Birth Name: James Patrick Page
Place of Birth: Brentford, Middlesex, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 9 January, 1944
Ethnicity: English, some Irish
Jimmy Page is an English musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He is the guitarist for the English legendary rock band Led Zeppelin. Other members of the group were John Bonham, John Paul Jones, and Robert Plant.
Jimmy is widely considered to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
Jimmy is the son of Patricia Elizabeth (Gaffikin) and James Patrick Page.
On the internet, there are many rumours about Jimmy having Chinese or Japanese ancestry through a grandmother. These statements are not accurate.
Jimmy’s paternal grandfather was James Ernest Page (the son of James Ernest Page and Jane Burtles). Jimmy’s great-grandfather James was the son of Henry Page.
Jimmy’s paternal grandmother was Emily Holdom (the daughter of Henry Holdom and Emily Mileman). Henry was the son of Charles Henry Holdom and Emma Mansfield.
Jimmy’s maternal grandfather was John Gaffikin (the son of Arthur Chichester Gaffikin and Jean Anna/Anne Morton Kells). John was born in Belfast, Antrim, Ireland. Arthur was the son of John Gaffikin and Mary Jane McCallum.
Jimmy’s maternal grandmother was Edith May Thomas (the daughter of James Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Pick).
Sources: Genealogy of Jimmy Page – http://www.wikitree.com
Marriage record of Jimmy’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Jimmy Page (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
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He looks quite exotic for someone whose just British Isles descent.
loooooooool
* His paternal grandfather James Ernest Page II was the son of James Ernest Page I and Jane Burtles.
* Henry Holdom was the son of Charles Henry Holdom and Emma Mansfield
I’m laughing at the possible Japanese or Chinese ancestry ( I mean, he looks it, but its not likely). But I think some Scandinavian blood could be attributed to some of his features.
But it IS likely – the Scottish are a mix of peoples – including South East Asian!:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
stop spamming.
That is what DNA means – thats how ancestry works, didn’t you know?
Ancestry has more to do with language and culture than DNA. Still, stop spamming.
No, Blablah says its language and culture. Forget looking for features.
brown eyes
He’s english and Irish but looms part Japanese lol
I think he’s Scottish, not Irish – hence the dark, Asian look (South-East Asia).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
you all guys should accept and respect opinions
if some says that he or she thinks that he looks asian, than you must accept this and not come with teaching hours and methods
And again…… we are not the only crazy ones who think that he looks asian.
He was in japan and some of the journalists thought and asked him about his japanese roots :–))
he has a very interesting and special look for a brit or european
therefore we talk about him . And if had a normal average brit looking, we would not have those discussions
If someone says he looks Asian but he has no ancestry from there it is quite correct to let people know. Many people have strange ideas about what a population should look like by their standards. I’ve been guilty of this in the past myself.
Nothing wrong with discussion but it has to be backed up as well. It is the same sort of thing that occurs with Robert Sheehan and others who have stated their ancestry but people insist they are not telling the truth. Exotic now is all the rage so people aren’t trying to hide any interesting background. You can only state the ancestry you are aware of and if most people can go back to their Great Grandparents then they didn’t get their looks from some distant ancestry. Jimmy Page has ancestry from Britain and Ireland going back a few hundred years so it is obvious his look is from there.
and i thought JOHN LENNON might be the only brit or irish rooted guy who looked asian !
and you were wrong!
i know a lot of brits and irish guys and nobody of them look like him
he does indeed looks so asian
i mean half asian
I always thought he was Eurasian.
He is the most Asian-Chinese looking white guy ever.
I’m from France and I had seen him in person 3x before, when he was young I wondered if he had Asian ancestry and now that I had seen him again he seriously just looks like a typical old Chinese or Japanese man which is strange for someone who don’t have any Asian ancestry. All my friends also said he looks Asian and including a classmate of Jimmy Page who is my cousin’s friend said that he was mocked for looking odd and oriental.
I’m not completely sure if the rumor about his mother being 1/4 Chinese is fact or false but he did visited China and took photos with the locals and with the way he looks now I would believe it even if he said he was 75% Chinese or other Asian ethnicity. Anyway it doesn’t matter if he has Chinese ancestry or not, he is a incredibly talented musician and I’m a really huge fan of him.
I’ve seen Irish people who look even more Asian than him. If you look at him it is just his eye area that gives him a pseudo-Asian look. He has no Asian ancestry.
Darren O’Dea is 100% Irish.
http://img.rasset.ie/0005124d-642.jpg
If Darren O’Dea was an American I’ve no doubt people would be saying he is Native American
99.99% of Irish people look white and look nothing like Jimmy Page.
Darren O’Dea does look slightly mongoloid he looks nowhere close to the level of Jimmy which in my opinion looks 100x Asian. I think his eyes and the flatness of his face makes him look more Asian than the average European. I had seen French people with eyes even smaller than Jimmy but would never mistake them for a Asian.
Honestly he looks odd and unique, I kinda like it, he looks special in the sense he is properly a being pure European and still look more Asian than white but honestly still not sure about his ancestry, until Jimmy Page tells everyone about his ethnic make up I can’t say anything for sure. The rumor with Jimmy mother being 1/4 and him going to China makes me showing his passport makes me think he might a connection of but this just my guess.
Sorry with my bad English, I mean to say that the rumor of Jimmy’s mother being 1/4 Chinese and him going to China and showing his passport makes think he have a connection with Chinese but all of these are only because Jimmy looks like a old Chinese guy.
I just wish Jimmy would straight-fully tell us on the TV or on youtube. I can’t find any video or him stating that he is only British and Irish. I wish it came out of his mouth because I really don’t trust on the sources circulating the internet on written articles and wikipedia which states he is British, Irish but other states his mother being 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Chinese.
You can look Jimmy page and that mad Japanese doctor Michio Kaku, they look almost wins.
http://www.sheverb.com/kakupagesm.jpg
And this picture, you think they were an Asian couple.
http://www.rosshalfin.com/jimmy_page/jimmy-page-colour45.jpg
@veronicabale
astonishing resemblance in the 1st pic but here is Jimmy as kid:
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/tomasutpen/media/album7/pagebefore.jpg.html
http://s250.photobucket.com/user/LuvJPP/media/jimmy20page20early2.jpg.html
not Asian looking
anyhow Japanese have sometimes pseudo-Caucasoid features because of Ainu people whose origin has been debated for long time before genetic has cleared they’re Asian.
By the way, if you have any video or article of him stating all his ethnicity please post it.
Andrew, I’m sorry. I made most of my replies in the ” Alice section”, it was mean’t to reply mostly you but I made a mistake and have no intention to keep spamming either.
(Anyway to make it as short as possible). You can find people who are only 1/4 Asian and 1/2 Asian and still look 100% White with ( blonde, brown hair, brown hair connected ). Like this boy who is 1/2 Korean and yet look 100% White
http://imageserve.babycenter.com/19/000/193/tpadtDzeNXcQqaFaLcj3E2TI2d9vAv08_lg.jpg
So it really doesn’t matter if Jimmy page. Although it’s weird to think how he could look so Asian being only 1/8 Chinese ( which is not confirmed ) but than I did see 2 white couples produced a black child and 2 black couples produced a white child, so anything is possible in the world of genetics.
I had noticed any Japanese with Caucasian features I guess they are as rare as finding a white person with Mongoloid features. However here is Jimmy page in China holding a Chinese Mao passport.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/7f/8a/c5/7f8ac59d084ffe6467765f8a17ba0cd9.jpg
Wow, I just googled Ainu people and read about them on wiki. Fascinating!!!! For all this time I had no clue about them haha. They look a Jewish tribes and people from north India . Although many of them look very Asian though.
I haven’t seen any Japanese people with Ainu or Caucasian appearance but it made explain the few Japanese with a odd appearance ( Asian looking but very huge pair of eyes and a very big and long nose)
VeronicaBale he doesn’t have any Asian ancestry. If Jimmy Page had any Asian ancestry he would say it. It isn’t difficult now to check people’s ancestry especially someone as famous as Jimmy Page. There are so many records online. I’ve often though that Jimmy Page and Rory Gallagher looks very alike when they were younger. Jimmy does have verifiable Irish ancestry.
Here’s a picture of both of them together and they could be brothers.
http://www.rorygallagher.com/images/tumblr_m9xpid7j5Q1rexxguo1_500.jpeg
Everything will be clear once he tell us straight from his mother.
He actually looks quite Asian in the 2nd picture. I agree he doesn’t look Asian in the first picture but is not impossible mix races to look like that. I know people who are only 1/4 Black and 1/4 Asian and look 100% white from kid to adults. Like Wentworth Miller, who I’m extremely attracted and was shocked to out his father was part African American. He looks 100% white from appearance.
For example child’s father half Asian and mother is white but his son look whiter than white. He looks like any typical nordic European from Scandinavia
http://imageserve.babycenter.com/11/000/353/mYd5Zlfvce3dO0Q8r8y2ykvG9TwsJ4QE_lg.jpg
1/4 Chinese kids blonde hair,blue eye kids and look nothing nothing, their parents are Princess Alexandra who is half Chinese and Prince Joachim of Denmark
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000AIcRTGHaDrc/s/750/750/Queen-Birth-2003-ukp-2.jpg
He have blonde hair, blue eyes look like a pure white boy
1/4 Fillpino, also blonde hair , blue eyes.
http://imageserve.babycenter.com/21/000/353/E3GpodVmGhTdaqm0Mka13JXfYWxs96KU_lg.jpg
I’ve never never seen a Japanese with caucasian features, I’m sure they exist but those have to be extremely rare cases like in Jimmy’s page case. I didn’t notice any Japanese like that when I was in Japan.
Alice, you could be right. I just wish I could see a video of him claiming he is only British and Irish but I couldn’t it anywhere. And I remember the part his mother being 1/4 Chinese was on wikipedia including in the Imbd before. But now it seems it’s not there so maybe he is just an odd looking person.
IT IS THIS PICTURE….. that makes me think he may a Chinese connection. he took a picture the Chinese locals and holding a Mao Zedong Chinese passport of some sort
http://www.guitarworld.com/sites/future.p2technology.com/files/imce-images/page-ladies-mao.jpg
“On the web there are several rumours about an alleged Chinese ancestry through a grandmother. It is not clear if this ancestry has been verified/documented.”
There is no substance to that rumour of Chinese ancestry. He has no Chinese ancestry.
it’s just an Internet rumour like many others you can find in this site. I read this post made by a LZ fan in a forum:
http://forums.ledzeppelin.com/index.php?/topic/17097-jimmys-nationality/
“Somewhere in my house I have an interview with Page, via the old ZOSO fanzine, in which he’s in Japan & doing a press conference with the local press promoting the first Zeppelin box set & one of the interviewers asked Page, to paraphrase, “It’s rumored that you have Japanese ancestry, is this true?” to which Page replied, to paraphrase, “I’ve heard that before but no, but it seems there must be something that goes well with myself & the Japanese.”
https://it.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081230201119AAfeoEi
It is apparently an internet rumor that started when some guy typed a message to another guy on this site called allexperts.com. Here’s the link:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Led-Zeppelin-…
just two random guys opinions used as a source in wikipedia. From wikipedia it spread ALL over the net before being removed.
Thanks for all that background Andrew. It is interesting how these things get started :).
marriage record of his parents
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV8G-F57D
family tree
http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Page-Family-Tree-4618
Could it be possible that one his great grandparent was Chinese? the Chinese were in England since 1805 and many of the Chinese adopted full British name like a Chinese seaman who was called John Anthony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom
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