Engel

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Engel means angel in German, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Afrikaans and may refer to:

• "Engel" (song), performed by Rammstein
• Engel (role-playing game), a 2002 role-playing game
• Engel (band), swedish industrial/melodic death metal band
• Engel group
• Engel expansion
• Engel v. Vitale, U.S. Supreme Court decision (1962)

Engel is the surname of:

• Albert J. Engel (1888–1959), U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Andreas K. Engel, neuroscientist
• Beverly Engel, psychotherapist
• Carl Engel (1883–1944), French-born US composer
• Carl Ludvig Engel (1778–1840), German-born Estonian & Finnish architect
• David Engel American Holocaust historian.
• Erich Engel (1891–1966), German actor
• Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German statistician
• Friedrich Engel (1909–2006), SS officer
• Friedrich Engel (mathematician) (1861–1941), German mathematician
• Georgia Engel, US film and television actress
• Howard Engel (1932), Canadian mystery writer and producer
• Joel Engel, US scientist
• Joel Engel (composer) (1868–1927), Ukraine-born Israeli composer
• Jules Engel, painter
• Karl Engel (1818–1882), German pianist, instrumentologist
• Marian Engel (1933–1985), Canadian novelist
• Michael S. Engel (1971–), US paleontologist and entomologist
• Natascha Engel (1967–), British Member of Parliament
• Noel Scott Engel (1943–), American singer better known as Scott Walker
• Richard Engel, Middle East correspondant
• Yosef Engel, 19th-century Polish rabbi and author

[edit] See also

• Paul Engle (1908–1991), American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German social scientist and collaborator of Karl Marx