British_mixed-race

Mixed Race was included as an ethnic classification on the UK Census from 2001. The census used 8 different sub-categories covering different combinations of White, Asian, and Black ethnic origins. Colloqually it refers to British citizens whose parents are of different races or ethnic backgrounds, and to the offspring of such people.

In the 2001 census, people of mixed race made up 1.2% of the UK population with 677,117 people. People of Black and White descent had a reported figure of 367,700 with White/Black Caribbean having 266,300 people, and then White/Black African with 101,400 people. Those of White/Asian descent was reported in 2001 as having 189,000 people though in 2005 it had increase to 231,000. The UK national statistics now estimate that as of 2005, almost 800,000 mixed race people reside in England alone, of which those of white and Black Caribbean origin make up the largest share.[2] In British society and media, the term "Mixed-Race" is often used synonymously with people of primarily the Black and White mix .^{[citation needed]} due to this being the largest category and often most visibly identifiable as being of mixed descent.

The mixed race population has a younger age profile than any other minority ethnic group in Britain, where 50% is under 16 years of age. By the year 2020, mixed race Britons are expected to have outnumbered British Indians (currently more than 1 million members), to become the largest ethnic minority in Britain with 1.24 million members, showing a 50% increase in the mixed race population in a decade to come.[3][4]

Notable mixed-race/ethnic Britons

Arts and entertainment

• Sade Adu, (Nigerian father/English mother), singer
• Corinne Bailey Rae, (Kittitian father/English mother), singer
• Dame Shirley Bassey (Nigerian father/English mother), singer
• Melanie B (Nevisian father/English mother), singer and actress. Member of the Spice Girls.
• Paul Barber (Sierra Leonean father/English mother), actor
• George Bridgetower (Afro-Caribbean father/European mother) 19th century violinist
• Mutya Buena (Filipino father/Irish, Chinese and Spanish Mother), singer
• Dina Carroll (African American and English), singer
• Craig Charles (Afro-Caribbean father/Irish mother), actor
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Sierra Leonean father/English mother) 19th century composer
• Craig David, (Grenadian father/Jewish Mother), singer
• Jaye Davidson, (Ghanaian father/English mother), actor
• Alesha Dixon (Jamaican father/English mother), singer
• Roland Gift, (Afro Caribbean and English), singer and actor
• Goldie, (Afro-Caribbean and Scottish) DJ and actor
• David Jordan, (Montserratian mother/Indian father) Singer/Songwriter
• Jackie Kay (Nigerian father/Scottish mother), poet
• Sir Ben Kingsley (Kenyan-Indian father/English mother), actor
• Myleene Klass (Austrian father/Filipino mother), classical musician, model, and TV presenter
• Cleo Laine (Jamaican father/English mother), singer
• Yasmin Le Bon, (Iranian father/English mother), model
• Ms. Dynamite, (Scottish mother/Jamaican father), singer
• Charlotte Lewis, (Iraqi-Chilean father/Irish mother), actress
• Leona Lewis (Guyanese Afro-Caribbean father/Anglo-Welsh mother), singer and winner of the 2006 X-Factor
• Thandie Newton, (English father/Zimbabwean mother), actress
• Sophie Okonedo, (Nigerian father/Jewish mother), actress
• Bruce Oldfield, (Afro-Caribbean father/English mother), fashion designer
• Slash (musician), (African-American mother/English father), musician
• Zadie Smith (English father/Jamaican mother), novelist
• KT Tunstall (Half-Chinese birth mother/Irish birth father), singer
• Mel & Kim, (Jamaican father/British mother), singers

Politics

• Oona King (African-American father/Jewish mother), former Labour MP
• Paul Boateng (Ghanaian father/Scottish mother), cabinet minister and ambassador
• Robert Wedderburn (Scottish father/African mother), revolutionary Spencean
• Mark Hendrick (Half Somali), Labour MP

Sports

• Ashley Cole (Barbadian father/English mother), footballer
• John Amaechi (Nigerian father/English mother), basketball player
• Robert Earnshaw, (Welsh father/Zambian mother), footballer
• Rio Ferdinand and Anton Ferdinand (St. Lucian father/Anglo-Irish mother), footballers
• Ryan Giggs (Mixed-race father/English mother), footballer
• Jeremy Guscott, (Afro Caribbean father/English mother), rugby player
• Lewis Hamilton (Grenadian father/English mother), Formula 1 driver
• Dame Kelly Holmes, (Jamaican father/English mother), athlete
• Nasser Hussain (Indian father/English mother), cricketer
• David James, footballer
• Daley Thompson, (Nigerian and Scottish), decathlete
• Rory and Tony Underwood (English father/Chinese mother), rugby players
• Theo Walcott, (Jamaican father/English mother), footballer

Other

• Mary Seacole, (Scottish father/Jamaican mother), 19th century nursing pioneer
• Tom Lewis (Jamaican mother/Welsh father), Carterton legend
• Jim Al-Khalili, (Iraqi father/English mother), nuclear physicist

References

See also

• Multiracial
• Mulatto
• Anglo-Indian

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