Aksel


 * See Kusaila for the 7th-century Berber leader.

Aksel is a masculine name, used predominantly throughout Scandinavia, a variant of Axel.

People with the name include:
 * Aksel Agerby (1889–1942), Danish composer, organist, and music administrator
 * Aksel Airo (1898–1985), Finnish lieutenant general and main strategic planner
 * Aksel Andersen (1912–1977), Danish-American organist and composer and organ professor and examinist
 * Aksel Frederik Andersen (1891–1972), Danish mathematician
 * Aksel Arstal (1855–1940), Norwegian theologist, schoolteacher and geographer
 * Aksel Bender Madsen (1916–2000), Danish furniture designer
 * Aksel Berg (1893–1979), Soviet scientist and Navy Admiral (in Engineering)
 * Aksel Berget Skjølsvik (born 1987), Norwegian professional football player
 * Aksel Bonde (1918–1996), Danish rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics
 * Aksel Brehm (1889-?), Estonian politician
 * Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen
 * Aksel Duun (1921–1987), Danish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s
 * Aksel Fossen (1919–2009), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
 * Aksel Gresvig (1876–1958), Norwegian track cyclist, sports administrator and businessman
 * Aksel Gürcan Demirtaş (born 1973), Turkish track and field athlete
 * Aksel Hagen (born 1953), Norwegian politician and member of the Storting
 * Aksel Hennie (born 1975), Norwegian actor, director and writer
 * Aksel Hansen (1853–1933), Danish sculptor
 * Kaj Aksel Hansen (1917–1987), Danish footballer and manager
 * Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff (1922–1971, Norwegian communist and one of the last generations on Lille Ekkerøy
 * Aksel V. Johannesen (born 1972), Faroese lawyer and politician
 * Aksel Kallas (1890–1922), Estonian politician
 * Aksel Kankaanranta (born 1998), Finnish singer who would've represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020
 * Aksel Kuuse (1913–1942), Estonian track and field athlete
 * Aksel Larsen (1897–1972), Danish politician who was chairman of the Communist Party of Denmark
 * Aksel Lund Svindal (born 1982), Norwegian alpine skier
 * Aksel Lydersen (1919–1995), Norwegian engineer and professor of chemical engineering
 * Aksel Madsen (1899–1988), Danish long-distance runner
 * Aksel Magdahl (born 1979), Norwegian navigator
 * Aksel Mark (1913–2014), Estonian politician, journalist, newspaper editor and agronomist
 * Aksel Mikkelsen (1849–1929), Danish educator
 * Aksel Møller (1906–1958), Danish politician
 * Aksel Nielsen (1901–1984), Danish-born American philanthropist, founder of the Mortgage Banking Association's School of Mortgage Banking
 * Aksel Nõmmela (born 1994), Estonian cyclist
 * Aksel Orav (1929–2003), Estonian actor
 * Aksel Herman Rüütli (1893–1976), Estonian politician
 * Aksel Sørensen (1891–1955), Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
 * Aksel Sandemose (1899–1965), novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark
 * Aksel Schiøtz (1906–1975), Danish tenor and Lieder singer
 * Aksel Vartanyan (born 1938), Soviet and Russian journalist and sports historian
 * Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen (1924–2010), Danish meteorologist and professor of meteorology
 * Aksel Zachariassen (1898–1987), Norwegian politician, newspaper editor, secretary and writer