Vladimir Lenin
Politician
Father: Russian, with possible Chuvash and Kalmyk * maternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish * maternal grandmother – German, Swedish
Simbirsk, Russian Empire (now Ulyanovsk, Russia)
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William, Prince of Wales
Socialite
English, European Royal (mostly), some Scottish, as well as German, Irish, French, Anglo-Irish, Hungarian, likely 1/128th Gujarati Indian or 1/256th Indian, and smaller amounts of Dutch, Danish, Welsh, Belgian, Swedish, Swiss, Bohemian/Czech, Russian, Polish, Channel Islander/Jersey, possibly 1/256th Armenian
Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Xavier Bettel
Politician
French, Russian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Polish, possibly other
Bonnevoie, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Yelena Isinbayeva
Athlete
Father: Tabasaran · Mother: Russian
Volgograd, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Yevgeny Prigozhin
Politician
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Russian
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Yul Brynner
Actor · Musician
*75% Russian *25% Swiss-German
Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia)
Yuri Andropov
Politician
Father: Russian, Don Cossack · Mother: possibly German
Stanitsa Nagutskaya, Stavropol Governorate, or Moscow; Russian Empire (now Russia)
Zivert
Actor · Musician · TV Personality
Father: Ukrainian, Romani · Mother: German, Polish
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
