by ethnic on February 28, 2014
Birth Name: Lupita Amondi Nyong’o
Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico
Date of Birth: 1 March 1983
Ethnicity: Luo Kenyan
Lupita Nyong’o was born to Kenyan parents in Mexico. Her father was a working as a visiting lecturer at a Mexican niversity when Lupita was born. Her parents moved back to Kenya shortly after she was born. It is a Luo tradition to name a child after the day’s events, and so, because of the family’s Mexican residence and her Mexican birth, she was named “Lupita” as a tribute to “Guadalupe”, Our Lady of Guadalupe.
She is fluent in English, Spanish, Swahili and Luo.
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Tagged as:
kenyan,
Luo
Birth Name: Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem
Birth Place: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Birth Date: March 1, 1969
Ethnicity: Spanish
Javier Bardem is a Spanish actor. He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, and comes from a family of filmmakers and actors. He is famous for his role in the film No Country for Old Men, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Javier’s maternal grandparents were Rafael Bardem Solé and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro. They were both actors.
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Tagged as:
Spanish
by ethnic on December 27, 2007
Birth Name: Dwayne Douglas Johnson
Birth Place: Hayward, California, USA
Ethnicity:
*African-Canadian (father)
*Samoan (mother)
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is an American pro-wrestler and actor. His father, who is Canadian, is black, and his mother is Samoan.
Dwayne’s paternal grandparents were James Henry A. Bowles (the son of John W. Bowles and Lila Jones) and Lillian Gay.
Dwyane’s maternal grandparents were Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia and Ofelia “Lia” Fuataga. Fanene was a famous Samoan pro-wrestler under the name Peter Maivia. Ofelia was born in Lalomanu, Aleipata, Western Samoa, and was a wrestling promoter. The Rock spent some time growing up in New Zealand where he was able to learn about his Pacific Islander heritage.
Sources: Genealogies of Dwayne’s father’s family – http://www.geni.com
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Biography of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson – http://www.islandconnections.com
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African American,
African-Canadian,
Black Nova Scotian,
Samoan
Birth Name: Frances Bean Cobain
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 18, 1992
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Type/Color: Blonde
Ethnicity:
*Irish, English, Dutch, French, German, Scottish (father)
*Spanish-Cuban, Welsh, Irish, German, English (mother)
Frances Bean Cobain is an American visual artist, and the only child of Nirvana frontman, the late Kurt Cobain, and Hole frontwoman Courtney Love. Cobain was born at 7:48 a.m. on August 18, 1992 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She was named after Frances McKee, the guitarist for the Scottish indie pop duo The Vaselines. Her middle name Bean was chosen because Kurt Cobain thought she looked like a kidney bean on the ultrasound. Her godfather is former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe, and the actress Drew Barrymore is her godmother.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bean_Cobain
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Cuban,
Dutch,
English,
French,
German,
Irish,
Scottish,
Spanish,
Spanish-Cuban,
Welsh
Birth Name: Philip Michael Bosco
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey
Date of Birth: September 26, 1930
Ethnicity:
*Italian (father)
*German (mother)
Philip Bosco is an American actor.
Philip’s paternal grandparents were Lupo Bosco and Domenica Iriana. Lupo and Domenica were Italian.
Philip’s maternal grandparents were Hermann/Herman Joseph Thek (the son of Jan Thek) and Louisa Germer. Hermann was German. Louisa was born in New York, to German parents.
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Tagged as:
German,
Italian
