18/10/2008

The King

Legend in his own lifetime, Elvis Aron Presley was of English, German, Scottish, Jewish and Native American descent.

Mary Seacole - The Greatest Black Briton

Heroine of the Crimean War, Mary Jane Seacole's father was Scottish, her mother was a Jamaican medicine woman. She was recently voted 'The Greatest Black Briton'.

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Lenny Kravitz

American singer/songwriter and musician Leonard Albert Kravitz - his father is Ukranian Jewish, his Afro-Caribbean mother is from the Bahamas.

17/10/2008

Hugo Chávez

Controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is of Amerindian, Afro-Venezuelan and Spanish descent.

Cameron Diaz

American actress Cameron Michelle Diaz's father was a Cuban and her mother is of English, German and Cherokee ancestry.

Bob Marley

Legend Nesta Robert Marley's father was a white English Jamaican marine officer and captain. Marley's mother was black Jamaican.

Thandie Newton

British actress Thandie Newton's father is white British, her mother is Zimbabwean, of the Shona tribe.

Lolo Jones

American track and field athlete Lolo Jones is of French, Native American, African American and Norwegian descent.

16/10/2008

Rosa Parks

Heroine of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Louise McCauley was of African-American, Cherokee, Creek and Scottish/Irish descent.

John Malkovich

Academy award winning American actor, producer and director, John Gavin Malkovich is of Croatian, German, and Scottish descent.

Terrence Howard

Academy award nominated film and stage actor Terrence Dashon Howard. Both his parents were mixed race, of African American and Caucasian descent.

14/10/2008

Chaka Khan

American singer Chaka Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens, of African American and Native American descent.

James Earl Jones

American actor (and voice of Darth Vader) James Earl Jones is of African American, Irish, Choctaw and Cherokee descent.

Aaliyah

American singer and actress Aaliyah Dana Haughton was of Native American and African American descent.

Jon Foo

British actor and Wushu master Jonathan Patrick Foo is half Irish, half Chinese.

Michael and Virginia Madsen

American actor and actress, brother and sister Michael and Virginia Madsen have a Danish father and a mother of Irish and Native American descent.

Mona Hammond OBE

This British actress was born Mavis Chin, to a Chinese father from Guangdong, and a black Jamaican mother in Tweeside, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, West Indies.

David Blaine

Magician David Blaine was born in Brooklyn to a father of Puerto Rican-Catholic descent and a mother of Russian-Jewish descent.

Naomi Campbell

British supermodel Naomi Campbell is of Afro-Caribbean and Chinese (family name Ming) descent.

Helena Bonham Carter

British actress Helena Bonham Carter is of English, Spanish and Jewish descent.

Teri Hatcher

American actress Teri Lynn Hatcher is of Welsh, Choctaw, French, German and Lebanese descent.

Nicollette Sheridan

British born American actress Nicollette Sheridan was born Colette Sheridan in Worthing, England and is of English and Indian Punjabi descent.

Merle Oberon

British actress Merle Oberon was born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson in Bombay to English and Sri Lankan parents.

Val Kilmer

American actor Val Edward Kilmer is of Scottish, Irish, Sephardic Jewish, Cherokee, Swedish, German and Mongolian descent.

Scarlet Johansson

American actress Scarlet Johansson was born in New York to a Danish father an Ashkenazi Jewish mother.

Melanie Sykes

Model and darling of British television, Melanie Sykes is of English and Anglo-Indian/Anglo-Burmese descent.

Chris and Sean Penn

American actors Sean Justin Penn and his late brother Christopher Shannon Penn are of Lithuania Jewish, Russian, Irish, Italian and Spanish descent.


Eartha Kitt

The original Catwoman, American actress and singer Eartha Mae Keith is of African-American, Native American, German and Dutch descent.

Kirk Hammett

Lead guitarist and songwriter in the heavy metal band Metallica, Kirk Lee Hammett was born in San Francisco to a Filipino mother and an Irish Merchant Marine father.

13/10/2008

Cathy Tyson

British actress Cathy Tyson was born to a father from Trinidad and a white, English mother.

Fergie

American singer Stacy Ann Ferguson is of Irish, Scottish, Mexican and Native American descent.

Charlie Williams MBE

Beloved British stand-up comedian and ex-footballer Charlie Williams was born Charles Adolphus Williams. His father was from Barbados, his mother was from Yorkshire, England.

Donyale Luna

American model Donyale Luna, the first black face to grace the cover of Vogue magazine, was of Irish, Mexican and African-American descent.

Tina Turner

Queen of Rock n Roll, Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock of white European, Cherokee and African American descent.

David Blaine

American magician David Blaine White is of Puerto Rican-Catholic and Russian-Jewish descent.

Burt Reynolds

American actor Burton Leon Reynolds, Jr. His father was half Cherokee, his mother was white American.

10/10/2008

Randy and Dennis Quaid

American actor, singer, screenwriter, director and producer, Dennis William Quaid, and his actor brother Randy, are of Irish and Cajun (African American, Native American and French) descent.


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Chris Cornell

Christopher John Cornell was born to a Catholic Irish father and a Jewish mother.

Diego Luna

Mexican actor Diego Luna is of English, Italian and Mexican descent.

Kimora Lee Simmons

American Model Kimora Lee Simmons is of Japanese, Korean and African American descent.


Marsha Thomason

British actress Marsha Thomason was born to an English father and a Jamaican mother.

Mika

Born Mica Penniman, to a Lebanese mother and an American father.

Cher

Born Cherilyn Sarkisian, Cher's father was Armenian, her mother is of Cherokee , English and French descent.

Dennis Oh

American actor Dennis Joseph O'Neil is half South Korean, half white American.

Tracy Emin

British artist Tracy Emin is of Turkish Cypriot and English parentage.

Zadie Smith

English novelist Zadie Smith was born to an Afro-Jamaican mother and an English father.

Frida Kahlo

Mexican artist Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was of Mexican, Spanish, German, Hungarian and Jewish descent.

Devon Aoki

The world's shortest supermodel (5'5") Devon Edwenna Aoki is of Japanese, English and German descent.