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Heritage: South African Clear all

Kate Upton

Actor · Model

English, small amount of Scottish, distant German and Dutch

St. Joseph, Michigan, U.S.

Kevin Parker

Musician

English, South African [European]

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Kit Harington

Actor

English, with some Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh, and Dutch, as well as distant Spanish (roughly 1/128th), German, Jersey Channel Islander, French, and European Royal

Acton, Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.

Kongos

Musician

Father: Greek · Mother: English, Mexican, Scottish

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

Landi Swanepoel

Model

Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot, other]

Cape Town, South Africa

Laurence Harvey

Actor

Ashkenazi Jewish

Joniškis, Lithuania

Lesley-Ann Brandt

Actor

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

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Actor · Musician

African-American, some South African, Barbadian, and English, remote Irish and Swiss-German

Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.

Lola Flanery

Actor

Father: Cajun [French/French-Canadian], English, German, smaller amounts of Irish, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Dutch · Mother: British Isles, Afrikaner [French, Dutch, German, some Norwegian]

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Mackenzie Davis

Actor

English, Welsh, other

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Madelaine Petsch

Actor

Afrikaner [Dutch, German, other]

Port Orchard, Washington, U.S.

Afrikaner [French, some German and Dutch, more distant Belgian Walloon and Flemish, remote Swiss-German], small amount of African [Angolan, Guinean, Mozambican, Khoikhoi], remote Indonesian, Indian, and Danish

Robertson, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now Western Cape)