Uriel (disambiguation)
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Uriel is an archangel from the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible.
The name, or close variants, is also used for:
- Uriel Crocker, a Bostonian publisher and philanthropist
- Uriel da Costa (sometimes Acosta), a Portuguese philosopher
- Uriel Nespoli, a conductor in Houston, Texas
- Uriel Weinreich, a Yiddish linguist
- Uriel Yitzhaki, an Israeli diplomat
- Uriel Birnbaum, an Austrian artist
In fiction and literature:
- Uriel, a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Uriel's machine, a book by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas
- various rulers from in The Elder Scrolls video game series are named Uriel Septim, successively.
- Captain Uriel Ventris, a fictional character in the Warhammer 40,000 series
- In A Wrinkle In Time, Uriel is a planet the children travel to with the three witches.
In Music
- Uriel, a short lived acid rock band
[edit] See also
- Uria, Lord of Searing Flames from the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game (apparently based on the angel)
- Uria aalge, scientific name for the Common Guillemot
- Urial, a type of wild mountain sheep