Uriel is an archangel from the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible.
The name, or close variants, is also used for:
- Uriel Crocker, a Bostonian publisher and philanthropist
- Uriel da Costa (sometimes Acosta), a Portuguese philosopher
- Uriel Nespoli, a conductor in Houston, Texas
- Uriel Weinreich, a Yiddish linguist
- Uriel Yitzhaki, an Israeli diplomat
- Uriel Birnbaum, an Austrian artist
- Ruth Norman, former leader of the Unarius Academy of Science, claimed to be the angel Uriel incarnate.
In fiction and literature:
- Uriel, an angel on the television series Supernatural
- Uriel, a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Uriel's machine, a book by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas
- Various rulers from in The Elder Scrolls video game series are named Uriel Septim, successively.
- Captain Uriel Ventris, a fictional character in the Warhammer 40,000 series
- In A Wrinkle In Time, Uriel is a planet the children travel to with the three witches.
In Music
- Uriel, a short lived acid rock band
Famous quotes containing the word uriel:
“‘Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn.’
As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
A shudder ran around the sky;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)