Katy Perry
Perry in 2010, Left Eyed Photography/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Date of Birth: October 25, 1984
Ethnicity: Portuguese/Azorean (3/16ths), along with German, English, Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, distant French, remote Manx/Isle of Man
Katy Perry, born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her hit songs include “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot n Cold.” She is also known as Katy Hudson and Katheryn Perry.
Katy is the daughter of Mary and Maurice Hudson, who are Pentecostal pastors. She has a daughter with her fiancé, English actor Orlando Bloom.
Katy’s father has English, and smaller amounts, to varying degrees, of Irish, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Welsh, French, and remote Manx/Isle of Man, ancestry. Katy’s mother is of three eighths Portuguese, one eighth Irish, one quarter German, and approximately one quarter English/British Isles, descent. Three of Katy’s maternal great-great-grandparents were from the Azores, islands belonging to Portugal; including from Horta, Faial Island, in the Azores. Katy’s uncle, her mother’s half-brother, was director Frank Perry. The family’s Perry surname was originally Pereira.
A DNA test whose results Katy displayed on her Instagram page stated that her genetic ancestry is:
*86.7% Northwestern European
——–*36.1% British & Irish
——–*34.4% Broadly Northwestern European
——–*13.9% French & German
——–*2.3% Scandinavian
*11.3% Southern European
——–*5.3% Iberian
——–*4.9% Broadly Southern European
——–*1.0% Italian
*1.8% Broadly European
*<0.1% Ashkenazi Jewish
*<0.1% Unassigned
Katy’s paternal grandfather was Robert C. Hudson (the son of Robert Carlock Hudson and Merla Douglas). Katy’s grandfather Robert was born in Tennessee. Katy’s great-grandfather Robert was the son of Joseph Sidney Hudson and Lula Ada Carlock.
Katy’s paternal grandmother was Annie/Ann Pearl Robison (the daughter of Hulet Lender Robison and Lassie Leodifyne Meadows). Annie was born in Arkansas. Hulet was the son of Julius Walter Robison and Millie Maud Knight. Lassie was the daughter of Joseph Hasard Meadows and Nannie N. Garrett.
Katy’s maternal grandfather was Frank Joseph Perry (the son of Antonio Perry and Sarah Adeline Denis). Frank was born in California. Antonio was of Portuguese descent, the son of Frank Perry. Sarah was the daughter of Vincente Denis, a Portuguese immigrant, and of Hannah A. Mulhaire, who was Irish, from Eyrecourt, County Galway.
Katy’s maternal grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Vilsack (the daughter of Aloysius Joseph “Ollie” Vilsack and Gladys Matilda Brace). Mary Elizabeth was born in Pennsylvania. Aloysius was of German descent, the son of Leopold Vilsack, a famous brewer and banker, and of Dorothea/Dorothy A. Blank. Gladys had English ancestry, and was the daughter of Napoleon Collins Brace and Mary Elizabeth Craig.
Katy is a second cousin, once removed, of politician Tom Vilsack. Katy’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Leopold Vilsack and Dorothea/Dorothy A. Blank, were also Tom’s paternal great-grandparents.
Katy is also a third cousin of actress Cozi Zuehlsdorff. Katy’s maternal great-great-grandparents, Napoleon Collins Brace and Mary Elizabeth Craig, were also Cozi’s maternal great-great-grandparents.
Sources: Genealogies of Katy Perry – http://www.geni.com
http://gw.geneanet.org
Family history of Katy Perry, by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak (at The Huffington Post) – http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Katy’s paternal grandmother, Annie/Ann Pearl Robison, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Katy’s maternal grandmother, Mary Elizabeth (Vilsack) Perry Walton – https://findagrave.com
Katy’s maternal grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Vilsack, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
She is “mixture” of european ethnicity´s including irish, german, inglish and portuguese (Horta, Azores) from the mother side.
Inglish?
o_o
Latino…as Latim language e and not Latino the name u americans give to central and south america people.
I think thats what delnegro is trying to say.
Not all Central and South American people are latino.Also the sterotype of latino in Usa is a Mexican.Mexicana are not Central or South Americans
So basically she is white! Mixed is about RACE not ethnicities.
There’s no such thing as extant human races. The only biologically defined human race other than ‘Homo sapiens sapiens’ is ‘Homo sapiens idaltu’ and they died out long ago.
In fact, even if we presume that there are races of humans, they are not discrete, there’s a great deal of overlap, and a slow transition between the populations, called “clines” in biology. So it’s always possible to find populations which doesn’t fit into any pre-described racial categories, no matter how you define them.
In genetics, there is clusters based on geography, and that’s based on similarity due to geographical closeness, but not necessarily something which defines an inherent race.
There is a great deal of variation among humans, both within and between populations. I presume that people can understand the variation between populations bit, but they have a hard time with the variation within populations, which makes them assume that this or that person “must” have this or hat ancestry based on looks, which can just as well be explained by local variation – especially when you consider that European Americans often have ancestry from all over Europe, which widens the possible variation within their group.
I see the German in her
Practically everyone named Perry is really named Pereira (or their ancestors were). Pereira is a Portugese name.
Is Perry the Angelicized version of Pereira? Kind of like how Ross is of Rossetti?
Unlikely,Perry came from welsh Parry or french “perie”