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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 19, 2007 at 10:40 PM
People of mulatto ancestry/heritage. Celebs are divided into the following groups by surname or pseudonym: Menu (allow all the images to load first)
Mica Anders - Photographer of black and white parentage. Read More. Thais Araujo - Brazilian actress was born to a Portuguese grandfather, and her mother is mulatto.
Leila Arcieri – American actress of an Italian American father and African-American mother.
Amédé Ardoin - American Zydeco musician of Creole and Cajun extraction. Rosanna Arquette - Amerian actress of Creole, Cajun and Jewish extraction KD (Karen Denise) Aubert - American actress is of Creole (French, Spanish, Cherokee/Amerindian, African) extraction Ayo (Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin) - German singer of Nigerian and Romani parentage. She is married to German reggae artist Patrice (Patrice Bart-Williams) who is of Sierra-Leonean and German parentage.
Corinne Bailey Rae - British musician born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, her father is Kittitian (Black) and her mother is English (White). Charli Baltimore - American rapper was born to a German father and African-American mother. Suzanne Kay Bamford - American media journalist daughter of the legendary Diahann Carroll and the late writer Monte Ka, pictured here.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - British poet of mulatto ancestry. Read More. Ana Beatriz Barros - Brazilian model of African and Caucasian extraction Patrice (Patrice Bart-Williams) - German artists of Sierra-Leonean and German parentage.
Jamie Baulch - British sprint athlete is half white and half black
Esther Baxter - print and video model is of African American, Norwegian, Cuban, Indian, and German ancestry
Jennifer Beals – American actress was born to an African-American father and Irish-American mother. Read More Garcelle Beauvais - American actress of Caucasian, African and Amerindian extraction/Creole.
Lou Bega - German born Latin pop musician was born to a Sicilian mother and Ugandan father.
David Belafonte - American actor and executive director of Belafonte Enterprises Inc. He is also a producer and sound designer and is the biracial son of singer Harry Belafonte and a White mother.
Gina Belafonte - American actress and producer is the biracial daughter of singer Harry Belafonte and a White mother.
Shari Belafonte - American actress and producer is the biracial daughter of singer Harry Belafonte and a White mother. Cory Bell - actor, part African-American and Caucasian Nayanka Bell - Ivory Coast born singer is of Ivoirian, Touareg, and Corsican extraction.
Constance Bennett - American actress and aunt to Morton Downey Jr. she was the daughter of a white mother and biracial father.
Joan Bennett - American actress and aunt to Morton Downey Jr. she was the daughter of a white mother and biracial father.
Rhian Benson, Britian based R&B artist of Ghanian and British ancestry
Halle Berry - American born actress to an English-American mother of Cherokee ancestry and an African-American father. Berry's grandmother immigrated from England.
Troy Beyer - actress has an African-American mother and Jewish father
Traci Bingham – American actress, born to a Native American father and a Black and Italian mother. Nadia Bitar - Liberian tv presenter on MTV Africa is of black and white extraction.
Pauline Black - British born former lead singer of the 1970s pioneering 2-Tone SKA band The Selecter, gone solo; was born to a black African father and white English.
James Blake - American professional tennis player who recently has dealt with the death of his father from stomach cancer, major injuries from an accident and a case of the shingles. Amazingly he continues to thrive in his career and give selflessly to his community. He was born to a Black father and White British mother.
Corbin Bleu - American actor, model, dancer and vocalist born to Jamaican American actor David Reivers and an Italian American mother. Paul Boateng - British politician born to a Ghanian father and white Scottish mother.
Bizzy Bone, born Bryon Anthony McCane - American rapper, born to an African-American father and a Jewish/Italian mother.
Lisa Bonet - American ctress, born to a Jewish mother and a Creole father. Donald Brashear - Professional Ice Hockey player. His father is a black American and his mother is a white Canadian. Jordana Brewster - Panamanian born American actress is of Brazilian (African, Amerindian, Caucasian) extraction.
Chris Brown - American R&B artist is of MGM ancestry
Julie Brown, aka Downtown Julie Brown - Britian born, she is one of the original MTV VJ's. She is of white and black extraction.
Kathryne Dora Brown - Actress and daughter of 1980's Cagney and Lacey star Tyne Daly, and popular 1970's Black/Afro-Cuban actor George Stanford Brown. She has two sisters: Alexandria and Alisabeth. She is also the grandaughter of the late actor James Daley who stared in Roots: The Next Generations playing the character RSM Boyce. She is also the niece of actors Timothy Daly and Amy Van Nostrand, and composer Mark Snow. In 2001 she appeared with her mom in the made for tv movie The Wedding Dress.
Melanie Brown - England born singer and formerly of popular 1990's group The Spice Girls was born to an white Englsih mother and black Nevisian father. She is the former love interest of actor/comedia/singer Eddie Murphy and is reportedly pregnant with his child. Anatole Broyard - Famous American writer of Louisiana Creole descent.
Chris Cain - American Blues musician born to a white Greek mother and black father
Dena Cali - American rapper of Black, Swedish and Chinese descent.
Roy Campanella - American Negro League baseball player was born to an African-American mother and Italian father.
Irene Cara - American actress/singer of Cuban and Puerto Rican ancestry.
Mariah Carey – American singer/actress was born to a Venezuelan/African-American-American father, and an Irish/Italian-American mother.
Dina Carroll - Britain born singer of Swedish and African-American ancestry.
Janelle Casanave - American Realty tv star of MTV's The Real World, Key West (Season 19) is of mixed white and black ancestry.
Megan Cassie - Sister of Meryl Cassie, South African-born actress of African and German descent. Meryl Cassie - South African-born actress and aspiring singer of African and German descent. Susie Castillo - American-Puerto Rican-Dominican, former Miss USA 2003 is of African, Caucasian and Amerindian extractions
Carol Channing - born in 1921, she is an American actress best known for her lead roles in the movies "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1949-1951) and "Hello Dolly" (1964-1970). Her mother was white and her father, a journalist who was a light-skinned man of half German-American and half African-American descent, born in Augusta, Georgia, who had passed for white.
Suzette Charles - former Miss America (1984) who gained her crown after it was taken away from Vanessa Lynn Williams after a nudity scandal. She became the second African-American as well as the first Italian-American to hold the crown. She was born to an Italian father and African-American mother.
Rae Dawn Chong - American Actress of African, Irish, First Nations and Chinese extraction. Picture below with her daughter. Ciara Harris - American R&B dancer/singer is of Creole (Spanish, French, African, and Amerindian), German, and Irish extraction. Cory Clark - former American Adol contestant born to a black father of African American, Cherokee, Apache, and Blackfoot extraction; and a white mother of Hungarian-Ukrainian, Jewish, Irish, French, Cherokee, and Algonquin extraction. Read More.
Monique Coleman - actress of East Indian and Creole ancestry. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - composer born to a Sierra Leonean Creole (Krio) father and an English mother. Read More.
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 19, 2007 at 11:23 PM D-F back to top Sean Daley - American born rapper, better known as Slug, born to a black father and white mother.
Jaye Davidson – American born actor of a Ghanaian father and English mother. He is best known for his role as the transgendered Dil in the movie The Crying Game (1992).
Alana Davis - American singer/songwriter daughter of the late Black jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr. and White jazz singer Annamarie Schofield.
Rosario Dawson - American actress was born to a father of Native American and Irish descent and a mother of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry.
Maya Days – American actress, she is from a mixed Portuguese and African-American background.
Estrella de Cuba, Cuban Singer
Joy Denalane - German born musician of German (father) and South African (mother) ancestry.
Johnny Depp - American actor/director is of French, German, Spanish and Black-Indian Creole ancestry. His maternal great-grandmother, although recognized as being 100% Cherokee, was of African and Cherokee extraction.
Ophelia Devore - Born in 1922, she is first creole model in the US. In 1946, she helped establish the Grace Del Marco Agency, one of the first modeling agencies in America. Her father was of German and French descent, and her mother was of African-American and Indian descent. She maintained a role as activist for non-White inclusion in the fashion industry and creating universally inclusive concepts designed for Excellence. more...
Vin Diesel, born Mark Sinclair Vincent - American actor his father is black and his mother is Irish, however he also has Dominican, Mexican, German and Italian ancestry.
Alesha Dixon - British born signer and 1/3 of the music group Mis-teeq was born to an English mother and Jamaican father
Fefe Dobson - Canadien born pop/punk-rock singer is of French-Canadien and Black-Bahamian ancestry.
Gary Dourdan - Actor, is of French, Irish, Scottish, African, Indian and Jewish extraction. 
Morton Downey Jr - His maternal great-grandfather was Morris W. Morris who was and African descedent born in Jamaica (West Indies) and was a Civil War veteran who served in the "Blacks" division of the Louisiana Native Guards. His father was Morton Downey, a popular US singer. His mother was singer/actress Barbara Bennett Downey. His maternal grandfather was the celebrated matinée idol Richard Bennett.
Kathryn Drysdale - Britain born actress is of black and white extraction
Daphne Duplaix - American actress of Haitian, French and Italian descent.
Alexander Dworak - A German born music composer and producer of German and Liberian parentage.
Megalyn Echikunwoke - an American actress. Her mom is Caucasian and her father is Nigerian.
Carmen Ejogo - British actress born to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she's starred along side Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence.
Marianne Elliott - Born in Britian, she is professionally known as Poly Styrene, front woman of the pioneering 1970's punk rock group X-ray Spex is the daughter of a British mother and a Somali father.
Emilia - Swedish singer of black and white extraction
Sheila E (Escovedo) - freestyle and r&b musician of Creole, Mexican and African-American ancestry
Ray Emery - professional hockey players of Black and White parentage. Read More.
Cindy Fabre - French born former Miss France 2005 is of Black and White extraction
Susan Fales-Hill - American writer/producer, she was born in Rome, Italy to an Italian father and Black mother. She is the niece of legendary African-American actress Diahann Carroll and sister of actor Enrico Fales.
Sandra Faro - Miss Mauritius 2007 is of black and white heritage.
Aneesa Ferreira - American realty star of MTV's The Real World, Chicago (Season 11) was born to a Black West Indian father and a white Jewish-American mother.
China Forbes - American songwriter/singer and member of group Pink Martini was born to a White father (of French and Scottish descent), and a Black mother.
Harold Ford, Jr - Black American politician and son of politician Harold Ford, Sr is of Caucasian ancestry.
Melyssa Ford - Canadian born video model, black West Indian father, white mother (of Russian and Norwegian descent)
 Sarah J. Fox - Bahamian singer/songwriter was born to an Italian-Candian mother and a Black Bahamian father.  Jeanene Fox - Bahamian model was born to an Italian-Candian mother and a Black Bahamian father.  Farrah Franklin - American singer/former Destiny's Child group member was born to an Italian father and an African American mother
Michael Franti - American singer with the group Superhead is of African, Native American, Irish and German ancestry.
Jennifer Freeman - American actress best known for her role in tv sitcom My Wife and Kids is of black and white parentage
Lise Funderburg - aurthor, half black and half white.
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 19, 2007 at 11:34 PM G - I back to top Nalishebo Gaskell - Australian actress and former beauty queen. She has a Zambian mother and white Australian father. Henry Louis Gates, Jr - American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual is of MGM ancestry
Ryan Giggs - Welsh footballer, mixed black and white father & white mother 
Trisha Goddard - British TV show host (the Oprah of Britian), born to a White English father and a Black Dominican mother. Goldie - British musician of Jamaican and Scottish extraction
Reagan Gomez-Preston - American actress born to an African-American mother and Puerto Rican father.
Paul Gonsalves - American jazz musician most noted for playing with the Duke Ellington band was of Cape Verdean descent.
Ruud Gullit - Dutch football player and coach, Black (Surinamese) father, White (Dutch) mother 
Jann Halexander - French singer, pianist born to a French mother (white), black Gabonese father
Lewis Hamilton - British race card driver Grenadian and English parentage. Read More.
Briana Hicks - American actress best known for her role in MTV's 8th & Ocean. She is African American, German, Irish, and Amerindian extraction.  Arissa Hill - American realty star of MTV's The Real World, Las Vegas (Season 12) was born to an Italian-American mother and African-American father.
Tamia Washington-Hill - Canadian born singer of black and white parentage. Wife of Grant Hill.  
Melanie Hill - English actress, Big Brother participant, is of black and white parentage.
General Russell Honore - American soldier of Creole ancestry. 
Israel Houghton - American gospel artist born to a white mother and black father. Terrence Howard - American actor is of African-American and Caucasian extraction
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 19, 2007 at 11:45 PM
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Colin Jackson - British sprinter of Jamaican and Scottish descent. Read More
Frank G. Jackson - American politician born to an African-American father and Italian-American mother.
Nicole Jackson -American Realty tv star of MTV's The Real World, New York (Season 10) is of mixed white and black ancestry.
Shar Jackson - American actress and tv host of German, Black, Puerto Rican and Cherokee extraction.  Jael - American born contestant model on season 8 of the CW's America's Next Top Model. Her mother is African-American and her father is Jewish.  Titiyo Jah - Swedish singer/songwriter, half sister of Neneh Cherry, daughter of Swedish woman and West African Musician, Amadu Jah (Neneh Cherry's biological father)
Holly James - British singer of Black and White parentage.
Lee Jasper - British race equality campaigner born to a white English mother and father of African descent. See Thread...  
Derek Jeter - American baseball player born to an African-American (black) father and Irish-American (white) mother. He is mixed with African, German, American Indian, and Irish ancestry.
Cherno Jobatey - German tv host born to a Gambian father and German mother. Clark Johnson - American actor born to a black father and white mother. He is the brother of jazz signer Molly Johnson and singer/actress Taborah Johnson.
Jill Jones - singer best know for her work with the artist Prince.
Kidada Jones - actress, writer, model, musician and business woman, daugther of legendary Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. She's a graduate of the Los-Angeles Fashion Institute Of Design & Merchandising College and isheiress to the Lipton (yes, the tea) empire. Was the best friend of the late Aaliyah, engaged to Tupac Shakur upon his death, and is a God child of Micheal Jackson. Is half white and black.
Rashida Jones - American actress best know for her role in Boston Public is a Harvard University graduate, and one of Quincy Jones' daughters. Shares the same set of parents with her sibling Kidada Jones. She and Kidada have 5 other siblings, all biracial, whom are also fathered by Quincy Jones.
Romina Johnson - London based singer born in Romania to an African American father and Italian mother. Has a brother who is a DJ. Her father was a popular solo singer of Italy and Europe, Wess Johnson. He sold over 10 million records.
Quincy Jones - American musician is of MGM ancestry, yet has identify as Black. He has 4 sets of mulatto offspring born to white mothers. Read More. Sarah Jones - American born Tony and Obie award winning playwright was born to an African-American father and a mother of mixed Euro-American and Caribbean descent.
Pauline Kamusewu - Zimbabwean entertainer of Black and White ancestry.  Elizabeth Keckley - seamstress of mulatto ancestry. Read More.
Kelis, born Kelis Rogers - American artist born to an American jazz musician father and Chinese-Puerto Rican designer mother. She is of African, Amerindian, Caucasian and Asian ancestry.
Rhianna Kenny - R&B signer born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England to multiracial parents. Her mother is Cuban and her father is English.
Alicia Keys, born Alicia J. Augello-Cook - American born singer/actress/musician to an Irish-Italian mother and black Jamaican father.
Christel Khalil - An american actress, her mom is mulatto and her dad is Pakistani.
Seretse Ian Khama - Vice President of Botswana and Paramount Cheif of the Bamangwato tribe was born to an African father and English mother.
Jason Kidd - American NBA star was born to an African-American father and Irish mother.
Arabella Kiesbauer - TV presenter, writer and actress born to a German mother and Ghanian father. Emily King - American singer/songwriter born to an African-American father of Amerindian extraction and an Italian mother. Kanya King - British founder of the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards. The youngest of nine children, Kanya's father was Ghanaian and her mother is Irish. Read More. 
Oona King - British Politician born to an African-American father and Jewish Mother of Irish, Scottish, and Hungarian descent. Her father Preston King, civial rights activist and political science professor, is the brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King. She is the second Black woman ever elected to the British Parliment. Read more here, and here.
Eartha Kitt - legendary actress who just openned a new Broadway show at the age of 79. She was born to a black mother of African and Cherokee ancestry, and a white father. Picture below of Eartha Kitt and her daughter, Kitt Shapiro whose father is of Jewish descent. Beyonce and Solange Knowles - American entertainers are of Spanish, French, Amerindian and African extraction. Their parents are pictured below.
Boris Kodjoe - Austrian born American actor of a German mother and Ghanian father.
Lenny Kravitz - Singer, born to Black Bahamian actress mother Roxie Roker, best know for her co-starring role in the 80's The Jeffersons, and Whit Jewish producer father Sy Kravitz. His mom, Roxie, was the cousin of weatherman Al Roker.
Zoe Kravitz - American born daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz - an up and coming celebrity. She is of Mulatto (father) and Creole (mother) extraction
Cleo Laine - Britian born actress and jazz singer is of a black Jamaican father and white English mother.
Wifredo Lam - Cuban artist of Chinese, African, and Cuban extraction
Michael Lamey - Dutch athlete born to a black Nigerian mother and a white British father
Lamya - R&B songwriter, singer, musician who is half Kenyan and half British
Emma Lanford - British singer, member of the German group Mousse T is of black and white extraction.
Trajan Langdon - American professional basketball player. He played briefly for the Cleveland Cavaliers. According to a USA Today article around 2002, he has a white father and a black mother. 
Amel Larreux - she has an African-American mother and her father is European-American of French, English, and Scottish descent.  Marie Laveau - American voodoo queen, of French Creole ancestry
Sabrina Le Beauf - actress, formerly played the oldest sister on the Cosby Show, was born to an African-American father and white English mother.
Shakara Ledard - Bahamian model is half Bahamian and half French.
Robinne Lee - American actress best known for her roll in the films Have Plenty (1997) and Deliver Us From Eva (2003). She is of Jamaican, Chinese, English, Scottish, and Arawak Indian (Native American) extraction.
Paulo Leminski - Brazilian poet and writer, Polish, and Afro-Brazilian 
Noémie Lenoir - French supermodel and actress born to a French father and Madegascan mother.
Les Nubians, born Hélène Célia Faussart - France born sister musicians of French (father) and Cameroonian (mother) ancestry.
Guillaume Guillon Lethiere - French artist of mulatto ancestry. Read More.
Keri Lewis - American musician, husband of musician Toni Braxton, was born to a white American mother and black American father
Leona Lewis - English singer born to a Welsh mother and Guyanese father.
Adriana Lima - Brazilian supermodel of Portuguese, French, African, and Native American descent.
Kimberly Locke - American singer, and American Idol contestant, was born to a white mother and black father.  Heather Locklear - American actress is the cousin of Marla Maples, Donald Trumps second wife. She is of Scottish, by her mother, and Lumbee, by father, ancestry. The Lumbee tribe is a US registered Native American tribe rooted in Lumberton County, North Carolina. Although having a dominant Native lineage they are triracial having Amerindian, Caucasian and African ancestry present among them.
Olivia Longott - American singer of mulatto ancestry born to a Jamaican mother and Cuban, Indian and Dominican father  Jennifer Lopez - Puerto-Rican-American entertainer is of Taino/Arawak (Amerindian), Spanish (Caucasian), and African extraction 
Jasmine Lukuluku - Canadien model and actress. Her father is Zambian and her mother is Caucasian
Jenny Lumett - American actress, is the biracial granddaughter of the legendary entertainer, Lena Horne. Her mother is Horne's daughter author/writer Gail Buckley; and her father, acclaimed movie director Sidney Lumet, is Jewish. She was once married to Emmy Award winning actor Roberto Cannavale who is of Italian and Cuban descent. Her sister is sound editor Amy Lumett, who is also the grandaughter of Lena Horne. She reportedly is a descendent of US leading Soutern politician and political philosopher John C. Calhoun. She has African, Amerindian and Caucasian ancestry. (Below: Amy Lumet on the left, Jenny Lumet on the right, with Sharon Osborne, center)
Rachel Luttrell - Tanzanian born Canadian actress born to a French father and Tanzanian mother
Nicole Lyn - Canadian actress is Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamacian with additional Portuguese and British ancestry. She is married to actor Dulé Hill who is also of Jamaican ancestry. 
Philip Lynott - Irish born singer of a black Brazilian father and English mother.
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 19, 2007 at 11:51 PM
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Mamadee - German singer of German and Sierra Leonese parentage.
Ms Dynamite - British born singer of Scottish and Jamaican extraction
Michael Manley - Jamaican prime minister, black/white heritage Jay Manuel - Canadien born fashion photographer/make-up artist is best know for his role on America's Next Top Model. He recently launched his make-up line Manuel Overdrive which is available at QVC. Purportedly, Manuel's mother is Czech and Italian and his father is from South Africa.
Bob Marley - Jamaican born reggae pioneer is of African and Sephardi Jewish extraction.  Heather Marley - Jamaican born singer/songwriter/scholar and 3rd cousin of Bob Marley is of African and Sephardi Jewish extraction.
Amanda Marshall - Canadien musician born to a Black Trinidadian mother and white Canadien father.
Alex Martin - American actress, daughter of Whoopi Goldberg. Is part African-American and Caucasian. Hans Massaquoi - German born to a Diplomat's son from Liberia and a German nurse was a former American GI and former editor of Ebony Magazine. Living during the Holocaust.
Denise Matthews - Canadien performer formerly known as Vanity of the girl group Vanity 6, turned minister was born to a German mother and African-American father. View her personal scrap book of her career and family here.
Bryton McClure - Twenty year old American born actor/singer, once had a featured role on the ABC hit sitcom Family Matters. He currently has a reacurring role on the CBS day time soap opera The Young and the Restless as Devon Hamilton and was nominated for a daytime Emmy Award. He has, for several years, been a spokes person for Micheal Jackson's Heal the World Foundation. He continues to make public appearances to speak on behalf of important issues and has also started a foundation called R.A.D.D., which promotes road safety. Signing his first recording contract at the age of thirteen, he toured Europe on the UniversalOooh, The Way I Feel About You. Bryton was born to a white mother, and a black father who is a professional musician and once a staff songwriter for the legendary country musician Kenny Rogers.(source: www.bryton.net) label with his hit single
Travis McCoy - American singer and member of the popular group Gym Class Heroes was born to an African-American father and white mother
Lonette McKee - American actress best known for her lead role in the movie Sparkle was born to African-American father and a Scandinavian-American mother.   Pamela Means - American indie folk artist of black/white parentage.
Kevin Michael - American R&B, pop, soul, funk singer of Black and White extraction.
Michael Michele - American actress born to a Black mother and White father.
Julia Migenes - American born singer of Irish, Puerto Rican and Greek extraction.
Christina Milian - American singer born to Cuban parents, is of African, Amerindian and Spanish extraction
Rozalla Miller - an Afropean house music singer, half English and half Zambian.
Wentworth Miller - American actor born to a black father and white mother.
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Charles Mingus - American musician of African-American, English, Chinese, Swedish, and possibly Scottish extraction
Nafeesa Monroe - American actress born to an African-American/Haitian-American father and a German and Irish descendant mother.
Shemar Moore – American actor, born to a Black and a White mother.
Naima Mora - American model of African-American, Irish, Mexican and Native-American ancestry. Grand daughter of famous African-American artist Elisabeth Catlett, and as an adolescent was the subject of her famous sculpture entitled Naima.
Tom Morello - American guitarist for the band Audioslave and formerly of Rage Against the Machine was born to an Italian-American mother and Kenayan revolutionary father. Morellos great-uncle was the first president elect of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. 
Debelah Morgan - American r&b singer born to an Indian mother and African American father. Marc Morial - American politician, his father, Ernest "Dutch" Morial was the first Creole person of Color to be recognized as Mayor of New Orleans.
Walter Mosley - American writer, is half Black and half white.
Tahj Mowry - American born actor and voice actor best know for his tv series Smart Guy is the younger brother of actress twins Tia and Tamera Mowry. He was born to an African-American mother and Caucasian father.
Tia and Tamera Mowry - German born American twin actresses best known for their series Sister, Sister. Their mother is African-American and their father is Caucasian.
Samantha Mumba - Ireland born signer/actress to a Zambian father and Irish mother. She has reportedly married British born actor and former Duke University football player Chris Porter.
Nicole Murphy - American, ex-wife of Eddie Murphy is of African and Caucasian extraction. Picture below with her children.
Billie Myers - English singer/songwriter born to a white English mother and black Jamaican father.
Mystic - American soul singer was born to a white mother and black father.
Ray Nagin - American politician and mayor of New Orleans is of Creole ancestry  Su-Elise Nash - Britian born singer and 1/3 of the British girl group Mis-Teeq is of Caribbean parentage, consisting of African, Caucasian and Amerindian extraction  Angela Nissel - American author of the book entitled Mixed: My Life in Black and White, her mother is a former member of the Black Panther party (Black) and her father is white.
Thandie Newton - British born actress born to a white English father and a Zimbabwean mother who is a Princess of the Shona tribe/people. Picture below with her parents and kids.
Joakim Noah - American professional basketball player of Cameroonian, French and Swedish extraction. Was born to Yannick Noah, a former French professional tennis player.
Ramsey Noah - Nigerian actor born to a black Nigerian mother and white Israel father (Pictured on left)
Yannick Noah - French tennis player and popular singer; French (white) mother, African Cameroonian father
Barack Obama - American born politician and presidential contender was born to a Kenyan father and White American mother who is of Native American ancestry. Pictured below with his wife and children.
Dan O'Brien - American decathlon star is of Black and Finnish parentage  Soledad O'Brien - American news anchor, her father is an Australian of Irish descent and her mother is Afro-Cuban. Pictured below with her daughter.
Obsession - American pornographic actress born to a white American mother and black American father.
Sophie Okonedo - British actress born to a white Jewish mother and Black Nigerian father.
Branwen Okpako - European film director of Nigerian and Welsh parentage whose body of work focuses on mixed race issues. Bruce Oldfield - fashion designer mulatto ancestry.Read More.
May Opitz - German author, activist and poet born to a Ghanian father and German mother.
Claudette Ortiz - Afro-Puerto Rican-American singer and 1/3 of the R&B group City High is of African, Caucasian, and Taino/Arawak extraction.
Tony Osoba - Scottish actor born to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father.
Geoffrey Owens - American actor who best known for his role on the Cosby Show is the biracial son of African-American New York Congressman Major Owens and a white mother
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 20, 2007 at 12:05 AM
P - R back to top Erika 'Nik' Pace - American actress and model. She was born to an Italian mother and an African American father Nicole Ari Parker - American actress is of African, Amerindian and Caucasian extraction
Tony Parker - Belgian born NBA star, currently engaged to actress Eva Longoria, was born to a Dutch mother and an African-American father. His mother, Pamela Firestone, is a former model and his father, Tony Parker, Sr., is a former professional basketball player.
Karyn Parsons - actress best known for role on 'Fresh Prince of Bel-air". Mom is black, dad is white.
Patrice (Patrice Bart-Williams) - Afro-German reggae singer of Sierra-Leonean and German parentage. He is married to German singer Ayo (Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin).  Sean Paul - Jamaican born Reggeaton pioneer is of Irish, German, African and Chinese extraction.
Mariane Pearl - American author/journalist and widow of the late Daniel Pearl, a journalist beheaded in Iraq by a militant group. She is of Afro-Cuban and Dutch ancestry.
Trevor Penick - American singer of the somewhat popular 90s group O-Town. His mother is white and his father is black.
Rosie Perez - Puerto Rican-American actress/dancer is of Taino/Arawak (Amerindian), Spanish (Caucasian) and African extraction.
Alexandre Pétion - Mulatto president of the Southern Republic of Haiti during 1806-1818. He was born to a black mother and French father.
Eva Pigford - American actress and model is of Puerto-Rican and African-American ancestry.
Rob Pilatus - German born singer best know for his role in the group Milli Vanilli. Was as son of a Black US soldier and a German woman.
Camila Pitanga - Brazilian artist is of Caucasian, Amerindian and African extraction  Anika Poitier - American actress born to a black father (Sidney Poitier) and white mother (Pictured on left)  (Sydney) Tamiia Poitier - American actress born to a black father (Sidney Poitier) and white mother
Kim Porter - American model/actress and current wife of Sean 'Diddy' Combs. Is of African and Caucasian extraction. Pictured below with her mother and first son by a previous relationship with 80s R&B sensation Al B. Sure. She has 3 children with Combs.
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. - American clergyman born to a black mother and white father  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - American politician and civil rights leader, 1/2 black and 1/2 white; son of Adam Sr. and his mixed-race wife  Colin Powell - American politician and former Secretary of State is of MGM ancestry. 
Juliette Powell -Canadian television personality, was the first Black Miss Canada in 1989. Her mother is French-Canadien and her father is black.
Prince, born Prince Rogers Nelson - American r&b/funk music pioneer and genius was born to a mother of Italian descent and a Black musician father. Read More.
Aleksandr Pushkin - Most famous Russian poet of Russian and Ethiopian ancestry. Read More. 
Rain Pryor - American actress and comedienne. She is the daughter of the late African-American actor/comedian Richard Pryor. Her mother is white Jewish-American.
Kym Ragusa - American filmmaker and author born to an African-American, Native American, Chinese and German mother, and an Italian-American father. Dania Ramirez - Dominican born actress is of African, Amerindian and Caucasian extraction
Manny Ramirez - Dominican baseball player in the USA of black and white extraction. Jerry John Rawlings - former President of Ghana is of Scottish and Ghanaian parentage.
Joshua Redman - American born jazz musician is the son of the late African American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and a white Jewish mother.
Christopher "Kid" Reid - American rapper, 1/2 of the 1980's duo Kid n' Play was born to a Black father and a Caucasian mother.
Richard Colvin Reid - British man known as the 'shoe bomber', was arrested in 2001 for attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. He was born to a white English mother and black Jamaican father
Gloria Reuben - Canadian actress/singer/songwriter born to a black Jamaican mother and white Canadian father.
Nicole Ricca - Jamaican born hip hop video vixen is of African, Caucasian and Amerindian extraction
Santino Rice - American fashion designer of African and Italian extraction. 
George Maxwell Richards - President of Trinidad and Tabago is Chinese, European, African and Carib (Amerindian)
Salli Richardson - American actress born to an African American-Cherokee (black) mother and an Italian-Irish (white) father. Pictured below with her daughter.
Nicole Richie - television personality has made it public that she is a mix of a number of ancestries including African-American, White, and Hispanic. Richie is the the adopted daughter of R&B legend Lionel Richie. It is rumored that her biological father is Pete Escovedo, part of the famed musical family. Their heritage consists of African American, Creole and Mexican. It is also rumored that her biological mother is white.
Geraldo Rivera - American tv journalist and talk show host of African and Hispanic (Amerindian and Caucasian) extraction.
Vicki Sue Robinson - American born theater/film actress/singer was born to a Black father and White mother.
Kerry Ann Rockquemore - American Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago is of Black and White parentage.
Jade Rodan Cole - American born model and contestant of America's Next Top Model was born to a White American mother and an African-American father; however, has a variety of racial/ethnic ancestries.
Michelle Rodriguez - American actress of Mexican and Dominican extraction
Sonia Rolland - French actress and former Miss France 2000, born to a Rwandan (Tutsi) mother and French father
Chudney Ross - American actress/model/host/writer and daughter of the legendary Diana Ross. Her mother is Black (of Cherokee ancestry) and her father is White (of Jewish ancestry).
Evan Ross - American actor, son of the legendary Diana Ross. Her mother is Black (of Cherokee ancestry) and her father is White (of Jewish ancestry).
Tracee Ellis Ross - American actress, photographer, writer and model. Is the daughter of the legendary Diana Ross. Her mother is Black (of Cherokee ancestry) and her father is White (of Jewish ancestry).
Katie Rost - American tv host and news anchor born to a German-American father and Black mother.
Marline Roudette - British born front man of the group Mattafix is of Indian and Caucasian ancestry. He is the step-son of Neneh Cherry.
Victoria Rowell - American day time soap opera actress, her biological mother was White her father was Black. Pictured below is Rowell and her children.
Maya Rudolph - actress/comedian and daughter of the late African-American singer Minnie Ripperton, her father is Jewish Caucasian.
Emilia Rydberg - Scandinavian born Euro-pop singer of a white Swedish mother and Ethiopian father.
Ursula Rucker - American spoken-word recording artist is of African-American and Italian descent.
Rupee, born Rupert Clark - German musician born to a German mother and Bajan father
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | July 20, 2007 at 05:33 AM V - Z back to top
Niger Val Dub - Kenneth III of Scotland was king of Scotland from 997 to 1005. He was the son of King Dubh, fourth cousin of the previous king Constantine III, and first cousin of his successor Malcolm II. See Thread Mario Van Peebles – Black American actor, his Black father is filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles, and his White mother is German actress Maria Marx.
Anna van Ravenstein - Model of Black and White parentage. Her mother, Pat Cleveland, is one of the first Black super models in the US. Her Dad is Paul van Ravenstein. Don Vappie - American musician/actor of French Creole ancestry.
Elizabeth Vargas - American news anchor/host was born to a Puerto Rican father and Irish-American mother.
Denise Vasi - American born model of Dominican and Greek parentage. Derek Walcott - West-Indian poet of black and white ancestry
Rebecca Walker - American author and activist, daughter of acclaimed author Alice Walker if of African-American and Jewish parentage.
Booker T. Washington - American educator of African-American and Caucasian extraction.
Essie Mae Washington-Williams - She is the oldest daughter, born illegitimately, of the late US Senator Strom Thurman and a former African-American house servant.
Omar Wasow - Kenyan born American has been the financial correspondent for NBC, he's also had his hand in producing www.oprah.com and Oxygen Channel online. He helped launch www.blackplanet.com and is currently a Stategic Advisor at Community Connect, Inc. Among other things. He was born to a African-American/Kenyan mother and Jewish father.
Travis Watkins - American football player and poet was born to a white mother and black father. André Watts - German born concert pianist of African-American and Hungarian parentage Veronica Webb - supermodel of African, German and Iroquois extraction. Robert Wedderburn - Jamaican born British political reformer had father of Scottish ancestry, and a mother who was an African slave  Eric West - American singer and actor of White, Black and Hispanic extraction (pictured on right)
Arthur Wharton - British footballer of Grenadian and Scottish parentage. Read More  Dianne White Clatto - Pioneering African-American who was one of the first African-Americans to attend the University of Missouri, the first Black model for a major St. Louis department store, the first full-time African-American weather caster in the nation, and was a semi-professional singer with the Russ David Orchestra. She is of Irish, Amerindian and African-American extraction.
Lynn Whitfield - American actress of notable Louisiana aristocracy, she is of French Creole ancestry.
Kym E. Whitley - Actress/Comedian has recently been seen in various tv commercials. Is often mistaken for actress/comedian Jackee Harry. Her great-grandfather was a full blooded Irish immigrant and her great-grandmother a mulatto with Cherokee ancestry.
Deron Williams - American professional basketball player is of black and white parentage
Jayson Williams - former NBA player of mulatto ancestry. 
Jerome Williams - American Major League Baseball player of Chinese, Filipino, Spanish, British and African-American ancestries.
Hype Williams - American director is born to a Honduran, half African-American/half white father and a black African-American mother
Vanessa L. Williams - American entertainer and former Miss America is of African, Caucasian and Amerindian ancestry. Read about her ancestor, Francis Carll and the Carll Family of Long Island, New York.
Larry Wilmore - American tv producer, writer, comedian and actor is the creator of The Bernie Mac Show. Is of MGM ancestry
August Wilson - American playwright most noted for Fences (play) and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was born to an African-American mother and German father Cicily Wilson - along with parents and younger sister were the subjects of the PBS special documentary "An American Love Story". Read More.
Irulan Wilson - American realty star of MTV's The Real World, Las Vegas (Season 12) is mixed with Brazilian ancestry.
Tiger Woods - American professional golfer whose father was of mixed African American (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent) and Native American (25 percent) ancestry, and his mother is of Thai (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent), and Dutch (25 percent) ancestry.
Rod Woodson - American former professional football player is of white and black ancestry
Malcolm X , born Malcom Little – American civil rights activist was half African-American, quarter Grenadian, and quarter White American.
Zoe Saldana - Dominican-American actress is of Caucasian (Spanish), Amerindian and African extraction.
Sheree Zampino - American actress of Italian and African American descent. She is the 1st wife of actor/rapper Will Smith. They have child together.
Zap Mamma, born Marie Daulne - Belgian born Afro-pop musician of West African and European descent.
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| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | Jan 28, 2009 at 10:55 PM
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| pinkdiamondgail Registered: Jan 20, 2009 Posts: 11 | Jan 30, 2009 at 02:26 AM Shari and I think David Belafonte(not sure about David) but I know for sure Shari's mother is black. Harry Belafonte was married to a black women before he married his current wife who is Native-American and they had Gina. | ||||||
| punta Registered: Oct 20, 2008 Posts: 37 | Feb 01, 2009 at 12:37 PM where did u get the info about GArcelle Beauvais???? Also Rihanna's mother is from Guyana she is not afro-bajan. | ||||||
| mulan Registered: Dec 26, 2006 Posts: 827 | April 12, 2009 at 05:12 PM Melolita and Punta, thank you for your input. much of this info was scraped from other sites that list people of mixed ancestry, or provided by other board members, and not researched thoroughly. When the new site is launched we will be more meticulous and considerate in the information we provide, which includes citing all sources. |
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