# 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
* 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 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 Milito (born 1980), Argentine football player
* Gabriel Mendoza (born 1968), Chilean football player
* Gabriel Minadeo (born 1967), Argentine field hockey coach
* 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 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
* 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 Aubry (born 1975), Canadian model
* Gabriel de Broglie (born 1931), French historian and politician
* Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), Polish physicist and engineer
* Gabriel Kaplan (born 1944), American comedian and poker player
* 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, an angel, and the main antagonist of the video game Ultrakill
* Gabriel, a crime lord, and 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, an Israeli Mossad agent, who is 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
* 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 fictional character in the 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 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 fictional character in the Android: Netrunner universe
* Gabriel Santoro, of the novel Third and Indiana
* Gabriel Stokes, a fictional 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