Gwendoline Ruais

Ruais in 2011, photo by prphotos

Birth Name: Gwendoline Gaelle Sandrine Ramos Ruais

Place of Birth: Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines

Date of Birth: 11 December, 1989

Ethnicity:
*father – French, Breton, remote Cornish, remote Italian [Piedmontese]
*mother – Filipino

Gwendoline Ruais is a French-Filipina beauty queen, fashion model, actress, and television presenter. She represented the Philippines in the Miss World 2011, in which she was placed first runner-up.

Her father, Vincent Ruais, is French, with roots in Brittany, including Keremma. Her mother, Maria Lourdes “Malou” Ramos, is a Filipina model. Her sister is beauty queen Gwennaelle Ruais.

Gwendoline’s paternal grandfather was Pierre Ruais (Pierre Adolphe Emile Ruais, the son of Edmond Louis Armand Ruais and Marie Marguerite Mathilde Tournois). Pierre was born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France, and was a politician, who was Mayor of Paris, from 1956 to 1957, and a member of the National Assembly for the Paris 28th constituency, from December 9, 1958 to April 1, 1973. Edmond was the son of Guillaume Adolphe Ruais and Maria Marguerite Adolphine Froger. Gwendoline’s great-grandmother Marie Marguerite was the daughter of Pierre Emile Tournois and Marie Virginie Henriette Valentine Millot.

Gwendoline’s paternal grandmother was Gillette Leboucher (the daughter of Paul Jules Marie Leboucher and Clotilde Jéronime Louise Guieysse). Gillette was born in Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. Paul was the son of Paul Constant Leboucher and Georgette Agathe Vardon. Clotilde was the daughter of Pierre Georges Guieysse and Clotilde Hélène Marie Rousseau.

Sources: https://www.letelegramme.fr

Genealogy of Gwendoline Ruais – http://gw.geneanet.org

5 Responses

  1. Akwaba says:

    Her paternal grandmother has roots there : https://www.google.fr/amp/s/www.letelegramme.fr/_amp/349/20130102-1001960349.php

    A Filipino star who spent her holidays in my region, that’s crazy !

  2. Manila says:

    Marie Marguerite was the daughter of Pierre Emile Tournois and Marie Virginie Henriette Valentine Millot.

  3. Manila says:

    Gwendoline’s father also had remote Italian (Piedmontese) ancestry.

  4. madman says:

    French, Breton, remote Cornish (father)

    Norman is not an ethnicity.

  5. Manila says:

    Gwendoline’s paternal grandmother had also remote Norman and Cornish roots.

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