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Axe Brand Universal Oil

Axe Brand Universal Oil (斧標驅風油, Minyak Angin Cap Kapak) is a Singapore medicated oil made since 1928 by Leung Kai Fook Medical Company, with menthol, camphor, and methyl salicylate, sold in over fifty countries; distinct from Unilever's Axe fragrance brand.

AXE telephone exchange

The AXE telephone exchange is a digital stored-program-control switching system developed by Ellemtel for LM Ericsson and Sweden's Televerket, first placed in public operation in 1977.

axe-core

Axe-core is an open-source JavaScript accessibility testing engine for websites and HTML interfaces, developed by Deque Systems, that checks pages against WCAG standards and powers tools like Axe DevTools.

Axel

Axel, also known as Axel Fernando, is an Argentine singer-songwriter of romantic pop and ballads whose 2003 album Amo made him a name across Latin America.

Axel Arigato

Axel Arigato is a Swedish premium sneaker and ready-to-wear brand founded in Gothenburg in 2014 by Albin Johansson and Max Svärdh, known for the Clean 90 sneaker.

Axel B. Svensson

Axel B. Svensson (1879–1967) was a Swedish mission leader and editor who founded the mission society Bibeltrogna Vänner and edited Nya väktaren from 1908 until his death.

Axel Bakunts

Axel Bakunts (Ակսել Բակունց), born Alexander Tevosyan, was an Armenian short-story writer and agronomist known for stories of Zangezur village life, executed in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.

Axel Behrens

Axel Behrens is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher who leads the Adult Stem Cell Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, studying pancreatic cancer stem cells.

Axel Brandenburg

Axel Brandenburg, born 1959 in Heide, Germany, is a German astrophysicist and Nordita professor in Stockholm known for work on dynamos, turbulence, cosmic magnetism, and the Pencil Code.

Axel Braun

Axel Braun, real name Alessandro Re, born 1966 in Milan, is an Italian-American adult film director, son of pioneer Lasse Braun, famous for porn parodies like Batman XXX and Star Wars XXX, with over 300 AVN awards; distinct from the Essen artist Axel Braun and filmmaker Axel Brauns.

Axel Brennicke

Axel Brennicke (1953–2017) was a German molecular biologist who led the Institut für Molekulare Botanik at Universität Ulm and studied RNA editing in plant mitochondria.

Axel Cadier

Axel Cadier (Axel Vilhelm Teodor Cadier, 1906-1974), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler: Olympic light-heavyweight gold at Berlin 1936, middleweight bronze at Los Angeles 1932, four European titles, 11 Swedish championships, later a professional wrestler and coach.

Axel Clerget

Axel Clerget, French judoka born 1987 in Saint-Dizier, -90 kg and -100 kg competitor, Tokyo 2020 mixed team Olympic champion, double world bronze medallist, retired January 2026, later CNOSF athletes' commission co-president.

Axel D. Becke

Axel D. Becke (1953–2025) was a Canadian theoretical chemist at Dalhousie University whose 1993 papers made density-functional theory accurate and practical, earning two of the most-cited papers in science.

Axel Disasi

Axel Disasi, born 1998 in Gonesse, French centre-back from Paris FC and Reims to Monaco, Chelsea (2023, ~£39m), loans to Aston Villa and Crystal Palace; 5 France caps, 2022 World Cup finalist.

Axel Donczew

Axel Donczew is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a left winger and became Cardiff City's youngest ever player at 15 in October 2025.

Axel Edvin Lindh

Axel Edvin Lindh (1888–1960) was a Swedish physicist in X-ray spectroscopy, trained in Manne Siegbahn's school, who served on the Nobel Committee for Physics from 1935.

Axel F

Axel F is Harold Faltermeyer's 1984 instrumental synth theme for Beverly Hills Cop, named for Axel Foley; a 1985 number-one hit played on Roland JUPITER-8 and JX-3P, later remixed by Crazy Frog.

Axel F (Crazy Frog recording)

Axel F by Crazy Frog: 2005 techno remake of Harold Faltermeyer's Beverly Hills Cop theme, produced by Bass Bumpers, released 17 May 2005 on Mach 1, UK #1 for four weeks, first ringtone to top the UK chart, #1 in 23 countries, US #50.

Axel Gauvin

Axel Gauvin, born in 1944 on Réunion, is a writer and linguist who writes in French and Réunion Creole and campaigns for recognition of the island's Creole language.

Axel Gronberg

Axel "Acke" Grönberg (Rolf Axel Einar Grönberg, 1918–1988), Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, BK Athén Stockholm; double Olympic middleweight 79 kg gold medalist at London 1948 and Helsinki 1952 and 1950 world champion.

Axel Grothey

Axel Grothey is a German-trained medical oncologist directing gastrointestinal cancer research at West Cancer Center in Tennessee since 2018, known for the BEACON CRC and IDEA colorectal cancer studies.

Axel H. E. Müller

Axel H. E. Müller, born 1947 in Neuwied, is a German polymer chemist who held the Macromolecular Chemistry II chair at Bayreuth and won the 2012 Hermann Staudinger Prize.

Axel Hauschild

Axel Hauschild is a German dermatologic oncologist and professor at Kiel University who led the BREAK-3 trial of dabrafenib in metastatic melanoma and became president of the Melanoma World Society in 2021.

Axel Heiberg Island

Axel Heiberg Island (Umingmat Nunaat), a 35,180 km² uninhabited island in Nunavut's Sverdrup Islands, known for its Müller and Steacie ice caps, 40-million-year-old mummified fossil forest, McGill Arctic Research Station, and thick Sverdrup Basin geology.

Axel Holst

Axel Holst (1860–1931) was a Norwegian physician and professor of hygiene at the University of Oslo who, with Theodor Frølich, produced scurvy experimentally in guinea pigs in 1907.

Axel Janse

Axel Johan Janse (1888-1973), Swedish gymnast from Skara Läroverks IF, won gold in the men's team all-around, Swedish system, at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; later a physical therapist, aviation pioneer, and Malmö fire brigade deputy chief.

Axel jump

Axel jump: figure skating jump named for Axel Paulsen, first performed Vienna 1882; only jump with forward outside takeoff, adding half a rotation (quad Axel = 4.5 turns). First landed by Malinin, 2022.

Axel Kahn

Axel Kahn (1944-2021) was a French physician-geneticist and Inserm research director who studied liver molecular genetics and gene therapy, led the Institut Cochin and Université Paris Descartes, and became a prominent French voice on bioethics.

Axel Kallies

Axel Kallies is an Australian–German immunologist, Professor for Molecular Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne, known for discovering Tpex cells, which maintain long-term immune responses.