Birth Name:
Thomas John Patrick Welling
Birthplace:
New York, USA
Date of Birth:
April 26, 1977
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, Irish , German
Tom Welling is best known for his portrayal of Clark Kent in the television series Smallville. His films include Cheaper by the Dozen, its sequel, and the 2005 remake of The Fog.
This is from a fan site for Tom Welling;
“He has Irish and German ancestors. And his maternal great-grandfather was a native American. “
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0919991/bio
http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=&s=Welling
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http://www.supermansupersite.com/welling.html
This site says he is of Irish and German descent.
http://www.myspace.com/tomwellling
This is from his own mouth. “I’m part German, Irish and possibly Native American”. I think Tom knows his own ancestry. Could this please be updated.
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Possibly Native American? Why was that not noted?
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http://acecepeda.multiply.com/journal/item/101/Smallville_Cast_Biographies
Another site stating Tom is of German and Irish ancestry.
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http://devotedfansnetwork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10547&page=4
This is from a fan site for Tom Welling
“He has Irish and German ancestors. And his maternal great-grandfather was a native American. “
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He has a square face as most of the descendants of Native Americans like Johnny Depp, Ian Somerhalder, Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Patrick Swayze…notice that they all have large jew
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he looks really white for some reason i can´t see the native in him but hes hot
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Could be megan fox’s brother haah/ boy version of megan fox
(Welling is also a very dutchy-like name ,.since I live in The Netherlands ,..hah it sounds familiar)
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Wow good job Tom, nice to see that this site is pretty innacurate and goes by people’s “Surname” rather than actual facts and heritage. It seems like every page i go to with someone of Irish or German descent this site twist’s it around to make them English. Are the English really that desperate to get rid of the “Ugly Stereotype” they have on them to attempt and falsely claim Irish & German Americans as being English? Pathetic. I’ll now take everything said on this site with a grain a salt without proper research its clear this is not a site of facts.
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Dunno where the “English” bit came from but here are all the sources about his race, none of them say anything about English just German/Irish/Native the only one that says English is ofcourse wiki (under irish american actors)
http://www.squidoo.com/Smallville-Tom-Welling
^ Irish, German, Native
http://totallyhottomwelling.webs.com/totallytom.htm
^ Irish, German, Native
The only place where it says he’s English ( with no mention of Native) is here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_actors_of_Irish_descent
Since wiki excluded Native i think its safe to assume wiki is wrong.
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Tom Welling is Irish, German, & Native descent with possible English heritage (though many sites seem to dispute having any English heritage at all) the only site i could find that says he’s English is wiki which is not the best of sources since his wiki doesn’t even say he’s Native at all. His middle name is also Patrick.
http://www.tomwelling.org/tom/biography/
He is also on the list of Irish american actors of partial or full ancestry
Also Tom doesn’t look English at all aka “Anglo Saxon” a study of his facial features and skull shape shows that, Tom has a more celtic phenotype thats why he looks exactly like various other Irish actors ie: Cilian Murphy, Patrick Dempsey, Matt Dallas, Paul Walker.
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Tom Welling Q&A’s
“He has Irish and German ancestors. And his maternal great-grandfather was a native American.”
http://www.devotedfansnetwork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10547&page=2
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