Mark Ronson
Birth Name: Mark Daniel Ronson
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 4 September, 1975
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Mark Ronson is a British-American musician, music producer, DJ, songwriter, and record executive. He is a member of supergroup duo Silk City, with Diplo. He is also known as DJ Ronson.
He is the son of Laurence Ronson, a businessperson, and Ann/Anne Cecilia Dexter-Jones, a socialite and writer. Mark’s parents are both Jewish; their families were from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Austria. Mark had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
Mark is a brother of musician Samantha Ronson and fashion designer Charlotte Ronson, and a maternal half-brother of actress and director Annabelle Dexter-Jones. His uncle, father’s brother, is businessperson Gerald Ronson. His family moved to the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S. around 1983, where he was raised. He is a citizen of the U.K. and the U.S.
Mark is married to American actress Grace Gummer, with whom he has a daughter. His sister Charlotte has two children with her partner, American singer and songwriter Nate Ruess.
Mark’s paternal grandfather was named Henry Ronson (born Henry Aaronson/Aronson, the son of Marks/Mark Aaronson and Rebecca “Betsy”). Henry was born in London, to Russian Jewish parents.
Mark’s paternal grandmother was Sarah/Sadie Raine (the daughter of Louis Raine, born Leib Shimelevich Davidovich Rein, and of Khaia/Fanny Genekhovna Stein). Sarah’s parents were Jewish emigrants from Ukraine and/or the Russian Empire. Khaia was born in Vilna, Lithuania, the daughter of Rav Henoch Stein and Chana Marla/Malka.
Mark’s maternal grandfather was named Frederick/Fred Deutsch/Deutscher, later Dexter. Frederick was an Austrian Jew, born in Vienna, Austria.
Mark’s maternal grandmother was Judith Lurie (the daughter of Abraham Lurie and Chana/Annie/Hannah Hoffenberg). Judith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Jewish parents, from the Russian Empire. Abraham was born in Verbelov, the son of Mordechai Lurie and Chaya Yehudit Galinski. Chana was from Zosla, Lithuania, and was the daughter of Isaac Hoffenberg, from Josvania, and of Scheine Freide Rom, from Vilna. Chana’s sister, Nechama, was the paternal grandmother of Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a Conservative politician, making Mark and Sir Malcolm second cousins, once removed.
Source: Genealogy of Mark Ronson – https://www.geni.com
He looks 100% Ashkenazi. I don’t know where people get the idea that Ashkenazi Jews can’t be dark. He’s pretty average in pigmentation for an Ashkenazi Jew.
He has a textbook Atlanto-Mediterranean phenotype, his features are not “dark” by any means for Western European standards by any means.
by any means indeed!
Sephardim and Ashkenazim have the same origins though.
Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews share 90% of the same ancestry, and European/Turkish Sephardi Jews look identical to most Ashkenazi Jews.
get your eyes checked, fool
he looks nothing like a typical South Asian or North African, not even dark looking
he can pass for a native British guy, he doesn’t look MENA/Pakistani at all. Neil is a troll/hater.
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9992277.ece/binary/original/Mark-Ronson.jpg
So calling someone dark makes them “trolls/haters”? If I said that he is very Swedish looking and very white, would you have called me a hater?
Aren’t you the racist here with an inferiority complex?
Yes, Ronson’s a Jew. But can he pass as someone with white and Indian ancestry? Yes, if his Indian side was lighter skinned.
well, claiming Mark Ronson looks Indian/Pakistani or Moroccan is just ridiculous, good trolling mode.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03158/Mark_Ronson_3158562b.jpg
^(Andrew) Coming from a foolish idiot who thinks Italians look like Swedes.
Amazing.
@ phaedra
I actually don’t think so. Of course Italians don’t look like Swedes on average. Btw in the past the Italian peninsula was invaded by several Barbaric tribes. Goths and Lombards came from modern Sweden. The Lombards were 300.000 and left a great impact in Italy. There are words in Italian vocubulary of Lombard origin. also many common names and last names (Lombardi, Lombardo etc..)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombards
he does not look Pakistani or MENA in the slightest, are you crazy? There are British people who look like him and you know that.
http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/1280×1920/k_n/mark-ronson-conde-nast-traveller-5feb15-rex_b.jpg
He’s kinda cute.
I thought Jewish too because he looked like Andrew Garfield.