All information included here was obtained from public sources. Please let us know of any other notables who you think should be included. We also ask your assistance in keeping the information here up-to-date and correct. We apologize if anything here is erroneous and will make the appropriate corrections as they come to our attention. The original content for this list was created by AMEA, the Association of MultiEthnic Americans.<\/p>\n
Joan Baez<\/b>, singer, Mexican father, Scottish mother (sister, singer Mimi Farina)<\/p>\n
Pearl Bailey<\/b>\u00a0(d.1990), singer, married to white man, Louis Bellson, drummer<\/p>\n
Eletha Barrett<\/b>, black Jamaican Briton widow of the late white actor, Peter Finch<\/p>\n
Jennifer Beals<\/b>, biracial actress<\/p>\n
Boris Becker<\/b>, German pro tennis player, wife black, one son<\/p>\n
Shari Belefonte<\/b>, actress, biracial daughter of singer Harry Belafonte; married to a white man, Robert Harper<\/p>\n
Troy Beyer<\/b>, actress, biracial daughter of Black mother, Jewish father<\/p>\n
Lisa Bonet<\/b>, daughter of Russian Jewish mother, black father, married to Lenny Kravitz, singer, son of Russian Jewish father, black mother<\/p>\n
Jeb Bush<\/b>, Governor of Florida, son of former President George Bush, wife Mexican, children<\/p>\n
Marlon Brando<\/b>, actor, married to Tahitian actress, children<\/p>\n
Carol Moseley Braun<\/b>, black US Senator; formerly married to Michael Braun; has biracial son<\/p>\n
Edgar Bronfman<\/b>, President of the Seagram Corporation; white Jewish man married to black woman<\/p>\n
Edward Brooke<\/b>, biracial former US Senator married to Anne Fleming, white<\/p>\n
Johnathan Butler<\/b>, mixed race musician, South Africa<\/p>\n
Michael Caine<\/b>, actor, married to Shakira Baksh, Guyanese of Indian ancestry; 1 dau, Natasha<\/p>\n
Roy Campanella<\/b>\u00a0(d.1993), retired baseball player, biracial son of Italian father, black mother<\/p>\n
Rod Carew<\/b>, black Panamanian American baseball player married to Marilynn Levy, white Jewish American<\/p>\n
Mariah Carey<\/b>, b. 1970 in Long Island, NY to an interracial family of black Venezuelan engineer (Alfred Roy Carey) and Irish opera singer (Patricia Carey (Hickey))<\/p>\n
Diahann Carroll<\/b>, black actress and singer, formerly married to singer Vic Damone, Italian American<\/p>\n
Linda Carter<\/b>, TV actress, Mexican mother, Anglo father<\/p>\n
Johnny Cash<\/b>, singer, mestizo (white-Cherokee)<\/p>\n
Phoebe Cates<\/b>, actress, has Chinese grandparent<\/p>\n
Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz<\/b>, US astronaut & astrophysicist of Chinese and Nicaraguan parentage<\/p>\n
Suzette Charles<\/b>, biracial runnerup of Miss America pageant; replaced winner; father black, mother Italian<\/p>\n
Linda Chavez<\/b>, conservative commentator, Mexican father, Anglo mother<\/p>\n
“Cher<\/b>“, Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, father Armenian, mother part Native American<\/p>\n
Neneh Cherry<\/b>, singer, Swedish mother, West African father<\/p>\n
Chilli<\/b>, singer with TLC, born Rozanda Ocelean Thomas. Her mother is Black\/American Indian and father is East Indian\/Middle Eastern.<\/p>\n
Rae Dawn Chong<\/b>, actress, daughter of comedian Tommy Chong (white-Chinese) and black mother<\/p>\n
Connie Chung<\/b>\u00a0(Constance Yu-Hwa Chung), TV announcer, married to TV personality Marty Povich<\/p>\n
Tyne Daly<\/b>, actress, formerly married to black actor-director George Sanford Brown, 4 children<\/p>\n
Ron Darling<\/b>, NY Mets baseball player, Amerasian (Chinese-European)<\/p>\n
Sammy Davis, Jr.<\/b>, singer (deceased), married to Swedish actress Mai Britt, biracial daughter Tracey, author<\/p>\n
Frances De Lappe<\/b>, white author married to Paul Du Bois, black (descendant of WEB Du Bois)<\/p>\n
Oscar De la Renta<\/b>, Spanish fashion designer, adopted black son Moses<\/p>\n
Dominique Di Prima<\/b>, TV producer & personality, biracial daughter of activist Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)<\/p>\n
Giancarlo Esposito<\/b>, TV actor, Italian American father, African American mother<\/p>\n
Faith Evans<\/b>, singer, mother is African American, father Italian American<\/p>\n
Georgio<\/b>, (Georgio Allentini), pop singer (Motown), Italian and black<\/p>\n
Yasmeen Ghauri<\/b>, Canadian fashion model, Moslem Hindi father, German mother<\/p>\n
Roland Gift<\/b>, British singer; white mother, black father<\/p>\n
Whoopi Goldberg<\/b>\u00a0formerly married to David Claessen, Dutch, and actor Ted Danson<\/p>\n
Jasmine Guy<\/b>, TV actress, black father, white mother<\/p>\n
Woody Harrelson<\/b>, actor, wife Asian, one daughter<\/p>\n
Dorian Harwood<\/b>, black actor (Roots) married to Nancy Ann (white), children<\/p>\n
Jimi Hendrix<\/b>, deceased 60’s rock artist, raised by his Cherokee grandmother<\/p>\n
Gregory Hines<\/b>, black dancer and actor married to white woman<\/p>\n
Lena Horne<\/b>, singer, widow of the late Lennie Hayton, white bandleader & arranger<\/p>\n
Olivia Hussey<\/b>, British-Argentine actress, married to Japanese man, children<\/p>\n
In Soon-Yi<\/b>, Korean\/African American singer<\/p>\n
Mick Jagger<\/b>, has biracial (black-white) daughter<\/p>\n
Grace Jones<\/b>, black singer, son Paulo with French director Jean-Paul Goude<\/p>\n
Quincy Jones<\/b>, producer, divorced from actress Peggy Lipton, 2 daughters, has another daughter with actress Nastassja Kinski<\/p>\n
Jun Yoon-Hee<\/b>, Korean\/Caucasian singer<\/p>\n
Ben Kingsley<\/b>, British actor of English, Hindu Indian, & Russian Jewish ancestry, married to English theatre director, two sons<\/p>\n
Eartha Kitt<\/b>\u00a0actress, married to a white man, daughter, fashion model Kitt MacDonald<\/p>\n
Nancy Kwan<\/b>, actress of Chinese and EuroAmerican parentage<\/p>\n
Le Barge<\/b>, band comprised of biracial family members<\/p>\n
John Lone<\/b>, “Last Emperor” star, white (British) father, Chinese mother<\/p>\n
Greg Louganis<\/b>, Olympic athlete, Samoan father, Scandinavian mother<\/p>\n
Amy Lumet<\/b>, actress, biracial granddaughter of Lena Horne, Jewish father, mother Gail Buckley (Horne)<\/p>\n
Bobby McFerrin<\/b>, singer, married to white woman, children<\/p>\n
Danica McKellar<\/b>\u00a0(played “Winnie” on The Wonder Years TV series), EuroAmerican father, Korean mother<\/p>\n
James Michener<\/b>, author, married to Japanese American Mari Yoriko Sabusawa<\/p>\n
Mary Xinh Nguyen<\/b>, model, Vietnamese mother, white American father<\/p>\n
Edward James Olmos<\/b>, actor, Mexican and Hungarian parents, married to white woman<\/p>\n
Yoko Ono<\/b>, musician, widow of John Lennon, son Sean<\/p>\n
Debra Paget<\/b>, white actress married to Chinese oil tycoon, Louis C. Kung<\/p>\n
Nia Peebles<\/b>, actress<\/p>\n
Lou Diamond Phillips<\/b>, actor (Latino, Filipino, Cherokee, Chinese, Hawaiian, Scots Irish)<\/p>\n
Pointer Sister\u00a0Ruth<\/b>\u00a0married to white man Michael Sayles, children (twins)<\/p>\n
Sidney Poitier<\/b>, actor, married to white actress Joanna Shimkus<\/p>\n
Prince<\/b>\u00a0(“artist-formerly-known-as”), son of black father, Italian mother<\/p>\n
Rain Pryor<\/b>, actress, biracial daughter of comedian Richard Pryor<\/p>\n
Norma Quarles<\/b>, news correspondent for NBC TV, black, white, and Chinese<\/p>\n
Anthony Quinn<\/b>, actor, son of Irish father, Mexican mother 556-5600<\/p>\n
Keanu Reeves<\/b>, actor, white British mother, Chinese-Hawaiian father<\/p>\n
Bill Richardson<\/b>, former UN Ambassador, father Anglo, mother Mexican<\/p>\n
Salli Richardson<\/b>, actress (“Posse”), daughter of African American-Cherokee mother and Italian-Irish father<\/p>\n
Geraldo Rivera<\/b>, son of Puerto Rican father, Jewish mother<\/p>\n
Smokey Robinson<\/b>, singer and producer, white grandmother<\/p>\n
Linda Ronstadt<\/b>, father Mexican & German, mother white<\/p>\n
Jimmy Smits<\/b>, TV actor, Dutch East Indian Surinamese father and Puerto Rican mother<\/p>\n
Sonya (Kim Sohn Hee)<\/b>, a well known Korean\/African American R&B; singer from Hankookilbo<\/p>\n
Shadoe Stevens<\/b>, white deejay married to black woman Donna Summer, singer, married to white man, child<\/p>\n
Renee Tenison<\/b>, 1990 Playmate of the Year, biracial, identical twin sister<\/p>\n
Philip Michael Thomas<\/b>, biracial actor (Miami Vice)<\/p>\n
Richard Thomas<\/b>, actor, formerly married to Mexican woman, triplet daughters<\/p>\n
Tiffany<\/b>, white teen pop singer married to Latino, Bulmaro “Junior” Garcia<\/p>\n
Meg Tilly<\/b>, actress, has Chinese grandparent<\/p>\n
“Uptown”<\/b>\u00a0a hip hop duo with\u00a0Carlos Galvan<\/b>\u00a0(Korean\/Mexican) and\u00a0Tasha Reid<\/b>\u00a0(Korean\/African American)<\/p>\n
Eddie Van Halen<\/b>, singer, father Dutch, mother Indonesian<\/p>\n
Vanity<\/b>, biracial actress<\/p>\n
Alice Walker<\/b>, author, formerly married to civil rights attorney Mel Levanthal, daughter Rebecca<\/p>\n
Andre Watts<\/b>, biracial concert pianist, son of African American father, Hungarian mother<\/p>\n
Julian Lloyd Webber<\/b>, British cellist, brother of musical producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, married to Persian-Afghan princess Zohra Ghazi<\/p>\n
Raquel Welch<\/b>, actress, born Raquel Tejada in 1940 in Chicago to Bolivian and English parents<\/p>\n
Billy Dee Williams<\/b>, actor, married to a Japanese woman<\/p>\n
Tiger Woods<\/b>, golf pro, black-Native American father, Thai mother<\/p>\n
Marian Wright<\/b>, African American civil rights activist, currently with the Children’s Defense Fund, married to Peter Edelman, Jewish, three sons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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