Rihanna

Birth Name:

Robyn Rihanna Fenty

Birth Place:

Saint Michael, Barbados

Date of Birth:

February 20, 1988

Race or Ethnicity:

Afro-Bajan, Irish and Afro-Guyanese descent.

The Barbadian singer was born to Ronald Fenty, a Barbadian man of African and Irish descent. Her mother, Monica Fenty is of Afro-Guyanese descent. This was stated in an article on the  Los Angeles Sentinel, an African American owned newspaper.

It is interesting to note that people of Black, East Indian and to a lesser extent Native people make up the population in Guyana.

In an article for Allure magazine, Rihanna revealed that she was bullied in school and called ‘white’ by the other kids while growing up in Barbados.

Source:

http://www.showbizspy.com/

Celebrities sharing similar heritage:

1. Fergie
2. Leona Lewis
3. Rosario Dawson
4. Rio Ferdinand
5. Aaryn Doyle
6. Soledad O’Brien
7. Deborah Cox
8. Adrian Grenier
9. Talisa Soto
10. Shontelle
11. Melanie Fiona
12. Yaya DaCosta
13. Will Ferrell
14. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
15. Brooke Burke