photo credit: Alan Light
Birth Name:
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone
Birth Place:
New York City, New York, USA
Ethnicity:
Italian, French, Jewish-Ukrainian
The Hollywood actor, nicknamed the Italian Stallion, was born to an Italian immigrant father from Gioia del Colle and a mother of Ukrainian, Jewish and French ancestry.
Stallone’s mother once took a trip to the Ukraine to find out about her Ukrainian grandmother, Rosa Rabinovich who emigrated to the US from pre-revolutionary Russia. SomethingJewish.com states that the name Rabinovich is a very Jewish name.
Source:
http://www.artukraine.com/historical/stallone.htm
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/1347_sj_super_7.htm
Celebrities sharing the same heritage:
Really?, damn and i toght he was 100% Italian.
i think your not the only one!
he is really only like an 1/8th jewish and its Russian Jewish. He is mainly Italian. It wouldnt be wrong to say he is just Italian.
and gee nicole, what are you?
hi mr stallion , im from uganda at the university studying social sciences . i wanna become a star like you
I think what he IS is more important than what you feel he looks.
Id agree with you on that one. More specifically southern Italian.
He looks Italian more than anything.
His dad is Italian and his mom is Ukrainian, Jewish, and French. References at: wikipedia.org because his mom’s mom is French and his mom’s dad is Ukrainian, and Jewish.