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.
He looks more African American than 4%,let’s get serious the dude looks thirty to forty percent black.We can’t forget over 400,000 african slaves sent to work the land in Mexico. Mexican people please read your history ,African blood is part of the mix,not just white and indian.
Just because he has darker skin doesn´t necessarily make it a black trait. Native people are also brown skin, and many East asians do have flat facial features. One shouldn´t generalize.
Dude, don’t try to teach us our own history. We know we have been enriched with African Heritage. No one is trying to deny that. I prefer the Indian / African part myself.
Idiot, so you like to ignore the Spanish part?? this part (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire) the part you all should be proud of, stop listing to the tv and black racist talking about how bad whitey is, here go have a look at all these black lies, and the other black man telling the truth about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd4Y_HDvlGs&feature=channel_video_title
Mexicans are mixed with everything, we are all mixed the difference its that we dont like to call ourselfs afro mexican, or asian mexican , etc just mexicans . Im mexican american, my dad is half mexican half spanish and my mom s mom native american, spanish, italian and british and her dad japanese, russian , and slovekian ..
Hey, I would have figured him for at least 10 percent because he’s really dark.
But what type of European is he Mexikaner (Mexican) is not even a European place just south of a American state… confused! Lol
Spanish is European. The Spanish conquered much of Central and South America. Thus, George’s European link is likely of Spanish origin unless he has other European influence from different cultures such as Irish or French, etc.
@808chicana
are u dumb? the race “mexican” didnt just start out just like that. it took many years of mixing and interracial communities. africans, europeans, and asians migrated to mexico thus creating the “mexican” race as we call it. booom,! get owned.
Hey, not really because originally it was Naive American and then the Europeans entered the country and mixed with the Natives. The look you see is an influx of different Spanish -Speaking people mixing with the orginal Natives with some Asian and Some African sprinkled in for good measure. (Hence George Lopez’s results)