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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
Derek Muller
TV Personality
British Isles [English, Scottish, Irish], Afrikaner [Dutch, German, French Huguenot, Belgian, Danish, remote Austrian, Swiss, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Polish, Luxembourgish, Bengali Indian, Indonesian, Timorese, Tamil, Khoisan, Malagasy, Angolan, Ethiopian, Beninese, Czech, Mauritian, Kenyan, other African]
Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
Elon Musk
TV Personality
English (mostly), along with Scottish, German/Swiss-German, and Afrikaner [French Huguenot, Dutch, German, Belgian, remote Swedish, Indonesian, Malaysian, and Bengali Indian], distant Welsh
Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa
Gene Rockwell
Musician
Afrikaner [Dutch, French Huguenot, German, Swiss-German, Belgian Flemish and Walloon, Danish, Swedish, Portuguese, and Swiss-French], as well as, some Cape Malay/Cape Coloured [Indonesian, Chinese, Khoisan, Indian, English, Scottish, Irish, Mauritian, remote Xhosa], distant Angolan, Malayali, Guinean, Malagasy, Khoikhoi, Bengali, Norwegian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Timorese, remote Spanish, Sri Lankan, Finnish, Basque, Latvian, and Kenyan
Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
India de Beaufort
Actor · Musician
English, Irish, Bengali Indian, distant French
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, England, U.K.
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
Lester Holt
TV Personality
Father: African-American · Mother: Jamaican [African, as well as English, Portuguese, Bengali Indian, distant Scottish]
Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin, California, United States
Mary Nighy
Actor
English, Irish, Scottish, as well as 1/32 Bengali Indian
Camden, London, England, U.K.
Mike Rutherford
Musician
*87.5% English *12.5% Afrikaner [Dutch, German, distant Danish and French Huguenot, remote Bengali and Angolan]
Surrey South Western, Surrey, England, U.K.
Norah Jones
Actor · Musician
Father: Bengali Indian · Mother: English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish
Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.
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
Rachel Roy
TV Personality
Father: Bengali Indian · Mother: Frisian, Dutch
San Bernardino, California, United States
Rhona Mitra
Actor · Musician · Model
Father: Bengali Indian, English · Mother: Irish
Hampstead, London, England, U.K.
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)
Roxanne Emery
Musician
English, Welsh, one quarter Yugoslavian/Italian, distant Bengali Indian, remote French Huguenot
Southampton, Hampshire, England, U.K.