Eminem
Birth Name: Marshall Bruce Mathers III
Place of Birth: St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 17, 1972
Ethnicity: English, German, Swiss-German, Scottish, distant Polish
Eminem or EMINƎM is an American, Detroit-based rapper, songwriter, record producer, record executive, film producer, and actor. Eminem also goes under the names Slim Shady, Slim, Marshall Mathers, M&M, MC Double M Em, and Shady; he was also known as Evil, as part of hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, with Royce da 5’9″. He starred in the film 8 Mile.
Eminem is the son of Deborah R. (Nelson) and Marshall Bruce Mathers. His parents were in a band called Daddy Warbucks, and played in Ramada Inns along the Dakotas-Montana border. He was raised mostly in Missouri and Detroit, Michigan, and grew up with his mother. His ancestry includes English, where two of his great-grandparents were born; German, Swiss-German, Scottish, and between 1/32 and 1/64th Polish.
Eminem has a daughter with his former wife Kimberly Anne Scott. He has also adopted Kimberly’s other child, and his niece.
Eminem’s paternal grandfather was Marshall Bruce Mathers (the son of Chester William Mathers and Myrtle Ivy Parrish). Marshall’s grandfather Marshall was born in Missouri. Chester was the son of Samuel Mathers and Josephine Graves. Myrtle was the daughter of William Chauncey Parrish and Mary C. Staggs.
Eminem’s paternal grandmother was Rae Waverly Drowns (the daughter of Grover Cleveland Drowns and Ella Elizabeth Dennie). Rae was born in Missouri. Grover was the son of William Henry Drowns and Mary Catherine Glockler, whose father was German. Ella was the daughter of Arthur Daggett Dennie and Catherine Bell Heffley.
Eminem’s maternal grandfather is named Robert Ray Nelson (the son of William Nelson, and of a woman surnamed Harris). Robert was born in Michigan, to English immigrants.
Eminem’s maternal grandmother is Betty Hixson (the daughter of William A. Hixson, Jr. and Georgia Anna/Ann Roesch). Betty was born in Missouri. William was the son of William A. Hixson and Nora A. Machmer. Georgia was the daughter of Henry P. Roesch, whose father was Swiss, of Swiss-German descent, and whose mother was also of German ancestry; and of Martha Jane Scheinert. Martha’s father, George A. Scheinert, was born in Poland, the son of Joseph Scheinert and Eva Wazuski.
Sources: Genealogies of Eminem – http://www.wargs.com
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He’s not Polish at all.
You wanna bet? If you look at his family history you see a lot of polish names.
So please stop lying and make sure it comes in as a correction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Polish_Americans
What are the Polish names in Eminem’s family history?
he’s polish
A great-great-great-grandfather of Eminem, George A. Scheinert, is listed as having been born in Poland. Given the surname, though, it’s likely that he was an ethnic German.
Used to be a huge fan of him when i was younger. Swiss and polish is cool.
is that true he hates Gypsies and Poles haha
Hej AF!…is that for “ass fucker” he told me that he hates you and so does everyone else that knows you. haha … oh ya…he also said that your dick is so small it needs medication to get up. You stupid fuck.
EMINEM IS POLISH
AND
HITLER KILLED POLISH PEOPLE
AHHAAH
if Christian reads this commentary…
No he didn’t. Look up the Katyn Massacre. FDR covered up the crimes committed by his boyfriend Joseph Stalin.
he looks like a regular white person, i dunno i see a lot of German or Swiss in him, British not too much.
HAHHAHAH
I HATE EMINEM SO MUCH
HES A WIGGA
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AND
IM GLAD THAT HES NOT IRISH