List of multiracial people

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List of famous biracial and multiracial people.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Ai (Ai Uemura), singer, Japanese, Italian
• Angela Aki - singer, Japanese, Italian
• Jessica Alba - actress, Danish/French mother, Mestizo father^[1]
• Monica Ali - British novelist, Bangladeshi father, English mother
• Tatyana Ali - actress, is of mixed Afro-Caribbean and Indian descent
• Shola Ama - singer^[2]
• Amerie - American singer, Korean, African American^[3]
• Amil - singer, African-American father, European/Cherokee mother^[4]
• Namie Amuro, singer, Japanese, Italian
• Devon Aoki - model/actress, Japanese father, English and German mother^[5]
• Beni Arashiro - singer, Japanese, Spanish
• Leila Arcieri - actress, Italian father, African-American mother^[6]
• Fred Armisen - musician, Saturday Night Live castmember; German, Japanese, and Venezuelan^[7].
• Crispus Attucks - (race or racial mixture not verified) victim of the Boston Massacre^[8]
• Maulana Azad, Indian freedom fighter, Indian father and Arab mother

[edit] B

• Sade Baderinwa - WABC-TV anchorwoman, black Nigerian father and white German mother
• Charli Baltimore - rapper, German father and African-American mother
• Dame Shirley Bassey - singer, English mother, Nigerian father^[9]
• Batista - pro wrestler, Filipino father and Greek mother
• Jennifer Beals - actress, Irish mother, Mulatto father^[10]
• Tyson Beckford - supermodel, Jamaican father, Jamaican and Chinese-American mother^[11]
• Lou Bega, singer, half Sicilian (mother) and half Ugandan (father)
• Gina Belafonte - actress/producer, black father and white mother^[12]
• Halle Berry - actress, English mother, African-American father^[13]
• Pete Best: Original drummer for The Beatles; Indian and English heritage.
• Troy Beyer - actress, black mother, Jewish father^[14]
• Traci Bingham - actress, Native American father, Black and Italian mother^[15]
• Cedric Bixler-Zavala - musician, Mestizo mother, German/ Spanish father
• Bizzy Bone, American rapper, 1/2 white and 1/2 black born to an African-American father and a Jewish/Italian mother.
• Kim Blacklock - actress, comic, singer, Samoan-Scot father, Celtic - Irish, Welsh, French mother.
• Michelle Branch (1983 - ) American singer, songwriter and guitarist
  [35] "According to interviews I've read, your father is Irish and your mother is of Dutch-Indonesian and French descent. Did you struggle at all with your multiracial identity when you were growing up? Not really. My folks gave me a firm strength of who I was. I was not alone."
• Benjamin Bratt - actor^[16]
• Sam Brodie, UK reality TV contestant, Scottish father, Indonesian mother
• Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - singer, Native American mother, African-American father
• Melanie Brown - singer, English mother, Nevisian father^[17]
• Cheryl Burke Professional Dancer, specializing in Ballroom, but got her start at age 4 in ballet. Born in Northern California in 1984, of Filipino, Russian and Irish descent.

[edit] C

• Dean Cain - actor, Japanese, French Canadian, Irish, Welsh^[18]
• Roy Campanella - baseball star, Italian father, African-American mother^[19]
• Pogus Caesar - filmmaker / photographer, West African, Irish, French, Portuguese, West Indian descent
• Naomi Campbell - model, Jamaican mother, Jamaican/Chinese father^[20]
• John Carew - Norway international footballer; Gambian father, Norwegian mother
• Mariah Carey - singer, Irish-American mother, African-American and Venezuelan^[7] father ^[21]
• Tia Carrere: Actress, (Wayne's World) and voice of Lilo's Older Sister in Lilo & Stitch; Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino Heritage.
• Nadine Chandrawinata, delegate from Indonesia for Miss Universe 2006, Javanese father, German mother
• Carol Channing - ¾ white, ¼ black^[22]
• Cassie, singer, 1/4 African-American, 1/4 Mexican ^[7] mother, Filipino father
• Craig Charles - actor
• Alexander Chee, author, white and Korean
• Cher, American singer, songwriter, actress, and entertainer. 1/2 Armenian (father), 1/2 Irish, English, German, Cherokee (mother)
• Lonny Chin, Playboy Miss January 1983: Chinese, Jamaican, Welsh and Swedish descent.
• Liz Cho, ABC News/WABC-TV anchor and reporter, Korean father, Jewish mother
• Susan Choi - author, Korean father, Russian-Jewish mother^[23]
• Marcus Chong - actor^[24]
• Rae Dawn Chong - actress, African, First Nations, Chinese, Irish^[25]
• Tommy Chong - actor^[26] Chinese father, Scots-Irish mother
• Doug Christie - NBA player, white mother, black father^[27]
• Jamie Cullum - Jazz Musician. Burmese, English, Jewish

[edit] D

• Martin Dahlin, Swedish football (soccer) player, Afro-Venezuelan and Swedish
• Johnny Damon, outfielder for the New York Yankees, father is white, mother is Thai
• Ron Darling, baseball player, Chinese, Hawaiian, white
• Stacey Dash, actress, West Indian and Aztec Indian descent
• Craig David, singer, Afro-Grenadian father and English-Jewish mother
• Jaye Davidson, actor, English mother and Ghanaian father
• Rosario Dawson, actress, Puerto Rican ^[7], Afro-Cuban, Irish and Native American
• Will Demps, of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, African-American father, Korean mother
• F.W. de Klerk, last Apartheid-era President of South Africa (1989-1994); acknowledges in his autobiography some Indian ancestry that his family had previously kept secret (and which would have legally disqualified him from holding office)
• Johnny Depp, actor, Cherokee, German, Irish heritage
• Ophelia Devore, model, French, German, Indian, Black
• Cameron Diaz, actress 1/2 Cuban^[7] (father), 2/3 European-American and 1/3 Native-American (mother)
• Vin Diesel, actor, African American father, mother of Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent
• Alesha Dixon, former member of Mis-Teeq, 1/2 white and 1/2 black
• DJ Drama,DJ,African American father and a white mother
• Fefe Dobson - Canadian rock singer^[28], white mother, black father
• Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, writer, black, white and Native American
• W. E. B. Du Bois, activist, French, Dutch, African American
• Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author and playwright, ⅛ black, and ⅞ white.
• Alexandre Dumas, père, French author, ¼ black and ¾ white
• James Duval, American actor, French, Vietnamese, Irish, and Native American.
• Mervyn M. Dymally, former US Congressman, Indian, African, white

[edit] E

• Sheila E, American musician, Mexican^[7] father and African-American mother.
• Carmen Ejogo, actress, white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father
• Yvonne Elliman, singer, Japanese, white
• Giancarlo Esposito, actor, African-American mother and Italian father
• Faith Evans, singer, African-American mother and Italian-American father

[edit] F

• Lola Falana, Actress, cuban father^[7], black mother
• Brett Favre, athlete, white and Choctaw
• China Forbes, American singer/songwriter and member of Pink Martini, White father (of French and Scottish descent), Black mother
• Melyssa Ford, video model, black West Indian mother, white (Russian and Norwegian) father
• Patricia Ford, adult model, German, Chinese, Hawaiian, Irish and Portuguese ancestry
• Rick Fox, professional basketball player, white Canadian mother, and black Bahamian father
• Redd Foxx, comedian, 3/4 black and 1/4 Cherokee Indian.
• Foxy Brown, American rapper, of Afro/Indo Trinidadian descent.
• Brooke Fraser, singer/songwriter, Samoan/Fijian/Scottish/Spanish descent
• Rainbow Sun Francks, actor/songwriter, black Cree mother and Anglo-Native Canadian father
• Jennifer Freeman - American actress, black mother, white father^[29]
• Lil' Fizz singer, member of group B2K, African-American, white, Native American
• Grant Fuhr, ice hockey star, black and white
• Kip Fulbeck — artist/filmmaker/writer, Cantonese, English, Irish, Welsh

[edit] G

• Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politicians (and siblings), children of Rajiv Gandhi (Indian) and Sonia Gandhi (Italian)
• Nomar Garciaparra, first baseman for the LA Dodgers: Mexican^[7] father, Egyptian mother
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1/2 African-American and 1/2 European-American
• Nona Gaye, singer/actress, African-American, Irish and Greek
• Crystal Gayle, singer, Irish and Cherokee
• Rebecca Gayheart, actress, Irish, Italian, German and Cherokee Indian heritage
• Deuan German, guitarist of British ska band Maroon Town, white English father and black Jamaican mother
• Yasmeen Ghauri, supermodel, Pakistani father, German mother
• Roland Gift, lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals, half black and half white.
• Asha Gill, model, TV host, actress, VJ, writer, DJ, producer, women's rights activist, spokesperson for Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women campaign, father Punjabi-Malaysian, mother English-French
• Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer, ⅞ white, ⅛ Kamilaroi Australian
• Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer, mixed black and white Welsh father, white Welsh mother
• Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker, author of The Tipping Point and Blink; mother a Jamaican of mixed black, Jewish and Scots heritage, father white English^[30]
• Goldie, musician, Jamaican and Scottish
• Tony Gonzalez, American football star, Hispanic (of unspecified race), African American, Native American, Jamaican, Cape Verdean
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Actor, Dutch Father, Indonesian Mother
• Danny Graves, baseball pitcher, white father, Vietnamese mother
• George Gregan, Australian Rugby player, half Zambian, half white
• Emm Gryner, Canadian pop singer, white and Filipino
• Justin Guarini, American Idol season 1 finalist, African, Irish, and Italian.
• Lani Guinier, first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School and nominee to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, white Jewish mother and African American father
• Jasmine Guy, actress, black father and white mother
• Nalishebo Gaskell, Australian actress and former beauty queen, Zambian mother, and white, Australian father

[edit] H

• Jann Halexander, French singer, pianist, white mother(France), black father (Gabon)
• Kirk Hammett, guitarist, White father, Filipino mother
• Mata Hari, dancer, spy, Dutch father, Javanese mother
• Ben Harper, musician, black father (half Cherokee paternal grandmother) and Russian Jewish mother
• Franco Harris, American football star, black father and Italian mother
• Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress, Japanese and Spanish
• Sally Hemings, former slave, 3/4 white, 1/4 Black
• Jimi Hendrix, American musician, white Irish, black, Cherokee
• Camilla Henemark also known as "La Camilla", singer, actress, and former fashion model, black Nigeria father, white Swedish mother
• Daniel Henney, half-British, half-Korean
• Cindy Herron, Singer, her father is black and mother is white
• George Herriman, cartoonist, mulatto
• Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter, white and black
• Grant Hill, basketball player; son of African American football player Calvin Hill and his biracial black/white wife
• Lawrence Hill, Canadian author (Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada), white and black
• Don Ho, singer, Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, German
• Kian and Remee Hodgson - English twins^[31]
• Emma Holland, singer, black Nigerian mother, white British father
• Dame Kelly Holmes, British athlete, Jamaican biological father, white English mother
• Lena Horne, singer, mixed of black, white, and Native American ancestry
• T. J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player; Iranian father, African American mother
• Melissa Howard, The Real World personality, half Filipino, half African-American
• Terrence Dashon Howard, American actor, 1/2 black, 1/2 white (father half-black, half-white, mother half black, half-white)
• Tim Howard, American soccer star, black father, Hungarian mother
• Jade Hsu, adult actress, Korean, white
• Kelly Hu, actress, mostly Chinese, Hawaiian, English
• Langston Hughes, poet, 1/2 African American, 7/16 European American, and 1/16 Native American
• Hughes Brothers, filmmakers, black and Armenian
• Pat Hurst: LPGA golfer; white father and Japanese mother
• Nadya Hutagalung, model, Indonesian (i.e. Bataknese), and Australian

[edit] I

• Jarome Iginla, NHL star, Nigerian father and white Canadian mother
• Enrique Iglesias, singer; son of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Spanish-Filipino-mestiza socialite and journalist Isabel Preysler
• Carrie Ann Inaba, dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and judge on Dancing with the Stars, Japanese, Chinese and Irish

[edit] J

• Sabrina Jalees, Comedienne, Swiss mother and Pakastani father
• Jhene, R&B singer, African American, Japanese, Native American
• Derek Jeter, baseball star, African American father and white American mother
• Brendan Jennings, Singer, white mother and African American and Italian father.
• Bhumi Jensen, was a grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, mother is Thai and father is white American
• Ploypailin Jensen, and Sirikitiya Jensen, daughters of princess Ubol Ratana and sisters of Bhumi Jensen, their mother is Thai and father white American
• Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, professional wrestler turned actor, son of Black Canadian pro wrestler Rocky Johnson and his Samoan wife
• Patrick Johnson, Australian sprinter, white father, Indigenous Australian mother
• Romina Johnson, singer, black American father, Italian mother
• Angelina Jolie, actress, of Czech, French, and Iroquois descent
• Wesley Jonathan, Actor, Creole father and Native American and African American Mother
• Jill Jones, singer/songwriter, black American mother, Italian father
• Noel Jones, first British ambassador from an ethnic minority, Anglo-Indian
• Norah Jones, musician; daughter of Indian musician Ravi Shankar and a white American mother
• Pei Te Hurinui Jones (d. 1976), President of the New Zealand Māori Council, his mother was Tainui Māori, his father Jewish
• Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones, daughters of Quincy Jones (African American) and Peggy Lipton (white Jewish American)
• Jon Jonsson, model, Thai mother and a father from Iceland
• Claudia Jordan, former model on the daytime game show The Price is Right, African-American father, Italian mother
• Brian Jungen, Canadian artist, Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations

[edit] K

• Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, mother mestiza Mexican and father German [36]
• Stacy Kamano, actress, Japanese, German, Polish, and Russian
• Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer, from Māori and white parents
• Paul Kariya, ice hockey star, Japanese father, Scottish-Canadian mother
• Crystal Kay, singer, 1/2 African American and 1/2 Korean
• Kelis, singer, father black, mother Chinese-black Puerto Rican
• Denise Keller, model, Chinese and German
• Kemo the Blaxican, rapper, African-American and Mexican^[7] ancestry
• Alicia Keys, singer, Scottish/Italian mother, Jamaican father
• Christel Khalil, actress, her mother is 1/2 Black, 1/2 White and her father is Pakistani.
• Ian Khama, Vice-President of Botswana, African father, English mother
• Jason Kidd, basketball star, black father and white mother
• Q'Orianka Kilcher - American singer/actress^[32]
• Melanie Kim (TechTV's "Tech Live"), Korean-American father, German-Irish mother ^[33]
• Kaela Kimura - singer, Japanese, British
• Oona King - British Politician. African-American father, Jewish mother.
• Ben Kingsley, (born Krishna Banji) actor, father was an Gujarati Indian from Kenya, mother of mixed English and Jewish descent
• Eartha Kitt, singer, black Cherokee mother and white father
• Boris Kodjoe, German mother and Ghanaian father
• Leslie Kong, Chinese-Jamaican record producer
• Josh Koscheck, amateur wrestler and UFC fighter, African-American mother, Polish father
• Lenny Kravitz, singer; son of Russian Jewish-American film producer Sy Kravitz and black Bahamian American actress Roxie Roker
• Kristin Kreuk, actress, 1/2 Chinese Indonesian, 1/2 Dutch
• Hari Kunzru, author, Indian father, English mother
• Nancy Kwan, actress (The World of Suzie Wong), Chinese father (architect Kwan Wing Hong), British/Scottish mother (model Marquita Scott).

[edit] L

• Wifredo Lam, artist, Chinese, African, Cuban^[7]
• Michael Lamey, athlete, black Nigerian mother, white British father
• Rachael Lampa, gospel singer, 1/2 Filipino, 1/4 Hungarian, 1/4 Irish
• Amel Larrieux, singer half African-American (mother), half white French, Scottish, and English
• Henrik Larsson, Swedish football (soccer) star, Swedish and Cape Verdean
• Marie Laveau, voodoo queen, black and white
• Sabrina Le Beauf, actress, African-American father, white English mother
• Shakara Ledard, model, 1/2 Bahamian, 1/2 French
• Bruce Lee, actor, ¾ Chinese, ¼ German
• Brandon Lee, actor, ⅜ Chinese, ⅝ German Swedish
• Jason Scott Lee, actor, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Hawaiian
• Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican-Canadian businessman, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Black
• Paulo Leminski, Brazilian poet and writer, Polish, and Afro-Brazilian
• Noémie Lenoir, model & actress, French father, Madagascar mother
• Sean Lennon, musician; son of Beatle John Lennon (Welsh-Irish) and Yoko Ono (Japanese)
• Keri Lewis, musician, husband of musician Toni Braxton, white American mother, black American father
• Adriana Lima, top model, she is of Portuguese, French, African, and Native American Descent. ^[34]
• Allen Pineda Lindo, member of the hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas, half Filipino and half African American
• Heather Locklear, actress, Scots-Irish American and Lumbee Indian (tri-racial isolate)
• John Lone, actor, Chinese and English
• Olivia Longott, singer, Jamaican mother and Cuban^[7], Indian & Dominican^[7] father
• Greg Louganis, athlete, Samoan biological father and Swedish biological mother
• Jenny Lumet, actress, African-American mother, Jewish father^[35]
• Nicole Lyn, actress, mother is Afro-Jamaican and her father Chinese-Jamaican
• Loretta Lynn, singer, Irish and very distant Cherokee Indian
• Phil Lynott, lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Afro-Brazilian father and Irish mother

[edit] M

• Michael Manley, Jamaican prime minister, black, white heritage
• Bob Marley, musician, Welsh father, Jamaican mother[37]
• Damian Marley, singer, half Black (Jamaican) half White (Welsh) father, half Black (Jamaican) half White (Canadian) mother
• Amanda Marshall, musician, Black Trinidadian mother and white Canadian father[38]
• Barry McGee: (1966 - ) Painter and graffiti artist; Chinese and white.
• Meiling Melançon, actress/model: Japanese-Chinese father, French-Native American mother
• Angela Melini, Playboy Playmate: White American father, Vietnamese mother
• Wentworth Miller, American actor, father is 1/2 white and 1/2 black; mother is 1/2 white and 1/2 Syrian-Lebanese; has a Jewish great-grandmother on his father’s side.[39][40]
• Charles Mingus, musician, was the child of a family that included African-American, English, Chinese, Swedish, and possibly Scottish parentage.[41][42]
• Robert Mitchum, actor, Blackfoot, Norwegian, Scots-Irish heritage
• Rhona Mitra, real-life Lara Croft model and actress, Indian father, Irish mother.
• Saira Mohan, model, Indian-French-Irish.[43]
• Karen Mok, Hong Kong-based actress[44]
• Shemar Moore, actor, mother is white and father is black.[45]
• Naima Mora (1984 - ), fashion model and actress, African American, Irish and Mexican^[7] roots.[46]
• Tom Morello, guitarist.[47]
• Chad and Johnnie Morton, American football players. Johnnie James Morton, Jr. was the son of an African-American father and Japanese-American mother.[48]
• Walter Mosley, writer.[49]
• Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, and Tahj Mowry, black American mother, white American father
• Samantha Mumba, pop singer and actress, black Zambian father, white Irish mother[50]
• Mýa, singer, black and Italian descent.[51][52]

[edit] N

• Hikaru Nakamura, International Grandmaster, Japanese father and white American mother
• Aline Nakashima, model, Japanese father and Brazilian^[7] mother
• Thandie Newton, actress, British father and Zimbabwean mother
• Angela Nissel, author, mother is African-American, father is White
• Joakim Noah, American basketball player; son of Yannick Noah (listed below) and his wife at the time, Swedish model Cécilia Rhode
• Yannick Noah, French tennis player and popular singer; white mother (France), black father (Cameroon)
• Isamu Noguchi, artist, white and Japanese
• Lucy Noland, news anchor for WNYW (Fox 5), New York NY, white American father, Asian mother
• Chuck Norris, actor, both parents half white and half Cherokee
• France Nuyen, actress, French mother and Vietnamese father

[edit] O

• Barack Obama, U.S. Senator, Kenyan father and white American mother
• Merle Oberon actress, Anglo-Irish father and Anglo-Sinhalese mother
• Dan O'Brien, decathlon star, black and Finnish
• Soledad O'Brien, television personality, Irish/Australian father, Afro-Cuban mother
• Obsession, American pornographic actress, white American mother, black American father.
• Ó hAilpín brothers, Gaelic games athletes; Irish father, Fijian mother
  • Aisake, hurler and later an Australian rules footballer
  • Seán Óg, hurler and Gaelic footballer
  • Setanta, hurler and later an Australian rules footballer
• Apolo Anton Ohno, short track speed skater, father Japanese, mother Italian
• David Odonkor, German footballer, black Nigerian father and white German mother
• Sophie Okonedo, British actress, Jewish mother, black Nigerian father
• Linda O'Neil, American fitness model, French-Irish father, Vietnamese mother
• Tony Osoba, Scottish actor (Porridge, Doctor Who), white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father
• Maria Ozawa, adult actress, French-Canadian and Japanese

[edit] P

• Monica Pang, Miss Georgia 2005 (represented her state in the Miss America 2006 pageant), Chinese father, white mother
• Amit Sebastian Paul, member of the A*Teens, Swedish mother, Indian father.
• Sean Paul, hip hop/reggae artist, black, Lusitanic white, and Chinese (Mother is 1/2 English and 1/2 Chinese, father is 1/4 black, 1/4 English and 1/2 Portuguese.)
• Tony Parker, French NBA star, African American father, Dutch mother
• Karyn Parsons, "Hilary" from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, white father, black mother
• Tera Patrick, porn actress, Thai mother, white British/Jewish father
• Nia Peeples, actress, French, German, Filipino and Spanish
• Leonard Peltier, prison author and AIM member, Lakota, Anishinaabe, and French
• Trevor Penick, black father and white mother
• Russell Peters, Canadian stand-up comic, Anglo-Indian from both sides of the family
• Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, father Scottish/Irish/Cherokee, mother Filipino/Hawaiian/Chinese/Spanish
• Tamiia Poitier, black father (Sidney Poitier) and white mother
• Petra Pope, former head of the Laker Girls, current Senior Director of Entertainment Marketing for the New Jersey Nets, black American father, white German mother
• Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., clergyman, black mother, white father
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and civil rights leader, 1/2 black and 1/2 white; son of Adam Sr. and his mixed-race wife
• Colin Powell, American Secretary of State and Army General; father has African and Jewish while mother has African and Scottish.
• Juliette Powell, Canadian television personality, black and white
• Elvis Presley, American musician, white, Native American and Jewish on mother's side
• Reagan Gomez-Preston, actress, 1/2 African-American (mother) and 1/2 Puerto Rican^[7] (father)
• Isabel Preysler, Spanish model and journalist, mother of Enrique Iglesias - Spanish and Filipino
• Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson, singer, black/Italian mother, black father.
• Rain Pryor, actress, black father (Richard Pryor) and white-Jewish mother^[36]
• Aleksandr Pushkin, most famous Russian poet, ⅞ Russian, ⅛ Ethiopian

[edit] Q

• Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji, has Tongan and Jewish ancestors, as well as Fijian
• Quddus, MTV VJ, 3/4 black, 1/4 white
• Maggie Quigley, known as Maggie Q, model and actress, Vietnamese mother and White American father

[edit] R

• Corinne Bailey Rae, singer, English mother, West Indian father. [53]

• Navi Rawat, actress, her father is Indian, her mother is German
• Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana, Scottish father, Ghanaian mother
• Keanu Reeves, actor, father Chinese, Hawaiian and Irish, mother British
• Christopher "Kid" Reid, actor, comedian, African-American father and Jewish mother
• Michelle Reis (Michelle Monique Reis) (Chinese: 李嘉欣; Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Jiāxīn), actress, 1/2 Portuguese, 1/2Chinese
• Gloria Reuben, actress, Black (Jamaican) mother and white (Canadian) father
• Santino Rice, fashion designer, African American mother, white father
• George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese, European, African, Carib (Amerindian)
• Rihanna, singer, Guyanese mother, Irish father [54]
• José Rizal, Filipino Revolutionist, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Filipino
• Douglas Robb, lead singer of the band Hoobastank, white (Scottish descent) father, Japanese mother
• Smokey Robinson, singer, African American, white
• Dave Roberts, outfielder for the San Diego Padres, African-American father and Japanese mother
• Joli Robinson, New York-based model, Chinese mother and white father
• Jade Rodan, previous model and contestant on America's Next Top Model cycle 6, white mother and 1/2 black 1/2 Indian father
• Thomas Rolfe, Virginia colonist, English and Native American
• Sonia Rolland, actress and former Miss France, mother Rwandan (Tutsi), father French
• Evan Ross, actor (ATL), son of African American singer Diana Ross and Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Naess
• Tracee Ellis Ross, actress (Girlfriends), daughter of Diana Ross and Jewish American Robert Silberstein
• Laila Rouass - model/actress, Moroccan father, Indian mother
• Maya Rudolph, comedian, castmember on "Saturday Night Live"-- daughter of African American singer Minnie Riperton and Jewish American composer Richard Rudolph
• Bic Runga, singer/songwriter, Māori father, Malaysian-Chinese mother
• Rupee, musician, German father and Barbadian mother

[edit] S

• Sade, singer, Nigerian father and British mother.
• Alia Shawkat, actress, Iraqi father, Norweigian / Irish mother.
• Juelz Santana, rapper, half Dominican and half African-American
• Ninja Sarasalo, supermodel, half Japanese, half Finnish
• Tura (Yamaguchi) Satana, model, actress, Japanese, Scottish, Irish, Apache
• Randy Savage, professional wrestler, 3/4 white and 1/4 black- biracial white/black father (Angelo Poffo) and white Jewish mother
• Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, Hawaiian, Filipina, German and Russian descent
• Rob Schneider, actor, comedian, 1/4 European, 1/2 Jewish, 1/4 Filipino.
• Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek international basketball player; Greek Macedonian father and Cameroonian mother.
• Lisa Marie Scott, Playboy Playmate, Swiss-German and Scottish father and Japanese mother
• Robert C. Scott, 3/4 African American, 1/4 Filipino
• Andy Scott-Lee, former singer, ¾ Welsh, ¼ Chinese
• Lisa Scott-Lee, former singer, ¾ Welsh, ¼ Chinese
• Mary Seacole, nurse, Scottish father and a Jamaican mulatto mother
• Guy Sebastian, singer, Portuguese-Kadazan father and a Portuguese-English mother
• Samuel Selvon, author, Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish
• Sequoyah, white and Cherokee
• Mai Shanley, Miss U.S.A. 1984, Irish, Thai
• Mike Shinoda, emcee for Linkin Park, white and Japanese
• Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat CEO, Black father, Japanese mother
• Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor, half Punjabi, Chinese, and Japanese
• Kay Sivilay, model, Thai, Lao, Chinese, French
• Tomika Skanes, model, African-American father, Korean mother
• Slash (aka Saul Hudson), musician, English Jewish father, black mother
• Tabe Slioor, socialite, Finnish and Iranian
• Iain Duncan Smith, British politician, ⅞ British, ⅛ Japanese
• Zadie Smith, novelist Jamaican mother, English father
• Jimmy Smits, actor, father Surinamese, mother Puerto Rican
• Sonja Sohn, actress, Korean-American and African American
• Ian Somerhalder, actor\model, Irish, French, English, and Native American descent
• Shannyn Sossamon, actress, she is of French, Native Hawaiian, Dutch, Irish, Filipino and German descent
• Sowelu, J-pop singer, 3/4 Japanese, 1/4 Irish
• Ronnie Spector, singer, White, Black and Native American
• Kevin Stea, dancer, white and Chinese
• Ricky Steamboat, professional wrestler, white American father and Japanese mother.
• Earnie Stewart, American soccer star, black father, Dutch mother
• David Strathairn, actor, part Hawaiian and part Scottish
• Cree Summer, actress, voice-over artist and singer, black Cree mother and Anglo-Native Canadian father
• Daniel Sunjata, actor, African American, German, and Irish
• Shakira, singer, mother of Spanish and Italian descent, Lebanese father
• Shaya, singer, Danish father and Guyanese mother
• Donita Rose, former MTV VJ, 1/2 Filipino and 1/2 American
• Jordin Sparks, singer, mother White and father African American
• John F. Street, Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, mother African American and father White
• Jessibel Suthiwong, member of Fannypack, mother is Puerto Rican and father is Thai

[edit] T

• Cyril Takayama, illusionist, Japanese, French, Morroccan
• Lee Tamahori, film director, Māori father, British mother
• J. R. D. Tata, businessman, father Indian and mother French
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, black and white
• Karin Taylor, model, Jamaican, Chinese, Brazilian
• Renee Tenison, Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1989, and her identical twin sister Rosie Tenison, model, black and white
• Stephen Thanabalan, Singaporean model/journalist, 1/2 Indian, 1/2 Chinese
• Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, singer 1/2 African-American (mother), 1/4 East Indian, 1/4 Middle Eastern
• Philip Michael Thomas, actor, German, Native American, African-American and Irish ancestry^[37]
• Tessa Thompson, actress, African American, Mexican and Creole descent
• Nautica Thorn, pornstar, Japanese, Hawaiian, and Puerto Rican
• Melody Thornton, member of The Pusscat Dolls, African American and Mexican
• Dimitri Tsafendas, assassin of South African prime minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, mother black Mozambiquen, father Greek.
• Jennifer Tilly and Meg Tilly, actresses, Chinese and White Canadian
• Kiana Tom, American model, actress, Chinese, Hawaiian and Irish
• Logan Tom: Olympic volleyball player; Chinese-Hawaiian
• Anote Tong, President of Kiribati, Chinese father, Gilbertese mother
• Jordin Tootoo, hockey player, Ukrainian-Canadian mother, Inuit father
• Frank Trigg, American wrestler, African-American father and Anglo-American mother
• Viktor Tsoi (Виктор Цой), Russian rock artist, father Korean, mother Russian
• Anna Tsuchiya, singer, father Russian, mother Japanese
• Marques Tuiasosopo: NFL player; son of Samoan American NFL player Manu Tuiasosopo and his white wife
• KT Tunstall, Scottish singer, 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Chinese
• Christy Turlington, top model, Her father is European-American and her mother from El Salvador
• Tina Turner, singer and actress, Black, Native American

[edit] U

• Adaora Udoji, CNN News correspondent, black Nigerian father, white American mother
• Ime Udoka, NBA Basketball player, 3/4 black, 1/4 white. (biracial black/white mother, black father)
• Rory Underwood, English rugby player, father British, mother Chinese
• Tony Underwood, English rugby player, father British, mother Chinese
• David Usher, Canadian rock musician, Thai and Jewish
• Peter Ustinov, actor, German, Russian, Italian, French, and Ethiopian

[edit] V

• Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer, Dutch and Indonesian parentage
• Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, musicians, Dutch, Indonesian
• Mario Van Peebles, actor; son of African American actor and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles and his German wife
• Vanity, actress^[38]
• Camile Velasco: American Idol finalist, recording artist
• Milo Ventimiglia, actor, father is Italian and mother is English, Irish, Scottish, French, Indian and Cherokee Native American

[edit] W

• Derek Walcott, poet, black and white
• Hines Ward, NFL player; black father and Korean mother
• Som Wardner, frontman of My Vitriol; (Wijay-Wardner) Anglo-Sri Lankan? Portuguese?
• Booker T. Washington, educator, black and white
• Tamia Washington, Canadian R&B singer (and wife of NBA basketball star Grant Hill), French Canadian father, Black Canadian mother
• André Watts, concert pianist, half African American and Hungarian
• Robert Wedderburn, political reformer, father Scottish, mother an enslaved African
• Eiji Wentz, actor, entertainer, singer (½ German-American, ½ Japanese)
• Eric West, American actor and singer, black, Hispanic and white
• Deron Williams, half black and white
• Hype Williams (director) African-American and Honduran
• Montel Williams, Talk show host, 3/4 black, 1/4 white
• Vanessa Williams, actress, 3/4 black and 1/4 white, father half white, half African-American, mother African-American
• August Wilson, playwright most noted for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, of mixed black and white (German) heritage
• Craig Wing, Australian rugby league player, father white, mother Filipino
• Persia White, actress (Girlfriends), Bahamian black father, white mother
• Walter White, civil rights activist, 5/32 Black, and 27/32 white.
• Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican and German
• Tiger Woods, professional golfer, ¼ Chinese, ¼ Thai, ¼ African-American, ⅛ Native American, and ⅛ Dutch
• Rod Woodson, American football star, white and black
• Michael Wong, Hong Kong-based actor and brother of Russell Wong, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American
• Russell Wong, actor, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American

[edit] X

• Malcolm X, b May 19, 1925 Omaha, Nebraska; died Feb 21, 1965, Manhattan. True name; Malcolm Little, nicknamed 'Little Red'. ¾ African-American and ¼ white American

[edit] Y

• Rachael Yamagata, Singer, Japanese father and German/Italian mother
• Lindsey Yamasaki, WNBA professional basketball player, Japanese American father, white American mother
• Tata Young, Thai pop music singer and actress, half white European half Thai

[edit] Z

[edit] See also

• List of Black/White people
• List of Blasians
• List of Eurasians
• List of Eurafricans
• Multiracial
• List of people
• List of people by nationality, ethnicity, etc.

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Blackflix.com: Multiracial Celebrities
• Frontline: The Blurred Racial Lines of famous Families
• MixedFolks.com Representing Multiracial People
• Halvsie.com: Community site for Half Japanese