Al Gore
Politician
English, Scottish, distant German, remote Welsh, as well as 1/1024 Portuguese
Washington, D.C., U.S.
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Barack Obama
Politician
Father: Luo Kenyan · Mother: English, small amounts of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Swiss-German, French Huguenot, possibly remote African
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Charles G. Dawes
Politician
English, as well as small amount of Northern Irish, remote Welsh
Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
F. W. de Klerk
Politician
Afrikaner (Austrian, Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], Dutch, French, German, Swiss-French, Swiss-German), remote African (including Khoikhoi), Danish, Indian, Indonesian, and Malagasy
Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
Jimmy Carter
Politician
English, with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Welsh, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Scottish, remote French, Dutch, and Swiss-German
Plains, Georgia, U.S.
Juan Manuel Santos
Politician
Colombian – Spanish [Andalusian, Asturian, Canary Islander, Cantabrian, Castilian, Extremaduran, Leónese, Valencian], Basque, Galician, remote Indigenous [Muisca and Tahamí], French, Portuguese [including Azorean], and Swiss-German
Bogotá, Colombia
Lester B. Pearson
Politician
Ulster-Scots [Irish Protestant], English
York Township, York, Ontario, Canada
Mikhail Gorbachev
Politician
Russian, Ukrainian
Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, Russia)
Nelson Mandela
Politician
Thembu [Xhosa] African
Mvezo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now South Africa)
Winston Churchill
Politician
English, some Scottish, small amounts of Welsh, French Huguenot, Ulster-Scots/Irish/Northern Irish, and Cornish
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
