (born 1942), Icelandic footballer •
Axel Axelsson (born 1951), Icelandic handball player •
Axel Axgil (1915–2011), Danish gay rights activist, first man to enter into a same-sex registered partnership •
Axel Bäck (born 1987), Swedish alpine skier •
Axel Bachmann (born 1989), Paraguayan chess player •
Axel Bakayoko (born 1998), French footballer •
Axel Bakunts (1899–1937), Armenian prose writer, film-writer, translator and activist •
Axel Bassani (born 1999), Italian motorcycle racer •
Axel Bauer (born 1961), French singer •
Axel J. Beck (1894–1981), American federal judge •
Axel D. Becke (born 1953), Canadian physical chemist, professor and researcher •
Axel Bellinghausen (born 1983), German footballer •
Axel Berg (1856–1929), Danish architect •
Axel Berg (born 1959), German politician •
Axel Berndt (born 19??), German sprint canoer •
Axel Bernstein (1974–2017), German politician •
Axel Birnbaum (born 1966), Austrian fencer •
Axel Blake (born 1988), British stand-up comedian •
Axel Bloch (1911–1998), Danish fencer •
Jan Axel Blomberg (born 1969), Norwegian heavy metal drummer (
Mayhem,
Arcturus) •
Axel Blomqvist (1894–1965), Swedish speed skater •
Axel Blumberg (1981–2004), Argentine kidnap and murder victim •
Axel Gudbrand Blytt (1843–1898), Norwegian botanist and geologist •
Jonas Axel Boeck (1833–1873), Norwegian marine biologist •
Axel Boëthius (1889–1969), Swedish scholar and archaeologist of Etruscan culture •
Axel Boman (born 19??), Swedish house music DJ and producer •
Axel Borgmann (born 1994), German footballer •
Axel Borup-Jørgensen (1924–2012), Danish composer •
Axel Börsch-Supan (born 1954), German economist and researcher •
Axel Brage (born 1989), Swedish ice hockey player •
Axel Braun (born 19??), Italian adult film producer and director •
Axel Brauns (born 1963), German writer and filmmaker •
Axel Ludvig Broström (1838–1905), Swedish shipping magnate •
Axel Brown (born 1992), Trinidadian - British bobsledder •
Axel T. Brunger (born 1956), German-born American biophysicist •
Axel Bruns (born 19??), German-born Australian scholar •
Axel Brusewitz (1881–1950), Swedish political scientist and professor •
Axel Buch (1930–1998), Norwegian politician •
Axel Bulthaupt (born 1966), German journalist, entertainer and television presenter •
Axel von dem Bussche (1919–1993), German WWII military officer, attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler •
Axel Cadier (1906–1974), Swedish wrestler •
Axel Chapelle (born 1995), French pole vaulter •
Axel Cleeremans (born 1962), Belgian cognitive scientist and professor •
Axel Clerget (born 1987), French judoka •
Axel Coldevin (1900–1992), Norwegian historian •
Axel Collett (1880–1968), Norwegian landowner, timber merchant and sawmill owner •
Axel Coon (born 1975), German musician •
Axel Corti (1933–1993), Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host •
Axel Daeseleire (born 1968), Belgian actor •
Axel Danielson (1867–1949), Swedish journalist and Swedish editor •
Axel Danielsson (1863–1899), Swedish socialist agitator, journalist and writer •
Axel de Reuterskiöld (1860–1937), Swedish baron and philatelist •
Axel Didriksson (born 19??), Mexican writer, academic and professor •
Axel Dieter Jr. (born 1990), German professional wrestler •
Axel Disasi (born 1998), French footballer •
Axel Domont (born 1990), French racing cyclist •
Axel Donczew (born 2010), Welsh footballer •
Axel Doruelo (born 1982), Filipino basketball player •
Axel Downard-Wilke (born 1966), transport planner •
Axel Dreher (born 1972), German economist •
Axel Drolsum (1846–1927), Norwegian librarian •
Axel Düberg (1927–2001), Swedish film actor •
Axel Dünnwald-Metzler (1939–2004), German footballer •
Axel Edelstam (1924–2012), Swedish diplomat •
Axel Eggebrecht (1899–1991), German journalist and writer •
Axel Ehnström (born 1990), Finnish singer-songwriter •
Axel Eidstedt (born 1995), Swedish ice hockey player •
Axel Ekblom (1893–1957), Swedish sport shooter •
Axel Elmlund (1838–1901), ballet dancer and stage actor •
Axel Elofs (1903–1983), Swedish long-distance runner •
Axel Ender (1853–1920), Norwegian painter and sculptor •
Axel Enström (1893–1977), Swedish industrialist •
Axel Fredrik Enström (1875–1948), Swedish electrical engineer •
Axel Eriksson (1884–1975), Swedish rower •
Axel Wilhelm Eriksson (1846–1901) Swedish ornithologist, settler, explorer and trader •
Axel Erlandson (1884–1964), Swedish-born American farmer and horticulturalist •
Axel von Fersen the Elder (1719–1794), Swedish statesman and soldier •
Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755–1810), Swedish count, diplomat, military general and statesman •
Axel Firsoff (1912–1981), Swedish-British amateur astronomer and author •
Axel Fischer (born 1966), German politician •
Axel Foley (born 1991), American hip hop musician •
Axel Olof Freudenthal (1836–1911), Finnish philologist and politician •
Axel Gabrielsson (1886–1975), Swedish rower •
Axel Gade (1860–1921), Danish violinist, composer and conductor •
Axel Gedaschko (born 1959), German politician •
Axel Geller (born 1999), Argentine tennis player •
Axel Gjöres (1889–1979), Swedish politician •
Axel Gnos (born 2003), Swiss-French racing driver •
Axel Gotthard (born 1959), German historian and professor •
Axel Graatkjær (1885–1969), Danish cinematographer •
Axel Grandjean (1847–1932), Danish composer and conductor •
Axel Gresvig (born 1941), Norwegian competitive sailor •
Axel Grönberg (1918–1988), Swedish wrestler •
Axel Gyldenstierne (–1603) Danish-Norwegian official and Governor-general of Norway •
Axel Gyllenkrok (1665–1730), Swedish baron, military general and governor of Gothenburg •
Axel Gyllenkrok (1888–1946), Norwegian sport shooter •
Axel Gyntersberg (–1588), Norwegian nobleman and feudal overlord •
Axel Otto Hagemann (1856–1907), Norwegian politician •
Axel Hager (born 1969), German beach volleyball player •
Axel Haig (1835–1921), Swedish-born British artist, architect and illustrator •
Axel Hallberg (born 1999), Swedish politician •
Axel Hamberg (1863–1933), Swedish mineralogist, geographer, explorer, photographer and professor of geography •
Axel Hampus Dalström (1829–1882), Finnish architect •
Axel Hansen (1899–1933), Danish cyclist •
Axel Henry Hansen (1887–1980), Norwegian gymnast •
Axel Härstedt (born 1987), Swedish discus thrower •
Axel Haverich (born 1953), German cardiac surgeon •
Axel Hedfors (aka Axwell, born 1977), Swedish DJ and musician •
Axel Hedenlund (1888–1919), Swedish track and field athlete •
Axel Heiberg (1848–1932), Norwegian diplomat and financier •
Axel Heiberg (1908–1988), Norwegian judge •
Axel Heiberg Stang (1904–1974), Norwegian politician, landowner and forester •
Axel C. Heitmann (born 1959), German business executive •
Axel Hellstrom (1893–1933), German muscle reader, mentalist and stage magician •
Axel Helsted (1847–1907), Danish painter •
Axel Hans Joustra (born 2004),Dutch autist •
Axel Nicolai Herlofson (1845–1910), Norwegian fraudster and criminal •
Axel Hervelle (born 1983), Belgian basketball player •
Axel Hilgenstöhler (born 1975), German record producer, mixing engineer and guitarist •
Axel Hirsoux (born 1982), Belgian singer •
Axel Høeg-Hansen (1877–1947), Danish architect •
Axel Högel (1884–1970), Swedish actor •
Axel Höjer (1890–1974), Swedish physician •
Axel Holmström (anarchist) (1881–1947), Swedish anarchist •
Axel Holmström (ice hockey) (born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player •
Axel Holst (1860–1931), Norwegian physician and professor of hygiene and bacteriology •
Axel Honneth (born 1949), German philosopher, theorist and professor •
Axel Horn (1913–2001), American artist •
Axel Hultgren (1886–1974), Swedish metallurgist •
Axel Hultman (1869–1935), Swedish actor •
Axel Hütte (born 1951), German photographer •
Axel Ingwersen (18??–19??), Danish sailor •
Axel Jang (born 1968), German bobsledder •
Axel Janse (1888–1973), Swedish gymnast •
Axel Jansson (sport shooter) (1882–1909), Swedish sport shooter •
Axel Jansson (1916–1968), Swedish politician •
Axel Jensen (1899–1968), Danish long-distance runner •
Axel Jensen (1932–2003), Norwegian author •
Axel P. Jensen (1885–1972), Danish landscape painter •
Axel Kacou (born 1995), Ivorian-French footballer •
Axel Kahn (1944–2021), French scientist and geneticist •
Axel Kassegger (born 1966), Austrian politician •
Axel Keller (born 1977), German footballer •
Axel Kicillof (born 1971), Argentine economist and politician •
Axel Kielland (1907–1963), journalist and playwright •
Axel Klinckowström (1867–1936), Swedish baron, zoologist, explorer, fiction writer and memoirist •
Axel Kober (born 1970), German conductor •
Axel Kock (1851–1935), Swedish philologist and professor of Scandinavian languages •
Axel Koenders (born 1959), Dutch triathlete •
Axel Köhler (born 1959), German countertenor and opera director •
Axel Kolle (born 1973), Norwegian footballer •
Axel Cédric Konan (born 1983), Ivorian footballer •
Axel Krause (born 1958), German painter and graphic artist •
Axel Kristiansson (1914–1999), Swedish politician •
Axel Kruse (born 1967), German footballer •
Axel Kühn (born 1967), German bobsledder •
Axel Kurck (1555–1630), Finnish warlord •
Axel Lapp (born 1966), German curator, art historian and publisher •
Axel Lawarée (born 1973), Belgian footballer •
Axel Leijonhufvud (1933–2022), Swedish economist and professor •
Axel Lerche (1903–1949), Danish sports shooter •
Axel Lesser (born 1946), German cross country skier •
Axel Lewenhaupt (1917–2018), Swedish diplomat •
Axel Liebmann (1849–1876), Danish composer •
Axel Lille (1848–1921), Finnish journalist and politician •
Axel Lillie (1603–1662), Swedish soldier and politician •
Axel Lindahl (photographer) (1841–1906), Swedish photographer •
Axel Lindstrom (1895–1940), Swedish baseball player •
Axel Ljung (1884–1938), Swedish gymnast and track and field athlete •
Axel Ljungdahl (1897–1995), Swedish Air Force general •
Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian alpine ski racer •
Axel Fredrik Londen (1859–1928), Finnish sports shooter •
Axel Louissaint (born 1996), Swiss basketball player •
Axel Løvenskiold (1912–1980), Norwegian landowner and painter •
Axel Löwen (1686–1773), Swedish nobleman and military officer •
Axel Mackenrott (born 1969), German heavy metal keyboardist (
Masterplan) •
Axel Madsen (1930–2007), Danish-born American biographer and journalist •
Axel Malmgren (1857–1901), Swedish artist •
Axel Maraval (born 1993), French footballer •
Axel Matus (born 1998), Mexican racing driver •
Axel Maurer (1866–1925), Norwegian stagewriter, editor and theatre director •
Axel Maußen (born 1968), German Roman Catholic priest •
Axel Médéric (born 1970), French figure skater •
Axel Merckx (born 1972), Belgian cyclist •
Axel Méyé (born 1995), Gabonese footballer •
Axel Meyer (born 1960), German evolutionary biologist and professor of zoology •
Axel Michon (born 1990), French tennis player •
Axel Michaels (born 1949), German professor of classical Indology and religious studies •
Axel Milberg (born 1956), German actor •
Axel Miller (born 1965), Belgian businessman •
Axel Möller (1830–1896), Swedish astronomer •
Axel Otto Mörner (1774–1852), Swedish artist and military general •
Axel Mowat (1592–1661), Norwegian naval officer and land owner •
Axel Müller (disambiguation), several people •
Axel Munthe (1857–1949), Swedish physician and psychiatrist •
Axel Murswieck (born 19??), German political scientist, commentator and professor •
Axel Neff (born 1984), American businessman •
Axel Nepraunik (born 1945), Austrian sprinter •
Axel Neumann (born 1952), German footballer •
Axel Ngando (born 1993), French footballer •
Axel Nielsen (1902–1970), Danish astronomer •
Axel Noack (born 1961), German race walker •
Axel Nordgren (1828–1888), Swedish painter •
Axel Nordlander (1879–1962), Swedish military officer and equestrian •
Axel Norling (1884–1964), Swedish gymnast, diver, and tug of war competitor •
Axel Otto Normann (1884–1962), Norwegian journalist, newspaper editor, theatre critic and theatre director •
Axel Oberwelland (born 1966), German businessman •
Axel Ockenfels (born 1969), German economist and professor •
Axel Odelberg (1873–1950), Swedish chemical engineer •
Axel Ohlin (1867–1903), Swedish zoologist and Arctic and Antarctic explorer •
Axel Olrik (1864–1917), Danish folklorist and scholar of medieval historiography •
Axel Orrström (born 1986), Finnish footballer •
Axel Ottosson (born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player •
Axel Oxenstierna (1583–1654) Swedish statesman •
Axel Palmgren (1867–1939), Finnish lawyer, civil servant, business executive and politician •
Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), Norwegian figure skater and speed skater •
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883–1954), Swedish politician and former Prime Minister of Sweden •
Axel Rudi Pell (born 1960), German heavy metal guitarist •
Axel Perneczky (1945–2009), Hungarian neurosurgeon •
Axel Persson (1888–1955), Swedish cyclist •
Axel W. Persson (1888–1951), Swedish archaeologist •
Axel Peschel (born 1942), German cyclist •
Axel Petersen (1880–1962) Danish track and field athlete •
Axel Petersen (1887–1968), Danish footballer •
Axel Jacob Petersson (1834–1884), Swedish-Norwegian structural engineer and inventor •
Axel Petersson Döderhultarn (1868–1925), Swedish wood carver •
Axel Pilmark (1925–2009), Danish footballer •
Axel Poignant (1906–1986), Australian photographer •
Axel Poniatowski (born 1951), French politician •
Axel Pons (born 1991), Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle racer and model •
Axel Poulsen (1887–1972), Danish sculptor •
Axel Prahl (born 1960), German actor •
Axel Preisler (1871–1930), Danish architect •
Axel Pretzsch (born 1976), German tennis player •
Axel Proet Høst (1907–1985), Norwegian sports official •
Axel Rappe (1838–1918), Swedish Army general •
Axel Rappe (1884–1945), Swedish Army major general •
Axel Rauschenbach (born 1967), German pair skater •
Axel Revold (1887–1962), Norwegian painter, illustrator and art professor •
Axel Reymond (born 1994), French marathon swimmer •
Axel Ringvall (1860–1927), Swedish actor and comedian •
Axel Ripke (1880–1937), German journalist and politician •
Axel Rodrigues de Arruda (born 1970), Brazilian footballer •
Axel Romdahl (1880–1951), Swedish art historian and museum curator •
Axel Roos (born 1964), German footballer and coach •
Axl Rose (born 1962), Lead vocalist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses •
Axel Rosenkrantz (1670–1723), Norwegian landowner and baron •
Axel Roth (1936–2008), German-born American NASA engineer •
Axel Rubbestad (1888–1961), Swedish politician •
Axel Runström (1883–1943), Swedish water polo player and diver •
Axel Ryding (1831–1897), Swedish Army lieutenant general •
Axel Salzmann (born 1950), German pair skater •
Axel Schulz (born 1968), German boxer •
Axel Schulz (born 1959), German footballer •
Axel Seeberg (1931–2011), Norwegian archaeologist •
Axel Siefer (born 1950), German actor •
Axel Simonsen (1887–1938), Norwegian long-distance runner •
Axel Sjöberg (footballer, born 1991) (born 1991), Swedish footballer •
Axel Sjöblad (born 1967), Swedish handball player •
Axel Sjöblom (1882–1951), Swedish gymnast •
Axel Skovgaard (1875–19??), Danish-born American violinist •
Axel Smeets (born 1974), Belgian footballer and manager •
Axel Smith (topographer) (1744–1823), Norwegian priest and topographer •
Axel Smith (chess player) (born 1986), Swedish chess player • (1856–1935), Norwegian parliamentary representative •
Axel Sømme (1899–1991), Norwegian geographer, political activist, magazine and newspaper editor •
Axel Springer (1912–1985), German publisher •
Axel Ståhle (1891–1987), Swedish Army officer and equestrian •
Axel Stawski (born 1950), American real estate developer and investor •
Axel Stein (born 1982), German actor •
Axel Stoll (1948–2014), German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist •
Axel Stordahl (1913–1963), American composer and arranger •
Axel Strand (1893–1983), Swedish trade union organizer •
Axel Strauss (born 19??), German violinist music professor •
Axel Strøbye (1928–2005), Danish actor •
Axel Strøm (1901–1985), Norwegian physician •
Axel Sundermann (born 1968), German former footballer •
Axel Sundquist (1867–1910), American sailor •
Axel Svendsen (1912–1995), Danish canoeist •
Axel Sveinsson (1896–1957), Icelandic civil engineer •
Axel Tallberg (1860–1928), Swedish visual artist and engraver •
Axel Teichmann (born 1979), German cross-country skier •
Axel Tetens (1892–1961), Danish wrestler •
Axel Thallaug (1866–1938), Norwegian lawyer and politician •
Axel Thayssen (1885–1952), Danish tennis player •
Axel Tony (born 1984), French singer •
Axel Törneman (1880–1925), Swedish painter •
Axel Toupane (born 1992), French basketball player •
Axel Troost (1954–2023), German economist and politician •
Axel Tuanzebe (born 1997), Congolese-born British footballer •
Axel Ullrich (born 1943), German biologist, oncologist and cancer researcher •
Axel Urup (1601–1671), Danish military engineer and commander and judge •
Axel Vennersten (1863–1948), Swedish politician •
Axel Villanueva (born 1989), Nicaraguan footballer •
Axel Vogt (1849–1921), American railroad mechanical engineer •
Axel von Blomberg (1908–1941), German Air Force officer •
Axel von Harnack (1895–1974), German librarian, historian and philologist •
Axel Voss (born 1963), German politician •
Axel Wachtmeister, Count of Mälsåker (1643–1699), Swedish count and field marshal •
Axel Wahlstedt (1867–1943), Swedish sports shooter •
Axel Wallengren (1865–1896), Swedish author, poet, and journalist •
Axel A. Weber (born 1957), German economist, professor and banker •
Axel Weber (1954–2001), German pole vaulter •
Axel Wegner (born 1963), German sports shooter •
Axel Welin (1862–1951), Swedish inventor and industrialist •
Axel Wenner-Gren (1881–1961), Swedish entrepreneur •
Axel Werner (born 1996), Argentine footballer •
Axel Westermark (1875–1911), American sailor •
Axel Wibrån (born 1985), Swedish footballer •
Axel Wieandt (born 1966), German businessman •
Axel Wikström (1907–1976), Swedish cross-country skier •
Axel Williams (born 1983), Tahitian footballer •
Axel Willner (aka The Field, born 19??), Swedish electronic musician •
Axel Witsel (born 1989), Belgian footballer •
Axel Wittke (born 1960), German footballer •
Axel Zeebroek (born 1978), Belgian triathlete •
Axel Zitzmann (born 1959), German ski jumper •
Axel Zwingenberger (born 1955), German blues and boogie-woogie pianist
Fictional characters • Akseli Koskela, in the Finnish novel
Täällä Pohjantähden alla by Väinö Linna • Axel, a Belgian steam locomotive in the film
Thomas & Friends: The Great Race • Axel, a character in the 2020s animated television series
Pikwik Pack • Axel, a grasshopper in the 1998 animated film ''
A Bug's Life'' •
Axel (Kingdom Hearts), a character in the
Kingdom Hearts video game series • Axel, a character in the
Crazy Taxi video game series • Axel, a main character in the video game
Minecraft Story Mode • Axel, a protagonist in Jules Verne's
A Journey to the Center of the Earth • Axel, a character in the book
The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare • Axel, in the film
My Bloody Valentine •
Axel (The Walking Dead), a former prisoner and member of the group of survivors on the TV series
The Walking Dead • Axel the Water Buffalo, a villain in the
Sonic the Hedgehog comic • Axel Blaze, the English name for Gouenji Shuuya, a main character in the manga and anime
Inazuma Eleven • Axel the Dark Hero, a character in the
Disgaea video game series •
Axel Foley, a character in the
Beverly Hills Cop films • Axel Freed, the main character in the film
The Gambler •
Axel Hawk, a character in the video game series
Fatal Fury • Axel Jordache, in the novel
Rich Man, Poor Man: the father of the novel's three central characters • Axel Miller, in the American-Canadian TV series
Van Helsing • Axel Mulligan, the main character in
Power Players • Axel Rex, in Vladimir Nabokov's novel
Laughter in the Dark • Axel Steel, in the
Guitar Hero video game series • Axel Stone, a character in the
Streets of Rage video game series • Axel Thurston, in the anime series
Eureka Seven • Axel Walker, the second character known as
Trickster in the DC Comics universe • Axl, a protagonist in Kazuo Ishiguro's
The Buried Giant •
Axl, a character in the
Mega Man X series • Axl, a character in the series
Nexo Knights • Axl Heck, in the TV series
The Middle •
Axl Low, a character in the
Guilty Gear series of fighting games ==As a surname==