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Barack Obama
Politician
Father: Luo Kenyan · Mother: English, small amounts of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Swiss-German, French Huguenot, possibly remote African
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
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 Kingsley
Actor
Father: Gujarati Indian * maternal grandmother – English * maternal grandfather – uncertain, possibly Ashkenazi Jewish
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, U.K.
Daniel Adams-Ray
Musician
Father: Swedish, one quarter Gibraltarian [possibly Scottish] · Mother: Indonesian, possibly other
Nairobi, Kenya
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
Ferdinand Kingsley
Actor · Musician
Gujarati Indian (paternal grandfather), English, possibly one eighth Ashkenazi Jewish
Mid Warwickshire, Warwickshire, England, U.K.
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
Malia Obama and Sasha Obama
* paternal grandfather – Luo Kenyan * paternal grandmother – English, small amounts of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Swiss-German, French Huguenot, possibly remote African · Mother: African-American (mostly), including Gullah, as well as distant English, Scottish, and Irish
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
