Ansel

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Ansel may refer to:

[edit] General

• ANSEL, American National Standard for Extended Latin Alphabet Coded Character Set for Bibliographic Use, is a character set used in text encoding
• Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, a photography award administered by the Sierra Club

[edit] People

[edit] Given name

• Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer, best known for his black and white photographs of California's Yosemite Valley
• Ansel Briggs (1806–1881), first governor of Iowa (1846-1850)
• Ansel Franklin Hall (1894–1962), American naturalist
• Ansel Sterling (1782-1853), United States Representative from Connecticut
• Ansel Talbert (?-1987), American aviation journalist
• Ansel Williamson, African American thoroughbred horse racing trainer (19th century)
• Ansel Watrous, U.S. newspaper editor and historian
• Edgar Ansel Mowrer, American journalist, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1933 for his reporting on the rise of Adolf Hitler

[edit] Family name

• Karen Ansel, noted film and TV computer graphics specialist in the United States
• Martin Frederick Ansel (1850–1945), Democratic Governor of South Carolina (1907-1911)

[edit] Places

• Ansel Adams Wilderness, a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California,USA
• Ansel Township, Minnesota, a township in Cass County, Minnesota, United States
• Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,760-foot peak in the Sierra Nevada