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Axel Kicillof
Axel Kicillof, born in 1971, is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician who has been Governor of Buenos Aires Province since 2019 and was Minister of Economy from 2013 to 2015.
Axel Lindahl
Axel Lindahl (Axel Leander Lindahl, 1885–1959), Swedish long-distance runner for Karlskoga IF; DNF in the 1912 Stockholm Olympic cross-country race, listed on Sweden's gold-medal team but ineligible for a medal.
Axel Ljung
Axel Ljung (Harald Axel Fredrik Ljung, 1884-1938), Swedish track athlete and gymnast; won 1908 London Olympic team gymnastics gold with Sweden's 38-man squad and was the last Swedish 110 m hurdles record holder over 100 cm hurdles.
Axel Meyer
Axel Meyer, born 1960, is a German evolutionary biologist and professor of zoology at the University of Konstanz, known for studies of cichlid speciation and giant lungfish genomes.
Axel Munthe
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) was a Swedish physician and psychiatrist who practiced in Paris, Rome, and Capri and wrote the bestselling 1929 memoir The Story of San Michele.
Axel Noack
Axel Noack, German race walker born 1961 in Görlitz; set 20 km world best 1:19:12 in 1987, won 1990 European indoor 5000 m walk bronze, and walked at three Olympics for GDR and Germany.
Axel Nordlander
Axel Nordlander (1879–1962), Swedish cavalry officer and equestrian; won individual and team eventing gold on Lady Artist at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, also a 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup balloonist.
Axel Norling
Axel Norling (Karl Axel Patrik Norling, 1884-1964), Swedish gymnast, diver and tug-of-war competitor; bronze at 1906 Intercalated Games, team gymnastics gold at 1908 and 1912 Olympics alongside brother Daniel; later Alfa Laval director.
Axel Paulsen
Axel Paulsen (1855–1938), Norwegian speed and figure skater, Norway's first skating king; created the Axel jump (Vienna 1882), the only forward-takeoff jump, and designed modern fixed-blade speed skates.
Axel Rydin
Axel Valentin Rydin (1887-1971), Swedish sailor, won 1920 Antwerp Olympic gold in the 40 m² skerry cruiser class aboard Sif with Tore Holm, Yngve Holm, and Georg Tengwall; club Norrköpings SS.
Axel Salto
Axel Salto (1889–1961) was a Danish painter and ceramicist best known for organic stoneware in three styles he called fluted, budding, and sprouting, made with Royal Copenhagen.
Axel Sjoblom
Axel Sjöblom (Axel Adolf Sjöblom, 1882–1951), Swedish gymnast with Stockholms GF; won gold in men's team gymnastics at the 1908 London Olympics with Sweden's 38-man squad scoring 438 of 490; later an art historian with a Würzburg doctorate.
Axel Springer
Axel Caesar Springer (1912–1985) was a German publisher who built a press empire after 1946, launching BILD; his company, Axel Springer SE, became a debt-free, family-owned media company in 2025.
Axel Springer SE
Axel Springer SE, Berlin-based media and technology company founded by Axel Springer in Hamburg in 1946; publisher of BILD, WELT, Business Insider, POLITICO; family-owned since 2025 with Friede Springer and Mathias Döpfner holding 95 percent.
Axel T. Brunger
Axel T. Brunger is a German-American biophysicist and Stanford professor who determined the first crystal structure of the neuronal SNARE complex in 1998 and created the crystallographic software X-PLOR and CNS.
Axel Tape
Axel Tape (Axel Tape-Kobrissa), born 2007 in Bondy, is a French defender/midfielder, PSG academy product and 2025 Ligue 1 winner, signed by Bayer Leverkusen in 2025 and loaned to Levante UD in 2026.
Axel Thue
Axel Thue (1863–1922) was a Norwegian mathematician, professor of applied mathematics at Kristiania, who proved Thue equations have finitely many integer solutions and founded combinatorics on words.
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann is a climate scientist who directs the IBS Center for Climate Physics at Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea, and models climate effects on early human migration.
Axel Tuanzebe
Axel Tuanzebe, DR Congo and Burnley centre-back; ex-Manchester United academy captain, Aston Villa and Ipswich promotion winner; scored the 2026 play-off goal that sent DR Congo to its first World Cup since 1974.
Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich is a German molecular biologist whose work on growth factor receptors produced the targeted cancer therapies trastuzumab (Herceptin) and sunitinib, winning the 2019 Lasker Award.
Axel Visel
Axel Visel is a molecular geneticist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Deputy for Science Programs at the Joint Genome Institute since 2010, known for enhancer research.
Axel von Fersen the Younger
Hans Axel von Fersen (1755-1810), Swedish count and diplomat, friend and rumored lover of Marie-Antoinette, colonel of the Royal Suedois regiment, organizer of the 1791 flight to Varennes, subject of 2021 deciphered redacted letters, lynched in Stockholm in 1810.
Axel Wegner
Axel Wegner (Axel Henry Wegner), born 1963 in Demmin, German skeet shooter; Olympic gold at Seoul 1988 for East Germany with 222 targets, five Olympiads 1988-2008, world and European team champion.
Axel Westman
Axel Westman, born Axel Edvard Westman (1894–1960), was a Swedish obstetrician and gynecologist who held professorships at Uppsala, Lund, and the Karolinska Institute, researched ovum transit in the fallopian tubes, and founded Acta Endocrinologica.
Axel Wilhelm Persson
Axel Wilhelm Persson (Axel Wilhelm Emanuel Persson), Swedish road and track cyclist, 1888–1955; Olympic team road race gold 1912 and silver 1920, ninth individually in 1912, multiple Swedish champion.
Axel Witsel
Axel Witsel, born 1989 in Liège, is a Belgian defensive midfielder and centre-back for OGC Nice. Standard Liège, Zenit, Dortmund, Atlético; 132 Belgium caps, three World Cups.
Axel's Castle
Axel's Castle, Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism, published in 1931, traces French Symbolism's influence on six writers including Yeats, Proust, Joyce, Eliot, Valéry, and Stein.
Axelera AI
Axelera AI is a Dutch semiconductor startup founded in Eindhoven in 2021 that designs in-memory computing processors for AI inference, from edge devices to data centers.
Axeman of New Orleans
The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified killer who attacked Italian-American grocers and their families in their homes from May 1918 to October 1919, entering through chiseled door panels, using victims' own axes, and sending the 1919 jazz letter. The case was never solved.
Axenfeld anomaly
Axenfeld anomaly (Axenfeld syndrome, part of Axenfeld-Rieger spectrum): rare congenital anterior segment dysgenesis with posterior embryotoxon and iris strands to a displaced Schwalbe line; autosomal dominant, FOXC1/PITX2, glaucoma risk, no systemic features unlike Rieger anomaly.