Mendoza was elected to The Ring magazine Hall of Fame (Boxing Hall of Fame) Mendoza was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981 In 1990 he was inducted into the inaugural class of the International Boxing Hall of Fame In 2017, Mendoza was inducted in the Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame References in popular culture The English actor Peter Sellers was Mendoza's 1st cousin four times removed and hung portraits of the boxer in the backgrounds of several of his films. The Australian writer David Malouf is descended in the same degree from Mendoza. Mendoza appears in several Gillray cartoons. Mendoza appears as a character in the 1942 British drama The Young Mr. Pitt. In September 2008, a commemorative plaque to Dan Mendoza (made by Louise Soloway) was unveiled in London by Sir Henry Cooper. It hangs on the wall of the main library of Queen Mary University of London, adjacent to the student cafeteria. His former home on Paradise Row in Bethnal Green is marked by a blue plaque. A play about Mendoza, The Punishing Blow, by Randy Cohen, debuted in 2009. Daniel Mendoza has been the subject of two historical comic books: "Mendoza The Great" is one of the anthology stories featured in The Victor comics drawn by artist Ted Rawlings. Mendoza the Jew: Boxing, Manliness, and Nationalism, A Graphic History is a book written by Ronald Schechter and illustrated by Liz Clarke. Mendoza appears as a character in the 1934 movie The Scarlet Pimpernel at approximately the 40-minute mark. See also List of select Jewish boxers References Notes Citations Further reading A Treasury of Jewish Folklore: Nathan Ausubel Memoirs of the life of Daniel Mendoza OCLC 2963035 The Art of Boxing; by Daniel Mendoza; Originals will be hard to find, but reprints are available. The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza (1816); A biography by Mendoza himself, very hard to find, although it has been reprinted The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza; A reprint, edited by Paul Magriel (first edition 1951) The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza; A reprint, edited by Alex Joanides (2011) Harold U. Ribalow, Daniel Mendoza, Fighter from Whitechapel (New York: Farrer, Straus, and Cudahy, Inc., 1962) Wynn Wheldon The Fighting Jew: the Life & Times of Daniel Mendoza, 2019. External links Broken and Outcast short film. Daniel Mendoza at the International Jewish Sports