Pele (name)

Pele is a masculine given name, surname and nickname.

Variant forms include Pelé and Pellè.

People with this nickname or professional name

 * Male
 * Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento; 1940–2022), Brazilian footballer
 * Pelé (footballer, born 1973) (José Maria da Cruz Martins), football player and coach born in São Tomé or Principe
 * Pelé (footballer, born 1978) (Pedro Miguel Cardoso Monteiro), Cape Verdean-Portuguese football defender
 * Pelé (footballer, born 1987) (Vítor Hugo Gomes Passos), Portuguese football midfielder
 * Pelé (footballer, born 1991) (Judilson Mamadu Tuncará Gomes), Portuguese football midfielder of Guinea-Bissau descent
 * Female
 * Pele de Lappe (1916–2007), American social realist artist

People with this given name

 * Pele Koljonen (born 1988), Finnish footballer
 * Pele Paelay (born 1984), American basketball player
 * Pelé Reid (born 1973), British boxer

People with this surname

 * Abédi Pelé (born Abédi Ayew in 1964), Ghanaian international football captain
 * Bryan Pelé (born 1992), French football defender
 * Eric Pele (born 1969), American mixed martial artist and tattoo artist
 * Graziano Pellè (born 1985), Italian football forward
 * Maurice Pelé (1928–2021), French cyclist
 * Steven Pelé (born 1981), French football goalkeeper
 * Yohann Pelé (born 1982), French football goalkeeper