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Alexa Chung

2011-10-06T15:47:00.005+02:00

English television presenter, model and contributing editor at British Vogue, Alexa Chung was born to a half Chinese, half English father and her English mother,

The Carradine family

2011-05-19T20:28:00.001+02:00

American actor, John Carradine was born Richmond Reed Carradine of Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Cherokee descent. Three of his sons, David, Keith and Robert, also became actors.

Sir Peter Ustinov

2011-05-19T20:15:00.001+02:00

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE
English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theater and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter Peter Ustinov is of Russian, Jewish German, French, Italian and Ethiopian descent.

Gwyneth Paltrow

2011-05-19T20:07:00.000+02:00

American actress Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is of Jewish-Belarusian, Jewish-Polish, German and English descent.

The Van Salees

2011-05-18T23:20:00.001+02:00

For info on the Van Salees family, click on the name.

Jackie Onassis

2011-05-18T23:19:00.001+02:00

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, icon of the '60s and wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy. A descendent of the Van Salees family.

Cree Summer

2011-02-24T21:13:00.002+01:00

Born Cree Summer Francks - best known as Cree Summer, an African-Canadian Aboriginal actress, musician and voice actress.

Jared Padalecki

2010-10-08T13:30:00.003+02:00

American actor Jared Tristan Padalecki is of Polish American and Western European American ancestry.

Nicole Scherzinger

2010-06-01T12:08:00.007+02:00

Best known as lead singer with the Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger was born in Honolulu. Her father is Filipino and her mother is of Hawaiian and Russian descent. She is quoted as saying, "I’m Filipino-Russian-Hawaiian, but people think I’m from Pakistan."

Edward Furlong

2010-05-10T10:53:00.003+02:00

American actor Edward Walter Furlong is of Mexican, Russian and Native American descent.

Jack Dempsey

2010-05-10T10:51:00.000+02:00

American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926, Jack Dempsey was of Irish and Cherokee descent.

André 3000

2010-05-10T10:47:00.002+02:00

American performer André Lauren Benjamin is of African American and Native American descent.

Kevin Costner

2010-05-10T10:40:00.003+02:00

American actor and director Kevin Michael Costner has German, Irish and Cherokee ancestry.

Charisma Carpenter

2010-05-10T10:35:00.002+02:00

Best known as Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American actress Charisma Lee Carpenter is of Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, Spanish, French and German descent.

Ben Harper

2010-05-10T10:28:00.003+02:00

Grammy Award winning singer songwriter Benjamin Chase Harper is of African American, Cherokee and Jewish descent.

Tori Amos

2010-05-10T10:24:00.001+02:00

American singer Tori Amos is of European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry.

Lena Horne

2010-05-10T10:16:00.002+02:00

American actress, singer and dancer Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born in Brooklyn. Both sides of her family are of African, European, and Native American descent.

Dolly Parton

2010-05-10T10:09:00.001+02:00

Iconic country singer Dolly Rebecca Parton is of Dutch, Irish and Cherokee descent.

Eric Bana

2010-05-10T09:59:00.002+02:00

Australian actor, born Eric Banadinović, to a Croatian father and German mother.

Liev Schreiber

2010-03-27T21:44:00.003+01:00

Born Isaac Liev Schreiber. Actor, director and screenwriter, Schreiber's father is of Austrian, Swiss, Irish and Scottish descent, his mother is Jewish, of Polish, Ukrainian and German descent.

Laura Izibor

2010-02-16T21:51:00.003+01:00

Irish singer Laura Elizabeth Arabosa Izibor is half Nigerian.

Merle Oberon

2010-02-05T11:17:00.004+01:00

This Hollywood icon was born Estelle Merle Thompson in Ceylon, to a Eurasian mother, with partial Māori heritage, and a British mechanical engineer from Darlington.

Justin Timberlake

2010-01-23T21:20:00.002+01:00

Born Justin Randall Timberlake, 'the coolest 'white' man on the planet' claims English American and American Indian ancestry.

Dichen Lachman

2010-01-23T21:14:00.002+01:00

Actress Dichen Lachman was born in Kathmanu to a Tibetan mother and Australian father.

Maggie Q

2009-11-04T20:37:00.002+01:00

Actress and fashion model Maggie Q was born Margaret Denise Quigley, to an American father of Polish, French Canadian and Irish descent, and a Vietnamese mother.

Marc Elliot

2009-10-07T19:04:00.003+02:00

British actor Marc Elliot is half Indian half Scottish.

Patrick Swayze... R.I.P

2009-05-21T12:40:00.001+02:00

Born Patrick Wayne Swayze, of Irish and Apache descent.

The King

2008-10-18T17:41:00.000+02:00

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

Mary Seacole - The Greatest Black Briton

2008-10-18T17:40:00.004+02:00

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'.

Visit: http://www.maryseacole.com/maryseacole/pages/

Lenny Kravitz

2008-10-18T17:38:00.000+02:00

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

Hugo Chávez

2008-10-17T21:16:00.001+02:00

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

Cameron Diaz

2008-10-17T21:07:00.000+02:00

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

Bob Marley

2008-10-17T19:01:00.000+02:00

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

Thandie Newton

2008-10-17T18:54:00.002+02:00

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

Lolo Jones

2008-10-17T18:49:00.000+02:00

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

Rosa Parks

2008-10-16T21:45:00.000+02:00

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

John Malkovich

2008-10-16T21:35:00.000+02:00

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

Terrence Howard

2008-10-16T21:28:00.000+02:00

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

Chaka Khan

2008-10-14T22:49:00.000+02:00

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

James Earl Jones

2008-10-14T22:46:00.000+02:00

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

Aaliyah

2008-10-14T22:37:00.000+02:00

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

Jon Foo

2008-10-14T22:35:00.000+02:00

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

Michael and Virginia Madsen

2008-10-14T22:22:00.000+02:00

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

2008-10-14T22:21:00.000+02:00

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

2008-10-14T22:19:00.000+02:00

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

Naomi Campbell

2008-10-14T22:17:00.000+02:00

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

Helena Bonham Carter

2008-10-14T22:15:00.000+02:00

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

Teri Hatcher

2008-10-14T22:11:00.000+02:00

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

Nicollette Sheridan

2008-10-14T22:09:00.000+02:00

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

Merle Oberon

2008-10-14T22:07:00.000+02:00

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

Val Kilmer

2008-10-14T22:01:00.000+02:00

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

Scarlet Johansson

2008-10-14T21:58:00.000+02:00

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

Melanie Sykes

2008-10-14T21:55:00.000+02:00

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

Chris and Sean Penn

2008-10-14T21:53:00.000+02:00

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

Eartha Kitt

2008-10-14T21:50:00.000+02:00

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

Kirk Hammett

2008-10-14T21:47:00.000+02:00

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.

Cathy Tyson

2008-10-13T21:50:00.000+02:00

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

Fergie

2008-10-13T21:42:00.000+02:00

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

Charlie Williams MBE

2008-10-13T21:39:00.000+02:00

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

2008-10-13T21:37:00.000+02:00

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

2008-10-13T21:30:00.000+02:00

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

David Blaine

2008-10-13T20:59:00.000+02:00

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

Burt Reynolds

2008-10-13T20:56:00.001+02:00

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

Randy and Dennis Quaid

2008-10-10T19:10:00.000+02:00

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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Randy

Chris Cornell

2008-10-10T19:08:00.000+02:00

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

Diego Luna

2008-10-10T18:58:00.000+02:00

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

Kimora Lee Simmons

2008-10-10T18:28:00.000+02:00

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

Marsha Thomason

2008-10-10T18:24:00.000+02:00

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

Mika

2008-10-10T18:23:00.000+02:00

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

Cher

2008-10-10T15:24:00.001+02:00

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

Dennis Oh

2008-10-10T14:49:00.000+02:00

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

Tracy Emin

2008-10-10T14:41:00.000+02:00

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

Zadie Smith

2008-10-10T14:33:00.000+02:00

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

Frida Kahlo

2008-10-10T14:29:00.000+02:00

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

Devon Aoki

2008-10-10T14:26:00.000+02:00

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

Inday Ba

2008-10-10T14:24:00.000+02:00

Anglo-Swedish actress Inday Ba (AKA N'Deaye Ba) was of Senegalese and Swedish parentage.

James Franco

2008-10-10T13:47:00.000+02:00

American actor James Edward Franco is of Portuguese, Swedish and Russian-Jewish descent.

Daniel Henney

2008-10-10T13:36:00.002+02:00

Star of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, model turned actor Daniel Phillip Henney is of Haitian, Korean and American descent.

Wentworth Miller

2008-10-10T12:55:00.001+02:00

British-born American actor Wentworth Earl Miller III has stated "I'm not white. My dad is black and his mom is white". (His father is of African American, Jamaican, German, English, and Jewish ancestry and his mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Lebanese and Syrian. descent)

Goldie

2008-10-10T12:52:00.000+02:00

English electronic music artist, disc jockey and actor Goldie, AKA Clifford Joseph Price, is of Jamaican and Scottish descent.

Brandon Lee

2008-10-09T22:31:00.000+02:00

Son of Bruce Lee, American actor Brandon Bruce Lee's mother was of Swedish and English descent.

Bruce Lee

2008-10-09T22:28:00.001+02:00

The legendary martial arts expert was born Lee Jun Fan to a Chinese father and a mother of Chinese German descent.

Maggie & Jake Gyllenhaal

2008-10-09T21:47:00.000+02:00

Born Jacob Benjamin and Margaret Ruth to a father of Swedish noble descent and a Jewish American mother.

Sean Lennon

2008-10-09T21:38:00.001+02:00

Sean Ono Lennon is the son of Englishman John Lennon and avante-garde artist Yoko Ono, who is Japanese.

Lisa Bonet

2008-10-09T21:33:00.000+02:00

Lisa Bonet was born Lisa Michelle Bonet to an African-American father and Jewish American mother.

Tommy Lee Jones

2008-10-09T21:17:00.000+02:00

Award winning American actor and director Tommy Lee Jones Jones is of white American and Cherokee descent.

Ne-Yo

2008-10-09T21:15:00.001+02:00

American pop and R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor and occasional rapper, Shaffer Chimere Smith was born to a African-American father and a mother of African American and Chinese American descent.

Tyson Beckford

2008-10-09T21:13:00.000+02:00

American supermodel and actor Tyson Craig Beckford's mother is Jamaican and his father is half Jamaican and half Chinese.

Sean Paul

2008-10-09T21:08:00.000+02:00

Grammy Award-winning Jamaican reggae artist Sean Paul Henriques is of Jewish, Portuguese, Afro-Caribbean and Chinese descent.

Bryan Clay

2008-10-09T21:05:00.000+02:00

American decathlete and Olympic champion Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay was born to a Japanese mother and African-American father.

Jessica Alba

2008-10-09T21:02:00.002+02:00

American actress Jessica Alba's Mother is white Danish, her father is Mexican American.

Jennifer Tilly

2008-10-09T20:36:00.000+02:00

American actresses Jennifer Tilly and sister Meg Tilly were born to a Chinese American father and American mother.

Jennifer Tilly

Diana Ross

2008-10-09T20:20:00.000+02:00

Legendary singer and actress Diana Ross is of African American and Native American descent.

Johnny Depp

2008-10-09T20:15:00.001+02:00

American actor John Christopher Depp II has German, Gypsy, Cherokee and Irish ancestry.

Phil Lynott

2008-10-09T20:11:00.000+02:00

Irish rocker Philip Parris Lynott was born in England to an Anglo-Irish and Afro-Brazilian father.

Mel B

2008-10-09T13:55:00.000+02:00

British performer Melanie Janine Brown (AKA Scary Spice!). Mel's mother is white English, from Yorkshire. Her father is black West Indian, from Nevis in the Caribbean.

Shakira

2008-10-09T13:49:00.000+02:00

Colombian singer/songwriter Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll's mother is Spanish and Italian, her father is Lebanese.

Indira Varma

2008-10-09T13:46:00.001+02:00

British actress Indira Varma is half Swiss, half Indian.

Milo Ventimiglia

2008-10-09T13:43:00.000+02:00

American actor Milo Ventimiglia's father is Sicilian. His mother has Irish, English, Scottish, French, Cherokee and Blackfoot ancestry.

Adrian Pasdar

2008-10-09T13:34:00.000+02:00

American actor Adrian Pasdar is half Iranian, half German.