The heritage index

What is your favouritecelebrity’sethnicity?

Everybody comes from somewhere, and that story tends to be longer than one word. Type in any famous name and see the heritage, the nationality, the birthplace and the languages that public records actually hold — with the source attached, every time.

Heritage Birthplace Languages Sourced, every entry

The ethnicity finder

Being looked up now

8.9M

Names on file

190

Places of origin

0.1s

Average lookup

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Guesses published

One name, many threads

Nobody is from just one place

A surname travels. A grandmother moves countries. A city raises you while an island names you. Here is what that looks like written out — the name on the left, the lines behind it on the right.

Rihanna

Barbadian, with Guyanese and Irish roots

Bruno Mars

Puerto Rican, Filipino and Ashkenazi Jewish

Riz Ahmed

British Pakistani, Karachi to Wembley

Keanu Reeves

Chinese Hawaiian, English and Portuguese

Simu Liu

Chinese Canadian, Harbin to Mississauga

Zendaya

African American, with German and Scottish lines

What every entry gives you

01

Heritage, in their own record

Not a guess from a surname or a photograph. We publish the ethnic heritage, nationality and birthplace that appear in public records, and name the source each time.

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More than one answer, usually

Almost nobody is from exactly one place. Where the record holds several threads, we show all of them instead of flattening a person into a single label.

03

Silence stays silence

If nobody has published a person’s heritage, the page says so. We would rather leave a gap than invent an identity on someone’s behalf.

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Language, place, people

Where they were born, which languages they carry, which community claims them. The small facts that make a background feel like a life rather than a category.

Browse by heritage

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South Asian1,940 names African & Diaspora2,180 names Latin & Caribbean1,460 names East Asian1,120 names Middle Eastern780 names European2,310 names Indigenous410 names Full A to ZEvery name we hold

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Every row dated and sourced

CelebrityHeritageBorn inChecked
RihannaBarbadianBridgetown, Barbados2 min ago
Riz AhmedBritish PakistaniWembley, London4 min ago
Simu LiuChinese CanadianHarbin, China6 min ago
Bad BunnyPuerto RicanAlmirante Sur, Vega Baja9 min ago
Dev PatelBritish Indian (Gujarati)Harrow, London12 min ago
Chloé ZhaoChineseBeijing, China15 min ago
Heritage is not a costume or a category. It is a set of people you came through, and we only publish the ones on record.
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Free, instant, and never a guess. Start with someone you have followed for years — the map behind them is usually bigger than you think.

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FameEthnicity — heritage, nationality and birthplace, sourced and dated.