Birth Name: Albert Lincoln Roker Jr.
Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: August 20, 1954
Ethnicity:
*Afro-Bahamian (father)
*Afro-Jamaican, possibly other (mother)
Al Roker is an American television personality, weather forecaster, actor, and author. He was born in Queens, New York, to Isabel Bernadette (Smith) and Albert Lincoln Roker, Sr.
His paternal grandfather was Albert Hubert Roker. His parents were David Roker (the son of Robert Roker and Carolyn Cooper) and Frances Rolle. Albert was born in Exuma, the Bahamas.
His paternal grandmother was Remilda/Remelda Sullivan Johnson. She was born somewhere in the British West Indies.
His maternal grandparents were Charles Alfred Smith, who was from Pennsylvania, and Leila Maud Howden, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to Afro-Jamaican parents.
Source: Genealogy of Al Roker (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com/people/Al-Roker/4051802
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Roker-14
http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/
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