George Orwell
English, some French, other
Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day East Champaran, Bihar, India)
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Grace Mugabe
Socialite · Politician
Shona, possibly other
Benoni, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa
Hannah van der Westhuysen
Actor
Father: Afrikaner, possibly other · Mother: English
Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Harriet Walter
Actor
English, as well as 1/16th Italian, likely 1/16th German
Hampstead, London, England, U.K.
Hugh Grant
Actor
Scottish (mostly), English, with distant Irish, Welsh, Cornish, and Dutch, remote Afrikaner/French/Belgian [Walloon]
Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Hugo Weaving
Actor
English, as well as one eighth Belgian [Walloon] and one sixteenth Manx/Isle of Man
Ibadan, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria (now Nigeria)
J. M. Coetzee
Afrikaner [Dutch, French, German, Belgian Flemish], Portuguese, one eighth Polish, English, Irish, as well as 1/256th Tamil Indian, 1/1024 Malagasy, remote Danish and Finnish
Cape Town, South Africa
James Rothschild
Socialite
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Irish, English, small amount of German
Westminster, London, England
Jay Manuel
TV Personality
Father: Malaysian-Indian, Dutch · Mother: Italian, Czech
Springfield, Illinois, U.S.
Jenn Wasner
Musician
English, German, Irish, Dutch, Scottish, French, Belgian, Swiss, Austrian, Luxembourgish
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Jim Fouché
Politician
Afrikaner [German, Dutch, Belgian Flemish, French Huguenot, Danish, Swiss-German, Portuguese], small amounts of African [Angolan, Khoikhoi, Ethiopian], Indian [Malayali, Bengali], English, remote Timorese, Malagasy, Indonesian, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, and Swiss-French
Wepener, Orange Free State, South Africa
Joan Collins
Actor
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: English, French
Paddington, London, England, U.K.
Johannes de Klerk
Politician
Afrikaner (Belgian [both Flemish and Walloon], Dutch, French, German, Swiss-French, Swiss-German), remote African (including Khoikhoi), Danish, Indian, Indonesian, and Malagasy
Burgersdorp, Cape Colony (now South Africa)
Juliana Canfield
Actor
Father: English, Irish, German, some Dutch, distant French, Polish, and Scottish · Mother: African-Barbadian, African-American
Washington, D.C., U.S.
