Birth Name: Kehlani Parrish
Place of Birth: Oakland, CA
Date of Birth: April 24, 1995
Ethnicity: Native American, African American, Spanish, French, distant Filipino
Family Info: Kehlani was born to an African-American and French father, a surfer from Hawaii, who died when she was a toddler. Her mother is of Blackfoot Cherokee and Spanish decent
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Birth Name: Georg Albert Ruthenberg
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: August 5, 1959
Ethnicity: German (father), African American, Native American (mother)
Family Info: Pat Smear is an American musician. He is best known as a guitarist in the rock band Foo Fighters. Pat also played for Germs and toured with Nirvana.
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Birth Name: Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Date of Birth: January 17, 1964
Ethnicity: African-American (mainly), with distant English, Scottish, and Irish
Michelle Obama is an American lawyer and writer. She is the wife of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and as such has been First Lady of the United States since 2009.
Michelle is the daughter of Marian Robinson (born Marian Lois Shields), a secretary, and Fraser Robinson III, a city water plant employee. Her brother is college basketball coach and broadcaster Craig Robinson (not the actor of the same name).
Michelle’s parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents, were all black. Michelle also has some European ancestry on her family tree, with distant English, Scottish, and Irish, roots. One of Michelle’s white ancestors was her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Marion Shields. Charles was the son of Henry Wells Shields and Christianna Payne Patterson.
Michelle’s paternal grandparents were Fraser Robinson, Jr. (the son of Fraser Robinson and Rose Ella Cohen) and LaVaughn Delores Johnson (the daughter of James Preston Johnson and Phoebe Moten).
Michelle’s maternal grandparents were Purnell Nathaniel Shields (the son of Robert Lee Shields and Anna Estelle Laws/Lawson) and Rebecca Jumper/Coleman (the daughter of James Jumper and Eliza Tinsley).
Michelle’s first cousin, once removed, is Rabbi Capers Funnye. Capers is a Jew-by-choice. Michelle’s paternal great-grandparents, Fraser Robinson and Rose Ella Cohen, were also Rabbi Funnye’s maternal grandparents.
As stated, Michelle’s great-grandmother Rose Ella Cohen had the usually Jewish surname “Cohen”. Rose was an African-American woman, whose father, Caesar Cohen, was also African-American. It is not clear where the “Cohen” surname originates in this family, or if Caesar Cohen had Jewish ancestry of some kind.
Sources: Genealogy of Michelle Obama – http://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Michelle Obama (focusing on her father’s side) – http://www.wargs.com
Notes on Michelle’s ancestry, by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak – http://www.honoringourancestors.com
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: 1988
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*African-American (mother)
Hannah Bronfman is an American DJ, model, and entrepreneur. Her father, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., is a businessman who was previously the CEO of Warner Music Group. Her mother, Sherri Brewer, is an actress who appeared in Shaft (1971). Hannah’s brother is entrepreneur and musician Benjamin Bronfman.
Her father is Jewish (of Russian Jewish, Ukrainian Jewish, and German Jewish descent). Her mother is African-American. Some of Hannah’s father’s ancestors have lived in the United States since the 1700s.
Hannah’s paternal grandfather was Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (Edgar Miles Bronfman, the son of Samuel Bronfman and Saidye Rosner). Hannah’s grandfather Edgar was born in Montreal, Canada, and was a prominent businessman and philanthropist. Hannah’s great-grandfather Samuel was born in Soroki, Bessarabia (now Moldova), to Jewish parents, Yechiel Moshe Bronfman and Mindel Elman. Samuel founded Distillers Corporation Limited. Hannah’s great-grandmother Saidye was born in Plum Coulee, Manitoba, to Jewish immigrants, Samuel Rosner and Priscilla Rosner, who were from Bessarabia and Odessa, respectively.
Hannah’s paternal grandmother was Ann Margaret Loeb (the daughter of John Langeloth Loeb, Sr. and Frances Lehman). Ann’s brother, John L. Loeb, Jr., was a U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (from 1981 to 1983) and a Delegate to the United Nations (in 1984). Hannah’s great-grandfather John was the son of Carl Morris Loeb, Sr., a Jewish immigrant from Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hesse, and of Adeline Moses, who was born in Alabama, of German Jewish descent, from a family that has lived in the United States since the 1700s. John and Carl Loeb were founders of the Wall Street brokerage firm Loeb, Rhoades & Co.
Hannah’s great-grandmother Frances Lehman was the daughter of Arthur Lehman and Adele Lewisohn. Hannah’s great-great-grandfather Arthur Lehman was the son of Mayer Lehman, one of the three brothers who founded the prominent investment bank Lehman Brothers (the other two were Henry Lehman and Emanuel Lehman). Arthur Lehman’s parents were German Jewish immigrants, from Bavaria and Rieneck, respectively. Hannah’s great-great-grandmother Adele Lewisohn was the daughter of Adolph Lewisohn, a German Jewish mining magnate, investment banker, and philanthropist, who was born in Hamburg, and of Emma Miriam Cahn, who was also of German Jewish origin.
Hannah is a third cousin, once removed, of broadcast journalist Serena Altschul. Hannah’s paternal great-great-great-grandparents, Mayer Lehman and Babette Newgass, were also Serena’s paternal great-great-grandparents.
Sources: Genealogy of Hannah Bronfman (focusing on her father’s side) – http://www.geni.com
Obituary of Hannah’s paternal grandmother, Ann Margaret (Loeb) Bronfman – https://www.washingtonpost.com
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Birth Name: LeSean Kamel McCoy
Place of Birth: Harrisburg, PA
Date of Birth: July 12, 1988
Ethnicity: African-American
Family Info: LeSean is an NFL running back currently playing for the Buffalo Bills.
Source: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCoLe01.htm
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Birth Name: Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Date of Birth: December 25, 1958
Ethnicity: African-American
Rickey Henderson is an American former baseball player. He is a Hall of Famer who has the most stolen bases in the league, with 1,406.
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Birth Name: Brandon Tyrone Marshall
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date of Birth: March 23, 1984
Ethnicity: African-American
Brandon Marshall is an American football player. He is a wide receiver who plays for the New York Jets.
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Birth Name: Cree Summer Francks
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: July 7, 1969
Ethnicity:
*English (father)
*African-American (mother)
Cree Summer is an American and Canadian actress and singer. Her father, Don Francks (Donald Harvey Francks), is a Canadian actor and musician (he is white). Her mother, Lili Red Eagle (born Clark), is an African-American from North Richmond, California, who is an adopted member of the Plains Cree First Nations. Her brother, Rainbow Sun Francks, is a former MuchMusic DJ. Cree was raised partly in British Columbia, Canada.
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Birth Name: Ryan James Howard
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri
Date of Birth: November 19, 1979
Ethnicity: African-American
Ryan Howard is an American baseball player. A first baseman, he plays for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Source: http://www.baseball-reference.com
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Birth Name: Terrell Raymonn Suggs
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date of Birth: October 11, 1982
Ethnicity: African-American
Terrell Suggs is an American football player. He is an outside linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).
He is the son of Laverne Diane (Kennedy) and Donald Lee Suggs. His parents are both African-American.
He has said that he considers himself “half Jewish”. This is likely in a sort of a religious sense, not by ancestry. It is not clear if Terrell has studied Judaism or has converted to Judaism.
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Birth Name: Mamiko Eriana Miyamoto
Place of Birth: Sasebo Japan
Date of Birth: 12 May 1994
Ethnicity: African American, Japanese
Family Info: Ariana Miyamoto is the first person of mixed heritage to win Miss Japan title. She is the Miss Japan 2015. Miyamoto was born to an African American father and a Japanese mother.
Ariana speaks grew up in Japan and is fluent in Japanese. She moved to the US at age 13 to live with her father but returned to Japan to attend high school.
Birth Name: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Date of Birth: October 5, 1958
Ethnicity: African-American, Puerto Rican
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. He is the son of Sunchita Maria Feliciano, a gerontologist, and Cyril deGrasse Tyson, a sociologist. His father was African-American and his mother Puerto Rican.
His middle name, “deGrasse”, originates from his paternal grandmother, Altima de Grasse, who was from the West Indies.
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Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: June 15, 2013
Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*Armenian (maternal grandfather)
*English, as well as Scottish, Irish, German, and Dutch (maternal grandmother)
North West is an American child. She is one of the most photographed toddlers in the world. North is the daughter of Kanye West, a rapper, record producer, and fashion designer, and Kim Kardashian West, a television and social media personality, actress, socialite, and model.
Her aunts and uncles are Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Rob Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Kylie Jenner, all of whom are television personalities.
North’s paternal grandparents were Ray West (the son of James Frederick West, Sr. and Fannie Mae Hooks) and Donda Williams (the daughter of Portwood Williams and Lucille E.). Ray and Donda were African-American.
North’s maternal grandparents were Robert Kardashian, a lawyer (the son of Arthur Kardashian and Helen Jean Arakelian), and Kris Jenner, a socialite (the daughter of Robert True Houghton and Mary Gorden Campbell). Robert was of Armenian descent. Kris has English, Scottish, Irish, German, Dutch ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of North’s father – http://www.geni.com
Another genealogy of North’s father (focusing on his own father’s side) – http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com
Genealogy of North’s mother – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Obituary of North’s maternal great-grandfather, Arthur Kardashian – http://www.findagrave.com
Obituary of North’s maternal great-grandmother, Helen (Arakelian) Kardashian – http://www.findagrave.com
North’s maternal great-great-great-grandmother, Lou Ethel Wyatt, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of North’s maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Tiny VanZandt – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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Birth Name: Quincy Brown
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 4, 1991
Ethnicity: African-American
Quincy, also known as Quincy Brown and Quincy Combs, is an American actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur.
Quincy’s parents are both African-American.
Quincy was born to model Kimberly Porter and singer/producer Al B. Sure! (born Albert Joseph Brown III). He was adopted by producer/musician Sean Combs, after he began a relationship with Quincy’s mother.
Quincy’s paternal grandparents are Albert Joseph Brown II and Cassandra.
A picture of Quincy’s biological father can be seen here. A picture of Quincy’s mother can be seen here.
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Place of Birth: Las Vegas, Nevada
Date of Birth: February 12, 1988
Ethnicity: African-American
DeMarco Murray is an American football player. He is a running back for the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Birth Name: Gina D. Ravarra
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 20, 1966
Ethnicity:
*Spanish-Puerto Rican (father)
*African-American (mother)
Gina Ravera is an American actress. Her father is Puerto Rican, with Spanish ancestry. Her mother is African-American.
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Date of Birth: April 6, 1830
Place of Birth: Macon, Georgia
Date of Death: August 5, 1900
Place of Death: Portland, Maine
Ethnicity:
*Irish (father)
*African-American, English (mother)
James Augustine Healy was an American Roman Catholic priest.
He is regarded as the first Roman Catholic priest of African-American descent.
James was the son of Mary Eliza (Clark/Smith) and Michael Morris Healy.
His father, who was white and a plantation owner, was born in County Roscommon, Ireland. His mother was a slave, of mixed-race ancestry.
His brother was Patrick Francis Healy, who was President of Georgetown University.
Birth Name: Le’Veon Andrew Bell
Place of Birth: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Date of Birth: February 18, 1992
Ethnicity: African-American
Le’Veon Bell is an American football player. He is a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Birth Name: David Khari Webber Chappelle
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C.
Date of Birth: August 24, 1973
Ethnicity: African-American, 1/4 Afro-Grenadian
Dave Chappelle is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for his television series Chapelle’s Show, and for his stand-up comedy act. Dave is the son of Yvonne K. (Reed) and William David Chapelle III, both professors.
Dave’s paternal grandparents were Henry Talmage Chappelle (the son of William David Chappelle and Rosina C. Palmer) and Leola Webber. Rosina’s father, Robert J. Palmer, who was a merchant and owned land, was a member of the South Carolina Legislature, then majority black, during Reconstruction.
Dave’s maternal grandparents were George Raymond Reed (the son of Samuel Reed) and Beatrice Murray (the daughter of Moses Butler Beakes). Beatrice was born in Grenada.
Source: Genealogy of Dave Chappelle – http://www.wargs.com
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Birth Name: Karl-Anthony Towns, Jr.
Place of Birth: Piscataway, New Jersey
Date of Birth: November 15, 1995
Ethnicity: African-American (father) and Dominican (mother)
Karl-Anthony Towns is an NBA player. He is of African-American and Dominican descent. Karl-Anthony was selected #1 in the 2015 NBA draft, by the Minnesota Timberwolves.