Ayelet Shaked
Politician
Father: Iraqi Jewish · Mother: Polish Jewish, Romanian Jewish
Tel Aviv, Israel
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David Levy Yulee
Politician
Sephardi Jewish
Charlotte Amalie, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Politician
*75% Jewish [Ashkenazi, Sephardi] *25% mix of Alsatian French and German
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, France
Fiorello La Guardia
Politician
Father: Italian · Mother: Sephardi Jewish
Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
Gabriel Attal
Politician
Father: Sephardi Jewish/Italian Jewish, Ashkenazi Jewish * maternal grandfather – Russian, as well as Polish, German, Greek * maternal grandmother – French
Clamart, France
George Allen
Politician
Father: Irish, German, English · Mother: Sephardi Jewish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Gregor Gysi
Politician
German [including Baltic German, and remote Swiss-German], at least one quarter Jewish [Ashkenazi, possibly some Sephardi], Russian, Belgian Flemish, more distant Austrian, Estonian, Romanian, Portuguese, and French
Lichtenberg, East Berlin, Soviet occupation zone of Germany (now Germany)
Jay Nixon
Politician
English, as well as one eighth Jewish [Sephardi, Ashkenazi], small amount of German
De Soto, Missouri, U.S.
Judah P. Benjamin
Politician
Sephardi Jewish
Christiansted, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands)
Laurentino Cortizo
Politician
Father: Galician Spanish · Mother: Panamanian, Sephardi Jewish
Panama City, Panama
Nicolás Maduro
Politician
Venezuelan, Colombian, and Curaçaoan – including Spanish, smaller amounts of African, Indigenous, Dutch, Sephardi Jewish, French, and Portuguese
Caracas, Venezuela
Ricardo Maduro
Politician
Father: Sephardi Jewish * maternal grandfather – Dutch, French * maternal grandmother – Honduran, Guatemalan, Costa Rican
Panama
Robert Purvis
Politician
*50% English *25% Jewish [Sephardi, Ashkenazi] *25% Moroccan/African
Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Tony Clement
Politician
Father: Greek Cypriot · Mother: Russian Jewish, Syrian Jewish
Manchester, Lancashire, England, U.K.
Vince Offer
Actor · Politician · TV Personality
Ashkenazi Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish/Sephardi Jewish
Beersheba, Southern District, Israel