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Included are people who changed their legal names and people who created personal or professional pseudonyms. Under longstanding Western custom and law, children are customarily given the father's surname, except for children born outside marriage, who often carry their mother's family names. [ 1 ]
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a documentary television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that premiered on March 25, 2012, on PBS.In each episode, celebrities are presented with a "book of life" that is compiled with information researched by professional genealogists that allows them to view their ancestral histories, learn about familial connections and discover ...
This is a list of haplogroups of historic people. Haplogroups can be determined from the remains of historical figures, or derived from genealogical DNA tests of people who trace their direct maternal or paternal ancestry to a noted historical figure. Some contemporary notable figures have made their test results public in the course of news ...
Boris Perchatkin (born 1 July 1946), the most famous participant in Nakhodka's religious emigration movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, a human rights activist who lobbied in the United States for the adoption of the "Lautenberg's Amendment" in 1989, as a result of which about 1 million people emigrated to the United States from the ...
John Mackenzie (1835–99), missionary to and advocate for the Tswana people, first governor of British Bechuanaland; Jovan Nikolić, footballer; Samantha Paxinos, swimmer; Adrian Robinson, swimmer; Hendrik van Zyl (1828–80), notorious trader from Ghanzi who allegedly hid a vast treasure in the cave systems nearby; Brandon Wilson, football player
Kevin Shields – vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine; Patrick Stump – lead singer of American rock band Fall Out Boy; The Rev – former drummer for metal band Avenged Sevenfold; Jessica Sutta – member of pop girl group The Pussycat Dolls; Taylor Swift – pop singer; Corey Taylor – lead singer of heavy metal band Slipknot
Ryan Eggold – actor (his mother is of half Croatian and half Austrian-Jewish ancestry) Jenna Elfman – television and movie actress (of partial Croatian descent; niece of Tony Butala) Josip Elic – actor; Judah Friedlander – actor and comedian (mother of Croatian descent) Ryan Kiera Armstrong - actress (Croatian mother, Berta Bacic)
This is a list of notable Slovak Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Slovak American or must have references showing they are Slovak American and are notable.