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Ariel



Ariel is a masculine name from the Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל "lion of God". The feminized version is Ariella. Other uses:

See also Aerial

People

*Ariel Durant, American writer awarded with Pulitzer Prize.
*Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel (2001-2006)
*Ariel Ortega, El Burrito - The Little Donkey, an Argentinian footballer
*Ariel Rot, Argentinian musician
*Ariel Garten, Canadian artist
*Ariel López Padilla, Mexican actor
*Ariel Bercovich, Israeli poet
*"Ariel" was a stage name for Aron Atwood in The Cuban Heels.
*Ariel is an Puerto Rican Reggaeton singer.
* Ariel is the current stage name for ECW star Shelly Martinez
* Ariel Weil, Leader of the mooninites (See Aqua teen hunger force)

Fictional characters

*Ariel (Shakespeare), a spirit and servant of Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
*Princess Ariel, a red-haired mermaid who is fascinated by life on dry land in the 1989 Disney movie The Little Mermaid
*Another Princess Ariel was a major character in the Thundarr the Barbarian animated TV series.
*Ariel (Legacy of Kain), a spirit bound to the Pillars of Nosgoth in the Legacy of Kain video game series
*Ariel is the chief of the sylphs serving Belinda in Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock.
*Ariel is a former alias of the Marvel Comics character Shadowcat.
*Ariel is a girl in New Jersey in the 1977 hit song "Ariel" by Dean Friedman.
*Ariel is an Invid character in the science fiction series Robotech.
*Ariel is the name of the unicorn traveling with Pete in Steven R. Boyett's book Ariel: Book of Change.

Publications

*Ariel (Beliaev), a science fiction novel by Russian author Alexander Beliaev
*Ariel (Plath), the last book of poetry by Sylvia Plath
Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, a periodical published in the 1970s in book form
Ariel is the in-house magazine of the BBC, named after the statue of Shakespeare's Ariel at the Broadcasting House.
Ariel is an essay on Latin-American culture and inter-American relations by José Enrique Rodo.
Ariel: a Shelley Romance is a novelized biography by André Maurois of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in the sailboat Ariel.
Ariel: Book of Change by Steven R. Boyett, tells the story of a young man and a unicorn who try to survive and find their place in a version of our world where technology ceases to function and magic returns.

Film

*Ariel (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki

Television

* "Ariel" is an episode of the television series Firefly.

Places

*Ariel (city), an Israeli settlement in the West Bank between Nablus and Ramallah
*Ariel (moon), a moon of Uranus discovered in 1851 by William Lassell and named for Pope's character above
*Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, a town and its namesake lake
*Ariel (Firefly planet), a fictional planet in the science fiction TV series Firefly
*Ariel, Washington, a town in southwestern Washington state
*Ariel is one of the names of the city of Jerusalem, Israel

Commercial products

*Ariel (washing powder), a washing powder brand of Procter & Gamble
*Ariel (vehicle), a former manufacturer of motorcycles, bicycles and cars from 1871
*Ariel Ltd, a modern British car company
*Ariel Gallery, an artist's cooperative and gallery in Asheville, North Carolina
*Ariel is a document delivery system from Infotrieve. It is often used by library interlibrary loan (ILL) departments. [1][2]
*An operating system by Microware
*A company that developed the ISPW in cooperation with IRCAM in France

Other

*Ariel was a UK space programme of the 1960s which launched an orbital telescope in 1962.
*Ariel was a group with which the electronic musician Kid 606 has worked.
*Ariel verses are a type of variation on Gloria in Excelsis Deo.



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