Birth Name: Mark Freuder Knopfler
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Date of Birth: 12 August 1949
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish (father); English (mother)
Family info: Mark Knopfler is a British musician. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits.
He was born to an English mother, Louisa Mary, from Blyth, Northumberland, and an Hungarian Jewish father, Erwin Knopfler, who was an architect and a chess player, whose anti-fascist sympathies and Jewish parentage forced him to flee from his native Hungary in 1939.
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