List of multiracial people

List of famous biracial and multiracial people.

A

*Paula Abdul - singer and entertainer[1] ""How many multiracial Americans are there?" are proving tricky. New state figures from the Census Bureau, however, offer some clues about this group, which includes golfer Tiger Woods and singers Paula Abdul and Mariah Carey." [2] "Her mother is from a Canadian Jewish family. Bio profiles leave it unclear whether her father is a Sephardic Jew or a Syrian non-Jew."
*Karima Adebibe, most recent real-life Lara Croft model: half-Moroccan, half-British father, white Irish mother.
*AI (Ai Carina Uemura), singer, Japanese, Italian
*Laurel Aitken - Jamaican ska singer, Cuban father and Jamaican mother
*Angela Aki - singer, Japanese, Italian
*Jessica Alba - actress, Dutch/French mother, Mexican father[3] "Learning how to fit in was the key to survival, especially growing up biracial. Alba is French-Danish on her mother's side and Mexican-Indian and Spanish on her father's. "I was never accepted into the Latin community as a Latina girl, and I was never accepted into the white community as an all-American girl," she reveals. "Hopefully, I can be an example to other people who feel like outcasts.""
*Monica Ali - British novelist, Bangladeshi, English parents
*Tatyana Ali - actress[4] "Her mother is from Panama and her father is of Trinidad East Indian descent."
*Shola Ama - singer[5] "Her mother is of Dominican and St Lucian parentage and her father is White."
*Amerie — American singer, Korean, African American[6]
*Amil - singer, African-American father, European/Cherokee mother[7] "Her father is Black, her mother is European/Cherokee (according to the bio on her website)."
*Namie Amuro, singer, Japanese, Italian
*Angelina - singer, Japanese, Spanish
*Devon Aoki - model/actress, Japanese father, English and German mother[8] "Japanese, German, English"
*Beni Arashiro - singer, Japanese, Spanish
*Leila Arcieri - actress, Italian father, African-American mother[9] "Her father is Italian and her mother is Black."
*Crispus Attucks - victim of the Boston Massacre[10]
*Maulana Azad, Indian freedom fighter; Indian father and Arab mother.

B

*Baby.M - singer, Japanese, British
*Marcos Baghdatis, tennis player, Lebanese father, Greek Cypriot mother
*Charli Baltimore - rapper, German father and African-American mother
*Begona Bang-Matu - singer, vocalist of Spanish ska band The Malarians and Bang Matu & Orquesta Kingston, Spanish father and African mother
*Dame Shirley Bassey - singer, English mother, Nigerian father[11] "Her mother was English, her father was Nigerian (From Black Britain Online)."
*Jennifer Beals - actress, Irish mother, African-American father[12] "she finds it easier to play one on TV because she's biracial, so she has "always lived sort-of on the outside,"
*Tyson Beckford - supermodel, Jamaican father, Jamaican and Chinese-American mother[13]"One of America's Hottest Multiracial Models and Actors... This article shines a spotlight on the 6'2" supermodel Tyson Beckford--one of the world's most famous male models and an individual whose unique African-Asian appearance has taken the modeling world by storm."
*Gina Belafonte - actress/producer, black father and white mother[14]"Actress and producer is the biracial daughter of singer Harry Belafonte and a White mother."
*Halle Berry - actress, English mother, African-American father[15] "Berry also suffered insults from her peers as a child because she is biracial, and her family lived in a predominately white Cleveland suburb. Her appearance won her numerous beauty contests, however, and she eventually became a runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant."
*Troy Beyer - actress, black mother, Jewish father[16]"Actress, is the biracial daughter of Black mother, Jewish father."
*Traci Bingham - actress, Native American father, Black and Italian mother[17] "Her father is Native American (according to TopBlacks.com) and Her Mother is Black and Italian. Mostly know as the first Black person cast on Baywatch."
*Cedric Bixler-Zavala - musician, Mexican mother, German/ Spanish father
*Pauline Black - musician, singer of 2 Tone ska band The Selecter, black African father and white English mother
*Michelle Branch (1983 - ) American singer, songwriter and guitarist
*Benjamin Bratt - actor[19] "What do actors Halle Berry and Benjamin Bratt, musicians Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz, baseball star Derek Jeter, and golf phenomenon Tiger Woods have in common? OK, besides being millionaires? They are all children of biracial relationships."
*Samuel Brodie, UK reality TV contestant, Scottish father, Indonesian mother
*Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - singer, Native American mother, African-American father
*Melanie Brown - singer, English mother, Nevisian father[20] "Her mother Andrea is white and her father is from the Caribbean island of Nevis."

C

*Dean Cain - actor, Japanese, French Canadian, Irish, Welsh[21]
*Roy Campanella - baseball star, Italian father, African-American mother[22] "My interest in Campanella, however, lies in another aspect of the man: his biracial heritage and specifically his Italian ancestry. While Campanella's mother was "black," his father, a fruit vendor in Philadelphia, hailed from Sicily, an island off the south of Italy. I remember when I saw a picture of Roy Campanella my first thought was "He looks so Italian!" He had tightly curled hair and dark skin, but his facial features were, in my opinion, very Italian. He would not have looked out of place in Palermo or Rome."
*Naomi Campbell - model, Jamaican mother, Jamaican/Chinese father[23] "Her mother is Black (Jamaican), her father is Multiracial, at least partly Chinese (according to Arena Magazine her mother said "he was of mixed race and had a touch of Chinese in him")"
*Mariah Carey - singer, Irish-American mother, African-American and Venezuelan father [24] "what i have to say, well my my mum is white and my father is african american and part venezualan, hes not a black venezualan, which is what they always wanted to write. his mum lived in alabama, they migrated to new york, he grew up in the bronx and later moved to harmlem. he grew up as a black man in america, and his father was part spanish. it's just a typical story of someone of colour in america everyone's a little mixed with something."
*Lynda Carter - actress, half Irish, and half Mexican.
*Nadine Chandrawinata, delegate from Indonesia for Miss Universe 2006, Javanese father, German mother
*Carol Channing - ¾ white, ¼ black[25] "And while her celebrated career in show business has spanned more than five decades, it wasn't until recently, in her autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess, where the 81-year-old performer told the story of the day she learned that she is biracial. She recalled that she was 16 years old and heading to college when her mother told her that she was "part Negro.""
*Liz Cho, ABC News/WABC-TV anchor and reporter, Korean father, Jewish mother
*Susan Choi - author, Korean father, Russian-Jewish mother[26] "Susan Choi is of dual heritage -- her father Korean, her mother the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants."
*Marcus Chong - actor[27] "biracial actor Marcus Chong..."
*Rae Dawn Chong - actress, African, First Nations, Chinese, Irish[28] "According to Chong, her Irish grandmother, "a really wonderful Chinese chef," taught her to cook Chinese food. And, thanks to her dad, she was endowed with a multicultural attitude. "My Chinese-Irish father hung out only with Black people when he grew up," she says. "He was Afrocentric...all of his friends were Black musicians." About being multiracial she says, "We're sort of in the otherness of life. It's a fascinating challenge...It's wonderful the way that (mixed) people click and break off into subgroups from the super Afrocentric to the Anglo. The confusion when you're multiethnic or multiracial is that you have a tendency not to have a place to call your own. When I see other mixed kids, I say we're in the same tribe." Chong has felt the sting of racism often. "As a Black woman, you have to be careful if you're driving late night," she says referring to the practice by some police of routinely stopping cars with Black drivers. "In my opinion...it has to do a lot with training." "As far as the Chinese scientist (Wen Ho Lee)," she continues, "if the ethnic press is saying 'you guys are racist', then listen to them. I go to Washington State and Vancouver, Canada and at Customs I have been pulled over more times. If I was a white woman I know for a fact I wouldn't get hassled with.""
* Tommy Chong - actor[29]
*Doug Christie - NBA player, white mother, black father[30] "His mother is White his father is Black (according to an interview he did with the Sacramento Bee on 3/25/01)."
*Cassie - singer, African-American and Hawaiian mother, Filipino father

D

*Martin Dahlin, Swedish football (soccer) player, black and Swedish
*Jason Da Lomba, singer, vocalist for ska band The Agents, Cape Verdean, Portuguese abd Irish heritage
*Johnny Damon, outfielder for the New York Yankees, father is white, mother is Thai
*Ron Darling, baseball player, Chinese, Hawaiian, Caucasian
*Stacey Dash, actress, West Indian and Aztec Indian descent
*Craig David, singer, English and Jewish mother, black father
*Jaye Davidson, actor, English mother and Ghanaian father
*Rosario Dawson, actress, Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Irish and Native American
*Michael DeLorenzo, actor/singer/dancer, Italian father, Puerto Rican mother
*Will Demps, of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, African-American father, Korean mother
*F.W. de Klerk, last Apartheid-era President of South Africa (1989-1994); acknowledges in his autobiography some Indian ancestry that his family had previously kept secret (and which would have legally disqualified him from holding office)
*Johnny Depp, actor, Cherokee, German, Irish heritage
*Ophelia Devore, model, French, German, Indian, Black
*Vin Diesel, actor, African American father, mother of Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent
*Alesha Dixon, former member of Mis-Teeq, 1/2 white and 1/2 black
*Fefe Dobson - Canadian rock singer[31] "Dobson, an 18-year-old, biracial Canadian...", white mother, black father
*Casey Donovan, Australian singer and winner of Australian Idol 2, white mother, part(??) Indigenous Australian father
*Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, writer, black, white and Native American
*W. E. B. Du Bois, activist, French, Dutch, African American
*Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author and playwright, ⅛ black, and ⅞ white.
*Alexandre Dumas, pere, French author, ¼ black and ¾ white
*James Duval, American actor, French, Vietnamese, Irish, and Native American.
*Mervyn M. Dymally, former US Congressman, Indian, African, white

E

*Sheila E, American musicain, Mexican father and African-American mother. (Sheila E is of Cuban heritage)
*Carmen Ejogo, actress, white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father
*Eliana, singer, Japanese, Black
*Yvonne Elliman, singer, Japanese, white
*Giancarlo Esposito, actor, African-American mother and Italian father
*Faith Evans, singer, African-American mother and Italian-American father

F

*Lola Falana, Actress, cuban father, black mother
*Shala Falana, English model and activist, father cuban and sri-lankan, mother Jamaican and Afro-dominican
*Brett Favre, athlete, white and Choctaw
*China Forbes, American singer/songwriter and member of Pink Martini, White father (of French and Scottish descent), Black mother
*Melyssa Ford, video model, black West Indian father, white (Russian and Norwegian) mother
*Patricia Ford, adult model, German, Chinese, Hawaiian, Irish and Portuguese ancestry
*Rick Fox, professional basketball player, white Canadian mother, and black Bahamian father
*Redd Foxx, comedian, 3/4 black and 1/4 Cherokee Indian.
*Foxy Brown, American rapper, of Afro/Indo Trinidadian descent.
*Brooke Fraser, singer/songwriter, Samoan/Fijian/Scottish/Spanish descent
*Rainbow Sun Francks, actor/songwriter, black Cree mother and Anglo-Native Canadian father
*Jennifer Freeman - American actress, black mother, white father[32] "Although Jennifer, who is biracial..."
*Dreux Frederic, also known as Lil' Fizz singer, member of group B2K, African-American, Caucasian, Native American
*Grant Fuhr, ice hockey star, black and white
*Edward Furlong, actor/singer, Russian and Mexican

G

*Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, Indian politicians (and siblings), Indian father (Rajiv Gandhi), Italian mother (Sonia Gandhi)
*Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1/2 African-American and 1/2 European-American
*Crystal Gayle, singer, Irish and Cherokee
*Rebecca Gayheart, actress, Irish, Italian, German and Cherokee Indian heritage
*Deuan German, guitarist of British ska band Maroon Town, white English father and black Jamaican mother
*Yasmeen Ghauri, supermodel, Pakistani father, German mother
*Roland Gift, lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals, half black and half white.
*Asha Gill, model, TV host, actress, VJ, writer, DJ, producer, women's rights activist, spokesperson for Amnesty International's Stop Violence Against Women campaign, father Punjabi-Malaysian, mother English-French
*Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer, 1/8 Kamilaroi Australian
*Ryan Giggs, British Footballer, Black Welsh father, White Welsh mother
*Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker, author of The Tipping Point, mother Jamaican, father Caucasian
*Goldie, musician, Jamaican and Scottish
*Tony Gonzalez, American football star, Hispanic, African American, Native American, Jamaican, Cape Verdean
*George Gregan, Australian Rugby player, half Zambian, half white
*Danny Graves, baseball pitcher, white father, Vietnamese mother
*Emm Gryner, Canadian pop singer, white and Filipino
*Justin Guarini, American Idol season 1 finalist, African, Irish, and Italian.
*Jasmine Guy, actress, black father and white mother

H

*Kirk Hammett, guitarist, White father, Filipino mother
*Mata Hari, dancer, spy, Dutch father, Javanese mother
*Ben Harper, musician, black father (half Cherokee paternal grandmother) and Russian Jewish mother
*Franco Harris, American football star, black father and Italian mother
*Reika Hashimoto, American actress, Japanese and Hispanic
*Salma Hayek, actress, Spanish mother and Lebanese father
*Sally Hemings, former slave, 3/4 white, 1/4 Black
*Jimi Hendrix, American musician, white Irish, black, Cherokee
* Camilla Henemark also known as "La Camilla", singer, actress, and former fashion model, black Nigeria father, white Swedish mother
*Daniel Henney, half-British, half-Korean
*Cindy Herron, Singer, her father is black and mother is white
*George Herriman, cartoonist, mulatto
*Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter, white and black
*Grant Hill, basketball player, 3/4 black and 1/4 white (Biracial black/white mother, and black father)
*Lawrence Hill, Canadian author (Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada), white and black
*Don Ho, singer, Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, German
*Kian and Remee Hodgson - English twins[33]
*Kelly Holmes, British athlete, Jamaican biological father, white English mother
*Lena Horne, singer, mixed of black, white, and Native American ancestry
*Melissa Howard, Real World personality, half Filipino, half African-American
*Terrence Dashon Howard, American actor, 1/2 black, 1/2 white (father half-black, half-white, mother half black, half-white)
*Tim Howard, American soccer star, black father, Hungarian mother
*Jade Hsu, adult actress, Korean, white
*Kelly Hu, actress,mostly Chinese, Hawaiian, English
*Langston Hughes, poet, African American and Native American
*Hughes Brothers, filmmakers, black and Armenian
*Pat Hurst: LPGA Golfer; white father and Japanese mother
*Nadya Hutagalung, model, Indonesian (i.e. Bataknese), and Australian

I

*Jarome Iginla, NHL star, black father and white mother
*Enrique Iglesias, singer, father Spanish, mother Spanish-Filipino-mestiza
*Carrie Ann Inaba, dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and judge on Dancing with the Stars, Japanese, Chinese and Irish
*Yuna Ito, singer, Japanese, Korean

J

*Jhene, R&B singer, Japanese, Native American and African American.
*Derek Jeter, baseball star, African American father and white American mother
*Bhumi Jensen, was a grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, mother is Thai and father is white American
*Ploypailin Jensen, and Sirikitiya Jensen, daughters of princess Ubol Ratana and sisters of Bhumi Jensen, their mother is Thai and father white American
*Patrick Johnson, Australian sprinter, white father, Indigenous Australian mother
*Romina Johnson, singer, black American father, Italian mother
*Angelina Jolie, actress, of Czech, French, and Iroquois descent
*Martin Jondo, German reggae singer, German father and Korean mother
*Jill Jones, singer/songwriter, black American mother, Italian father
*Noel Jones, first British ambassador from an ethnic minority, Anglo-Indian
*Norah Jones, musician, Indian father (Ravi Shankar), white American mother
*Pei Te Hurinui Jones (d. 1976), President of the New Zealand Māori Council, his mother was Tainui Māori, his father Jewish
*Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones, daughters of Quincy Jones (African American) and Peggy Lipton (white Jewish American)
*Jon Jonsson, model, Thai mother and a father from Iceland
*Claudia Jordan, former model on the daytime game show The Price is Right, African-American father, Italian mother
*Brian Jungen, Canadian artist, Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations

K

*Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter, mother mestiza Mexican and father German [34]
*Stacy Kamano, actress, Japanese, German, Polish, and Russian
*Danny Kamekona, actor, 1/2 Hawaiian, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 Japanese
*Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander opera singer, from Māori and white parents
*Maya Karin, actress, 1/2 German, Chinese, Indian and Malay mother
*Paul Kariya, ice hockey star, Japanese, Scottish-Canadian
*Chieko Kawabe (Chieco Kawabe), singer, actress, Japanese, Filipino
*Crystal Kay, singer, 1/2 African American and 1/2 Korean
*Kelis, singer, father black, mother Chinese-Puerto Rican
*Denise Keller, model, Chinese and German
*Kemo the Blaxican, rapper, African-American and Mexican ancestry
*Alicia Keys, singer, Irish/Italian mother, Jamaican father
*Christel Khalil, actress, her mother is 1/2 Black, 1/2 White and her father is Pakistani.
*Ian Khama, Vice-President of Botswana, African father, English mother
*Jason Kidd, basketball star, black father and white mother
*Q'Orianka Kilcher - American singer/actress[35]
*Melanie Kim (TechTV's "Tech Live"), Korean-American father, German-Irish mother http://www.playboy.com/features/features/techtv/01.html
*Kaela Kimura - singer, Japanese, British
*Ben Kingsley, (born Krishna Banji) actor, father was an Gujarati Indian from Kenya, mother of mixed English and Jewish descent
*Eartha Kitt, singer, black Cherokee mother and white father
*Beyoncé Knowles, singer/actress, and sister Solange Knowles, singer/actress, Creole (African American, French, Native American)
*Boris Kodjoe, German mother and Ghanaian father
*Jennifer KornKosar, poet/vocalist, 1/2 Thai, 1/4 German, 1/4 Portuguese
*Leslie Kong, Chinese-Jamaican record producer
*Josh Koscheck, amateur wrestler and UFC fighter, African-American mother, Polish father
*Lenny Kravitz, singer, Russian Jewish father, black Bahamian mother (Roxie Roker)
*Kristin Kreuk, actress, 1/2 Indonesian Chinese, 1/2 Dutch
*Hari Kunzru, author, Indian father, English mother
*Kevin Kuranyi, German footballer, German father and Panaman mother
*Femi Kuti, Grammy-nominated Afrobeat musician, son of Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian father and white mother
*Nancy Kwan, actress (The World of Suzie Wong), Chinese father (architect Kwan Wing Hong), British/Scottish mother (model Marquita Scott).

L

*Wifredo Lam, artist, Chinese, African, Cuban
*Rachael Lampa, gospel singer, 1/2 Filipino, 1/4 Hungarian, 1/4 Irish
*Derrick Lang, writer, black/Native American, white
*Henrik Larsson, Swedish football (soccer) star, Swedish and Cape Verdean
*Marie Laveau, voodoo queen, black and white
*Sabrina Le Beauf, actress, mixed of black and white ancestry
*Bruce Lee, actor, ¾ Chinese, ¼ German
*Brandon Lee, actor, ⅜ Chinese, ⅝ German Swedish
*Byron Lee, Jamaican bandleader, Chinese father and black Jamaican mother
*Glenda Lee, bass player for NYC ska band King Chango, Chinese father and Venezuelan mother
*Jason Scott Lee, actor, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Hawaiian
*Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican businessman, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Black
*Kimora Lee Simmons- fashion designer, Japanese mother, African-American father [36] Simmons says she's not merely the exotic face �" her mother is Japanese-American, her father African-American �" of her numerous collections or the hyper-styled woman who stars in her own ads.
*Rose Leonard, American neo-eugenicist, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 White
*Paulo Leminski, Brazilian poet and writer, Polish, and Afro-Brazilian
*Noémie Lenoir, model & actress, French father, Madagascar mother
*Sean Lennon, musician (and son of Beatle John Lennon), Welsh-Irish father, Japanese mother
*Keri Lewis, musician, husband of musician Toni Braxton, white American mother, black American father
*Adriana Lima, top model, she is of French, Portuguese, Amerindian and Afro-Brazilian (of West Indian ancestry) descent. Adriana Lima, "...her exotic good looks to her French, Portuguese, Native-American, and Caribbean heritage." Adriana Lima, "...Her diverse heritage comprises a racial and ethnic mix of Portuguese, French, Amerindian, and Afro-Brazilian."
*Laquita Lin, adult actress, blackanese (half-black, half-Japanese)
*LISA (Elizabeth Sakura Narita), singer, Japanese, Colombian
*Allen Pineda Lindo, member of the hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas, half Filipino and half African
*Lloyd Banks, rapper of G-Unit, African American and Puerto Rican descent
*John Lone, actor, Chinese and English
*Olivia Longott, singer, Jamaican mother and Cuban, Indian & Dominican father
*Vernetta Lopez, actress, Chinese, Portuguese, Malay, Thai
*Greg Louganis, athlete, Samoan biological father and Swedish biological mother
*Jenny Lumet, actress, African-American mother, Jewish father[37]"Actress, is the biracial granddaughter of Lena Horne - Jewish father, mother Gail Buckley (Horne)."
*Nicole Lyn, actress, mother is Afro-Jamaican and her father Chinese-Jamaican
*Loretta Lynn, singer, Irish and very distant Cherokee Indian
*Phil Lynott, lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Afro-Brazilian father and Irish mother

M

*Michael Manley, Jamaican prime minister, black], white heritage
*Jarah Mariano — model

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