Jimmy Fallon
Fallon in 2010, photo by Featureflash / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: James Thomas Fallon
Place of Birth: Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: September 19, 1974
Ethnicity:
*62.5% Irish
*25% German
*12.5% Norwegian
Jimmy Fallon is an American stand-up comedian, television host, actor, singer, musician, writer, and producer. He has hosted The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014. He previously hosted the show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014. He has also starred in the films Taxi (2004) and Fever Pitch, and on Saturday Night Live. He co-created the show Guys with Kids.
Jimmy is the son of Gloria and James Fallon, a machine repairman for IBM. His father, a Vietnam veteran, had sung in street-corner doo-wop groups. Jimmy was mostly raised in Saugerties, New York. His father is of half Irish and half German descent. His mother is of three quarters Irish and one quarter Norwegian ancestry. He was raised Catholic.
Jimmy is married to producer Nancy Juvonen, with whom he has two children.
Jimmy’s paternal grandfather was James William Fallon (the son of William John Fallon and Mary Ann Monahan). Jimmy’s grandfather James was born in New York, of Irish descent. Jimmy’s great-grandfather William was the son of Thomas Fallon, who was from County Galway, Ireland, and of Louisa Stickevers/Stickever. Louisa’s parents were Henry Stickever, who was born in France, of Irish descent, and Mary O’Brien, who was Irish. Jimmy’s great-grandmother Mary was born in New York, the daughter of James P./Henry Monahan and Mary Martha Worth; Martha was born in Spain, though of Irish descent.
Jimmy’s paternal grandmother was Luise/Louise Schalla (the daughter of Karl/Charles Friedrich August Schalla and Luise “Lizzie”/Elizabeth Ganz). Jimmy’s grandmother Luise was German, born in Osterholz-Scharmbeck, to a father from Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, and a mother from Osterholz-Scharmbeck.
Jimmy’s maternal grandfather was Thomas Francis “Tom” Feeley (the son of Thomas Feehily/Feeley, Jr. and Mary Jane O’Neill). Jimmy’s grandfather Thomas was born in New York. Jimmy’s great-grandfather Thomas was from Drumlish, County Longford, Ireland, the son of Thomas Feehily and Mary Kenny. Jimmy’s great-grandmother Mary Jane was from Killoe, also in County Longford, Ireland, and was the daughter of Bernard O’Neill and Teresa.
Jimmy’s maternal grandmother was Gloria Rose Hovelsen/Hovelson (the daughter of Hans Julius Hovelsen and Mary Frances “May” Driscoll). Gloria was born in New York. Hans was Norwegian, born in Fredrikstad, Norway, the son of Johan Severin Hovelsen and Bolette/Bollette Jacobsdatter/Jakobsen. Jimmy’s great-grandmother Mary was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, to Joseph Driscoll and Margaret Daly.
Sources: Family history of Jimmy Fallon, by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, for Irish America Magazine – http://irishamerica.com
Genealogies of Jimmy Fallon – http://www.geni.com
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Obituary of Jimmy’s paternal grandmother, Luise/Louise (Schalla) Fallon – http://www.americanmemorials.com
Fallon with wife Nancy Juvonen, 2006, photo by Starfrenzy/www.bigstockphoto.com
He clearly looks Asian to me. He looks like American guys who are 1/4 Asian. Much like Keanu Reeves, he may have a bit of Hawaiian or Island.
Maybe it’s phenotypical remnants from Sami heritage somewhere way down the line in his Norwegian blood line.
his norwegian is less than 15% of his ancestry(at least according to the documents), a % this low would not influence much of his apperience, nowhere near as much as the irish and german part
I’m not Asuan and my mom’s side looks like this.. some of her siblings are even darker. My cousin did a thorough background of our family and my uncle as well as myself did ancestry tests. Results: Irish, Welsh, German. No Asian
Does he have Middle Eastern?
Stop spamming every page with this.
No
No. Did you not read what it says? Irish. German, Norwegian
He looks like he has at least 15 or 20% of non european blood, probably asian.
Maybe he has sami blood by her norweigan ancestry.
lol Alberto I can tell you’re from the land of education USA. What on earth is “non european”?
Have you ever heard of Eastern Europe? Ever heard of the nations of Southern Europe? So you’ve never heard of gypsies, Tatars, Cumans, Bulgars, Mediterraneans (which means mixed with north Africans by the way).
What on earth is “non european blood” you american genius you.
If you mean “white people” those are your western europeans, the same people who created your problematic nation.
Look you little american…
I’ll show you some celebrities from the nations of the Balkan peninsula. Cause I see you americans know soooo much about us europeans.
Lili Sandu
Adrola Dushi
Rita Ora
Pepe
Alex Velea
Bulgarian sisters Alex & Vladi
Look those people up cause those are your Europeeeeeeeeeans.
i will never understand why such an innocuous concept as non-European triggers you so much, it’s legit amusing
OMG, dude put urself together that’s just an opinion, nobody’s tryna offend you
He looks hispanic not even typical south euro. If it’s not native it must be due to one of those finno ugric, north asiatic indigenous ethnicities. The thing is they usually dont have such tan olive skin like latins or mideasterners especially the mixed ones.
@chris91 He tans to make his skin darker.
I suppose that by hispanic(real hispanics are white europeans) you means mestizo. I think his skin would perfectly fit in Ireland or Germany but he has another features like his eyes that seem to be mongoloid as you have said.
I guess my maternal uncle and my ancestry results, not to mention the thorough family history my cousin did on that side of my family are all lying then bc my mom’s side had dark features like Fallon…some were darker. They all traced back to Ireland, Wales, and a small percentage of Bavarian (German). Quit trolling
I guess my maternal uncle and my ancestry results, not to mention the thorough family history my cousin did on that side of my family are all lying then bc my mom’s side had dark features like Fallon…some were darker. They all traced back to Ireland, Wales, and a small percentage of Bavarian (German). Quit trolling
His Norwegian portion must be the native Asiatic folks similar to Samis and Inuits, indigenous to the Northern Europe. His eyes shape and skin tone do indicate that.
Sami people are the only indigenous people in Northern Europe. Inuits are from Canada and Greenland, not Scandinavia. And Jimmy’s Norwegian ancestor was not of Sami ancestry (even if he had some, it would be to small of an amount to actually affect Jimmy’s appearance anyway).
>Sami people are the only indigenous people in Northern Europe
I’d argue that Swedes, Norwegians and Finns are also indigenous to Northern Europe.
Yes, if you go by the entire countries. But the northern parts of Scandinavia were settled by non-Sami peoples late, I think largely in the beginning of the 1600’s.
For what it’s worth, Jimmy’s wife is of Finnish descent.
@madman Not true.
Yes, what I wrote is true. A “Not true” isn’t going to convince me, you’re going to have to provide a little bit more than that.
@Ardor Asians aren’t indigenous to Northern Europe. They invaded thousands of years ago
If you by Asians mean Samis, then yes, they are. By any reasonable definition, Samis are indigenous to Northern Europe. I don’t know how “Asian” they can be considered though. Their origin is disputed (although an Eastern origin seems most likely), and if it is in fact Asian, they are as Asian as Finns.
Is “invaded” really the word you want to use in association with the Samis? Do you know anything about their traditional lifestyle?
The sami are not native to any part of Europe, stop this bs
You too don’t say craps anytime.