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Here is a list of famous biracial, multiracial, multiethnic, or multinational people.
Contents: Top - 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 American Caucasian
- Abdullah Badawi Prime Minister of Malaysia, Malay with Chinese Muslim maternal grandfather from Sanya in Hainan
- Christina Aguilera, singer, Father Ecuadorian, Mother Irish
- Jessica Alba, actress, European and Mexican Indian
- Tatyana Ali, actress, Panamanian and Trinidadian
- Amerie, R&B Singer whose Father is Black Amercian and whose Mother is Korean American
- Devon Aoki, Japanese and Caucasian (German and English) 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
- Kim Basinger, actress, Caucasian with Cherokee descent
- 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, Iranian mother, British father
- 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
- Yul Brynner, actor, Swiss German, Russian, Mongolian
- Chang and Eng Bunker conjoined twins, 3/4 Chinese and 1/4 Cham
C
- Dean Cain, actor, Japanese, French, Irish and Welsh (1/4 each)
- Roy Campanella, baseball star, black and Italian
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, United States Senator, Native American and Portuguese
- Naomi Campbell, model
- John Carew, soccer player, Norwegian mother, Gambian father
- Mariah Carey, singer, black Venezuelan father, Irish mother
- Asia Carrera, actress, Asian, Caucasian
- Tia Carrere, actress, Filipina, Chinese and Spanish
- Forrest Carter, writer, Caucasian, 1/8 Native American (Cherokee)
- Lynda Carter, actress, white and Mexican
- Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress, Maori and white Australian
- Phoebe Cates, 1/2 Russian-Jewish, 1/2 Filipino
- Deja Chan, adult model, Pornstar, Chinese and Boer British descent
- Sir Julius Chan, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; Chinese father, Papuan mother
- Charles, Prince of Wales African, Danish, English, German, Greek, Mongolian, Norwegian, Russian, Scottish. (He can trace ancestry up to Genghis Khan; according to genetics expert Steve Jones, Charles also has both Jewish and Arab ancestors, and is a direct descendant of Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz and Mohammed)
- Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, part black Moorish through the Portuguese royal family
- Chiang Wei-kuo, adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, illegitimate child of Tai Chi-tao and a Japanese woman, Shigematsu Kaneko
- Unsuk Chin, composer, German and Korean
- Brian Ching, Chinese and Hawaiian
- Liz Cho, ABC News anchor and reporter
- Susan Choi, Author, Korean and Russian-Jewish
- Rae Dawn Chong, actress, Chinese, French-Scottish-Irish Canadian, black
- Tommy Chong, comedian, Chinese, French-Scottish-Irish Canadian
- Cristy Chung, Hong Kong based actress, Chinese father and Vietnamese mother
- Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon Navy Rear Admiral, Half-Hawaiian, Caucasian and Chinese
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965); British Prime Minister, possibly Native American (Iroquois), on his American mother's side
- Keith Hirabayashi Cooke, actor, Japanese mother and Scottish father
- Natalie Coughlin, Olympic swimmer, Filipina mother, Caucasian father
- Lola Corwin, model, Korean-American
- Christian Cullen, rugby player, Samoan, Pakeha, and Maori
- Ann Curry, journalist, Japanese mother, Caucasian father
- Charles Curtis, American Vice-President (1929-1933); Native American mother
D
- Martin Dahlin, Swedish football (soccer) player, black and Swedish
- 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, African American, 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, African American, Italian, German, Scottish, Spanish, French, etc
- Fefe Dobson, Canadian rock singer
- Casey Donovan, Australian singer and winner of Australian Idol 2, white mother, part(??) Australian Aboriginal father
- 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
- Mervyn Dymally, former US Congressman, Indian, African, white
E
- Shannon Elizabeth, actress, father Lebanese of Syrian descent, mother is of French, English, and Native American descent
- Yvonne Elliman, singer, Japanese, Caucasian
- Giancarlo Esposito, actor, black mother and Italian father
F
- George Fernandez, former foreign minister of India; some distant Portuguese ancestry
- Patricia Ford, Adult Model, German, Chinese, Hawaiian, Irish and Portuguese ancestry
- Foxy Brown, American rapper, black and Asian
- Francine Dee, American model, 3/4 Filipina and 1/4 Chinese
- Brooke Fraser, singer/songwriter, Samoan/Fijian/Scottish/Spanish descent
- Jennifer Freeman, black mother, white father
- Grant Fuhr, ice hockey star, black and white
G
- Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, children of the late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Italian wife Sonia
- Crystal Gayle, singer, Irish and Cherokee
- 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 Verdean
- Martin Gore, lyricist/singer for Depeche Mode, English mother, African-American father
- Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor, Dutch, Indonesian
- Danny Graves, Cincinnati Reds pitcher, white father, Vietnamese mother
- Emm Gryner, Canadian pop singer, white and Filipino
- Jasmine Guy, actress, black father and white mother
H
- Alexander Hamilton, mixed-race mother, Scottish father (alleged)
- Warren G. Harding, U.S. President (alleged)
- Mata Hari, dancer, spy, Dutch father, Javanese mother
- Franco Harris, American football star, black father and Italian mother
- Salma Hayek, actress, Mexican mother and Lebanese father
- Jimi Hendrix, musician, white, black, Cherokee
- Dan Hill, Canadian singer-songwriter, white and black
- 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
- Kelly Holmes, British athlete; Jamaican biological father, white English mother
- Tim Howard, American soccer star; black father, Hungarian mother
- Jade Hsu, Korean, Caucasian
- Kelly Hu, actress, Chinese, Hawaiian, English
- Albert and Allen Hughes, filmmakers, black and Armenian
- Nadya Hutagalung, model, Indonesian and Australian
I
J
- Derek Jeter, baseball star, black father and white mother
- King João VI of Portugal, black and Portuguese
- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder, father Egyptian, mother white.
- Patrick Johnson, Australian sprinter, white father, Australian Aborigine mother
- Angelina Jolie, actress, Caucasian, Iroquois
- 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
- Stacy Kamano, actress, Japanese, German, Polish, and Russian
- Danny Kamekona, actor, 1/2 Hawaiian, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 Japanese
- Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese-Taiwanese movie star, Japanese father and Chinese Taiwanese mother
- Paul Kariya, ice hockey star, Japanese, Scottish Canadian
- Michael Kearney - Former child prodigy, American Father, Japanese Mother
- Kelis, singer, Father black, Mother Chinese/Puerto Rican
- John Kerry, United States Senator, English, Jewish, and (very distantly) Moorish
- Alicia Keys, singer, white mother, black father
- Ian Khama, Vice-President of Botswana; African father, English mother
- Jason Kidd, basketball star, black father and white mother
- Ben Kingsley, (born Krishna Banji) actor, father was an Indian from Kenya, mother was born in England to Russian Jewish parents
- Eartha Kitt, singer, black Cherokee mother and white father
- Yaphet Kotto, actor, Cameroonian father, Jewish mother
- Lenny Kravitz, singer, Jewish father, black mother
- Kristin Kreuk, actress, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Dutch
- Nancy Kwan - actress, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 British/Scottish
L
- Derrick Lang, Writer, black/native American, white
- 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 German/English, 3/8 Chinese
- Bruce Lee, martial artist, actor, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 German
- Jason Scott Lee, actor, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Hawaiian
- Miko Lee, 1/2 Chinese, 1/2 Vietnamese
- Michael Lee-Chin, Jamaican businessman, 3/4 Chinese, 1/4 Black
- Sean Lennon, musician, English, Japanese
- John Lone, actor, Chinese and English
- Greg Louganis, athlete, Samoan biological father and Swedish biological mother
- Arillia Ling West Indian and Chinese
- Anni-Frid Lyngstad, ABBA band member, illegitimate daughter of a German officer and a Norwegian mother
- Loretta Lynn, singer, Irish and Cherokee
M
- Vanessa Mae, Violinist, Thai and Chinese
- Sorin Mardare, philosopher and preacher, Rom (Gypsy) and Romanian
- Bob Marley, musician, Black and Welsh
- Amanda Marshall, musician, black (Trinidadian) mother and white (Canadian) father
- Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia; mostly Malay, some Indian ancestry on his father's side
- Michael Manley, 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
- Karen Mok, Hong Kong-based actress, 1/2 Chinese, 1/4 Welsh (Paternal Grandfather), 1/8 Persian Iranian and 1/8 German
- Shemar Moore, actor, black and white
- Johnny Morton, American football player, Black father and Japanese mother
- Walter Mosley, writer, black and white
- Tia and Tamera Mowry and Tahj Mowry, actors, black mother and white father
- Mya, singer, black and Italian
- Koji Murofushi, Olympic Javelin thrower, half Japanese and half Romanian
N
- Namie Amuro, 3/4 Japanese, 1/4 Caucasian
- Thandie Newton, actress, British father and Zimbabwean mother
- Tila Nguyen, model, 3/4 Vietnamese and 1/4 French
- Isamu Noguchi, artist, sculptor, designer
- Queen Noor of Jordan, father Syrian/Lebanese, mother Swedish
- Chuck Norris, actor, Caucasian mother and Cherokee father
O
P
- Sean Paul, Singer, Portuguese, Chinese, Black
- Suzee Pai, model, actress, Chinese, Caucasian
- Paku Romi, Seiyuu, Korean and Japanese
- Tony Parker, French NBA star; African American father, Dutch mother
- Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter, actress, Polish, Native American Indian
- Tera Patrick, pornstar, Thai, Jewish, Scottish
- Nia Peeples, actress, French, German, Filipino and Spanish
- Lou Diamond Phillips, actor, father Scottish/Irish/Cherokee, mother Filipino/Hawaiian/Chinese/Spanish
- Tamaii Poitier, black father and white mother
- Colin Powell, United States Secretary of State, Black and White
- Juliette Powell, Canadian television personality, black and white
- 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
- Jo Ralston, model, "Polynesian poster girl", German, Filipino
- Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana; Scottish father, African mother
- Keanu Reeves, actor, 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 Hawaiian, English
- Gloria Reuben, actress, black Jamaican mother and white Canadian father
- George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago, Chinese, European, African, Carib (Amerindian)
- José Rizal, Filipino Revolutionist, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Filipino
- Smokey Robinson, singer, African, Caucasian
- The Rock, professional wrestler, actor, Samoan mother and black father
- Maya Rudolph, comedian, black mother and white father
- Bic Runga, singer/songwriter, Maori father, Malaysian Chinese mother
S
- Jehan Sadat, former First Lady of Egypt, widow of Anwar Sadat, Egyptian mother, English father
- Sade, singer, Nigerian and British
- Michelle Saram, actress, singer and model, half Chinese, half Indian
- Tura (Yamaguchi) Satana, model, actress, Japanese, Scottish, Irish, Apache
- Rob Schneider, actor, comedian, father white, mother Filipina
- Lisa Marie Scott, adult model, Swiss-German and Scottish father and Japanese mother
- Samuel Selvon, author, Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish
- Sequoyah, white and Cherokee
- Shakira, singer, father Lebanese and mother Colombian
- Mai Shanley, Miss U.S.A. 1984, Irish, Thai
- Mike Shinoda, emcee for Linkin Park, Russian-Hungarian and Japanese
- Alexander Siddig, actor, mother white, father Arab
- Kimora Lee Simmons, Baby phat CEO Black Father and A Japanese Mother
- Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor, Half Punjabi, Chinese and Japanese
- Tomika Skanes, model, African American father, Korean mother
- 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
- Earnie Stewart, American soccer star; black father, Dutch mother
- Cree Summer, voice actress, Cree mother and white Canadian father
T
- Vincent Tan, Malaysian Businessman, Chinese and Malay? (not sure)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, black and white
- Edwin Nadasen Thumboo, University Professor of Singapore, Tamil Protestant father and Chinese mother
- Jennifer Tilly and Meg Tilly, actresses, Chinese and Caucasian Canadian
- Kiana Tom, American model, actress, Chinese, Hawaiian and Irish
- Tamlyn Tomita, Half Okinawan Japanese and Half Filipino
- Donald Trump, Scottish mother, Swedish-American father
- Viktor Tsoi(Виктор Цой), Russian rock artist, father Korean, mother Russian
- Tina Turner, singer, actress, black, Native American
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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, 1/4 African-American (Paternal Grandfather), 1/4 Chinese, 1/4 Thai, 1/8 Cherokee, 1/8 English
- Rod Woodson, American football star, white and black
- Michael Wong, Hong-Kong actor and brother of Russell Wong, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American
- Russell Wong, actor, Chinese, French, Dutch, Native American
- Tamia Washington, Singer and wife to NBA basketball star Grant Hill Afro-Canadian Mother, French Canadian Father.
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See also: list of people, list of people by nationality, ethnicity, etc
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