photo credit: Alan Light
Birth Name:
Patrick Wayne Swayze
Birth Place:
Houston, Texas, USA
Date of Birth:
August 18, 1952
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Irish, English and possibly Apache
The American actor is mainly of Irish descent. However his family name, Swayze is of Norman French origin. Norman French is a language that is found in Northern France.
It is also rumored that Swayze is of distant Apache descent.
Source:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_swayze
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
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He had very strong features, with pronounced cheek bones that I’d think he must have been part American Indian, or an ethnicity where those exotic features are found.
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Why do white people try to claim him? He is castizo like most white Americans. Only ugly ones are just white. Stop trying to claim him.
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No one is trying to claim him. He is what he is. Mostly white European of mainly Irish descent. Regarding the above entry Norman French is not a language found in France. The Normans were originally Vikings that settled in Normandy who mixed with the local French population. The Normans invaded Britain and Ireland. My surname is a Norman name but I’m an Irish-Australian. Many Irish have Norman derived names e.g Fitzgerald, Burke, Costello, Barry. There are hundreds of them but people with these names claim only Irish as their heritage. These surnames have been in Ireland for hundreds of years.
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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/irename2.htm
Here is a list of some Norman names in Ireland.
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“It is also rumored that Swayze is of distant Apache descent.”
Ethnic, if it is just a rumor, why is it listed under his ethnicity?
O_o
You need to know for sure before you list it as a part of his ethnicity.
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I’d like to know why comments that aren’t in anyway controversial get marked down. People just seem to mark down for the sake of it. I would rather someone comment if they disagree with something.
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I love patrick he did looked part native R.IP .
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R.I.P.
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Swayze is not a French sounding name.
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He has English Ancestry.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=dowfam3&id=I41965
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I searched his surname, and although it is a Norman name, House of Names says it’s an English surname.. Tbh, I’ve never heard of anyone claiming ‘Norman French’ as their ethncity before, including myself.
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The site doesn’t say that Norman French is an ethnicity, it just says that his surname is Norman French in origin.
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to bad the luck of the irish coulnd save you
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r.i.p
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but the light skin and the light hair is definitely Caucasoid. He does have unique eyes though. I hope he gets better.
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