George Lopez

Lopez in 2009, Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com

Place of Birth: Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: April 23, 1961

Ethnicity: Mestizo Mexican

George Lopez is an American comedian, actor, and television personality. He was the host of the show Lopez Tonight from 2009 to 2011.

His father, Anatasio Lopez, was a Mexican emigrant, from Nayarit. His mother, Frieda, was born in Los Angeles, of Mexican descent. George has a daughter, actress Mayan Lopez, with his former wife Ann Serrano.

George’s paternal grandparents were named Francisco Lopez and Josefa.

George’s maternal grandfather was John Hernandez (the son of Pedro Hernandez and Raphaela Vargas). John was born in California, to parents from Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.

George’s maternal grandmother was Benita N. Torres (the daughter of Alfonso Torres and Manulea Mares). Benita was born in California. Manuela was born in Santiago Apostol, Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, the daughter of Lucio Mares and Maria Guadalupe Héras. George’s step-grandfather was named Refugio Gutierrez.

A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Lopez Tonight (2009) stated that George’s genetic ancestry is:

*55% European
*32% Native American
*9% East Asian
*4% Sub-Saharan African

The exact accuracy of the DNA tests on Lopez Tonight has been questioned by genealogist Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak.

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216 Responses

  1. sadie says:

    What the hell is 55% European? You need to be more specific!

    • lopac says:

      specific! how about this dude is 100% native american. and just that.

      • I love you, Roger Scientist says:

        I agree with you . . . but you are the most annoying person I have ever encountered on this board.

      • Jarocho4338 says:

        This is for lopac; NO! HOW about accepting what is written in history and what science proves. The University of Stanford, in Palo Alto Ca. did extensive dna research in northern and central Mex. where most people appear as simply “Mestizo of Indigenous / spanish blood but found that 75% of this population has at least 3% at most 12% African bDNA. while southern Mexico is home to a higher percentage of African dna. Now historically anywhere between 250,000-500,000 African slaves were imported to Mexico to replace the Indigenous slaves who were unable to fight off spanish smallpox as written by Mexican anthropologist, Dr. Gonzalo A. Beltran in his book entitled “La Poblacion Negra de Mejico” (1944) Dr. Beltran researched historical spanish ships manifests and learned of the large number of W. African slaves listed as received in Veracruz Mex. for distribution throughout Mex. Many towns in the state of Veracruz have African names i.e. Mandinga, Mocambo (where my grandfather is from) Motamboa, Mozambique, Nyanga (now called Yanga) all these names are African and they are names of Mexican towns. The very popular Mexican verb Chinga is an African word as is the word Chamba meaning job. Mexicos second president, Vicente Guerrery, was of Indigenous/African blood. The last gov. of ca. before it became part of U.S. was Pio Pico Rivera an Indigenous/African Mex. originally of Sinaloa Mex. where 2/3 of Sinaloas pipulation was Mulato during the early 1900‘s. Emiliano Zapata was of Indigenous /African blood as was Pancho Villa. Both men were dark with kinky hair. I personally dont know of any pure Indigenous people with kinky hair. In the movies these two Mexican heroes are usually portrayed by white guys like yui brenner but thats Hollywood. Once upon a time in Hollywood black people were played by white people with painted faces. Don’t get me wrong. There are some white people in Mexico but they are not the majority. In fact they are the minority. They are the ones that make you scratch your head when they say they are Mexican. Don’t scratch your head anymore. Mexican is a nationality just as American is and just as there are people of different racial makeup in the U.S. there are people of different racial background. The difference betweeb Mexico’s slave days and the U.S. slave days is that Mexico allowed inter racial marriage from the start back in 1526 and continued for 500 years while the U.S. just started legally inter racial marriage less than 85 years ago….. Read Dr. Beltran’s book. He received much trouble from the white ruling class of Mexico for writting this book. He was forced to change subjects…..

  2. lopac says:

    55 % european LOL

  3. ggg says:

    we dont try to hide our african heritage but many of us dont know anything about african culture or know any african in our family maybe with george features but in that case is a mixing not black im ligth skinned and not because of that im going to call myself spanish mexican cause i’m not im mestizo like most of us because there are libanese japanese chinese and other mixings thats why we call ourselves MEXICANS

    • Jarocho4338 says:

      is for ggg. I suggest that Mexicans should read books. I am Mexican, I read and Im aware of the slave trade that happened in Mex. beginning 1526 til 1821. I know that ‘Mex. experienced 500 years of racial mixing and I know and understand biology. I know that though a person may not have a particular phenotype ( physical appearance) that does not mean that phenotype reflects genotype. George’s phenotype screams Indigenous but science shows that his genotype has aNOTHER AGENDA. Read people. Pick up a book and read.

  4. lol says:

    That face looks like a haloween mask scary as hell))

  5. Antonia says:

    I would say George Lopez looks more native american than anything else.

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