Aksel
Aksel is a variant of Axel and may refer to:
- Aksel Agerby (1889–1942), a Danish composer, organist, and music administrator
- Aksel Airo (1898–1985), a Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner
- Aksel Andersen (1912–1977), an Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist
- Aksel Berg (1893–1979), a Soviet scientist and Navy Admiral (in Engineering)
- Aksel Berget Skjølsvik (born 1987), a Norwegian professional football player
- Aksel Bonde Hansen (born 1918), a Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), a Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen
- Aksel Duun (1921–1987), a Danish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s
- Aksel Fossen (born 1919), a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
- Aksel Gresvig (1876–1958), a Norwegian track cyclist, sports administrator and businessman
- Aksel Hagen, a Norwegian politician and member of the Storting
- Aksel Hennie (born 1975), a Norwegian actor, director and writer
- Aksel Larsen (1897–1972), a Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark
- Aksel Lund Svindal (born 1982), a Norwegian alpine skier from Kjeller
- Aksel Magdahl (born 1979, Tönsberg), a Norwegian navigator
- Aksel Nielsen (1901–1984), a philanthropist, founder of the Mortgage Banking Association’s School of Mortgage Banking
- Aksel Sørensen (1891–1955), a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Aksel Sandemose (1899–1965), a novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark
- Aksel Schiøtz (1906–1975), a Danish tenor and Lieder singer
- Aksel Zachariassen (1898–1987), a Norwegian politician, newspaper editor, secretary and writer
- Kaj Aksel Hansen (1917–1987), a Danish football (soccer) player and manager