Cindy Crawford
Crawford in 2012, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: Cynthia Ann Crawford
Place of Birth: DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 20, 1966
Ethnicity: English, one eighth Danish, as well as Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, distant Irish and Welsh, remote French and Jersey Channel Islander
Cindy Crawford is an American supermodel, actress, and television personality. She was one of the biggest models of her era. She also starred in the film Fair Game.
Cindy is the daughter of Jennifer Sue (née Walker; re-marriage surname Moluf) and Daniel Kenneth Crawford. Cindy is married to businessperson and model Rande Gerber; their children are Presley Gerber and Kaia Gerber, both of whom have also modeled.
Cindy has English, one eighth Danish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, German, distant Irish and Welsh, and remote French and Jersey Channel Islander, ancestry. Some of her family lines have lived in the United States since the 1600s.
Cindy, along with her then-husband, actor Richard Gere, were selected People Magazine’s “Sexiest Couple Alive” in 1993 (instead of the annual “Sexiest Man Alive”).
Cindy’s paternal grandfather was Kenneth Leroy Crawford (the son of David P. Crawford and Amelia Christina/Christine Maria/Marie Hansen/Hanson). Kenneth was born in Luck, Polk, Wisconsin. David was in Ballymoney, co. Antrim, Ulster, Ireland, the son of James Paul Crawford and Isabella McCaughey. Amelia was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Danish parents, Ebbe Hansen and Agathe Mary/Marie Christine Christenvisen/Christensen.
Cindy’s paternal grandmother was Ramona Eileen Hemingway (the daughter of Frank Randall Hemingway and Hazel Mae/May Brown). Ramona was born in Winnebago, Faribault, Minnesota. Frank was the son of Louis Randall Hemingway and Carrie May/Mae Salisbury, whose parents were Canadian. Hazel was the daughter of Thomas William Brown, whose parents were English, and of Mary Jane Marsh.
Cindy’s maternal grandfather was James Richard Walker (the son of James D. Walker and Leola M. Wheeler). Cindy’s grandfather James was born in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee. Cindy’s great-grandfather James was the son of William Samuel Grundy Walker and Mary Williams Sneed. Leola was the daughter of Samuel S. Wheeler and Rachel/Rachael Jane “Jennie” Carman.
Cindy’s maternal grandmother was Dorothy May/Mae Montgomery (the daughter of Almon Montgomery and Ada Belle Kallembach). Dorothy was born in DeKalb County, Illinois. Almon was the son of Thomas Jefferson Montgomery and Rachel Ann Lemasters/Le Master/LeMaster. Ada was the daughter of Frederick/Fred J. Kallembach and Sarah/Sally/Sallie C. Pardon.
Sources: Twitter comment about her ancestry – https://twitter.com
Genealogies of Cindy Crawford – https://www.geni.com
https://www.wikitree.com
https://famouskin.com
Genealogies of Cindy’s paternal grandparents, Kenneth Leroy Crawford and Ramona Eileen Hemingway – http://www.findagrave.com
She looks like Tülin Şahin who is from Denmark. Nothing exotic in her, god bless white beauty.
Don’t think you’re right – shes of Scottish descent and the Scottish are mixed:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-projec
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/15/scotland-dna-study-project
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17740638
Old articles. 23andme is the most accurate and most Scottish people come up as European unless they are an immigrant or have a parent that is one. Scottish people also overlap genetically with the Irish, English, and Welsh. Southern Europeans have more diversity in their DNA. They are all white, though.
Bosniaks are South Slavs converted to Islam by Ottoman Turks.
Have you finished high school?
Turks and Arabs are different people. Arabs hail from Arabian Peninsula. Bosniaks does not have Arab roots.
She probably makes herself look darker than what she is so she’d appear “exotic”. Yes, that look she has isn’t typically English. She looks Jewish, Turkish or Italian.
What another poster said is true. Because she is of Anglo-Celtic descent people would call her “exotic”. If she were Spanish or Middle Eastern, they’d be calling her a “woman of colour” in an instant.
I think a lot of the people drawn to sites like this are the sort who are obsessed with ethnicity. Such people tend to be extremely naive about phenotype and can’t imagine how someone can be completely Northwestern Eutopean yet have dark hair and eyes and an ‘olive’ complexion.
It’s really stupid. They think anyone who doesn’t look stereotypically Germanic MUST be part Arab or some such.
It’s really ignorant and really weird.
Cindy is just an example of an Celtic/Anglo-Saxon who has a phenotype more typically found in Southern Europe. Now if they were to speculate she were perhaps part Italian or Greek it might be not altogether unreasonable (though she is definitely all Northwestern Euro). But people on here immediately leap to wacko assumptions like “she must be Native-American (free clue: Native-Americans look nothing – NOTHING – like southern Europeans or even Middle Easterners for that matter).
The crazy part is, the only sense someone like Crawford looks Middle Eastern is if it’s one of those Middle Eastern types who look European (as many Levant types do).
Your post is extremely verbose and contains a superfluous amount of textual. Over-examination that you’re partaking is quite laughable.
Cindy Crawford’s phenotype is Atlantid + Alpine a typical English & Southern German look. She doesn’t look Southern European to me (distinctly) that would be someone like Catherine Zeta Jones.
“George Clooney effect”
Haha good one. I like that. I hope that term becomes popular since everyone is saying these things.
I think it’s more an effect of the medias preoccupation with race and ethnicity and in particular the tendency in recent years for white Latins to be called “people of color!”
40 years ago only a lunatic or ignoramus would think someone who looked like Cindy Crawford or George Clooney looked “exotic”. Its crazy. But when we’re conditioned to view people like Penelope Cruz or Andy Garcia or Antonio Banderas as “people of color!” they start to think an Irishman with dark eyes or a mostly Anglo woman with dark eyes and hair looks “exotic!” and MUST be part Lebanese or Cherokee, lol.
People are getting soooo dumb.
Looking around this site it seems like a lot of people (mostly Americans) don’t really understand how phenotypically diverse white people are. I facepalm everytime I see someone being called ‘exotic’ for having dark hair/eyes, or that someone looks ‘part this, part that’ – it’s absurd. I think these people need to visit Europe.
I agree. Too often I meet regular black or white people who claim to have ‘native American’ blood even though statistically, this is very rare. A friend of mine had a near mental breakdown when her 23and me results came back 100% European (but she tans easily and her grandma told her she was part native American! )
I have never thought as I looked at Cindy Crawford that she was anything but a Caucasian, European etc… I think people who want badly for someone to be mix are just desperate to claim someone. Cindy is all Caucasian, sorry. She would blend in in untied Kingdom, France, Denmark… etc.