Mark Salling
Salling in 2011, Helga Esteb/ Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Mark Wayne Salling
Date of Birth: August 17, 1982
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Date of Death: January 30, 2018
Place of Death: Sunland, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: English, German, with more distant Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch
Mark Salling was an American actor and musician. His roles included the series Glee and the film Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering.
Mark had deep roots in the American South, going back to the 1600s on many lines. His ancestry included English and German, along with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Welsh, Scottish, Dutch, and Irish. In responding to a question about his ancestry on The Wendy Williams Show, in 2009, Mark stated, “I’m whatever you want me to be.”
Mark’s patrilineal line can be traced to Johan Pierre Salin, who was born, c. 1670, in Furth, Germany.
Mark’s paternal grandfather was John Robert Salling (the son of Minnis Theodore Salling and Harriet Alma Tucker). John was born in Ohio. Minnis was the son of John Henry Salling and Amanda Palestine White. Harriet was the daughter of Robert Bell Tucker and Elizabeth Francis Scott.
Mark’s paternal grandmother was Mildred Aline Archer (the daughter of Claude Falkner Archer and Nancy Aline McIntyre). Mildred was born in Texas. Claude was the son of James Jefferson Archer and Samantha Cooper. Nancy was the daughter of John Thomas McIntyre and Alabama Lamberth.
Mark’s maternal grandfather was Wayne Stanton Wherry (the son of Eli Herbert Wherry and Lois Estella Phare). Wayne was born in Missouri. Eli was the son of William Wherry and Isadora Telitha Matthews. Lois was the daughter of John Jay Phare and Cornelia/Kerna Lourrinda/Laurenda Shaffer.
Mark’s maternal grandmother was Cleo Bess Donelson (the daughter of Burgess Alexander/E. Donelson and Ida Dorn). Cleo was born in Texas. Burgess was the son of Aaron Taylor Donelson and Martha Leona Copeland. Ida was the daughter of John Melvin Dorn and Talva/Talvy Ann McCreless.
Sources: Genealogy of Mark Salling (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Genealogy of Mark’s paternal great-grandfather, Minnis Theodore Salling – http://www.findagrave.com
Genealogy of Mark’s paternal great-grandmother, Harriet Alma (Tucker) Salling – http://www.findagrave.com
Genealogies of Mark’s paternal great-grandfather, Claude Falkner Archer and Nancy Aline McIntyre – http://www.findagrave.com
He’s ugly.
This guy is not fully white. IDGAF what anyone says. He looks VERY ethnic. He looks part Black and Hispanic.
The surname Salling isn’t German, it’s Danish.
It is both.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=Salling&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=Germany&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search
No he doesn’t….oh wait you thought all Germans were blonde haired and blue eyed? ever seen Southern Germany? Bavaria? they practically look like mediterraneans in Bavaria. Americans are so ignorant about races mostly because all your immigrants came from one region of their respective countries. Do you even realize how phenotypically different European nations are by region? not even all English from different regions look alike.
probably he is 1/8 black or was adopted.However this English guy looks part black too:http://www3.images.coolspotters.com/photos/231104/dimitri-leonidas-profile.jpg
Dimitri Leonidas is fully Greek Cypriot
Dimitri Leonidas’s mother, Lesley C. Probert, was born in Paddington, in 1953. Her parents, George T. Probert and Dorothy E. Thorbes, were most assuredly not Greeks.
Mark Salling obviously looks like his parents. He has his mother’s smile/expression and his dad’s bone structure.
http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/8700000/mark-with-his-parents-mark-salling-8731424-500-356.jpg
You don’t believe genealogy? Well, then, why are you on this site? You can just say that anyone is anything and no amount of traced ancestral lineage will ever be able to disprove it.
Dimitri Leonidas is Greek stop spreading propoganda!! you really think someone with a name like that is English?!
I would not trust in genealogy traced by internet users
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe he was adopted and he’s just hiding that fact,he doesn’t look like his parents.
No he doesn’t look 1/8 black he looks british!
You can’t look British. You can ‘look’ English, but not British. That’s a nationality. Just like who can “look” American…
Ahhhh yes, thats the idiotic American logic to everything. A white person is a little dark = Part black.
Hahaha i bet if you went to Scandinavia or some Slavic country and saw Caucasians with borealized type eyes you’d call them part Asian or Native American.
Ridiculous. Europe is a diverse continent. Not all white people look like the British you idiots. You Americans have such a warped view on Caucasians only because your whole idea of white people is based around Anglo-Americans. You haven’t got a clue of how diverse Caucasians look outside of Anglos.
thank you!
Don’t some Eastern Europeans have some Asian ancestry?
It may be old, but still.
And Caucasian doesn’t equal white or European. Indians, Moroccans, Saudi Arabians, Turkish people, Armenians, Lebanese people are Caucasian. Somalians and Ethiopians are technically Caucasian and they’re black.
So, yes, they are a diverse race of people.
Indeed, on the Caucasian part.
Western Asia has many Caucasian peoples: parts of Russia, Turkey, Lebanon, etc. Maybe some of these people travelled over to Eastern Europe back in the day…maybe back and forth, lol.