Pele (name) explained

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

See also

• Pelle (given name)
• Pelle (surname)
• Peele, surname

See also

• Pele (disambiguation)