Padel can mean:
- Padel tennis, a form of tennis played in Spain and Latin American countries.
- A surname:
- John Padel (1913–1999), British psychoanalyst and classicist
- Oliver Padel, historian and Cornish Place-name scholar, son of John
- Ruth Padel, British classical scholar, poet and journalist, daughter of John
- Una Padel, British criminal-justice reformer