Zel may refer to:
- ZEL, an abbreviation for zero length launch
- Mr. Zel, a Turkish Cypriot singer
- Zel Fischer, a judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri
- Zishan Engineers (ZEL), a Pakistani Engineering consultancy
- Zel, a novel by Donna Jo Napoli
- Peliar Zel, a fictional planet in the Star Trek universe
- Zel, the twelfth letter in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet
- Zel Stoltzfus, an American illustrator
- Zel (sheep) a breed of sheep from north of Iran.