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B. J. Vorster
Politician
Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French, small amounts of Belgian Flemish and Walloon, as well as Swiss-German], small amounts of Danish, Indonesian, Indian, Norwegian, African [Angolan, Guinean], remote Chinese
Jamestown, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Benjamin Sheares
Politician
Father: English, possibly other · Mother: Chinese, Spanish
Singapore, Straits Settlements
Emilio Aguinaldo
Politician
Filipino [Ilocano, Tagalog], some Chinese
Cavite el Viejo (now Kawit), Cavite, Philippines
Jim Fouché
Politician
Afrikaner [German, Dutch, Belgian Flemish, French Huguenot, Danish, Swiss-German, Portuguese], small amounts of African [Angolan, Khoikhoi, Ethiopian], Indian [Malayali, Bengali], English, remote Timorese, Malagasy, Indonesian, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, and Swiss-French
Wepener, Orange Free State, South Africa
Jose Maria Sison
Politician
Filipino [Ilocano, Kapampangan, and remote Pangasinan], some Chinese and Spanish
Cabugao, Ilocos Sur, Commonwealth of the Philippines
Jose W. Diokno
Politician
Filipino [Dinagat, Tagalog], English, distant Han Chinese, Punjabi Indian, Irish, Mexican, Spanish [Castilian, Galician]
Manila, Philippine Islands
Joseph Estrada
Actor · Politician
Filipino [Tagalog], small amount of Chinese
Tondo, Manila, Philippines
José Rizal
Politician
Filipino [Pangasinan, Tagalog, possibly Ilocano], Chinese, Japanese, some Spanish
Calamba, Laguna, Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish Empire
Ma Ying-jeou
Politician
Hakka Chinese
Kwong Wah Hospital, Yau Ma Tei, British Hong Kong (now Hong Kong)
Manuel L. Quezon
Politician
Filipino [Tagalog], some Chinese and Spanish [Extremaduran]
Baler, El Príncipe (now Aurora), Philippines