List of multiracial people Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Here is a list of famous biracial or multiracial people.

A

• Paula Abdul, singer, actress, dancer. French Canadian/Jewish Syrian and Brazilian
• King Abdullah II of Jordan. Father Arab, mother American Caucasian
• Abdullah Badawi Prime Minister of Malaysia, Malay with Chinese Muslim maternal grandfather from Sanya in Hainan
• Charles, Prince of Wales Russian, Scottish, Mongolian, Danish, Greek, Norwegian, German, Scottish, other (He can trace ancestry up to Genghis Khan
• Christina Aguilera, singer, Father Ecuadorian, Mother Irish
• Jessica Alba, actress, European and Mexican Indian
• Tatyana Ali, actress, Panamanian and Trinidadian
• Devon Aoki, Japanese and Caucasian model
• Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (1986-1992); ¼ Chinese
• Crispus Attucks, Afro-Indian American, victim of Boston Massacre

B

• Benjamin Banneker, African - English, mathematician, helped lay out the city of Washington, DC
• Kim Basinger, actress, Caucasian, Cherokee
• Dame Shirley Bassey, singer, Nigerian and British
• Jennifer Beals, actress, black father and white mother
• Kate Beckinsale, actress, 1/8 Burmese, English
• Tyson Beckford, supermodel, Jamaican, Chinese, white
• Catherine Bell, actress, Iranian mother, British father
• Halle Berry, actress, has a Caucasian Mother and a black Father.
• David Blaine, magician, Puerto Rican and Russian Jewish
• Lisa Bonet, actress, 1/2 Jewish 1/2 black
• Michelle Branch, musician, Indonesian, Dutch, French and Irish
• Benjamin Bratt, actor, Quechua from Peru and German/English
• Chang and Eng Bunker conjoined twins, 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 Cham

C

• Dean Cain, actor, Japanese, French, Irish and Welsh (1/4 each)
• Roy Campanella, baseball star, black and Italian
• Ben Nighthorse Campbell, United States Senator, Native American and Portuguese
• Naomi Campbell, model
• John Carew, soccer player, Norwegian mother, Gambian father
• Mariah Carey, singer, black Venezuelan father, Irish mother
• Asia Carrera, actress, Asian, Caucasian
• Tia Carrere, actress, Filipina, Chinese and Spanish
• Forrest Carter, writer, Caucasian, 1/8 Native American (Cherokee)
• Lynda Carter, actress, white and Mexican
• Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress, Maori and white Australian
• Phoebe Cates, 1/2 Russian-Jewish, 1/2 Filipino
• Deja Chan, adult model, Pornstar, Chinese and Boer British descent
• Sir Julius Chan, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; Chinese father, Papuan mother
• Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, part black Moorish through the Portuguese royal family
• Liz Cho, ABC News anchor and reporter
• Susan Choi, Author, Korean and Russian-Jewish
• Rae Dawn Chong, actress, Chinese, French-Scottish-Irish Canadian, black
• Tommy Chong, comedian, Chinese, French-Scottish-Irish Canadian
• Cristy Chung, Hong Kong based actress, Chinese father and Vietnamese mother
• Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon Navy Rear Admiral, Half-Hawaiian, Caucasian (Haole) and Chinese
• Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Prime Minister, possibly Native American (Iroquois), on his American mother's side
• Keith Hirabayashi Cooke, actor, Japanese mother and Scottish father
• Lola Corwin, model, Korean-American
• Christian Cullen, rugby player, Samoan, Pakeha, and Maori
• Ann Curry, journalist, Japanese mother, Caucasian father
• Charles Curtis, American Vice-President (1929-1933); Native American mother

D

• Martin Dahlin, Swedish football (soccer) player, black and Swedish
• Johnny Damon, outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. Father is white, mother is Thai.
• Dorothy Dandridge, actress
• Ron Darling, baseball player, Chinese, Hawaiian, Caucasian
• Jaye Davidson, actor, English mother and Ghanian father
• Rosario Dawson, actress, Puerto Rican, African American, Cuban, Irish and Native American
• 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)
• Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Penne and Duke of Florence, black and Italian
• Cameron Diaz, actress, Cuban, Native American, English and German
• Vin Diesel, actor, African American, Italian, German, Scottish, Spanish, French, etc
• Fefe Dobson, Canadian rock singer
• Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, writer, black and white
• W. E. B. Du Bois, activist, French, Dutch, African American
• Alexandre Dumas, writer, black and white

E

• Shannon Elizabeth, actress, father Lebanese of Syrian descent, mother is of French, English, and Native American descent
• Yvonne Elliman, singer, Japanese, Caucasian
• Giancarlo Esposito, actor, black mother and Italian father

F

• George Fernandez, former foreign minister of India; some distant Portuguese ancestry
• Patricia Ford, Adult Model, German, Chinese, Hawaiian, Irish and Portuguese ancestry
• Grant Fuhr, ice hockey star, black and white
• Jennifer Freeman, black mother, white father

G

• Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, children of the late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian wife Sonia
• Crystal Gayle, singer, Irish and Cherokee
• Roland Gift, lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals, half black and half white.
• Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker, author of The Tipping Point
• Tony Gonzalez, American football star, Hispanic, African American, Native American, Jamaican, Cape Verdean
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor, Dutch, Indonesian
• Danny Graves, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, white father, Vietnamese mother
• Emm Gryner, Canadian pop singer, white and Filipino
• Jasmine Guy, actress, black father and white mother

H

• Alexander Hamilton, mixed-race mother, Scottish father (alleged)
• Warren G. Harding, U.S. President (alleged)
• Mata Hari, dancer, spy, Dutch father, Javanese mother
• Franco Harris, American football star, black father and Italian mother
• Salma Hayek, actress, Mexican mother and Lebanese father
• Jimi Hendrix, musician, white, black, Cherokee
• Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter, white and black
• 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
• Kelly Holmes, British athlete; Jamaican father, white English mother
• Jade Hsu, Korean, Caucasian
• Kelly Hu, actress, Chinese, Hawaiian, English
• Albert and Allen Hughes, filmmakers, black and Armenian

I

• Jarome Iginla, NHL star, black father and white mother

J

• Derek Jeter, baseball star, black father and white mother
• King João VI of Portugal, black and Portuguese
• Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder, father Egyptian, mother white.
• Patrick Johnson, Australian sprinter, white father, Australian Aborigine mother
• Angelina Jolie, actress, Caucasian, Iroquois
• Noel Jones, first British ambassador from an ethnic minority, Anglo-Indian
• Norah Jones, musician, Indian father, white mother
• Pei Te Hurinui Jones (d. 1976), President of the New Zealand Maori Council; his mother was Tainui Maori, his father Jewish.
• Rashida Jones and Kidida Jones, daughters of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton

K

• Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese-Taiwanese movie star, Japanese father and Chinese Taiwanese mother
• Paul Kariya, ice hockey star, Japanese, Scottish Canadian
• Michael Kearney - Former child prodigy, American Father, Japanese Mother
• Kelis, singer, Father black, Mother Chinese/Puerto Rican
• Alicia Keys, singer, white mother, black father
• Ian Khama, Vice-President of Botswana; African father, English mother
• Jason Kidd, basketball star, black father and white mother
• Ben Kingsley, actor
• Eartha Kitt, singer, black Cherokee mother and white father
• Yaphet Kotto, actor, Cameroonian father, Jewish mother
• Lenny Kravitz, singer, Jewish father, black mother
• Kristin Kreuk, actress, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Dutch
• Nancy Kwan - actress, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Caucasian

L

• Derrick Lang, Writer, black/native american, white
• Henrik Larsson, Swedish football (soccer) star, Swedish and Cape Verdean
• Marie Laveau, voodoo queen, black and white
• Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore; mostly Chinese, a little Malay
• Brandon Lee, actor, 5/8 German/English, 3/8 Chinese
• Bruce Lee, martial artist, actor, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 German
• Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican businessman, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Black
• Sean Lennon, musician, English, Japanese
• Greg Louganis, athlete, Samoan biological father and Swedish biological mother
• Arillia Ling west indian and chinese
• Loretta Lynn, singer, Irish and Cherokee

M

• Vanessa Mae, Violinist, Thai and Chinese
• Bob Marley, musician, Black and Welsh
• Amanda Marshall, musician, black mother and white father
• Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia; mostly Malay, some Indian ancestry on his father's side
• Michael Manly, former Prime Minister of Jamaica; mostly Irish, some African
• Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, long-time Fijian Prime Minister and President (1920-2004); father Fijian, mother Tongan with some English ancestry
• Saira Mohan, model, Indian, French, Irish
• Shemar Moore, actor, black and white
• Johnny Morton, American football player, Black father and Japanese mother
• Walter Mosley, writer, black and white
• Tia and Tamera Mowry and Tahj Mowry, actors, black mother and white father
• Mya, singer, black and Italian
• Koji Murofushi, Olympic Javelin thrower, half Japanese and half Romanian

N

• Namie Amuro, 3/4 Japanese, 1/4 Caucasian
• Thandie Newton, actress, British father and Zimbabwean mother
• Isamu Noguchi, artist, sculptor, designer
• Queen Noor of Jordan, father Syrian/Lebanese, mother Swedish
• Chuck Norris, actor, Caucasian mother and Cherokee father

O

• Barack Obama, Kenyan father and white mother
• Dan O'Brien, decathlon star, black and Finnish
• Soledad O'Brien, television personality, Irish/Australian father, Black/Cuban mother
• Apolo Anton Ohno, speed skater, father Japanese, mother white

P

• Sean Paul, Singer, Portuguese, Chinese, Black
• Suzee Pai, model, actress, Chinese, Caucasian
• Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter, actress, Polish, Native American Indian
• Tera Patrick, pornstar, Thai, Jewish, Scottish
• Nia Peeples, actress, French, German, Filipino and Spanish
• Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, father Scottish/Irish/Cherokee, mother Filipino/Hawaiian/Chinese/Spanish
• Tamaii Poitier, black father and white mother
• Juliette Powell, Canadian television personality, black and white
• Prince (a.k.a. "The Artist"), singer, father Black, mother White
• Rain Pryor, actress, daughter of Richard Pryor and Jewish mother
• Aleksandr Pushkin, most famous Russian poet, 7/8 Russian, 1/8 Ethiopian

Q

• Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji; has Tongan and Jewish ancestors, as well as Fijian
• Anthony Quinn, actor, Irish and Mexican

R

• Jo Ralston, model, "Polynesian poster girl", German, Filipino
• Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana; Scottish father, African mother
• Keanu Reeves, actor, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 Hawaiian, English
• Gloria Reuben, actress, black mother and white father
• Smokey Robinson, singer, African, Caucasian
• The Rock, professional wrestler, actor, Samoan mother and black father
• Maya Rudolph, comedian, black mother and white father

S

• Jehan Sadat, former First Lady of Egypt, widow of Anwar Sadat, Egyptian mother, English father
• Sade, singer, Nigerian and British
• Tura (Yamaguchi) Satana, model, actress, Japanese, Scottish, Irish, Apache
• Rob Schneider, actor, comedian, father white, mother Filipina
• Sequoyah, white and Cherokee
• Shakira, singer, father Lebanese and mother Colombian
• Mai Shanley, Miss U.S.A. 1984, Irish, Thai
• Mike Shinoda, emcee for Linkin Park, Russian-Hungarian and Japanese
• Alexander Siddig, actor, mother white, father Arab
• Slash (aka Saul Hudson), musician
• Iain Duncan Smith, British politician, 7/8 European, 1/8 Japanese
• Leelee Sobieski Polish-French
• Zadie Smith
• Jimmy Smits, Surinamese and Puerto Rican
• Ronnie Spector, singer, white, black and Native American
• Cree Summer, voice actress, Cree mother and white Canadian father

T

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, black and white
• Jennifer Tilly and Meg Tilly, actresses, Chinese and Caucasian Canadian
• Tina Turner, singer, actress, black, Native American

U

• David Usher, Canadian rock musician, Thai and Jewish

V

• Eddie Van Halen, musician, Dutch, Indonesian
• Mario Van Peebles, actor, black father and German mother

W

• Derek Walcott, poet, black and white
• Booker T. Washington, educator, black and white
• Jayson Williams, basketball star, white and black
• Ted Williams, baseball player, Caucasian father and Mexican mother
• August Wilson, playwright most noted for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, of mixed Black and White heritage
• Tiger Woods, professional golfer, has African, Asian, Native American, and Caucasian ancestors (mother is Thai, father is Afro-American)
• Rod Woodson, American football star, white and black
• Russell Wong, actor, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American
• Tamia Washington, Singer and wife to NBA basketball star Grant Hill Afro-Canadian Mother, French Canadian Father.

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See also: list of people, list of people by nationality, ethnicity, etc

External links

• Blackflix.com: Multiracial Celebrities
• EurasianNation - A community for Hapas, Amerasians, Eurasians, and more
• Frontline: The Blurred Racial Lines of famous Families
• MixedFolks.com Representing Multiracial People

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