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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'.

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

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.

Mixed Race/Culture

"The 2001 National Census revealed Mixed Race as the third largest and fastest growing ethnic minority group in the UK."
"In 2000, the US National Census revealed that there were nearly 7 million multiracial people living in the country. Mixed-race children under 18 make up the fastest-growing segment of the population."

From Elvis to Barack Obama, this is a light-hearted celebration of well-known people/celebrities who are, racially or culturally, of mixed heritage. I've left out people who are a mix of any of the Western European countries and American (such as Viggo Mortensen who is half American, half Danish) and people who are a mix of any nationality, but all of them Jewish (such as Natalie Portman - both her parents are Jewish even though they are of Austrian/Russian and Polish/Romanian descent respectively). Had to draw the line somewhere!