Birth Name: Timothy David Olyphant
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii
Date of Birth: May 20, 1968
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity: Russian Jewish (great-grandfather), English, German, Scottish, Dutch, Irish
Family info: Timothy Olyphant is an American actor.
One of Timothy’s maternal great-grandfathers was a Russian Jewish immigrant, born in Toula (Tula), Russia (Timothy’s maternal grandfather’s father, Abraham G. Gideon). The rest of Timothy’s family have lived in the United States for many generations; their roots include mostly English, as well as German, Scottish, Dutch, and Irish, ancestry.
Timothy is a great-great-great-great-grandson of industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877). Timothy is also a ten times great-grandson of Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607-1676), who was born in Cartagena, Spain, to a Dutch father and a mother who is sometimes stated to have been of Moroccan or Moorish background.
Timothy’s paternal grandparents were John Kensett Olyphant, Jr. (the son of John Kensett Olyphant and Nannie H. Heilman) and Adele Hammond (the daughter of John Henry Hammond and Lila Emily Sloane).
Timothy’s maternal grandparents were David Bickford Gideon (the son of Abraham G. Gideon and Edith Mary Young) and Virginia Lyon (the daughter of Horace Dinsmore Lyon and Katherine Hamilton Sickels).
Source: Timothy’s parents’ marriage announcement –
A genealogy of Timothy Olyphant –
Another genealogy of Timothy Olyphant –
A genealogy of one of Timothy’s maternal great-grandmothers, Katherine / Catharine Hamilton Sickels -
Timothy’s great-great-great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt –
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