Gabriel (given name)

Gabriel is a given name derived from the Hebrew name Gaḇrīʾēl (גַבְרִיאֵל) meaning "God's man".

People named Gabriel

Royal houses, nobility and clergy

• Gabriel of Kakheti (died 881), Prince and Chorepiscopus of Kakheti
• Gabriel of Melitene (died c.1102), Armenian general and ruler of Melitene
• Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg (1489–1539), Spanish nobleman
• Gabriel de la Cueva, 5th Duke of Alburquerque (c. 1515–1571), Spanish nobleman and military leader
• Gabriel de Lorges, Count of Montgomery (1530–1574), French nobleman
• Gabriel de Luetz (died 1553), French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
• Gabriel de Rochechouart, 1st Duke of Mortemart (1600–1675), French nobleman
• Gabriel de Guilleragues (1628–1684), French politician
• Gabriel, 7th Duke of Aveiro (1667–1745), Spanish nobleman
• Gabriel II of Constantinople (died 1659), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Gabriel III of Constantinople (died 1707), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• César Gabriel de Choiseul, Duke of Praslin (1712–1785), French officer, diplomat and statesman
• Infante Gabriel of Spain (1752–1788), Spanish Infante
• Prince Gabriel Constantinovich of Russia (1887–1955), Russian prince
• Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1897–1975), Italian prince
• Prince Gabriel of Thurn and Taxis (1922–1942), German prince
• Gabriel Urgebadze (1929–1995), Georgian Orthodox monk
• Prince Gabriel of Belgium (born 2003), Belgian prince

Artists and entertainers

• Gabriel Bateman (born 2004), American actor
• Gabriel Braga Nunes (born 1972), Brazilian actor
• Gabriel Byrne (born 1950), Irish actor
• Gabriel Casaccia (1907–1980), Paraguayan novelist
• Gabriel Chevallier (1895–1969), French writer and novelist
• Gabriel o Pensador (born Gabriel Contino, 1974), Brazilian singer-songwriter and rapper
• Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780), French artist
• Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), French composer, organist, pianist and teacher
• Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), Colombian novelist
• Gabriel Iglesias (born 1976), American comedian and actor
• Gabriel Macht (born 1972), American actor
• Gabriel Morrissette (born 1959), Canadian illustrator
• Gabe Saporta (born 1979), Uruguayan-American musician
• Gabriel Soria (1908–1971), Mexican film director
• Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), Austrian painter
• Gabriel von Seidl (1848–1913), German architect

Athletes

• Gabriel Agbonlahor (born 1986), English football player
• Gabriel Almeida (born 1996), Brazilian footballer
• Gabriel Arteaga (born 1976), Cuban judoka
• Gabriel Bandeira (born 1999), Brazilian Paralympic swimmer
• Gabriel Barbosa (born 1996), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Batistuta (born 1969), Argentine football player
• Gabriel Bortoleto (born 2004), Brazilian racing driver
• Gabe Cramer (born 1994), Israeli-Canadian-American baseball player
• Gabe Cupps (born 2004), American basketball player
• Gabriel Davalillo (born 2007), Venezuelan baseball player
• Gabe Davis (born 1999), American football player
• Gabriel de Moura (born 1988), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Deck (born 1995), Argentine basketball player
• Gabriel Diallo (born 2001), Canadian tennis player
• Gabby Espinas (born 1982), Filipino basketball player
• Gabriel Eugénio Souza (born 1997), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Europaeus (born 2005), Finnish footballer
• Gabriel Favale (born 1967), Argentine football referee
• Gabriel Geay (born 1996), Tanzanian distance runner
• Gabriel Enrique Gómez (born 1984), Panamanian footballer
• Gabriel Girón (born 1988), Mexican basketball player
• Gabriel Gonzaga (born 1979), Brazilian martial artist
• Gabe Hall (born 2001), American football player
• Gabriel Hamer-Webb (born 2000), English rugby union player
• Gabriel Heinze (born 1978), Argentine football player
• Gabriel Hernández (disambiguation), several people
• Gabriel Jesus (born 1997), Brazilian football player
• Gabe Jeudy-Lally (born 2001), American football player
• Gabe Kapler (born 1975), American baseball manager
• Gabriel Landeskog (born 1992), Swedish ice hockey player
• Gabriel Lundberg (born 1994), Danish basketball player
• Gabriel Magalhães (born 1997), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Martinelli (born 2001), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Mendoza (born 1968), Chilean football player
• Gabriel Messner (born 1997), Italian snowboarder
• Gabriel Milito (born 1980), Argentine football player
• Gabriel Minadeo (born 1967), Argentine field hockey coach
• Gabriel Moiceanu (1934–2025), Romanian cyclist
• Gabriel Monteiro Vasconcelos (born 1996), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Morency (born 1970), Canadian sports broadcaster
• Gabe Norwood (born 1985), Filipino basketball player
• Gabriel Obertan (born 1989), French football player
• Gabriel Oksanen (born 2006), Finnish-American football player
• Gabriel Olaseni (born 1992), British basketball player
• Gabriel Paulista (born 1990), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel Popescu (footballer) (born 1973), Romanian football player
• Gabriel Reis (born 1984), Brazilian water polo player
• Gabriel Rubio (born 2003), American football player
• Gabriel Sillanpää (born 2005), Finnish footballer
• Gabi Teichner (born 1945), Israeli basketball player
• Gabriel Varga (born 1985), Canadian kick boxer
• Gabriel (footballer, born September 1992), Brazilian football player
• Gabriel José Ferreira Mesquita (born 1998), Brazilian football player
• Gabe York (born 1993), American basketball player

Other

• Gabriel Al-Salem (1967–2010), American businessman and author
• Gabriel Arrúe (born 1999), Spanish politician
• Gabriel Aubry (born 1975), Canadian model
• Gabriel Boric (born 1986), current president of Chile (2022-)
• Gabriel de Broglie (1931–2025), French historian and politician
• Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), Polish physicist and engineer
• Gabriel Garang Aher Arol, South Sudanese politician
• Gabriel Hardy, Canadian politician
• Gabriel Kaplan (born 1944), American comedian and poker player
• Gabriel Kisch (1917–1998), Romanian murder victim
• Gabriel Lippmann (1845–1921), Luxembourgish-French physicist and inventor
• Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), French philosopher and playwright
• Gabriel Nkgweng, South African politician
• Gabriel I. H. Williams, Liberian journalist
• Gabriel Weston (born 1970), English surgeon, author and television presenter

Fictional characters

• Gabriel, the main antagonist of the video game Ultrakill
• Gabriel, the main antagonist of the YouTube series "The Mandela Catalogue"
• Gabriel, the recurring antagonist in the third season of the 1987 TV series Beauty and the Beast
• Gabriel, the protagonist of the video game Fable: The Journey
• Gabriel, one of the missing children from Five Nights at Freddy's
• Gabriel, a recurring character on the television series Supernatural
• Gabriel the Warrior, one of the main characters in Minecraft: Story Mode
• Gabriel Agreste, the main antagonist in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and the father of Adrien Agreste
• Gabriel Allon, the main protagonist of a series of books by Daniel Silva
• Gabriel Angelos, one of the main characters in the video game series Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
• Gabriel Ashlocke, the main antagonist of the second series of Mutant X
• Gabriel Belmont, the protagonist of the video game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and its two sequels
• Gabriel Birid, the protagonist of the series Gabriel's Fire which was later revamped as Pros and Cons
• Gabriel Boutin, a character in Sally Green's trilogy Half Bad
• Gabriel Churchkitten, a fictional cat in the novels by Margot Austin
• Gabriel Cohuelo, also known as Velocidad, a Marvel Comics character
• Gabriel "Gabe" Duncan, one of the main characters in the Disney series Good Luck Charlie
• Gabriel "Gabe" Goodman, a character in the Broadway musical Next to Normal
• Grocer Gabriel, a character in the 2023 television series Rubble & Crew
• Gabriel Gray, the real name of the character Sylar, from the television series Heroes
• Gabriel 'Gabe' Jones, a character in Marvel Comics, and a member of the Howling Commandos
• The title character of Gabriel Knight, a PC game series
• Gabriel Lawrence, a character from the Ghost Whisperer
• Gabe Lewis, one of the supporting characters from The Office
• Gabriel Logan, the protagonist of the video game series Syphon Filter
• Gabriel May, the female protagonist's evil parasitic twin in James Wan's 2021 supernatural horror movie Malignant
• Gabriel Oak, one of the protagonists from Thomas Hardy novel Far from the Madding Crowd
• Gabriel Ignacio "Nachito" Ramirez, a character from Primos
• Gabriel Reyes, a playable character in the video game, Overwatch, under the alias "Reaper"
• Gabriel Rorke, the main antagonist of the video game Call of Duty: Ghosts
• Gabriel Santiago, a character in the Android: Netrunner universe
• Gabriel Santoro, of the novel Third and Indiana
• Gabriel Stokes, a character from the comic book series The Walking Dead and the TV series of the same name
• Gabriel Summers, a Marvel Comics villain better known as Vulcan
• Gabriel Tenma White, a character from Gabriel Dropout
• Gabriel "Gabe" Ugliano, the protagonist's stepfather from Percy Jackson & the Olympians
• Gabriel Van Helsing, the protagonist of the 2004 film Van Helsing
• Gabriel Vaughn, the protagonist of the 2014 TV series Intelligence
• Gabriel, the baby protected by Jonas in The Giver

See also

• Gabriela (disambiguation)
• Gabriella (disambiguation)
• Gabrielle (disambiguation)
• Gibril (disambiguation)
• Jibril (disambiguation)