Discover their roots.

Lester B. Pearson

Politician

Ulster-Scots [Irish Protestant], English

York Township, York, Ontario, Canada

Liu Xiaobo

Han Chinese

Changchun, Jilin, China

Maria Ressa

TV Personality

Filipino, as well as at least 1/32 Chinese

Manila, Philippines

Marie Curie

Polish

Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (now Poland)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

African-American

Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Politician

Russian, Ukrainian

Privolnoye, North Caucasus Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai, Russia)

Milton Friedman

Ashkenazi Jewish

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.

Nelson Mandela

Politician

Thembu [Xhosa] African

Mvezo, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now South Africa)

Paul Krugman

TV Personality

Ashkenazi Jewish

Albany, New York, U.S.

Richard Feynman

Ashkenazi Jewish

New York City, New York, U.S.

Shimon Peres

Politician

Ashkenazi Jewish

Wiszniew, Poland (now Belarus)

Thomas Mann

*62.5% German *25% Brazilian [Portuguese, possibly other] *12.5% Swiss-German

Lübeck, Germany

Winston Churchill

Politician

English, some Scottish, small amounts of Welsh, French Huguenot, Ulster-Scots/Irish/Northern Irish, and Cornish

Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.

Yasser Arafat

Politician

Arab [Palestinian, Egyptian]

Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt (now Egypt)

Yitzhak Rabin

Politician

Ashkenazi Jewish

Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine