Father:  Jewish

•  London plays the character Christina in the first season of the show 90210
   
• London began her career making appearances in music videos by artists such as Ludacris, Pharrell, and Snoop Dogg. In 2006,  London landed her first film role as well, playing hip hop artist T.I.'s romantic lead in the film ATL. In 2007, London landed a role on the HBO comedy series Entourage, playing the character Turtle's (Jerry Ferrara) love interest.
   
• She welcomed her first child, a boy, fathered by rapper Lil Wayne, on September 9th 2009.

Father: White

"People think that I am Persian, Indian, East Indian, Spanish, everything," she told Collier. "And that was a problem when I was first working because it was like, 'She doesn't really look this or that."

."I was raised around both my parents, and I knew that my father is White and my mother is Black, but I never thought that I was anything but Black," she told Ebony in 1997. "It never crossed my mind that I could be anything else. No one ever said anything; no one ever made any comments in my family. It was just never a question. I think being Black is a wonderful thing to claim."

Interesting fact:

• Nicki Minaj was discovered on MySpace by Dirty Money CEO Fendi, who signed her to his Dirty Money label.
   
• In 2008, Minaj released her mixtape, Sucka Free. Minaj appeared in the July issue of XXL magazine, giving a brief overview of her life up to that point in time. Later that year, Minaj won Female Artist of the Year at the Underground Music Awards 

Father: Black Panamanian

Fenty told the Washington Post that his biracial background gave him advantage in a city whose politics were often split along racial lines. "there's no question [his background] gives me a tolerance and an appreciation for the views of everyone."

Interesting fact:

• Fenty is the youngest person ever to hold the office of District of Columbia Mayor, winning election at age 35. He began his term of office on January, 2007
•  His trademark style includes a fedora hat and a Blackberry phone. 

Father: Black

"It's not just black girls. It's ethnic girls in general: Brazilian girls, Hispanic. You really don't see a lot of Asians either," she told New York Post. " A lot of designers think that if every girl on the runway looks exactly alike, then people will come to the shows and buy the clothes because they won't be focusing on the models. So they're scared to use ethnic girls from all over the world because people would focus on [the models]—'Oh my god, she's so beautiful. Look at her face!'—and not on the clothes," Chanel says. "It's not even just runway either…us ethnic girls should be getting a lot of the covers too! I would love to be on half of the campaigns these [white] girls are booking, all looking exactly alike. It's not right. It's not fair."

Interesting fact:

• She was named after Coco Chanel
• she has modelled for many top designers, including Dolce & Gabbana, Issey Miyake, Marc Jacobs, Valentino, Dsquared, Hermès, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, Anna Sui, Diane von Fürstenberg, Vera Wang, Jean Paul Gaultier and Stella McCartney

Father: German-Jewish

 "[Wasow] grew up with the joy and anxiety of straddling two of NYC's most vibrant, troubled worlds," according to Village Voice writer Noah Green about Wasow's biracial background. ""A hacker of racial, not just digital, boundaries, he found solace in the neutral zone of the subways and the futurist promise of his old Commodore Vic-20."

Interesting fact:

• He was born in Nairobi, Kenya; lived in Bangladesh, Australia, and Puerto Rico, among other exotic locales though he spent his formative adolescent years in New York City.