Mendel (name)
Mendel can be both a surname and given name. Mendel is a Yiddish varian and affectionate form of the Hebrew name Menachem and means "comforter". Sometimes, it is also used as an affectionate form of Immanuel.
List
Notable people with the name include:
Given name
- Mendel Jackson Davis (1942–2007), American attorney and politician from South Carolina
- Mendel Portugali (1888–1917), leading figures in Second Aliya and founder of the Hashomer movement
- Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962), American associate professor of computer science
- Mendel Sachs (1927–2012), American theoretical physicist and professor
- Mendel Shapiro, Jewish lawyer and Modern Orthodox Rabbi
- Mendel Weinbach (1933–2012), Orthodox rabbi
- Mendel Zaks (1898–1974), rabbi, Rosh Yeshiva in Raduń Yeshiva
Surname
- Andrei Mendel (born 1995), Russian football midfielder
- Arthur Mendel (1905–1979), American musicologist
- August Neander (1789–1850), German theologian (born David Mendel)
- Barry Mendel, American film producer
- Gérard Mendel (1930–2004), French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
- Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), often called the "father of Genetics"
- Henriette Mendel (1833–1891), German actress and mistress
- Lafayette Mendel (1872–1935), American biochemist
- Nate Mendel (born 1968), American musician
See also
- Mandel
- Mendelsohn
- Mendelssohn
- Menachem Mendel
- Mendel (Hungarian family), a prominent Hungarian family that flourished in the 15th century.
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