Andre Agassi
Agassi in 2011, DFree / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Andre Kirk Agassi
Place of Birth: Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Date of Birth: April 29, 1970
Ethnicity:
*father – Armenian, possibly Assyrian from Iran
*mother – English, Norwegian, Irish, distant German and Swiss-German
Andre Agassi is an American professional tennis player. He was World No. 1.
Andre is the son of Elizabeth (Dudley) and Emmanuel “Mike” Agassi. His father was born as Emanoul/Emmanuel B. Aghassian/Aghasi in Salmas, Iran. He was an Olympic boxer and represented Iran in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics. Emmanuel was of Armenian Christian background. He was also said to have had Assyrian and/or Syrian roots. Andre’s mother is American.
Andre is married to German tennis player Steffi Graf, with whom he has two children.
Andre’s paternal grandfather was named David Aghassian. David was said to be a Ukrainian Armenian, from Kiev.
Andre’s paternal grandmother was named Noonia. Noonia was said to be an Armenian from the Ottoman Empire.
Andre’s maternal grandfather was Lloyd Percy Dudley (the son of Percy Winston Dudley and Mathilda/Matilda Edwards Fostrom). Lloyd was born in Illinois. Percy was the son of Jonathan Torpy Dudley and Minerva G. Mason. Mathilda’s parents were Norwegian.
Andre’s maternal grandmother was Virginia Josephine Clements (the daughter of Dr. Robert Clements and Carolyn Prest). Virginia was born in Illinois. Robert was the son of Dr. Isaac Clements and Josephine V. Nutt. Carolyn was the daughter of James Edward Prest and Julia J. McGown, who were from Halifax, Nova Scotia, James from Spry Harbour and Julia from Bar Harbour.
Source: Genealogy of Andre Agassi (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Where the f-ck is Assyrian?
assyrians=nation > babylon=land
assyrians have lived in babylon (mostly iraq, syria and other parts of the middle east). today they are spread all around the world.
I know Assyrians. I am a Serb married to an Assyrian man.
I asked “WHERE is Assyrian”, because Agassi HAS an Assyrian grandparent. He’s pretty much a quarter Assyrian.
Andre’s father was born as Emmanuel B. Aghassian/Emanoul B. Aghasi in Salmas, Iran. He is of Armenian Christian background but he also stated to have Assyrian and/or Syrian roots.
Andre’s paternal grandparents were David Aghassian and Noonia.
Damn and i though he was Italian..
Assyrians do look a lot like Italians.
I’m an Assyrian myself and Agassi looks 100% Assyrian to me – we generally look like that.
I was surprised to see that he is 1/3 English.
most of Assirians look Middle Easterners, just some of them can pass as South Europeans
Ehh…
Well her mother’s name is Dudley so that would mean she has an English/Anglo background.
I wonder whats the Caucasian side specifically lol
Both!
Armenians are Caucasians, considering they live in the Caucasas region, they just have darker features like Mediterraneans. And both Persians and Armenians belong in the Indo-European family, and the word Aryan comes from the Indo-Iranian language.
Same with North Indiabs
what a pathetic nickname you have