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Birth Name:
John Felix Anthony Cena
Birth Place:
West Newbury, Massachusetts, USA
Date of Birth:
April 23, 1977
Ethnicity:
Italian and possibly of Albanian origin
The professional wrestler has released a rap album called You Can’t See Me, and has appeared on the movie The Marine. According to a few websites it is claimed that the WWE star has Albanian ethnicity while some others believe he is of Italian origin.
A good article on associatedcontent.com states that Cena is from an Italian American family. It is possible that Cena is Arbereshe, an ethnic Albanian group that moved to Southern Italy and Sicily from the 1500s. It is said that these people moved out of Albania to escape the Ottoman invasion. Although they often adopted Italian names, these people are proud of their Albanian roots and retain their Arbereshe language.
Source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com
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why dont u check all records in italy and u will find like 30 people with the last name of cena go to albania u will find 30000 people with the last name cena, hes of albanian origin mixed with italian and now hes italian or american or whatever u wanna call him
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his last name cena is albanian, he may be italian now since hes been assimilated, hes undoubtedly mixed with italian i think his ancestry is from the arberesh but he was assimilated now he is italian, but cena is an albanian last name, but u can call him what u want doesn’t really matter
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Thanks for the comment. Hello to all the Albanians here.
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hi.. im albanian and my cousin have this surname CENA
CENA is an albanian surname!
http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=cena&init=quick#/nardi.cena
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Most people would concur that he has some Italian background.
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Who really knows what cena is. If it didnt cone out his mouth then no one can really say.
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Actually wiki it doesnt mention his ethnicity, are you sure it wasnt a different site?
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I’ve read on the wikipedia website it says he is of Irish and Italian descent and nothing about him being Albanian.
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Its not 100% confirmed but it is probable.
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I was 100% sure that John Cena it is Albanian who emigrated in Italy more than 500 years ago. Just by his last name you can tell that you are albanian John
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