List of Black/White people

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This is a list of notable people with black and white ancestry.

Contents: Top - 0–9 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

[edit] A

• Shola Ama - singer^[1]
• John Amaechi
• Amil - singer^[2]
• Leila Arcieri - actor (half African American, half Italian)

[edit] B

• B5, Boy Band, African-American mother, Caucasian father
• Charli Baltimore
• Benjamin Banneker, mathematician, 3/4 black, 1/4 white
• Shirley Bassey - singer^[3]
• Jennifer Beals - actress^[4]
• Lou Bega
• Halle Berry - actress^[5]
• Troy Beyer
• Mike Bibby, basketball player; son of fair-skinned African American basketball player and coach Henry Bibby and his Trinidadian wife^[6]
• James Blake, tennis player; African-American father, white British mother
• Corbin Bleu,actor,Jamaican father,Italian mother
• David Bluthenthal
• Paul Boateng, Former British MP, now ambassador to South Africa
• Bizzy Bone
• Lisa Bonet
• Donald Brashear
• Edward Brooke
• Melanie Brown - singer^[7]
• William Wells Brown
• Traci Bingham, 1/4 Black, Native American, and 1/4 Italian American

[edit] C

• Chris Cain
• Blu Cantrell
• Irene Cara
• Mariah Carey - singer^[8]
• Dina Carroll
• Carol Channing - actress^[9]
• Suzette Charles
• Eagle-Eye Cherry
• Neneh Cherry
• Doug Christie - NBA player^[10]
• Ward Connerly
• Asia Carrera, japanese father and German mother

[edit] D

• Martin Dahlin, Swedish football (soccer) player, black and Swedish
• Craig David, singer, English and Jewish mother, black father
• Jaye Davidson, actor, English mother and Ghanaian father
• Alana Davis
• Rosario Dawson, actress, Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Irish and Native American
• Ophelia Devore, Classist, French, German, Indian, Black
• Vin Diesel, actor, African American father, mother of Irish, Scottish, Italian
• Fefe Dobson, (1/2 Jamaican/Asian - 1/2 White/Native American) Canadian singer
• Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, writer, black, white and Native American
• W. E. B. Du Bois, activist, French, Dutch, African American
• Alexandre Dumas, père, French author, one-quarter black and three-quarters white
• Kieron Dyer, English Football Player, Mother is Antiguan, father English
• Mervyn M. Dymally, former US Congressman, Indian, African, white
• Cameron Diaz, cuban father, and mother of English, German and Cherokee Native American ancestry

[edit] E

• Herman Edwards, NFL coach for the Kansas City Chiefs football team. white German mother, black American father
• Carmen Ejogo, actress, white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father
• Anthony Ervin
• Faith Evans - singer^[11]
• Shannon Elizabeth - father is of Syrian descent and her mother has French, English and Cherokee ancestry

[edit] F

• China Forbes, American singer/songwriter and member of Pink Martini, White father (of French and Scottish descent), Black mother
• Harold Ford Sr. White mother, Black father
• Harold Ford 3/4 black, 1/4 white
• Melyssa Ford, video model, 1/2 white and 1/2 black. (Black father, white mother)
• Rick Fox, professional basketball player, white Canadian mother, and black Bahamian father
• Lil' Fizz of B2K 3/4 African-American and 1/4 white (biracial/Mulatto mother and African-American father with some Native-American heritage)
• Rainbow Sun Francks, actor/songwriter, black Cree mother and Anglo-Native Canadian father
• Michael Franti
• Jennifer Freeman, American actress, black mother, white father
• Grant Fuhr, ice hockey star, black and white^{[citation needed]}

[edit] G

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1/2 African-American and 1/2 European-American
• Roland Gift, lead singer of Fine Young Cannibals, half black and half white.
• Ryan Giggs, British Footballer, Half Black/Half White Welsh father, White Welsh mother
• Malcolm Gladwell, writer for The New Yorker, author of The Tipping Point; mother a Jamaican of mixed black, Jewish and Scots heritage, father white English
• Trisha Goddard, (1/2 Dominican - 1/2 English) British talkshow hostess
• Goldie, musician, Jamaican and Scottish
• Drew Gooden
• George William Gordon
• George Gregan, Australian Rugby player, half Zambian, half white^{[citation needed]}
• Justin Guarini, American Idol season 1 finalist, African, Irish, and Italian.
• Vicente Guerrero, Mexican Abolitionist and independence fighter
• Jasmine Guy, actress, black father and white mother

[edit] H

• Jann Halexander, singer (1/2 Gabon- 1/2 France)
• Prince Hall
• Malou Hansson, (1/2 Ghanaian - 1/2 Swedish) former Miss Sweden
• Franco Harris, Former runningback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks (half Black, half Italian)
• Erika Harold
• Ben Harper, musician, black father (half Cherokee paternal grandmother) and Russian Jewish mother
• Lemuel Haynes
• James Augustine Healy
• Bessie Head-author
• Sally Hemings, former slave, 3/4 white, 1/4 Black
• George Herriman, cartoonist, mulatto
• Cindy Herron, Singer, her father is black and mother is white
• 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
• Kelly Holmes, British athlete, Jamaican biological father, white English mother
• Lena Horne, singer, mixed of black, white, and Native American ancestry
• 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
• Albert Hughes-director
• Allen Hughes-director
• Langston Hughes, 1/2 African-American and 7/16 European-American, 1/16 Cherokee
• Javine Hylton, (1/2 Jamaican - 1/2 White) British singer
• Aaliyah - black father, mother mixed (black, native american, and white)

[edit] I

• Jarome Iginla, NHL star, black (Nigerian) father and white mother

[edit] J

• Etta James
• Derek Jeter, baseball star, African American father and Irish American mother
• Rashida Jones and Kidada Jones, daughters of Quincy Jones (African American) and Peggy Lipton (white Jewish American)
• David Justice

[edit] K

• Alicia Keys, singer, Irish/Italian mother, Jamaican father
• Christel Khalil, actress, her mother is 1/2 Black, 1/2 White and her father is Pakistani.
• Ian Khama, Vice-President of Botswana, African father, English mother
• Jason Kidd, basketball star, black father and white mother
• Eartha Kitt, singer, black Cherokee mother and white father

• Boris Kodjoe, German mother and Ghanaian father
• Lenny Kravitz, singer, son of Sy Kravitz (Russian Jewish) and Roxie Roker (black Bahamian)
• Jimi Hendrix, musician, mixed with African American, Native American Cherokee, and European
• Beyonce Knowles, black father Creole mother of French, Amerindian, Spanish and African ancestry

[edit] L

• Cleo Laine
• Wifredo Lam, artist, Chinese, African, Spanish
• Trajan Langdon
• Marie Laveau, voodoo queen, black and white
• Sabrina Le Beauf, actress, mixed of black and white ancestry
• Shakara Ledard, French and Black Bahamian
• Paulo Leminski, Brazilian poet and writer, Polish, and Afro-Brazilian
• Noemie Lenoir-model
• Keri Lewis, musician, husband of musician Toni Braxton, white American mother, black American father
• Kimberley Locke, singer/model, white American mother, black American father
• Phil Lynott, lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Afro-Nigerian father and Irish mother

[edit] M

• Antonio Maceo, Cuban Aboloitionist, general and independence fighter
• Suzanne Malveaux, news reporter, white mother, black father.
• Michael Manley, former Prime Minister of Jamaica, mostly Irish and England, some African
• Norman Manley, Premier of Jamaica, Irish, English, and African
• Bob Marley, musician, Black (Jamaican) mother and White Jamaican (Syrian Jewish) father
• Amanda Marshall, musician, black (Trinidadian) mother and white (Canadian) father
• Hans Massaquoi-author
• Denise Matthews
• Jan Earnst Matzeliger
• James McBride (writer) father is African American and mother is Jewish
• Bryton McClure, actor and singer, mixed of black and white ancestry.
• Paul McGrath, Irish international footballer, Irish mother and Ghanaian father
• Lonette McKee
• Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, Cuban Astronaut
• Michael Michele (actress) Black mother, and White father
• Candice Michelle, WWE diva, Panamanian and German
• Wentworth Miller, American actor, father is African-American, Jamaican, English and German Jewish, mother is French, Dutch, Syrian and Lebanese
• Charles Mingus, musician, 1/2 African-American, 1/4 Chinese, 1/8 Swedish and German
• Shemar Moore, actor, father African American and mother white
• Naima Mora, top model, African-American, Mexican, Indian and Irish
• Walter Mosley, writer, black father and Jewish mother
• Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry and Tahj Mowry, actors, black mother and white father
• Samantha Mumba, pop singer and actress, Zambian father and Irish Mother
• Billie Myers
• Malcom X, 1/4 white, 3/4 black

[edit] N

• Thandie Newton, actress, British father and Zimbabwean mother
• Angela Nissel, author, mother is African-American, father is White
• Yannick Noah, French tennis player and popular singer; Cameroonian father and white French mother. Also:
• Joakim Noah, American basketball player; Yannick's son by his then-wife, Swedish model Cécilia Rhode
• Luke Mackinnon Port Hawkesbury NS white father(scottish) black mother.

[edit] O

• Barack Obama, U.S. Senator, Kenyan father and white American mother
• Dan O'Brien, decathlon star, black and Finnish^{[citation needed]}
• Soledad O'Brien, television personality, Irish/Australian father, Afro-Cuban mother
• Obsession, American pornographic actress, white American mother, black American father.
• Sophie Okonedo, British actress, Jewish mother, black Nigerian father
• Tony Osoba, Scottish actor (Porridge, Doctor Who), white Scottish mother, black Nigerian father

[edit] P

• Sean Paul, hip hop/reggae artist, black, white, and Chinese (Mother is 1/2 black and 1/2 Chinese, father is Portuguese-Jamaican.)
• Tony Parker, French NBA star, African American father, Dutch mother
• Karyn Parsons, "Hilary" from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, white father, black mother
• Trevor Penick, black father and white mother
• Alexandre Pétion
• Rob Pilatus
• Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback
• Tamiia Poitier, black father (Sidney Poitier) and white mother
• Adam Clayton Powell IV (politician)
• Adam Clayton Powell, Sr., clergyman, black mother, white father
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., politician and civil rights leader, part black and part white, his father was half white and half black, his mother was a white-appearing woman who was also part white and part black
• Juliette Powell, Canadian television personality, black and white
• Rain Pryor, actress, daughter of Richard Pryor and Jewish mother
• Robert Purvis
• Aleksandr Pushkin, most famous Russian poet, ⅞ Russian, ⅛ Ethiopian

[edit] R

• Karim Rashid
• Jerry Rawlings, former President of Ghana, Scottish father, Ghanaian mother
• Christopher "Kid" Reid, actor, comedian, Jamaican father and Irish mother
• Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden, Swedish, Italian, Latvian and African-American
• Gloria Reuben, actress, black (Jamaican) mother and white (Canadian) father
• Santino Rice, fashion designer, African American mother, Caucasian father
• André Rigaud
• Rihanna, singer, black Barbadian mother, white Barbadian father
• Salli Richardson
• Smokey Robinson, singer, African American, White
• Vicki Sue Robinson
• Ariel Renée Rocker, student,dancer,singer, African American,French, Irish, and Native American descent
• Ryan Rojo, pro snowboarder, half white, half black, all legend. Jewish Wife.
• Evan Ross, actor, African-American mother, Diana Ross, Norwegian father, Arne Naess, half-brother of actress Tracee Ellis Ross
• Tracee Ellis Ross, actress, black mother (Diana Ross) and Jewish father
• Victoria Rowell
• Maya Rudolph, comedian, black mother (Minnie Riperton) and Jewish father
• Emilia Rydberg

[edit] S

• Jehan Sadat
• Sade, singer, Nigerian father and British mother.
• Chevalier de Saint-Georges
• Dashan Sanders
• Sherri Saum
• Sofoklis Schortsanitis, Greek basketball player; Greek Macedonian father, Cameroonian mother
• Tasha Schwikert
• Mary Seacole, nurse, Scottish father and a Jamaican mulatto mother
• Samuel Selvon, author, Indo-Trinidadian and Scottish
• Danzy Senna
• Cedric Simmons, (1/2 African American - 1/2 German) American basketball player
• Sue Simmons-author
• Slash (aka Saul Hudson), musician, English Jewish father, black mother
• Robert Smalls
• Pat Smear, African-American/Native American mother and German Jewish father
• Chelsi Smith-Miss America
• Zadie Smith, Jamaican mother, English father
• Jordin Sparks, singer, mother White and father African American
• Ronnie Spector, singer, White, Black and Native American
• Jake Steed, Pornstar, white mother, black father
• Alexandra Stevenson tennis player African American father (basketball great Julius Erving) and White mother
• Earnie Stewart, American soccer star, black father, Dutch mother
• Cree Summer
• Daniel Sunjata, actor, African American, German, and Irish

[edit] T

• Taimak
• Tamara Taylor
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, black and white
• Renee Tenison, Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1989, and her identical twin sister Rosie Tenison, model, black and white
• Rosie Tenison, Playboy Playmate of the Year for 1989, and her identical twin sister Renee Tenison, model, black and white
• Chris Thomas (basketball)
• Daley Thompson
• Tammy Townsend
• Rachel True

[edit] U

• Adaora Udoji, CNN News correspondent, black Nigerian father, white American mother
• Peter Ustinov, actor, German, Russian, Italian, French, and Ethiopian

[edit] V

• Valentina (model)
• Mario Van Peebles, actor; son of African American actor and filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles and his German wife
• Joanna Vassa, daughter of Olaudah Equiano and his English wife

[edit] W

• Derek Walcott, poet, black and white
• Rebecca Walker
• 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, Scottish father, Africanmother (a slave)
• Eric West, American actor and singer, black, Hispanic and white
• Persia White, actress (Girlfriends), black Bahamian father, white mother
• Walter White, civil rights activist, black and white
• Jamila Wideman

• Jayson Williams
• August Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences) of mixed black and white heritage
• Rod Woodson, American football star, white and black^{[citation needed]}
• Vanessa Williams, both parents are half African-American and Caucasian

[edit] Z

• Emiliano Zapata, independence fighter^{[citation needed]}

• Matt Zahoruiko,Football player at Bentley College.