Zayn Malik
Malik in 2013, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Zain Javadd Malik
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 12 January, 1993
Ethnicity:
*father – Pakistani [Punjabi]
*mother – English, some Irish, distant Welsh
Zayn Malik is a British singer and songwriter. He has also been credited simply as Zayn. He was previously a member of boy band One Direction, along with Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson.
His father is Pakistani, from Jhelum, Punjab. His mother is of English, some Irish, and distant Welsh, descent. His father was born a Muslim and his mother converted to Islam; Zayn was raised Muslim. He speaks Urdu.
Zayn has a daughter with his former partner, American model and television personality Gigi Hadid.
Zayn’s maternal grandfather was Walter Brannan (the son of Thomas Brannan and Florence Lauretta Boldy). Walter was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England.
Zayn’s maternal grandmother was Jean Ruberry (the daughter of Cyril Ruberry and Hilda Bairstow). Jean was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Cyril was the son of John William Rubery and Lily Bromley. Hilda was the daughter of Joseph Bairstow and Mary Ann “Polly” Chippendale.
Sources: Genealogy of Zayn Malik (focusing on his mother’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Birth record of Zayn’s paternal great-grandmother, Florence Lauretta Boldy – https://familysearch.org
Malik in 2010, photo by Prphotos
He’s so hot!!
Neil are you a man or woman?
He is cute. He just needs a bigger forehead. :/
He could pass as Lebanese or even a light brown Pakistani.
He’s so good looking btw.
He looks Indian, but indian of a certain part of certain cast/class of ethnicity or sub-ethnicity group within that 2% tiny population of Indian Punjabis. Considering India is much bigger country it has 1.5 billion people 2% is may looks big in number is still a comparably tiny population in India.
To @Andrew Wrong Its only India and Pakistan that were separated not Bangladesh Bangladesh was separated from Pakistan much later afterwards. Punjabi is a state not ethnicity and its have more ethnicities within. 2% Punjabis are not 42% so its largely Indian and Pakistani are different Example there are more Punjabi living in India in number (but not in percentage) then Pakistan but in percentage India only have 2% Punjabi while Pakistan it 42% Punjabi So indian predominantly are not Punjabi even though it have more Punjabi in number but not in % Indian Punjabi and pakistan Punjabi share same ethnicities but Pakistan have slightly Afghan,Turkish, Roman, mongolia influenced in them and Certain ethnicities are only belongs to Pakistan ( i.e. pashtun etc) and same for India (i.e. Tamils)
Very few Pakistani have turkish roman blood less then 00.1 percent and Pashto’s can be found in india so can Tamils in Pakistan both country’s less then hundred years ago were same country so it would make sense
Could pass as a Southern European who looks Arab.