List of famous biracial and multiracial people.

A

• Paula Abdul - singer and entertainer""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." [http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/23718/format/html/displaystory.html "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.
• Jessica Alba - actress, Dutch/French mother, Mexican father^* "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.""
• Tatyana Ali - actress^* "Her mother is from Panama and her father is of Trinidad East Indian descent."
• Shola Ama - singer^* "Her mother is of Dominican and St Lucian parentage and her father is White."
• Amerie — American singer
  ^* " biracial... I am, too. Amerie: Korean and Black. My mom is Korean."
• Amil - singer, African-American father, European/Cherokee mother^* "Her father is Black, her mother is European/Cherokee (according to the bio on her website)."
• Devon Aoki - model/actress, Japanese father, English and German mother^* "Japanese, German, English"
• Leila Arcieri - actress, Italian father, African-American mother^* "Her father is Italian and her mother is Black."
• Crispus Attucks - victim of the Boston Massacre^*
• Maulana Azad, Indian freedom fighter; Indian father and Arab mother.

B

• Charli Baltimore - rapper, German father and African-American mother
• Dame Shirley Bassey - singer, English mother, Nigerian father^* "Her mother was English, her father was Nigerian (From Black Britain Online)."
• Jennifer Beals - actress, Irish mother, African-American father^* "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^*"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 Belefonte - actress/producer, black father and white mother^*"Actress and producer is the biracial daughter of singer Harry Belafonte and a White mother."
• Halle Berry - actress, English mother, African-American father^* "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^*"Actress, is the biracial daughter of Black mother, Jewish father."
• Traci Bingham - actress, Native American father, Black and Italian mother^* "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."
• Michelle Branch - musician, Irish father, Dutch/Indonesian/French mother^* "According to interviews I've read, your father is Irish and your mother is of Dutch-Indonesian and French descent. Did you struggle at all with your multiracial identity when you were growing up? Not really. My folks gave me a firm strength of who I was. I was not alone."
• Benjamin Bratt - actor^* "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."
• Melanie Brown - singer, English mother, Nevisian father^* "Her mother Andrea is white and her father is from the Caribbean island of Nevis."
• Cheryl Burke- dancer, half Filipino, half Caucasian ^*

C

• Dean Cain - actor, Japanese, French Canadian, Irish, Welsh^*
• Roy Campanella - baseball star, Italian father, African-American mother^* "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^* "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, Afro-Venezuelan father^* "CAREY CITES BI-RACIAL FAMILY FOR INSECURITIES MARIAH CAREY's insecurities stem from growing up in a bi-racial family - because her looks set her apart from her peers."
• Carol Channing - actress, black/white father, white mother^* "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^* "Susan Choi is of dual heritage -- her father Korean, her mother the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants."
• Marcus Chong - actor^* "biracial actor Marcus Chong..."
• Rae Dawn Chong - actress, African, First Nations, Chinese, Irish^* "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^*
• Doug Christie - NBA player, white mother, black father^* "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
• 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)
• 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^* "Dobson, an 18-year-old, biracial Canadian...", black mother, white 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
• Megalyn Echikunwoke, actress, Nigerian father and Navajo Indian mother
• Katreeya English, Thai actress, singer, model, British father and Thai mother
• Carmen Ejogo, actress, white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father
• 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

• 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^* "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
• 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
• Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor, Dutch, Indonesian
• 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
• 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^*
• 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

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
• 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 Kidida 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 ^*
• 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
• Boris Karloff, actor, English mother and possible East Indian father
• Crystal Kay, singer, 1/2 African American and 1/2 Korean
• Michael Kearney, former child prodigy, white American father, Japanese mother
• Andrew Keegan, actor, Colombian, Irish, and German
• Kelis, singer, father black, mother Chinese-Puerto Rican
• Denise Keller, model, Chinese and German
• Alicia Keys, singer, Scottish/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^*
• Melanie Kim (TechTV's "Tech Live"), Korean-American father, German-Irish mother http://www.playboy.com/features/features/techtv/01.html
• 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, professional wrestler, 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
• 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
• 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 ^* 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)
• Allen Pineda Lindo, member of the hip-hop group, The Black Eyed Peas, half Filipino and half African
• 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^*"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

• Jarah Mariano — model
  Hawaiian, Korean, Chinese
• Bob Marley — musician
  White British father-Black Jamaican mother ^*
• Amanda Marshall — musician
  Black Trinidadian mother and white Canadian father ^*
• Meiling Melançon, actress/model: Japanese-Chinese father, French-Native American mother
• Wentworth Miller — American actor
  ^** "his father is African-American-Jamaican-German-English; his mother is Russian-Dutch-French-Syrian-Lebanese; and, like most people, he has a Jewish great-grandmother, on his father’s side."
• Charles Mingus — musician
  ^** "Mingus was the child of a family that included African-American, English, Chinese, Swedish, and possibly Scottish parentage."
• Rhona Mitra, real-life Lara Croft model and actress, Indian father, Irish mother.
• Saira Mohan — model
  ^* Indian-French-Irish
• Karen Mok — Hong Kong-based actress
  ^*
• Shemar Moore — actor
  ^* "The product of a bi-racial union, Shemar's name is a derivative of his parents' first names, his mother, Marilyn who is white and his father, Sherrod who is Black."
• Tom Morello — guitarist
  ^*
• Chad and Johnnie Morton — American football players
  ^* "Johnnie James Morton, Jr. was born in Inglewood, CA in 1971, the son of an African American father and Japanese American mother... Gained appreciation of his multiracial heritage through participation in Nisei Relays"
• Walter Mosley — writer
  ^*
• Samantha Mumba — pop singer & actress, black Zambian father, white Irish mother
  ^* "she is half Irish and half African."
• Mýa — singer
  ^** "is of Black and Italian descent"

N

• Hikaru Nakamura, International Grandmaster, Japanese father and white American mother
• MiMi Nakashima, underground R&B singer, mother is 1/2 Chinese and 1/2 Japanese, father was Puerto Rican
• Thandie Newton, actress, British father and Zimbabwean mother
• Angela Nissel, author, mother is African-American, father is White
• N.O.R.E., born Victor Santiago, Puerto Rican father, African American mother
• Chuck Norris, actor, both parents half white and half Cherokee
• France Nuyen, actress, French mother and Vietnamese father

O

• Barack Obama, U.S. Senator, Kenyan father and white American mother
• Merle Oberon actress, Anglo-Irish father and Anglo-Sinhalese mother
• Dan O'Brien, decathlon star, black and Finnish
• Soledad O'Brien, television personality, Irish/Australian father, Afro-Cuban mother
• Obsession, American pornographic actress, white American mother, black American father.
• Apolo Anton Ohno, short track speed skater, father Japanese, mother Italian
• Sophie Okonedo, British actress, Jewish mother, black Nigerian father
• Tony Osoba, Scottish actor (Porridge, Doctor Who), white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father
• Maria Ozawa, adult actress, French-Canadian and Japanese

P

• Monica Pang, Miss Georgia 2005 (represented her state in the Miss America 2006 pageant), Chinese father, white mother
• Amit Sebastian Paul, member of the A*Teens, Swedish mother, Indian father.
• Sean Paul, hip hop/reggae artist, black, white, and Chinese (Mother is 1/2 black and 1/2 Chinese, father is white.)
• Suzee Pai, model, actress, Chinese, white
• Tony Parker, French NBA star, African American father, Dutch mother
• Karyn Parsons, "Hilary" from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, white father, black mother
• Tera Patrick, porn actress, Thai mother, Jewish father
• Nia Peeples, actress, French, German, Filipino and Spanish
• Leonard Peltier, prison author and AIM member, Lakota, Anishinaabe, and French
• Trevor Penick, black father and white mother
• Russell Peters, Canadian stand-up comic, Anglo-Indian from both sides of the family
• Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, father Scottish/Irish/Cherokee, mother Filipino/Hawaiian/Chinese/Spanish
• Tamiia Poitier, black father (Sidney Poitier) and white mother
• Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., clergyman, black mother, white father
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and civil rights leader, 3/4 black and 1/4 white, his father was half white and half black, his mother was black
• Juliette Powell, Canadian television personality, black and white
• Elvis Presley, American musician, white, Native American and Jewish on mother's side
• Isabel Preysler, Spanish model and journalist, mother of Enrique Iglesias Spanish and Filipino
• Rain Pryor, actress, daughter of Richard Pryor and Jewish mother^*"Actress, is the biracial daughter of comedian Richard Pryor and White mother."
• Aleksandr Pushkin, most famous Russian poet, ⅞ Russian, ⅛ Ethiopian

Q

• Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji, has Tongan and Jewish ancestors, as well as Fijian
• Maggie Quigley, known as Maggie Q, model and actress, Vietnamese mother and White American father

R

• Corinne Bailey Rae-singer, Yorkshire mother, West Indian father. ^*
• Jo Ralston, model, "Polynesian poster girl", German, Filipino
• Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana, Scottish father, Ghanaian mother
• Keanu Reeves, actor, father Chinese, Hawaiian and Irish, mother British
• Christopher "Kid" Reid, actor, comedian, African-American father and Jewish mother
• Michelle Reis (Michelle Monique Reis) (Chinese: 李嘉欣; Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Jiāxīn), actress, 1/2 Portuguese, 1/2Chinese
• Gloria Reuben, actress, Black (Jamaican) mother and white (Canadian) father
• Santino Rice, fashion designer, African American mother, Caucasian father
• George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese, European, African, Carib (Amerindian)
• Rihanna — singer
  ^* "The striking Rihanna, born Robyn Rihanna Fenty, is the product of a biracial union. She was raised by her Guyanese accountant Mom after her father left."
• José Rizal, Filipino Revolutionist, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Filipino
• Smokey Robinson, singer, African American, White
• Dave Roberts, outfielder for the San Diego Padres, African-American father and Japanese mother
• The Rock, professional wrestler, actor, Samoan mother and Black Canadian father
• Jade Rodan, previous model and contestant on America's Next Top Model cycle 6, White mother and Afro-Asian-Indian father
• Taya Rogers, actress, ½ Thai, ½ White
• Thomas Rolfe, Virginia colonist, English and Native American
• Sonia Rolland, actress and former Miss France, mother Rwandan (Tutsi), father French
• Evan Ross, actor (ATL) and his sister Tracee Ellis Ross, actress (Girlfriends), black mother (Diana Ross) and Norwegian father (shipping magnate Arne Naess)
• Maya Rudolph, comedian, black mother (Minnie Riperton) and Jewish father
• Bic Runga, singer/songwriter, Māori father, Malaysian-Chinese mother

S

• Sade, singer, Nigerian father and British mother.
• Michelle Saram, actress, singer and model, half Chinese, half Indian.
• Ninja Sarasalo, supermodel, half japanese, half Finnish
• Tura (Yamaguchi) Satana, model, actress, Japanese, Scottish, Irish, Apache
• Randy Savage, professional wrestler, 3/4 white and 1/4 black- biracial white/black father (Angelo Poffo) and white Italian mother
• Nicole Scherzinger, lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls, Hawaiian, Filipina and Russian descent
• Rob Schneider, actor, comedian, 1/4 European, 1/2 Jewish, 1/4 Filipino.
• Robert C. Scott, 3/4 African American, 1/4 Filipino
• Andy Scott-Lee, former singer, ¾ Welsh, ¼ Chinese
• Silvia Sommerlath, Queen of Sweden, father German, mother Brazilian.
• Lisa Scott-Lee, former singer, ¾ Welsh, ¼ Chinese
• Lisa Marie Scott, Playboy Playmate, Swiss-German and Scottish father and Japanese mother
• Mary Seacole, nurse, Scottish father and a Jamaican mulatto mother
• Samuel Selvon, author, Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish

• Sequoyah, white and Cherokee
• Mai Shanley, Miss U.S.A. 1984, Irish, Thai
• Mike Shinoda, emcee for Linkin Park, American and Japanese
• Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby Phat CEO, Black father, Japanese mother
• Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor, half Punjabi, Chinese, and Japanese
• Kay Sivilay, model, Thai, Lao, Chinese, French
• Tomika Skanes, model, African-American father, Korean mother
• Slash (aka Saul Hudson), musician, English Jewish father, black mother
• Iain Duncan Smith, British politician, ⅞ British, ⅛ Japanese
• Jimmy Smits, father Surinamese, mother Puerto Rican
• Ian Somerhalder, actor\model, Irish, French, English, and Native American descent
• Zadie Smith, Jamaican mother, English father
• Sonja Sohn, actress, Korean-American and African American
• Shannyn Sossamon, actress, she is of French, Native Hawaiian, Dutch, Irish, Filipino and German descent
• Sowelu, J-pop singer, 3/4 Japanese, 1/4 Irish
• Ronnie Spector, singer, White, Black and Native American
• Ricky Steamboat, professional wrestler, white American father and Japanese mother.
• Earnie Stewart, American soccer star, black father, Dutch mother
• Cree Summer, actress, voice-over artist and singer, black Cree mother and Anglo-Native Canadian father
• Daniel Sunjata, actor, African American, German, and Irish

T

• Lee Tamahori, film director, Māori father, British mother
• Vivien Tan, radio DJ and model, white, Chinese and Malay (Peranakan)
• J. R. D. Tata, businessman, father Indian and mother French
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, black and white
• Karin Taylor, model, Jamaican, Chinese, Brazilian
• Renee Tenison, Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1989, and her identical twin sister Rosie Tenison, model, black and white
• Stephen Thanabalan, Singaporean model/journalist, 1/2 Indian, 1/2 Chinese
• Philip Michael Thomas, actor, German, Native American, African-American and Irish ancestry^*"Actor, is of biracial descent."
• Tessa Thompson, actress, African American, Mexican and Creole descent
• Nautica Thorn, pornstar, Japanese, Hawaiian, and Puerto Rican
• Dimitri Tsafendas, assassin of South African prime minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, mother black Mozambiquen, father Greek.
• Billy Bob Thornton, actor, Irish, Italian, Native American Choctaw
• Melody Thornton, member of The Pussycat Dolls, African American, and Mexican
• Jennifer Tilly and Meg Tilly, actresses, Chinese and White Canadian
• Kiana Tom, American model, actress, Chinese, Hawaiian and Irish
• Anote Tong, President of Kiribati, Chinese father, Gilbertese mother
• Jordin Tootoo, hockey player, Ukrainian-Canadian mother, Inuit father
• Frank Trigg, American wrestler, African-American father and Anglo-American mother
• Viktor Tsoi (Виктор Цой), Russian rock artist, father Korean, mother Russian
• KT Tunstall, Scottish singer, 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Chinese
• Christy Turlington, top model, Her father is European-American and her mother from El Salvador
• Tina Turner, singer and actress, Black, Native American

U

• Adaora Udoji, CNN News correspondent, black Nigerian father, white American mother
• Rory Underwood, English rugby player, father British, mother Chinese
• Tony Underwood, English rugby player, father British, mother Chinese
• Takako Uehara, Japanese pop singer, former member of SPEED. Japanese, white.
• David Usher, Canadian rock musician, Thai and Jewish
• Peter Ustinov, actor, German, Russian, Italian, French, and Ethiopian

V

• Giovanni Van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer, Dutch and Indonesian parentage
• Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, musicians, Dutch, Indonesian
• Mario Van Peebles, actor, black father and German mother
• Vanity, actress^*"Actress, is of biracial descent."
• Milo Ventimiglia, actor, father is Italian and mother is English, Irish, Scottish, French, Indian and Cherokee Native American

W

• Derek Walcott, poet, black and white
• Hines Ward, NFL player; black father and Korean mother
• Som Wardner, frontman of My Vitriol; (Wijay-Wardner) Anglo-Sri Lankan? Portuguese?
• Booker T. Washington, educator, black and white
• Tamia Washington, Canadian R&B singer (and wife of NBA basketball star Grant Hill), French Canadian father, Black Canadian mother
• André Watts, concert pianist, half African American and Hungarian
• Robert Wedderburn, political reformer, father Scottish, mother an enslaved African
• Shan Wee, UK radio DJ, Chinese father, British mother
• Eric West, American actor and singer, black, Hispanic and white
• April Wilkner, model, she is half-Japanese and half-Caucasian
• Deron Williams, half black and white
• August Wilson, playwright most noted for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, of mixed black and white heritage
• Craig Wing, Australian rugby league player, father white, mother Filipino
• Persia White, actress (Girlfriends), Bahamian black father, white mother
• Walter White, civil rights activist, 5/32 Black, and 27/32 white.
• Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican and German
• Tiger Woods, professional golfer, 1/2 African-American, 1/2 Thai
• Rod Woodson, American football star, white and black
• Michael Wong, Hong Kong-based actor and brother of Russell Wong, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American
• Russell Wong, actor, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American

X

• Malcolm X, 3/4 African-American and ¼ white American

Y

• Lindsey Yamasaki, WNBA professional basketball player, Japanese American father, white American mother
• Tata Young, Thai pop music singer and actress, half white European half Thai

Z

See also

• List of Black/White people
• List of Blasians
• List of Eurasians
• Multiracial
• List of people
• List of people by nationality, ethnicity, etc.

References

Footnotes

External links

• Blackflix.com: Multiracial Celebrities
• Frontline: The Blurred Racial Lines of famous Families
• MixedFolks.com Representing Multiracial People

Lists of people by ancestry | Multiracial affairs