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Niykee Heaton
Musician · Model
Father: Scottish, Welsh, Norwegian, English, German · Mother: South African [English, possibly other]
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Odette
Musician
Father: English, as well as distant Irish · Mother: Coloured South African [African, English, Irish, German]
Bath & North East Somerset, Somerset, England, U.K.
Oscar Pistorius
Athlete
Afrikaner [Dutch, German, some French Huguenot, distant Belgian Flemish and Walloon], English, as well as Danish, remote Malagasy, Bengali, Indian, and Indonesian, evidently one eighth Italian
Sandton, Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, South Africa
P. W. Botha
Politician
Afrikaner (Belgian [both Flemish and Walloon], Dutch, German, Swiss-German), remote African, Danish, English, Indian, Indonesian, and Norwegian
Paul Roux, Orange Free State Province, South Africa
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actor · TV Personality
English, as well as some Scottish and Irish, distant Welsh
Hammersmith, London, England, U.K.
Reece Ritchie
Actor
Father: South African (black) · Mother: English (white)
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, U.K.
Reeva Steenkamp
Model
English (about three quarters), Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot, smaller amounts of Belgian Flemish, Swiss-German], remote Irish, Danish, Swedish, Indian, African [Angolan, Khoikhoi], Norwegian, Finnish, and Indonesian [Sumbawa]
Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Reiko Aylesworth
Actor
*25% Japanese *25% Ashkenazi Jewish *25% Dutch *25% mix of Welsh, English, Scottish, distant Swedish
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Richard Dawkins
TV Personality
English, 5/16th Cornish, smaller amount of Afrikaner [German, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Frisian, Belgian Flemish, remote Bengali Indian], distant Northern Irish
Nairobi, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya (now Kenya)
Richard E. Grant
Actor · TV Personality
Afrikaner [Dutch, possibly other], German, English, possibly Hungarian
Mbabane, Protectorate of Swaziland (now Eswatini)
Ricky Fataar
Actor · Musician
Cape Malay/Cape Coloured [Malagasy, Xhosa, Mauritian, Malaysian, Indian, Indonesian, Zulu, English, Khoisan, Tswana, San, Chinese, Guinean, Angolan, Dutch, French Huguenot, German, Khoikhoi]
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Robert Morley
Actor
Father: English, Scottish · Mother: one half Ashkenazi Jewish, one half German
Tisbury, Wiltshire, England, U.K.
Roger Federer
Athlete
Father: Swiss-German · Mother: Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French/French Huguenot, distant Scottish, Belgian Flemish, Swiss-German, Danish, and Portuguese]
Basel, Switzerland
Sailor Malan
Politician
Father: Afrikaner [French Huguenot, Dutch, German, smaller amount of Belgian] · Mother: English
Wellington, Cape Province, Union of South Africa (now South Africa)
Sean Pertwee
Actor
German, English, Afrikaner, small amounts of French Huguenot and Scottish
London, England, U.K.
