Birth Name:
Andre Kirk Agassi
Birthplace:
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Birth Date:
April 29, 1970
Race or Ethnicity:
Anglo-American, Armenian and Assyrian-Iranian
The American former professional tennis player was born to an Anglo-American mother named Elizabeth Dudley and an Iranian father named Emmanuel “Mike” Agassi of Armenian and Assyrian origin.
His father was an Olympic boxer and represented Iran in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics.
Source:
http://www.persianmirror.com/culture/famous/bios/andreagassi.cfm
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Damn and i though he was Italian..
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Well her mother’s name is Dudley so that would mean she has an English/Anglo background.
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I wonder whats the Caucasian side specifically lol
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Both!
Armenians are Caucasians, considering they live in the Caucasas region, they just have darker features like Mediterraneans. And both Persians and Armenians belong in the Indo-European family, and the word Aryan comes from the Indo-Iranian language.
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