Chappelle

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title: "Chappelle" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["french-language-surnames"] topic_path: "geography/france" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappelle" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Chappelle is a surname of French origin, a variant of the word chapelle meaning "chapel". Notable people with the name include:

• Bill Chappelle (1881–1944), American baseball player
• Charles W. Chappelle (1872–1941), African-American aviation pioneer
• Dave Chappelle (born 1973), American comedian, actor, and social commentator
• Joe Chappelle, American producer and director
• Julius Caesar Chappelle (1852–1904), African-American legislator
• Pat H. Chappelle (1869–1911), African-American founder of the Rabbit's Foot Company vaudeville show
• William D. Chappelle (1857–1925), church minister and formerly enslaved African-American

In fiction

• Ryan Chappelle, a character played by Paul Schulze on 24

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