Abe (given name)
This article is about the given name Abe. For other uses of Abe or ABE, see Abe (disambiguation).
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| Gender | Male |
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| See also | Abraham, Abey, Avi |
Abe /ˈeɪb/ is commonly used in English-speaking countries as a shortened form of the name "Abraham", or as a personal name in its own right.
People with the given name Abe:
- Abe Attell ("The Little Hebrew"; 1884–1970), American world champion Hall of Fame featherweight boxer
- Abe Burrows (1910–1985), American playwright/director
- Abe Cohen (1933–2001), American football player
- Abe Goldstein (1898–1977), American world champion bantamweight boxer
- Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the United States
- Abe Vigoda (1921-2016), American actor
- Abe Fortas (1910–1982), Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Abe (Glenn) Osser (1914-2014), American musician
- Abe Saperstein (1908–66), UK-born American founder & owner of the Harlem Globetrotters
Fictional characters with the given name Abe:
- Abraham Simpson, Famous cartoon grandfather
- Abe (Oddworld), primary protagonist in the Oddworld fictional universe.
- Abe Pollack, Fictional time travel theorist.
- Abe Froman, an unseen character nicknamed "The Sausage King of Chicago" in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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- Old Abe (died 1881), a bald eagle, the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in the American Civil War.
- Abe (surname)
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