List of multiracial people |
Here is a list of famous biracial or multiracial
people.
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Paula Abdul, singer, actress, dancer. French Canadian/Jewish Syrian and Brazilian
- King Abdullah II of Jordan. Father Arab, mother white
- Christina Aguilera, singer, Father Ecuadorian, Mother Irish
- Jessica Alba, actress, European and Mexican Indian
- Tatyana Ali, actress, Panamanian and Trinidadian
- Devon Aoki, Japanese and Caucasian model
- Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines (1986-1992); ¼ Chinese
- Crispus Attucks, Afro-Indian American, victim of Boston Massacre
B
- Benjamin Banneker, African - English, mathematician, helped
lay out the city of Washington,
DC
- Dame Shirley Bassey, singer, Nigerian and British
- Jennifer Beals, actress, black father and white mother
- Kate Beckinsale, actress, 1/8 Burmese, English
- Tyson Beckford, supermodel, Jamaican, Chinese, white
- Catherine Bell, actress, mother is Iranian, father if British
- Halle Berry, actress, has a Caucasian Mother and a black Father.
- David Blaine, magician,
Puerto Rican and Russian Jewish
- Lisa Bonet, actress, 1/2 Jewish 1/2
black
- Michelle Branch, musician, Indonesian, Dutch, French and Irish
- Benjamin Bratt, actor, Quechua from Peru and German/English
C
- Dean Cain, actor, Japanese, French
and Welsh
- Roy Campanella, baseball star, black and Italian
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, United States Senator, Native American and Portuguese
- Naomi Campbell, model
- Mariah Carey, singer, black Venezuelan father, Irish mother
- Tia Carrere, actress, Filipino, Chinese and Spanish
- Forrest Carter, writer, Caucasian, 1/8 Native American (Cherokee)
- Lynda Carter, actress, white and Mexican
- Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress, Maori and Pakeha
- Phoebe Cates, 1/2 Jewish, 1/2
Filipino
- Sir Julius Chan, former Prime Minister of
Papua New Guinea; Chinese father, Papuan mother
- Charlotte of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, part black Moorish through the Portuguese royal family
- Rae Dawn Chong, actress,
Chinese, Caucasian Canadian, black
- Tommy Chong, comedian, Chinese, Caucasian Canadian
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British
Prime Minister, possibly Native American (Iroquois), on
his American mother's side
- Lola Corwin, model, Korean-American
- Christian Cullen, rugby player, Samoan, Pakeha,
and Maori
- Charles Curtis, American Vice-President (1929-1933); Native American mother
D
- Johnny Damon, outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. Father is white, mother is Thai.
- Dorothy Dandridge, actress
- Ron Darling, baseball player,
Chinese, Hawaiian, Caucasian
- Jaye Davidson, actor, English mother and Ghanian father
- Rosario Dawson, actress, Puerto Rican, Black, Cuban, Irish and Native American
- 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)
- Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Penne and Duke of Florence, black and Italian
- Cameron Diaz, actress, Cuban,
Native American, English and German
- Vin Diesel, actor, black, Italian
- Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, writer, black and white
- W. E. B. Du Bois, activist, French, Dutch, African American
- Alexandre Dumas, writer, black and white
E
F
G
- Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, children of the late Indian Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian wife Sonia
- Roland Gift, lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals, half black and half white.
- Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker, author of The
Tipping Point
- Tony Gonzalez, American football star, Hispanic, African American, Native American, Jamaican,
Cape Verdian
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor, Dutch, Indonesian
- Danny Graves, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, white father, Vietnamese mother
- Jasmine Guy, actress, black
father and white mother
H
- Alexander Hamilton, mixed-race mother, Scottish father
(alleged)
- Warren G. Harding, U.S. President (alleged)
- Franco Harris, American football star, black father and Italian mother
- Salma Hayek, actress, Mexican
and Lebanese
- Jimi Hendrix, musician, white, black, Cherokee
- Don Ho, singer, Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, German
- Kelly Hu, actress, Chinese, Hawaiian,
English
- Albert and
Allen Hughes, filmmakers, black and Armenian
I
J
- Derek Jeter, baseball star,
black father and white mother
- King Joćo VI of Portugal, black and Portuguese
- Patrick Johnson,
Australian sprinter, white father, Australian Aborigine mother
- Angelina Jolie, actress, Caucasian, Native American
- Noel Jones, first British ambassador from an ethnic minority, Anglo-Indian
- Norah Jones, musician, Indian
father, white mother
- Pei Te Hurinui
Jones (d. 1976), President of the New Zealand Maori
Council; his mother was Tainui Maori, his
father Jewish.
- Rashida Jones and Kidida Jones, daughters of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton
K
- Paul Kariya, ice hockey
star, Japanese, Caucasian Canadian
- Kelis, singer, Father black, Mother Chinese/Puerto Rican
- Alicia Keyes, singer
- Ian Khama, Vice-President of
Botswana; African father, English mother
- Jason Kidd, basketball
star, black father and white mother
- Ben Kingsley, actor
- Eartha Kitt, singer, black Cherokee mother and white father
- Lenny Kravitz, singer,
Jewish father, black mother
- Kristin Kreuk, actress, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Dutch
L
- Henrik Larsson, Swedish
football (soccer) star, Swedish and Cape Verdean
- Marie Laveau, voodoo queen,
black and white
- Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore; mostly
Chinese, a little Malay
- Brandon Lee, actor, 5/8
Caucasian, 3/8 Chinese
- Bruce Lee, martial
artist, actor, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Russian
- Sean Lennon, musician, English, Japanese
- Greg Louganis, athlete, Samoan biological father and Swedish biological mother
M
- Bob Marley, musician, black and white
- Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia; mostly Malay,
some Indian ancestry on his father's side
- Michael Manly, former
Prime Minister of Jamaica; mostly Irish,
some African
- Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, long-time Fijian Prime Minister and
President (1920-2004); father Fijian, mother Tongan with some English ancestry
- Saira Mohan, model, Indian, French, Irish
- Shemar Moore, actor, black and white
- Walter Mosley, writer, black and white
- Tia and Tamara Mowry and Tahj Mowry, actors, black mother and white father
- Frankie Muniz, actor, Puerto Rican, Italian, Irish
- Mya, singer, black and Italian
N
O
P
- Nia Peeples, actress, French,
German, Filipino and Spanish
- Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, father
Scottish/Irish/Cherokee, mother Filipino/Hawaiian/Chinese/Spanish
- Prince (a.k.a. "The Artist"), singer, father Black, mother
White
- Rain Pryor, actress, daughter of
Richard Pryor and Jewish mother
- Aleksandr Pushkin, most famous Russian poet, 7/8 Russian, 1/8 Ethiopian
Q
R
- Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana; Scottish father, African
mother
- Keanu Reeves, actor, 1/4
Chinese, 1/4 Hawaiian, English
- Gloria Reuben, actress,
black mother and white father
- Smokey Robinson, singer, African, Caucasian
- The Rock, professional wrestler, actor, Samoan mother and black
father
- Maya Rudolph, comedian, black mother and white father
S
- Jehan Sadat, former First Lady
of Egypt, widow of Anwar Sadat,
Egyptian mother, English father
- Sade, singer, Nigerian and British
- Rob Schneider, actor, comedian, father white, mother Filipina
- Sequoyah, white and Cherokee
- Mike Shinoda, emcee for Linkin Park, Caucasian and Japanese
- Alexander Siddig, actor, mother white, father Arab
- "Slash" (aka Saul Hudson), musician
- Iain Duncan Smith, British politician, 7/8 European, 1/8 Japanese
- Zadie Smith
- Jimmy Smits, Surinamese and
Puerto Rican
- Ronnie Spector, singer,
white, black and Native American
- Cree Summer, voice actress, Cree
mother and Canadian father
T
- Samuel
Coleridge Taylor, musician, black and white
- Jennifer Tilly and
Meg Tilly, actresses, Chinese and Caucasian Canadian
- Tina Turner, singer, actress, black, Native American
V
W
- Derek Walcott, poet, black and
white
- Booker T. Washington, educator, black and white
- Jayson Williams, basketball star, white and black
- Ted Williams, baseball player, Caucasian father and Mexican mother
- August Wilson, playwright most noted for Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom, of mixed Black and White heritage
- Tiger Woods, professional golfer,
has African, Asian, Native American, and Caucasian ancestors (mother is Thai, father is Afro-American)
- Rod Woodson, American football star, white and black
X
Y
Z
See also: list of people, list of people by nationality, ethnicity, etc
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