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Alex Garland
TV Personality
English, one eighth Lebanese, 1/16th Scottish, around 1/64th Afrikaner [Dutch, German, as well as remote Belgian, Indonesian, and Angolan]
Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Alexandra Hedison
Actor
Father: Armenian · Mother: English, Italian
Los Angeles, California, United States
Alice Krige
Actor
Father: Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot, Belgian, distant Swiss-German] · Mother: English, distant Irish
Upington, Cape Province, South Africa
Andrew Lincoln
Actor
English, smaller amounts of Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot], Scottish, and Irish
St. Pancras, London, England, U.K.
Andrew Mehrtens
Athlete · TV Personality
German (paternal grandfather), Scottish, English, Northern Irish, Irish
Durban, South Africa
Arnold Vosloo
Actor
Afrikaner – including Dutch, French Huguenot, German, Swiss-German, Belgian Flemish, as well as distant or remote Danish, Norwegian, Indian [Malayali, some Bengali], Indonesian [Javanese, Makassarese], Timorese, Malagasy, Angolan, Scottish, Chinese, Swedish, Guinean, Ethiopian, and Austrian
Pretoria, South Africa
B. J. Vorster
Politician
Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French, small amounts of Belgian Flemish and Walloon, as well as Swiss-German], small amounts of Danish, Indonesian, Indian, Norwegian, African [Angolan, Guinean], remote Chinese
Jamestown, Cape Province, Union of South Africa
Basil Rathbone
Actor
English, smaller amounts of Irish and Scottish
Johannesburg, South African Republic
Behati Prinsloo
Model
Afrikaner (Dutch, Frisian, as well as French and German, distant Latvian, Finnish, and Kenyan, remote Portuguese, Norwegian, Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], Swiss-French, Swiss-German, Danish, Swedish, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Malagasy, and other African [including Angolan])
Grootfontein, South-West Africa (now Namibia)
Ben Barnes
Actor · Musician
Father: English · Mother: Dutch-German Jewish
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, U.K.
Candice Hillebrand
Actor · Musician · TV Personality
Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot]
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Candice Swanepoel
Model
Afrikaner, including Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], Dutch, French Huguenot, and German, with very distant African [Angolan, Ethiopian], English, Malayali Indian, Sumbawa Indonesian, and Norwegian
Mooi River, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
Cariba Heine
Actor
likely Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot]
Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
Caron Bernstein
Actor · Musician · Model
Father: Ashkenazi Jewish · Mother: Dutch [including remote Frisian], as well as small amount of French and German
Johannesburg, South Africa
Caspar Lee
Actor · TV Personality
English, Irish, Dutch, possibly other
Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Charlbi Dean
Actor · Model
Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot, likely distant Swiss]
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Athlete · Socialite
English, German, some Scottish and Irish, 1/16th Afrikaner [German, Dutch, French Huguenot, distant Danish, remote Malagasy, Indian, Indonesian, Angolan, and Khoikhoi]
Mater Dei Hospital, Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
Charlie Siem
Musician
Father: Norwegian, as well as distant Finland-Swedish and Dutch · Mother: Ashkenazi Jewish
Westminster, London, England, U.K.
Charlize Theron
Actor · Model
Afrikaner [Dutch, French Huguenot, German, smaller amounts of Belgian Flemish/Belgian Walloon, distant Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish], distant English, as well as possibly 1/1024 Khoisan
Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa