Birth Name: Eliot Lance Engel
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York
Date of Birth: February 18, 1947
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Eliot Engel is an American politician. A Democrat, he has served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York since 1989, currently for New York’s 16th congressional district.
Eliot’s paternal grandparents were Benjamin Engel and Dora. Benjamin and Dora were both born in Russia.
Sources: http://www.chabad.org
Genealogy of Eliot Engel (focusing on his father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com