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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was a scientist, meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel was a French journalist, politician, and French Resistance leader.
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin, better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan town located in the province of Turin. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. His stage name originated from his marriage to Henriette Manse, the sister of his best friend and frequent cinematic collaborator Jean Manse. So attentive was he to his wife that his mother-in-law amusingly referred to him as Fernand d'elle.
Howie Mandel
Howie Michael Mandel II is a Canadian comedian, television personality, screenwriter, actor, producer, director, entrepreneur, game show host and author. He hosted the CNBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Mandel voiced the pop culture character Gizmo in the 1984 film Gremlins and the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch. In 1987, Mandel starred alongside Amy Steel in the comedy film Walk Like a Man. From 1982 to 1988, Mandel played rowdy ER intern Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere. He also created, voiced, and starred in the FOX's children's cartoon Bobby's World, and he judges on NBC's America's Got Talent.
Karen Handel
Karen Christine Handel is an American businesswoman and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. A Republican, Handel worked in business before entering politics. She served as chair of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners from 2003 to 2006, and was thereafter elected Georgia's Secretary of State.
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel KG, was a prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician. When he died he possessed 700 paintings, along with large collections of sculpture, books, prints, drawings, and antique jewellery. Most of his collection of marble carvings, known as the Arundel marbles, was eventually left to the University of Oxford.
J. Michael Mendel
Joel Michael "Mike" Mendel was an American television producer. He was a five-time Emmy Award winner for his work on The Simpsons and Rick and Morty.
Reinhard Grindel
Reinhard Dieter Grindel is a German journalist, politician (CDU) and football administrator.
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel was a German-born Baroque composer becoming well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque.
Johnny Mandel
John Alfred Mandel was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Diane Schuur and Shirley Horn. He won 5 Grammy Awards - from 17 nominations; his first nomination was for his debut film score for the multi-nominated 1958 film I Want to Live!.
Maria Mandel
Maria Mandl was an Austrian SS-Helferin known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners. She was executed for war crimes.
Rosemarie Fendel
Rosemarie Fendel (1927-2013) was a German actress and director, who worked on the stage, in film, and in television. She was also a voice actress, and was the voice of notable actresses for German dubs of their work, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jeanne Moreau, and Annie Giradot. She won numerous awards for her work in film and television, and also directed and wrote a few screen productions herself. Her daughter is German actress, Suzanne von Borsody.
Nate Mendel
Nathan Gregor Mendel is an American musician for the bands Foo Fighters, The Jealous Sound, Sunny Day Real Estate, and The Fire Theft. In 2015, he announced he is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist for his new project, Lieutenant.
Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer who is best known for promoting Holocaust denial. He was jailed several times: in Canada for publishing literature "likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group", and on charges of being a threat to national security; in the United States, for overstaying his visa; and in Germany for charges of "inciting racial hatred". He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000.
Elmarie Wendel
Elmarie Louise Wendel was an American actress and singer.
Daniel Stendel
Daniel Stendel is a German professional football manager and former player. Stendel played as a striker in his native Germany, spending most of his playing career with Hannover 96, who he later managed. He then had a stint as manager of Barnsley, helping them win promotion to the Championship in his only full season before he was sacked in October 2019. He was appointed manager of Scottish club Heart of Midlothian in December 2019. Hearts were relegated after the curtailed 2019–20 season, and Stendel was replaced as manager in June 2020.
Ida Haendel
Ida Haendel, was a Polish-British-Canadian violinist. Haendel was a child prodigy, her career spanning over seven decades. She also became an influential teacher.
Franck Fernandel
Franck Fernandel was a French actor, singer and songwriter, and writer.
Marvin Mandel
Marvin Mandel was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969 to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting Governor in Mandel's place from June 1977 to January 15, 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party, as well as Maryland's first, and to date only Jewish governor.
Peter Sendel
Peter Sendel is a former German biathlete. At the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Sendel was a part of the German team that won the gold medal. Later he earned a relay silver medal from the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. Sendel retired as a biathlete in 2004.
Iuliia Mendel
Iuliia Mendel, Iuliia Volodymyrivna Mendel is the press secretary in the administration of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Alfred Brendel
Alfred Brendel KBE is an Austrian pianist, poet, author, and lecturer who is known particularly for his performances of Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Beethoven.
Sebastian Brendel
Sebastian Brendel is a German sprint canoeist who has competed since 2007. Brendel is the reigning Olympic champion in the C-1 1000 metres and C-2 1000 metres events.
Yandel
Llandel Veguilla Malavé, better known by his stage name Yandel after the phonetic spelling of Llandel, is a Puerto Rican reggaeton singer and record producer, who emerged in the music scene in 1995. He is best known as a member of the reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel. He released his first solo album, Quien Contra Mí, in September 2003. His second solo studio album, De Líder a Leyenda, was released in November 2013, which was certified Gold (Latin) by the RIAA in 2014.