Engel means
angel in German, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and Afrikaans and may refer to:
In Dutch the plural Engelen can also mean Angles (cognate to English), specially in older texts, in more modern texts it is spelled as Angelen.
Engel is the surname of:
- Albert J. Engel (1888–1959), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Andreas K. Engel, neuroscientist
- Beverly Engel, psychotherapist
- Carl Engel (1883–1944), French-born US composer
- Carl Ludvig Engel (1778–1840), German-born Estonian & Finnish architect
- David Engel American Holocaust historian.
- Erich Engel (1891–1966), German actor
- Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German statistician
- Friedrich Engel (1909–2006), SS officer
- Friedrich Engel (mathematician) (1861–1941), German mathematician
- Georgia Engel, US film and television actress
- Howard Engel (1932), Canadian mystery writer and producer
- Jerzy Engel, Former Polish football manager
- Joel Engel, US scientist
- Joel Engel (composer) (1868–1927), Ukraine-born Israeli composer
- Jules Engel, painter
- Karl Engel (1818–1882), German pianist, instrumentologist
- Marian Engel (1933–1985), Canadian novelist
- Michael S. Engel (1971–), US paleontologist and entomologist
- Natascha Engel (1967–), British Member of Parliament
- Noel Scott Engel (1943–), American singer better known as Scott Walker
- Richard Engel, Middle East correspondent
- Yosef Engel, 19th-century Polish rabbi and author
See also
- Paul Engle (1908–1991), American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
- Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German social scientist and collaborator of Karl Marx