Birth Name: Arian Asllani
Place of Birth: Flushing, New York, United States
Date of Birth: December 2, 1983
Ethnicity: Albanian, Jewish
Action Bronson is an American lyricist and chef. He was born to a Muslim Albanian father and a Jewish mother. Action Bronson was brought up a Muslim but admits that “anything that has to do with pig, I’m eating.”
Source:
Action Bronson’s Jewish mother
Place of Birth: Cosamaloapan, Veracruz, Mexico
Date of Birth: July 9, 1968
Ethnicity: Mexican
Eduardo Santamarina is a Mexican actor. He is married to actress Mayrín Villanueva. He was previously married to actress Itatí Cantoral.
Birth Name: Dwight Harlan Powell
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario
Date of Birth: July 20, 1991
Ethnicity: Afro-Jamaican, Welsh
Dwight Powell is a Canadian professional basketball player.
Dwight is the son of Jacqueline Weir and Harlan Powell. His father is a white Canadian, possibly with Welsh ancestry (the surname “Powell” being Welsh in origin). His mother, who was black, was born in Jamaica, West Indies.
Dwight’s maternal grandparents are Rupert Weir and Daphne Davis.
Source: Obituary of Dwight’s mother – http://robinsonfuneralhome.tributes.com
Helen Lasichanh with Pharrell Williams
Date of Birth: July 22, 1980
Ethnicity: Laotian, Ethiopian
Helen Lasichanh is a model. She is known for her marriage to musician Pharrell Williams. She is the mother of Pharrell’s son, Rocket Ayers Williams.
Helen is said to be of Laotian and Ethiopian background. Standing at 5 feet 10 inches tall, she was a high school and college volleyball player.
Source: http://herdsay.com
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Date of Birth: March 17, 1975
Ethnicity: Jewish, African American
Ebro Darden is an American radio show host, well known for his residence on Hot 97. He has stated that he is “half black” on his show, and in an interview on Vibe Magazine, he mentioned that his mother is Jewish. He attended Hebrew school but also attended Pentecostal church.
Through church, Ebro was exposed to music from a young age. Growing up through the golden years of hip hop, Ebro was heavily influenced by the so called “Boom Bap” era of the genre.
Birth Name: Horst Christian Simco
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, U.S.
Date of Birth: January 29, 1982
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish, possibly English
Riff Raff is a rapper who was born to Ronald and Anita Simco. His mother Anita is descended from German and Lithuanian Jews, some of which were victims of the holocaust. He has said that he is not religious. His first name Horst is of German origin.
Riff Raff’s maternal grandparents are Bernard Isaacs and Amy Ruth Jacobson.
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com
Birth Name: Michelle Algarin
Place of Birth: Peabody, Massachusetts
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican, Dominican
Valenzia Algarin is an American actress. Her father, Carlos Algarin, is Puerto Rican. Her mother, Mercedes Algarin, is Dominican. Both of her parents are of mixed race.
When auditioning for a Latina role, she was told that she was not “Latina enough”, and so she re-auditioned a week later as Valenzia Algarin, with a Latin accent, and got the role. She has stuck with the name ever since.
Source: http://www.salemnews.com
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Birth Name: David Andrew Burd
Place of Birth: Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Birth: March 15, 1988
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Lil Dicky is an American rapper and comedian. He grew up in a Jewish family in Philadelphia. He is known for his self-deprecating, comedy rap, and often drops verses about his Jewish heritage. On the hilarious track, “Jewish Flow”, he raps about battling Hitler and playing ball against SS troops.
Birth Name: Laura Raia
Place of Birth: New Jersey
Date of Birth: circa 1991
Ethnicity: Italian
Moxie Raia is an American musician. She stated that she is of Italian descent in an interview on Hot 97. Moxie’s main influences include The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and John Coltrane, among other artists. Her musical influences come from her parents, who listened to soul and Motown artists.
Source: http://noisey.vice.com
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Place of Birth: Consett, Durham North, Durham, England
Date of Birth: 18 November 1991
Ethnicity: Filipino, English
Karen Harding is a British singer. Her father is English and her mother is Filipino. Her parents owned an Asian food store, where she worked in her youth. One of her first recordings was the anti-racism song “Strange Fruit”, originally sung by Billie Holiday.
Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Date of Birth: 2 April, 1977
Ethnicity:
*German (father)
*Irish (mother)
Michael Fassbender is a German and Irish actor and producer. He was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. His mother, Adele, is Irish, from Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His father, Josef Fassbender, is German. When he was two, his family moved to Killarney, County Kerry, in the Republic of Ireland, where he was raised.
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Birth Name: Nyjah Imani Huston
Place of Birth: Davis, California, United States
Date of Birth: November 30, 1994
Ethnicity: African-American, Japanese, possibly English
Nyjah Huston is an American professional skateboarder. He is the son of Adeyemi and Kelle Huston. He stated in an interview that he has some Japanese ancestry. He has a tattoo in Japanese writing on his right forearm.
Nyjah grew up in Puerto Rico, where he lived on a farm under a strict Rastafarian upbringing.
Source: http://www.jenkemmag.com
Birth Name: Austin Richard Post
Place of Birth: Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 4, 1995
Ethnicity: English
Post Malone is an American hip hop artist. He was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Dallas, Texas. He is often asked about his ethnic background and being a “white rapper” with cornrows, and the discussion of “culture vulture” has come up early in his career. In a Power 105.1 Breakfast Club interview, Post Malone was asked if he was Puerto Rican or “trans-racial”, which he denied.
He credits his father as the one who introduced him to hip hop with Lean Back by Fat Joe being the first hip hop track he listened to.
Birth Name: Peter Elliot Rosenberg
Place of Birth: Chevy Chase, Maryland
Date of Birth: July 23, 1979
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Peter Rosenberg is an American television show host and radio personality, on Hot 97. He is the co-host of Ebro in the Morning, along side Ebro Darden. He had an upper middle class Jewish upbringing, and was introduced to hip hop through his older brother. Peter started his own underground hip hop radio show in the University of Maryland towards the end of the “Golden Age” of hip hop. From there, he hosted shows at different stations around the D.C. area.
Peter’s mother was born in a German displaced persons camp, and moved with her family to America. Peter has said that he is not very religious, but that his ethnic background has often come up throughout his career, being one of the few Jewish personalities in the hip hop industry. He has said:
I know that I’m proud of being Jewish. I enjoy being one of the torchbearers in hip-hop. It’s a big part of who I am.
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Birth Name: Miles Cleveland Chamley-Watson
Place of Birth: Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
Date of Birth: December 3, 1989
Ethnicity:
*African-British, English (father)
*African-British, English (mother)
Miles Chamley-Watson is a British-born American Olympic foil fencer, representing the U.S. He was born in Westminster, London, England, and moved to the U.S. during his childhood. Standing at 6 foot 4 inches tall, he is also a fashion model. In an interview on Hot 97, Miles mentioned that both of his parents are biracial. To this, he jokingly added:
My boys call me 100% half Black.
Birth Name: Christopher Whitelaw Pine
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: August 26, 1980
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather), German, English, Welsh, French
Chris Pine is an American actor. He is known for playing Capt. James Tiberius Kirk in the newer series of Star Trek films. Chris is the son of actors Roberts Pine (Granville Whitelaw Pine) and Gwynne Gilford (Gloria Gwynne Gilford), and the grandson of actress Anne Gwynne.
Chris’s father is of German and English ancestry. Chris’s maternal grandfather was Jewish, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. Chris’s maternal grandmother was a Texan, and had English, Welsh, and French, ancestry.
One family tree traces the “Pine” line back to William Pyne, who was born, c. 1580, in Woodbury, Devonshire, England.
Chris’s paternal grandfather was Granville Martin Pine (the son of Roswell Dean Pine and Mary Louise Harder). Roswell was the son of William Grandville Pine and Margaret Hannah Green. Mary Louise was born in Illinois, the daughter of German parents, Henrich/Henry Harder and Margaret Schulz.
Chris’s paternal grandmother was Virginia Whitelaw (the daughter of Donald Watts Whitelaw and Lucile Marie Foster). Donald was the son of Robert Glass Whitelaw, who was born in Ohio, to Canadian parents, and of Johanna Frank, who was German. Lucile was the daughter of Arthur L. Foster and Myrtie Seagreaves.
Chris’s maternal grandfather was Max M. Gilford (born Max Goldfarb; the son of Louis Goldfarb and Yetta Saporsnikova). Max, a prominent Hollywood lawyer, was born in New York. Louis and Yetta were both Russian Jewish immigrants.
Chris’s maternal grandmother was actress Anne Gwynne (born Marguerite Gwynne Trice, the daughter of Jefferson Benjamin Trice and Pearl Guinn). Anne was born in Texas, and had English, Welsh, and French ancestry. Jefferson was the son of James B. Trice and Lillian P. Chevalier, indicating partial French ancestry. Pearl was the daughter of William Barnes Guinn (possibly originally “Gwynn”) and Louella Ida Dowdell.
Sources: Genealogies of Chris Pine – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://www.wikitree.com
https://www.geni.com
Chris’s paternal grandfather, Granville Martin Pine, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Chris’s paternal great-grandfather, Donald Watts Whitelaw, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Chris’s paternal great-grandmother, Lucile Marie Foster, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Chris’s maternal grandfather, Max M. Gilford (Max Goldfarb), on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Max M. Gilford (Max Goldfarb), on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Notations on the ancestry of Chris’s maternal great-grandmother, Pearl Guinn, and on Pearl’s parents – http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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Place of Birth: Consett, Durham North, Durham, England
Date of Birth: 18 November 1991
Ethnicity: Filipino, English
Karen Harding is a British singer. Her father is English and her mother is Filipino. Her parents owned an Asian food store, where she worked in her youth. One of her first recordings was the anti-racism song “Strange Fruit”, originally sung by Billie Holiday.
Birth Name: Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Date of Birth: March 17, 1997
Ethnicity:
*Czech, Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*Irish (mother)
Katie Ledecky is an American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and nine-time world champion. She is the daughter of Mary Gen (Hagan) and David Ledecky. Her father is of half Czech and half Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her mother is of Irish ancestry. Katie was raised Catholic.
Katie’s mother swam at the University of New Mexico, while Katie’s maternal grandfather was a decorated combat surgeon in World War II.
Katie’s paternal grandfather was Jaromir Ledecky (the son of Jaroslav Ledecky and Jarmila Horcicková). Jaromir was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Katie’s paternal grandmother is Berta Greenwald (the daughter of Milton Henry Greenwald and Eleanor Tecla Stoll). Berta was born in New York City, New York. Milton was born in New York, the son of Simon Greenwald and Bertha Deutsch, who were Hungarian Jews. Eleanor was born in New York, the daughter of Karl “Charles” A. Stoll, who was Swiss (and possibly not of Jewish background), and of Babette “Bertha” Wyler, who was a Swiss Jew.
Katie’s maternal grandfather was Edward Jordan Hagan (the son of Edward Jordan Hagan and Joan Garvey). Katie’s great-grandparents Edward and Joan were from Ontario, Canada, and were of Irish descent. Katie’s great-grandfather Edward was the son of James Hagan and Anne Jordan. Joan was the daughter of Patrick J. Garvey and Mary Heffernan.
Katie’s maternal grandmother is Kathleen Frances O’Connor (the daughter of Charles O’Connor and Mary Ellen Buckley). Kathleen is of Irish origin. Charles was the son of Daniel O’Connor and Mary MacDonald. Katie’s great-grandmother Mary Ellen was the daughter of John M. Buckley and Mary Maloney.
Sources: Genealogy of Katie Ledecky – https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Katie’s maternal grandfather, Edward Jordan Hagan – http://www.willistonherald.com
Birth name: Madeline Jane Dirado
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California
Date of Birth: April 5, 1993
Ethnicity:
*Italian-Argentinian, possibly other (father)
*English, Norwegian (mother)
Maya DiRado is an American competitive swimmer. She won an Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Olympic games, in the 200 meter backstroke.
Maya is the daughter of Marit Parker and Reuben DiRado. Her father was born to Argentinian parents who immigrated from Europe after World War II. The surname “DiRado” is of Italian origin. Her mother is of English and Norwegian heritage.
Maya’s maternal grandparents were Eric Bratton Parker (the son of William B. Parker and Brynhild Brandstad) and Jane Pratt (the daughter of Malcolm S. Pratt and Katherine West).
Sources: Info about Maya – http://www.inquisitr.com
Obituary of Maya’s maternal grandmother, Jane (Pratt) Parker – http://www.legacy.com
Birth name: Anthony Lee Ervin
Place of Birth: Valencia, California
Date of Birth: May 26, 1981
Ethnicity:
*African-American, some English, remote Dutch (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Anthony Ervin is an American Olympic gold medalist in the sport of swimming. He won the Olympic gold medal in 2000 and 2016 in the 50 meter freestyle event.
Anthony’s father is African-American, and also has English, and remote Dutch, ancestry. Some sources state that Anthony’s father also has Native American ancestry. It is not clear if this Native American ancestry has been verified/documented.
Anthony’s mother is Ashkenazi Jewish.
Anthony is the first American swimmer of African-American descent to make the U.S. Olympic team. He is a practicing Zen Buddhist.
Anthony’s paternal grandfather was Ed Sawyer Ervin (the son of Eddie Ervin and Mamie Pettway). Eddie was the son of John Ervin and Sarah Grantsberry.
Anthony’s paternal grandmother was Willie Lee Diggs (the daughter of Daniel Harris Diggs and Willie Henry Slaughter). Daniel was the son of Benjamin Franklin Digges and Molly Harris Turner. Willie was the daughter of William Henry Slaughter and Sarah Caroline Cole.
Sources: New York Times article – http://www.nytimes.com
Genealogy of Anthony Ervin (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
