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Vanessa Carlton
Musician
Father: Norwegian, Swedish, possibly other · Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish
Milford, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Vanessa Johnston
Actor · Model
Norwegian (5/16ths), English, German, 1/16th Swedish, some French
Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
Vanessa Trump
Model
Father: Italian · Mother: Danish, and Swedish and German
New York City, New York, U.S.
Vicki Peterson
Musician
Father: Swedish, German · Mother: English, German, Irish, French, Dutch
Northridge, Los Angeles, California, United States
Victor Crone
Musician
Swedish, Danish, German, as well as remote Belgian [Flemish], Dutch, and Norwegian
Österåker, Stockholm, Sweden
Victor DiMattia
Actor
Father: Italian · Mother: Irish, smaller amounts of English, Scottish, Swedish, remote German
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
Socialite
European Royal, German, Portuguese-Brazilian, small amounts of French, Danish, and Spanish, and even smaller amounts of Swedish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Czech, Norwegian, Belgian Flemish, and Tupiniquim [Indigenous Brazilian], likely remote Sephardi Jewish
Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
Vincent Grashaw
Actor
Father: Italian, French, some English · Mother: Danish, Finnish, Swedish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Vincent Kartheiser
Actor
German, as well as one eighth Luxembourgish, one eighth Swedish, Polish, Irish, English
Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States
Vinessa Shaw
Actor · Model
Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandfather), Italian (maternal grandfather), Irish, Swedish, English, 1/16th Spanish/Mexican, Dutch, French, distant German
Los Angeles, California, United States
Virginia Gardner
Actor
English, Irish, German, Dutch, Welsh, one eighth Swedish
Sacramento, California, United States
Viveca Lindfors
Actor
Swedish, as well as small amounts of German and Finnish, 1/64th Ashkenazi Jewish
Uppsala, Sweden
Vladimir Lenin
Politician
Father: Russian, with possible Chuvash and Kalmyk * maternal grandfather – Ashkenazi Jewish * maternal grandmother – German, Swedish
Simbirsk, Russian Empire (now Ulyanovsk, Russia)
Warren Kole
Actor
Swedish (paternal grandfather), German, English, one eighth Lithuanian, 1/16th African-American, Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, more distant Dutch and French Huguenot
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
Wendy Benson-Landes
Actor
Father: Scottish · Mother: English, Welsh, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, distant Swedish
New York City, New York, U.S.
Wendy Wilson
Musician · TV Personality
Father: English, one quarter Swedish, Dutch, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, remote French · Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish
Los Angeles, California, United States
Wentworth Miller
Actor · Model
*25% African-American *25% Jamaican [African, as well as small amount of Scottish] *25% Rusyn *12.5% Lebanese *12.5% Curaçaoan [mix of Dutch, French, Swedish, Hispanic, remote Polish]
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Wes Anderson
Actor
Father: one half Swedish, one half Norwegian · Mother: English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German
Houston, Harris, Texas, U.S.
