Ariel

Template:TOCright Ariel is a unisex name from the Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל "lion of God". Other uses:

People

Ariel (Shakespeare), a spirit and servant of Prospero in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest
Ariel the mermaid, a red-haired mermaid who is fascinated by life on dry land in the 1989 Disney movie The Little Mermaid
Ariel (Legacy of Kain), a spirit bound to the Pillars of Nosgoth in the Legacy of Kain video game series
Ariel is the chief of the sylphs serving Belinda in Alexander Pope's poem The Rape of the Lock.
Ariel is a former alias of the Marvel Comics character Shadowcat.
Ariel is a girl in New Jersey in the 1977 hit song "Ariel" by Dean Friedman.
Ariel is an Invid character in the science fiction series Robotech.

Ariel (Beliaev), a science fiction novel by Russian author Alexander Beliaev
Ariel (Plath), the last book of poetry by Sylvia Plath
Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, a periodical published in the 1970s in book form
Ariel is the in-house magazine of the BBC, named after the statue of Shakespeare's Ariel at the Broadcasting House.
Ariel is an essay on Latin-American culture and inter-American relations by José Enrique Rodo.
Ariel: a Shelley Romance is a novelized biography by André Maurois of Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in the sailboat Ariel.

Ariel (city), an Israeli settlement in the West Bank between Nablus and Ramallah
Ariel (moon), a moon of Uranus discovered in 1851 by William Lassell and named for Pope's character above
Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, a town and its namesake lake
Ariel (Firefly planet), a fictional planet in the science fiction TV series Firefly
Ariel, a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki

Ariel (washing powder), a washing powder brand of Procter & Gamble
Ariel (vehicle), a former manufacturer of motorcycles, bicycles and cars from 1871
Ariel Ltd, a modern British car company
Ariel Gallery, an artist's cooperative and gallery in Asheville, North Carolina
An operating system by Microware
A company that developed the ISPW in cooperation with IRCAM in France

Ariel was a UK space programme of the 1960s which launched an orbital telescope in 1962.
Ariel was a group with which the electronic musician Kid 606 has worked.
Ariel verses are a type of variation on Gloria in Excelsis Deo.