Howie Mandel
Howard Michael Mandel (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian, actor and television host. He hosts the NBC game show "Deal or No Deal", as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. 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 and starred in the children's cartoon "Bobby's World", and judges on NBC's "America's Got Talent".
Rolfe D. Mandel
Rolfe Mandel was born in San Antonio, Texas. In 1971, he moved to Austin, Texas to pursue a bachelor's degree (B.S.) in physical geography from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed this with Honors in 1975. He remained in Austin for a year to work as a research associate in the resource planning section of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Trained as a geographer, Mandel’s early work dealt with land use and natural resource planning. In 1976, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas to begin graduate study in the Geography Department at the University of Kansas. It was around this time that his research interests began to shift from traditional physical geography, to a focus on paleoenvironments and archeology. He was awarded a masters (M.A.) through the Geography Department in 1980 for his work on paleosols in Texas, and a Ph.D. in 1991 through the university’s Special Studies program for work on Holocene landscape evolution in southwestern Kansas.