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Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 18 January 2016. Mandel can be a locational surname, from places called Mandel, such as Mandel, Germany. Mandel may also be a Dutch surname, from the Middle Dutch ''mandele'', meaning a number of sheaves of harvested wheat.

Notable people

* Alon Mandel (born 1988), Israeli swimmer * Babaloo Mandel (born 1949), American screenwriter * David Mandel (born 1970), American television producer and writer * Edgar Mandel (born 1928), German actor * Eli Mandel (1922–1992), Canadian writer * Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979), Canadian novelist * Emmanuil Mandel (1925–2018), Russian poet * Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), Belgian politician, professor and writer * Frank Mandel, American playwright and producer * Georges Mandel (1885–1944), French politician * Harvey Mandel (born 1945), American guitarist *

Howie Mandel Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian-American comedian, television personality, actor, and producer. Mandel voiced the character Gizmo in the 1984 film ''Gremlins'' and the 1990 sequel '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch''. I ...

(born 1955), Canadian actor and comedian * Jan Mandel (born 1956), American mathematician * Jean Mandel (1911–1974), German footballer and politician * Jeanne Dorsey Mandel (1937–2001), American public official from Maryland *

Jennifer R. Mandel Jennifer R. Mandel is an American biologist. Mandel is an associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Memphis. Education Jennifer Rhea Ellis earned a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Carson–Newman University with a focus ...

, American biologist * Johnny Mandel (born 1925-2020), American musician * Josh Mandel (born 1977), American politician * Julius Mandel (also known as Gyula Mándi (1899–1969), Hungarian football player and manager * Leonard Mandel (1927–2001), American physicist * Loring Mandel (born 1928), American playwright *

Maria Mandel Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian '' SS- Helferin'' (" SS helper") known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she is be ...

(1912–1948), Austrian Nazi official * Marvin Mandel (1920–2015) American politician *

Morton Mandel Morton Leon Mandel (September 19, 1921 – October 16, 2019) was an American business magnate, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Along with his two brothers, Jack and Joe, he founded the Premier Automotive Supply Company in 1940, which later beca ...

(born 1921), American businessman * Robert Mandel (born 1945), American film producer * Robert Mandel (born 1957), Hungarian musician and organologist *

Rolfe D. Mandel Rolfe D. Mandel (born August 25, 1952) is a Distinguished Professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas as well as Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Odyssey Geoarchaeological Research Program at ...

(born 1952), American archaeologist *

Sammy Mandel Sammy Mandell (a.k.a. Samuel Mandella; February 5, 1904 – November 7, 1967) was an American World lightweight boxing champion from 1926-1930. Born in Rockford, Illinois, and named Salvatore Mandala, he was known as the "Rockford Sheik" due to ...

(1904–1967), American boxer *

Semyon Mandel Semyon Solomonovich Mandel (russian: Семен Соломонович Мандель, 27 October 1907 – 19 September 1974) was a prominent Soviet Union, Soviet/Russian theatre and film production designer and art director. He was named an Honore ...

(1907–1974), Russian theatre and film designer * Seth Mandel (born 1982), American conservative writer and editor *

Stephen Mandel Stephen Mandel (born July 18, 1945) is a Canadian politician and leader of the Alberta Party from 2018 to 2019. He previously served as an Alberta cabinet minister from 2014 to 2015 and as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta for three terms from 2004 ...

(born 1945), Canadian politician *

Stephen Mandel (hedge fund manager) Stephen Frank Mandel Jr. (born March 12, 1956) is an American hedge fund manager, investor, and philanthropist. He founded Lone Pine Capital in 1997, after working as the managing director at Tiger Management. According to ''Forbes'', Mandel has ...

(born 1956), American businessman *

Steven L. Mandel Steven L. Mandel is an American anesthesiologist and advocate for the use of ketamine in the treatment of mental health. Career Mandel is an anesthesiologist, who began his career working in cosmetic surgery offices in California. Following the d ...

, American anesthesiologist *

Stewart Mandel Stewart Lance Mandel is an American sports writer for The All-American and The Athletic who focuses on college football and college basketball. Mandel was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending Sycamore High School, and is a graduate of Northwestern ...

(born 1976), American sportswriter *

Suzy Mandel Suzy Mandel (born 6 March 1953) is a former actress and model best known for her roles in such mid-1970s British sex comedies as ''Intimate Games'' (1976), ''Confessions of a Driving Instructor'' (1976), '' Come Play with Me'' (1977), ''The Pl ...

(born 1953), British actress *

Tom Mandel (futurist) Tom Mandel (1946 – April 6, 1995) was an American futurologist. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He dropped out of college twice and served in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War for nine months in 1969. In 1972, he was the ...

(1946–1995), American futurist * Tom Mandel (poet) (born 1942), American poet *

William Mandel William Marx Mandel (June 4, 1917 – November 24, 2016) was an American broadcast journalist, left-wing political activist, and author, best known as a Soviet affairs analyst. He was born in New York City. Senator McCarthy and the House Un-Am ...

(1917–2016), American journalist

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