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Heritage: English-South African Clear all

Johnny Flynn

Actor · Musician

Irish, English, Scottish

Johannesburg, South Africa

Kasha Kropinski

Actor

Polish, English, possibly other

South Africa

Kate Upton

Actor · Model

English, small amount of Scottish, distant German and Dutch

St. Joseph, Michigan, U.S.

Kongos

Musician

Father: Greek · Mother: English, Mexican, Scottish

*Merton, Surrey, England, U.K. (Johnny, Jesse, Dylan) *Johannesburg, South Africa (Daniel)

Lesley-Ann Brandt

Actor

Cape Coloured [English, East Indian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Khoisan, Ashkenazi Jewish]

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Mark Ballas

Actor · Musician · TV Personality

Father: Greek, Mexican [including Spanish] · Mother: English, Irish, as well as at least 1/64th Malagasy, likely distant Sephardi Jewish

Houston, Harris, Texas, U.S.

Matty Healy

Musician

English, some Irish and Scottish

Hendon, London, England, U.K.

Max Irons

Actor · Model

English, Irish, distant Scottish

Camden, London, England, U.K.

Mike Rutherford

Musician

*87.5% English *12.5% Afrikaner [Dutch, German, distant Danish and French Huguenot, remote Bengali and Angolan]

Surrey South Western, Surrey, England, U.K.

Nick Mallett

Athlete · TV Personality

English, as well as 1/16th Italian

Ware, Hertfordshire, England, U.K.

Nigel Hawthorne

Actor

English

Coventry, Warwickshire, England, U.K.

Niykee Heaton

Musician · Model

Father: Scottish, Welsh, Norwegian, English, German · Mother: South African [English, possibly other]

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Oscar Pistorius

Athlete

Afrikaner [Dutch, German, some French Huguenot, distant Belgian Flemish and Walloon], English, as well as Danish, remote Malagasy, Bengali, Indian, and Indonesian, evidently one eighth Italian

Sandton, Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Actor · TV Personality

English, as well as some Scottish and Irish, distant Welsh

Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.

English (about three quarters), Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot, smaller amounts of Belgian Flemish, Swiss-German], remote Irish, Danish, Swedish, Indian, African [Angolan, Khoikhoi], Norwegian, Finnish, and Indonesian [Sumbawa]

Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa

Richard Dawkins

TV Personality

English, 5/16th Cornish, smaller amount of Afrikaner [German, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Frisian, Belgian Flemish, remote Bengali Indian], distant Northern Irish

Nairobi, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (now Kenya)

Ricky Fataar

Actor · Musician

Cape Malay/Cape Coloured [Malagasy, Xhosa, Mauritian, Malaysian, Indian, Indonesian, Zulu, English, Khoisan, Tswana, San, Chinese, Guinean, Angolan, Dutch, French Huguenot, German, Khoikhoi]

Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa