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Jim Acosta
TV Personality
Father: Cuban * maternal grandfather – English, Irish * maternal grandmother – Czech
Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.
Jim Carrey
Actor · TV Personality
Father: French-Canadian, as well as distant English · Mother: Scottish, Irish
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Jim Cummings
Actor · Musician
Irish (about 43%), one quarter Italian, some English and German, 1/16th Belgian Flemish, smaller amounts of Scottish and Dutch, remote Cornish
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Jim DeMint
Politician
Irish, Swedish, English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote French
Greenville, South Carolina, 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
Jim Gaffigan
Actor · TV Personality
Irish, as well as one eighth German, approximately one eighth English
Elgin, Illinois, U.S.
Jim Gilmore
Politician
Scottish, English, some German and Dutch, distant French
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Jim Henson
Actor · TV Personality
English, German, Scottish, distant Welsh and Dutch
Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.
Jim Jones
Actor · Musician
Father: Puerto Rican · Mother: Montserrat-Aruban
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
Jim Justice
Politician
English, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, and German, likely small amount of Melungeon, Creek and Cherokee Native American
Charleston, West Virginia, U.S.
Jim Langer
Athlete
Father: German · Mother: one half Austrian, one quarter Irish, one quarter Norwegian
Little Falls, Morrison Township, Aitkin, Minnesota, United States