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
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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)
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Actor · Politician · TV Personality
Ashkenazi Jewish
Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Wade Allain-Marcus
Actor · Musician
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: African-American, Louisiana Creole [African, French, Spanish]
New York, U.S.
Walter F. Parkes
Actor
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Croatian or Serbian
Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States
Walter Salles
Brazilian [Portuguese, distant Sephardi Jewish, possibly other]
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wendy Makkena
Actor
*87.5% Jewish [Ashkenazi, small amount of Sephardi] *12.5% Cuban
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Wendy Wilson
Musician · TV Personality
Father: English, one quarter Swedish, Dutch, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote French · Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Wesley Clark
Politician
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: English, some German
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Wesley Kimmel
Actor
* paternal grandmother – Italian * maternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish * other ancestry – Irish, Danish, German, Welsh, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
West Duchovny
Actor
Father: one half Ashkenazi Jewish, one half Scottish · Mother: Polish (one quarter), 1/16th Italian, German, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh
Los Angeles, California, U.S.