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Winona Ryder
Actor
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Norwegian (one quarter), Belgian Walloon, German, Irish/Northern Irish, English, Scottish
Olmsted, Minnesota, United States
Winston Churchill
Politician
English, some Scottish, small amounts of Welsh, French Huguenot, Ulster-Scots/Irish/Northern Irish, and Cornish
Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Winston Peters
Politician
Father: Māori, small amount of Irish or Scottish · Mother: Scottish, Northern Irish, English
Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand
Winter Ave Zoli
Actor · Model
Father: Czech · Mother: German, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh
New Hope, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Winthrop Rockefeller
Politician
English, with small amounts of Dutch, German, Welsh, and Irish/Northern Irish
New York City, New York, U.S.
Witi Ihimaera
Father: Māori, one eighth English · Mother: Māori, one eighth Irish, 1/16th Scottish
Waituhi, Gisborne, New Zealand
Woah Vicky
Musician · TV Personality
English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Wolfgang Novogratz
Actor · Model
English, Austrian, Croatian, Irish, German, Scottish, distant Cajun French and French Huguenot
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Wolfgang Van Halen
Musician
Dutch, Italian, English, Indonesian [Javanese], smaller amounts of Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, distant Swedish
Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States
Woody Harrelson
Actor
English, Scottish, German, distant Dutch and Welsh, remote Danish and French
Midland, Texas, U.S.
Wrenn Schmidt
Actor
German, English, along with Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch, more distant French
Lexington, South Carolina, U.S.
Wyatt Oleff
Actor
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Cornish, German, Swiss-German, Dutch, English, Irish
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Wyatt Russell
Actor · Athlete
Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandmother), English, German, Scottish, Irish, more distant Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Swiss-German, Welsh, Cornish, and Belgian Flemish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Wynne
Musician
Swedish (three eighths), Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Dutch, one eighth Danish, German, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, English, distant Belgian
Lake Oswego, Oregon, U.S.
Xander Berkeley
Actor
English, Scottish, small amount of German
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Ximena Navarrete
Actor · TV Personality · Model
Mexican [Spanish, as well as Indigenous, small amount of African], and one sixteenth British Isles [English, distant Irish]
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
XYLØ
Musician
Italian (maternal grandfather), Dutch, English, German, Irish, Italian, Scottish, Swiss-German, Welsh, remote Cornish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Yael Stone
Actor
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: possibly English [converted to Judaism]
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia