Troye Sivan
Actor · Musician
Ashkenazi Jewish, English/Scottish, Afrikaner [Dutch, French Huguenot, German]
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Tyler Young
Actor
Father: English, Irish, German, French-Canadian · Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
underscores
Musician
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Filipino [Pangasinan]
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Vaitiare Hirshon
Actor
Tahitian/Cook Islands [Royal Makea family], one quarter Ashkenazi Jewish, 3/16ths French [including Breton], 1/16th Māori, 1/16th English
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Valerie Jarrett
Politician
African-American, smaller amounts of Creole [French and African], Scottish, and Native American/Algonquin First Nations, distant Ashkenazi Jewish
Shiraz, Iran
Vanessa Carlton
Musician
Father: Norwegian, Swedish, possibly other · Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish
Milford, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Vanessa Lachey
Actor · TV Personality · Model
*50% Filipino *25% Italian *12.5% Irish *12.5% Ashkenazi Jewish
Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines
Vella Lovell
Actor
Father: African-American * maternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish * maternal grandmother – English, Scottish, some Irish
New Mexico, U.S.
Victoria Pedretti
Actor
Father: Italian (5/8ths), Swiss-Italian (1/8th), along with Austrian and Sudeten German * maternal grandfather – English, German * maternal grandmother – Ashkenazi Jewish
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Vince Offer
Actor · Politician · TV Personality
Ashkenazi Jewish, Mizrahi Jewish/Sephardi Jewish
Beersheba, Southern District, Israel
Vincent Lindon
Actor
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: French, Irish
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Vinessa Shaw
Actor · Model
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Italian (maternal grandfather), Irish, Swedish, English, 1/16th Spanish/Mexican, Dutch, French, distant German
Los Angeles, California, United States
Vint Cerf
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Irish, French-Canadian/French
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Violet McGraw
Actor
Father: Italian [including Sicilian], three eighths Irish, one eighth Polish · Mother: possibly Ashkenazi Jewish, Italian, and other
California, U.S.
Virginie Efira
Actor · TV Personality
Belgian [Flemish, Walloon, Ashkenazi Jewish]
Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium
Vitas
Actor · Musician
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Russian, possibly Lithuanian or Latvian and other
Daugavpils, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Latvia)
Viveca Lindfors
Actor
Swedish, as well as small amounts of German and Finnish, 1/64th Ashkenazi Jewish
Uppsala, Sweden
Vivian Kubrick
Musician
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: German, Irish, Portuguese, possibly Romani and other
Los Angeles, California, United States
Vladimir Lenin
Politician
Father: Russian, with possible Chuvash and Kalmyk * maternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish * maternal grandmother – German, Swedish
Simbirsk, Russian Empire (now Ulyanovsk, Russia)
