Gabriel (name)
Gabriel (Hebrew: גַבְרִיאֵל) is a given name or surname derived from the Hebrew name "Gabriel" meaning "able-bodied one of God". It was popularized by the association with the Biblical archangel Gabriel.
The following people are known primarily by their first name Gabriel:
- Patriarch Gabriel II of Constantinople, known also as New Hieromartyr Gabriel, Metropolitan of Prousa, died 1659
- Patriarch Gabriel III of Constantinople, reigned 1702-1707
- Gabriel (archimandrite), a Georgian religious figure of the twentieth century
- The nom de plume of cartoonist Jimmy Freill
Read more about Gabriel (name): In Other Languages, Famous Persons Named Gabriel
Famous quotes containing the word gabriel:
“I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)