Birth Name: Walter Marvin Koenig
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois
Date of Birth: September 14, 1936
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Walter Koenig is an American actor. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants.
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Nichelle Nichols
Birth Name: Grace Dell Nichols
Place of Birth: Robbins, Illinois
Date of Birth: December 28, 1932
Ethnicity: African-American
Nichelle Nichols is an American actress. She is African-American.
Nichelle’s paternal grandparents were Samuel G. Nichols and Lydia Myers (the daughter of Jacob Meyers and Blanche).
Nichelle’s maternal grandparents were Henry Parks (the son of George Parks and Mary Elizabeth “Lizzie” Pasto/Parker) and Malissa Stinson.
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Sami Khedira
Date of birth: 4 April 1987
Place of birth: Stuttgart, West Germany
Ethnicity: Tunisian, German
Family info: Sami Khedira is a German footballer currently playing for Real Madrid and the German national team. Khedira moved to Real Madrid from VfB Stuttgart in 2010. His father is Tunisian and his mother is German: they met in Hammamet, Tunisia. He was raised in Fellbach, Oeffingen in Baden-Württemberg region.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Khedira
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Ryan Braun
Birth Name: Ryan Joseph Braun
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California
Date of Birth: November 17, 1983
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish father, Possibly Irish and other mother
Family info: Ryan Braun is a professional baseball player. His father is Jewish and his mother is not Jewish and was raised Catholic. Being Catholic and given the name Ryan it is possible his mother has Irish and other roots but never said.
Source: http://forward.com/articles/187662/can-ryan-braun-repent-enough-to-win-back-jewish-fa/?p=all
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Chris Colfer
Birth Name: Christopher Paul Colfer
Place of Birth: Clovis, California
Date of Birth: May 27, 1990
Ethnicity: Irish, English
Chris Colfer is an American actor. He has Irish and English ancestry.
Chris’s paternal grandmother’s name was Patricia M.
Chris’s maternal grandparents are Wayne C. Boling and Fawnda R. Hill, who is a Christian minister (her re-marriage name is Fawnda Runyon).
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Cicely Tyson
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: December 19, 1933
Ethnicity: Afro-Caribbean
Cicely Tyson is an American actress. Her parents were from Nevis, an island in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Cicely’s paternal grandparents were John Tyson and Martha Laurance.
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Sarah Paulson
Birth Name: Sarah Catharine Paulson
Place of Birth: Tampa, Florida
Date of Birth: December 17, 1974
Ethnicity: English, 1/8th Danish, some German, French
Sarah Paulson is an American actress. Her paternal great-grandfather was of Danish descent. She also has English, and some German and French, ancestry.
Sarah’s paternal grandparents are the Rev. Douglas Lyle Paulson, Sr. (the son of Frederick “Fred” Albert Paulson and Margaret Annie Chenault) and Gwendolyn. Frederick was born in Wisconsin, to Danish parents; his father was Hens Paulson.
Sarah’s maternal grandfather is John Henry Dolcater, Jr. (the son of John Henry Dolcater and Julia Anna Waters). Sarah’s great-grandfather John was the son of William Chauncey Dolcater and Canadian-born Mary Susan Mitchell.
Sources: Sarah’s paternal grandfather, Douglas Lyle Paulson, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Sarah’s maternal great-grandparents, John Henry Dolcater and Julia Anna Waters, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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Josh Charles
Birth Name: Joshua Aaron Charles
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland
Date of Birth: September 15, 1971
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*German, English, Scottish (mother)
Josh Charles is an American actor. His father is Jewish, and Josh has described himself as Jewish. His mother has German, English, and Scottish ancestry.
Josh’s maternal grandparents were Wilbur Woodrow Heckscher (the son of Robert J. Heckscher and Mary Glass) and Pamela “Pam” Lowery (the daughter of Percy McGee Lowery and Ruby Jewel/Jewell Gibson).
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Noah Silver
Place of Birth: Miami, Florida
Ethnicity: French Jewish
Noah Silver is a French and American actor. He was born in Miami, to an American father and a French mother. Either one or both of his parents is/are Jewish.
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Hank Greenberg
Birth Name: Henry Benjamin “Hank” Greenberg
Place of Birth: New York, City
Date of Birth: January 1, 1911
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Family info: Hall of Fame’s Hank Greenberg is the son of Sarah and David Greenberg who were both Jewish.
Source: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/greenberg.html
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Rod Carew
Birth Name: Rodney Cline “Rod” Carew
Place of Birth: Gatún, Panama
Date of Birth: October 1, 1945
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: African American
Family info: Rod Carew is a Hall of Fame baseball player. He is African American who married a Jewish woman and had Jewish children. Rod Carew has no Jewish roots and said he never converted to Judaism himself.
Source: http://ccsabathia52.com/2011/02/13/feb-13th-rod-carew-a-salute-to-black-history-baseball-heroes/
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2012/08/rod-carew-adam-sandler-chanukah-song/1#.U79Z6zmFXZw
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Brad Ausmus
Birth Name: Bradley David Ausmus
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut
Date of Birth: April 14, 1969
Ethnicity:
*English, distant German (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Brad Ausmus was a previous Major League Baseball player. His mother was Jewish and his father was a Protestant of English and distant German descent.
Brad’s paternal grandparents were Harry Lee Ausmus (the son of William Harrison Ausmus and Mary Blaine Williams) and Gretna Ellen Childress (the daughter of Alvis Lindsay Childress and Mary Callie Edens).
Brad’s maternal grandparents were Jacques Michel Dronsick (the son of Leopold Dronsick and Ricka Schmidt) and Adele Friedman.
Source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Brad_Ausmus.html
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Jenna Fischer
Birth Name: Regina Marie Fischer
Place of Birth: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Date of Birth: March 7, 1974
Ethnicity: German, Swiss-German, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Scottish, English, Bohemian (Czech), Hungarian
Jenna Fischer is an American actress. Her father is of mostly German, as well as Swiss-German, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Scottish, and English, descent. Her mother has German, 1/4 Bohemian (Czech), 1/4 Hungarian, and possibly English, ancestry.
Jenna’s paternal grandfather was Edward Michael Fischer (the son of Edward Christian Ernst Fischer and Mary Emilie Thomann). Jenna’s grandfather Edward was of German descent.
Jenna’s paternal grandmother was Georgia Louise Crone (the daughter of Elmer Neal Crone and Stella Louise McKenna). Elmer’s father was from Ballymena, Northern Ireland. Stella’s mother was German.
Jenna’s maternal grandparents were Harold William Miller (the son of Edward Joseph Miller and Vilheminy “Minnie” Schultz) and Helen J. Bruns (the daughter of Julius E. Bruns and Anna). Vilheminy was of Bohemian (Czech) descent. Julius was of German descent. Anna was Hungarian.
Sources: Genealogy of Jenna Fischer – http://www.geni.com
Jenna’s maternal grandfather, Harold William Miller, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Jenna’s maternal grandmother, Helen J. Bruns, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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James Newman
Birth Name: James Myron Newman
Date of Birth: January 22, 1992
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother)
*English, Welsh, Belgian (maternal grandfather)
James Newman is an American actor. He is the son of producer Peter Newman and actress Antonia Dauphin. His brother is actor Griffin Newman.
James’s father is Jewish. James’s maternal grandfather, who was English, was of English, Welsh, and 1/16th Belgian (Flemish), descent. James’s maternal grandmother is of Polish Jewish background.
James’s paternal grandparents are Leonard Newman and Roslyn Orlofsky.
James’s maternal grandfather was Marc Brandel, a novelist (born Marcus Beresford, the son of J.D. Beresford, a writer, who born John Davys Beresford, and of Eveline Beatrice Auford Roskams). Marc was English. J.D., whose father was a clergyman, had English and Welsh ancestry. Eveline’s paternal great-grandfather, Joannus Baptista Roskams, was Belgian (of Flemish descent).
James’s maternal grandmother is Ruda Dauphin, a festival director (born Ruda Podemska). Ruda is of Polish Jewish descent. James’s maternal step-grandfather was French actor Claude Dauphin.
Source: Obituary of James’s paternal grandfather, Leonard Newman – http://query.nytimes.com
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David Silva
Birth Name: David Josué Jiménez Silva
Place of birth:Arguineguín, Spain
Date of Birth: 8 January 1986
Ethnicity: Spanish-Canarian; Japanese or South Korean
Family info: David Silva is a Spanish footballer who plays for English club Manchester City and the Spanish national team.
Silva was born in Arguineguín, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, to Fernando Jiménez, a former municipal police officer, and Eva Silva, of Japanese descent, as claimed by the Canarian media.
He is commonly called by the nickname Chino (Spanish for “Chinese”) due to his physical appearance.
The BBC reported that his maternal grandfather was from South Korea and settled in the Canary Islands in the 1960s
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Silva
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Joachim Löw
Place of birth: Schönau, West Germany
Date of Birth: 3 February 1960
Eye Color: brown
Hair Type/Color: black
Ethnicity: German
Family info: Joachim Löw is the manager of the German national football team and a former football midfielder.
He’s from Schönau im Schwarzwald, a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, close to Swiss border.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_L%C3%B6w
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Caroline Wozniacki
Birth Name: Caroline Wozniacki
Place of Birth: Odense, Denmark
Date of Birth: 11 July 1990
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Type/Color: Blonde
Ethnicity: Polish
Family info: Caroline Wozniacki is a Danish tennis player. Her parents were Polish catholic immigrants.
Source: Wikipedia
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Simon Rex Cutright
Birth Name:Simon Rex Cutright
Place of Birth:San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Birth:July 20, 1974
Ethnicity: Jewish(Mother), Anglo American(Father)
Family info:Rex was born Simon Rex Cutright in San Francisco, California, and is the only child of Paul and Zoe Cutright, He is Jewish on his mother’s side
Source: Wikipedia
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Sara Sampaio
Birth Name: Sara Pinto Sampaio
Place of Birth: Porto, Portugal
Date of Birth: July 21, 1991
Eye Color: Green
Hair Type/Color: Dark Brown/Brunette
Ethnicity: Portuguese
Family info: Sara Sampaio is a Portuguese model known for working with brands like victoria’s secret.
Source: http://www.fashionmodeldirectory.com/models/Sara_Sampaio/
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Elmira Abdrazakova
Birth Name: Elmira Abdrazakova
Place of Birth: Zhelezin District, Pavlodar Province, Kazakhstan
Date of Birth: October 7, 1994
Eye Color: Green
Hair Type/Color: brown
Ethnicity: Tartar (father) Russian (mother)
Elmira Abdrazakova is a Kazakh-born Russian beauty pageant titleholder.
She was known for the controversy surrounding her win as Miss Russia 2013 for not being “Russian enough” to represent her country.
Family info: Her father is named Rafail Abdrazakov and her mother is Olga Pshenichnikova.
Source: http://www.missuniverse.com/members/profile/657656
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/miss-russia-haters-elmira-abdrazakova_n_3084364.html
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