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Birth Name:
Harrison Ford
Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois,USA
Ethnicity:
German, Jewish Belarusian and Irish
The American actor has Jewish Maternal Grandparents, German and Irish Paternal Grandparents. This was mentioned on his biography.
His maternal grandparents were both Jews from Minsk, Belarus.
His paternal grandmother, Veronica Niehaus was of German descent and his paternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald Ford was of Irish Catholic descent.
Source:
Jenkins, Gary (March 1999). Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero
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Ford is an English name, FitzGerald is Anglo-Norman English origin, the amount of excuses made by Americans to deny English heritage is unbelievable.
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They both are Irish names.
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People can get names very wrong. FitzGerald is a common name in Ireland and it is not English but Norman but is now completely Irish as they came in the 12th century. The name Ford is also quite common in Ireland. I’m sure people know where there families originate from. The British Isles has so many people coming and going from Britain to Ireland over the years you would have to check where people originate from.
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You do realize, that the English anglicized Irish surnames don’t you? If Harrison Ford says that his ancestry if from Ireland, than so be it.
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I totally agree Dave.
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When asked, Ford usually only mentions his Irish and Jewish heritage. But yes, his paternal grandmother was German. His ancestry is traced in this book
http://www.amazon.com/Harrison-Ford-%C3%B9-Imperfect-Hero/dp/080658016X/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0jqanAitSQ
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Niehaus is a German name.
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No Harrisson Ford’s father was Irish and his mother was a Russian Jew. He revealed this on Inside The Actors’s Studio
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Because his maternal grandparents are Jews NOT Belarusians!duhh
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Interesting that Belarus is not listed as an ethnicity.
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indiana jones is the greatest!
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