Pele (name)
Appearance
Pele is a masculine given name, surname and nickname.
Variant forms include Pelé and Pellè.
People with this nickname or professional name
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Pele Koljonen (born 1988), Finnish footballer
- Pele Paelay (born 1984), American basketball player
- Pelé Reid (born 1973), British boxer
People with this surname
[edit]- 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
See also
[edit]- Pelle (given name)
- Pelle (surname)
- Peele, surname