Any 'English' people who the populace believes are English but are actually not?

[Anglo-Celtic]

MyHeritage gives lots of people strange results. I doubt that is real.

It hits the major countries or regions, but the minor hits are often suspect. It seems to be the one most used by celebrities too.

[Grace O'Malley]

And of course, let us not forget that Michael Caine is part-Romani. Clive and David Swift were both Jewish.

No idea where that Romani ancestry is for Michael Caine. His tree just shows English and Irish. I wonder sometimes if people are misinformed that they have some ancestry that they don't actually have. Somewhat like many Americans thinking they have Native American. Possibly Michael was told he had "Gypsy" ancestry and it might be Traveller and not Roma. Who really knows but all his ancestry is Isles from his tree. It would be helpful if he had a dna test to see if anything turns up.

[Grace O'Malley]

I always used to think of Carol Vorderman as being as English as anything before I even knew she has a Dutch father (hence the name). What about Dawn French - is the last name French actually Anglo-English? What about Vanessa Feltz? I think she's Jewish.

The French surname is relative common in Ireland but could be English also. I'd say it has Norman origins. Dawn's maternal side is Irish but her French surname side is from Plymouth.

[Sam Ryan]

Even Joanna Lumley has a Danish great-grandparent. I think most Brits have something from Europe. However, that isn't to say there aren't a lot of English people with only traceable English heritage.
I wonder about Jason Statham? He's probably only English.

[Autrigón]

Geri Halliwell is half spaniard.

[Creoda]

Margaret Thatcher I wouldn't really say is 'foreign', however - she had distant Irish ancestry, but the Irish are an integral part of the British Isles family.

I don't believe English people with minor Irish or other European ancestry are relevant to this thread (not fully isn't the same as not very), but re: the 'British Isles family', the Irish would be more foreign in England than continental Germanics if they hadn't been culturally Anglicised a few centuries ago. They were more foreign in the 1500s/1600s.

I think most Brits have something from Europe.

No way. It's uncommon. Maybe not among the cosmopolitan media class.

[Sam Ryan]

Hmmmm, I don't know. These people look typically English. Why does the average result for Bledington look only 42 percent English? Is it a multicultural agenda scam? I don't know because I'm no population geneticist.

https://www.punchline-gloucester.com...nly-42-british

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[Sam Ryan]

I see you're an Anglo-Aussie, do you have any non-English ancestry? Did you take any tests? I'd love to visit Australia one day.

[Creoda]

Hmmmm, I don't know. These people look typically English. Why does the average result for Bledington look only 42 percent English? Is it a multicultural agenda scam? I don't know because I'm no population geneticist.

https://www.punchline-gloucester.com...nly-42-british

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It's just typical anti-British media spin. Anyone who knows about AncestryDNA's (old) categories knows they were highly inaccurate, the average English person scored a minor percentage of 'Great Britain'. My mother got a small percentage of Great Britain in 2018, the next year they changed the category and she got 100% English.

https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/i...sh-as-we-think

The results reveal the genetic ethnic make up of the ‘average’ person in the UK and what countries and/or regions they can trace their ancestry back to over the past 500 years. They found that the average UK resident is 36.94% British (Anglo Saxon), 21.59% Irish (Celtic) and 19.91% Western European (the region covered today by France and Germany).

Obviously nonsense.

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

the girl i used to sit next to in work, once told me her maternal grandmother was originally from Norway