Wrangel
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Wrangel or Wrangell can refer to:
- House of Wrangel, a Baltic German noble family
- Herman Wrangel, a Swedish Governor-General of Livonia, Field Marshal, and Privy Councillor
- Carl Gustaf Wrangel, a Swedish soldier and Privy Councillor (son of Herman Wrangel)
- Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797-1870), Russian admiral and explorer, Governor of Russian Alaska
- Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Peter von Wrangel), a leader of the White Army during the Russian Civil War
Places in Siberia and Alaska named after Ferdinand von Wrangel:
- Wrangel Island, a Russian island in the Arctic Ocean
- Wrangell Island, Alaska
- Wrangell, Alaska, a town on Wrangell Island
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
- Wrangell Narrows
- Wrangell Mountains
- Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska
- Mount Wrangell, Alaska