Al Gore
Politician
English, Scottish, distant German, remote Welsh, as well as 1/1024 Portuguese
Washington, D.C., U.S.
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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.
Charles G. Dawes
Politician
English, as well as small amount of Northern Irish, remote Welsh
Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
Ernest Hemingway
Socialite
English, as well as one eighth German [including some Swiss-German]
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.
F. W. de Klerk
Politician
Afrikaner (Austrian, Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], Dutch, French, German, Swiss-French, Swiss-German), remote African (including Khoikhoi), Danish, Indian, Indonesian, and Malagasy
Johannesburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
J. M. Coetzee
Afrikaner [Dutch, French, German, Belgian Flemish], Portuguese, one eighth Polish, English, Irish, as well as 1/256th Tamil Indian, 1/1024 Malagasy, remote Danish and Finnish
Cape Town, South Africa
Jimmy Carter
Politician
English, with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Welsh, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, German, Scottish, remote French, Dutch, and Swiss-German
Plains, Georgia, U.S.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
English, Scottish, German, Northern Irish, distant Dutch and French
Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S.
John Steinbeck
TV Personality
Father: German, English · Mother: Irish/Northern Irish
Salinas, Monterey, California, United States
Juan Manuel Santos
Politician
Colombian – Spanish [Andalusian, Asturian, Canary Islander, Cantabrian, Castilian, Extremaduran, Leónese, Valencian], Basque, Galician, remote Indigenous [Muisca and Tahamí], French, Portuguese [including Azorean], and Swiss-German
Bogotá, Colombia
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spanish [including Andalusian, Castilian, and Cantabrian]
Moguer, Huelva, Andalucia, Spain
Kip Thorne
Breton, Cornish, Dutch [including Frisian], English, French, German, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 1/8 Danish, 1/8 Manx, 1/8 Swedish, small amount of Belgian [Flemish, Walloon], and Mohawk Native American
Logan, Utah, U.S.