Through his mother, Valentinian was a descendent both of Theodosius I, who was his maternal grandfather, and of Valentinian I, who was the father of his maternal grandmother.

The lead singer from Jamiroquai, Jay Kay is descendent from Portugal through his father.

His father was the writer Alexandru Hâjdeu, a descendent of the Hâjdău family of Moldavian boyars, with noted Polish connections.

Since he had to take an oath of allegiance to become a member of the Bar, his father disinherited him because he regarded it as inconsistent with the dignity of a descendent of the Kings of Ireland.

She came from a noble background ; her father, Manuel Gomez de Avellaneda, was a descendent of the royal family of Navarre and aristocracy of Vizcaya of Spain, and also a commander of the Spanish navy in charge of the central regions of Cuba.

Edward's father was killed during the Wars of the Roses, thus ending the above-mentioned conflict and the throne of England reverted to Richard III's successor, Henry Tudor, a descendent of Edward III of England through his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort.

According to Chinese folklore, King Yao 堯 assigned Yu's father Gun 鯀, who was supposedly a descendent of the Yellow Emperor, to control massive flooding, but he failed.

John Eliot, a fourth-generation descendent of the 17th c. " Apostle to the Indians " and himself a minister, added Governor Thomas Hutchinson's manuscript for the History of Massachusetts Bay, which his father Andrew Eliot had saved during the Revolution when a mob looted the governor's home.

His father was a blue collar worker originally from Emilia, while his mother was a descendent of African slaves, brought from Sudan ( Hausa blacks ).

This foundation stallion produced a descendent, named Old Tobe, who became the more modern father of the Rocky Mountain Horse breed.

Instead, Harald Hardråde's father was supposedly a descendent, in unbroken male line, from a younger ( and somewhat obscure ) son of Harald Fairhair.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

His father, Ustin Demidovich ( of Ukrainian origin ), worked in copper and gold mines while his mother took care of the farm work.

The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was Russian, and the first artificial satellite to be put into outer space, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union and was developed mainly by Sergey Korolyov who had a Russian father ( his mother was Ukrainian ).

* Baba ( nickname ), meaning father in Farsi ( Persian ), Pakistan ( Urdu language ), Indian ( Marathi / Maharastra ), Middle Eastern, Greek, and African cultures & grandmother in Ukrainian, Macedonian, Serbian and other Slavic languages

Kreviazuk is of Ukrainian descent from her father and maternal grandfather.

His mother, Ida ( née Miller ), was a British Jewish immigrant and his father, Barney Fast, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant whose name was shortened from Fastovsky upon arrival in the USA.

Ivan Vladimirovitch Chtcheglov ( Russian: Ива ́ н Влади ́ мирович Щегло ́ в ; 16 January 1933 – April 21 1998 ) was a French political theorist, activist and poet, born in Paris to Ukrainian father and French mother.

Stephen P. Timoshenko (,, December 22, 1878 – May 29, 1972 ), was a Ukrainian American engineer who is reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics.

Her father, General Mikhail Alekseevich Domontovich, from a Ukrainian family which traced its ancestry back to the 13th Century, served as a cavalry officer in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 and as an advisor to the Russian administration in Bulgaria after the war until 1879.

He is considered the father of Ukrainian classical music.

* Piotr Tchaikovsky-Born in Russia to a Ukrainian father and a French mother.

Paley's father, Samuel Paley, a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, ran a cigar company and, as the company became increasingly successful, the new millionaire moved his family to Philadelphia in the early 1920s.

When Palance, whose father was also a Ukrainian coal miner from Northeastern Pennsylvania, asked why he wanted to act, Adams replied, " For the money.

He is a survivor of the Volhynian massacres during World War II, during which Ukrainian nationalists murdered 19 members of his family, including his father.

Jordin's mother Rose is of Ukrainian descent, while his father Barney is an Inuk from Nunavut.

The mother of Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage is from Borysław, and the father of former First Lady Jolanta Kwaśniewska was born in Volhynia, where his sister was murdered in 1943 by the Ukrainian nationalists.

Pierre Bérégovoy was born in Déville-lès-Rouen, Seine-Maritime to a Ukrainian father ( original family name Береговий in Ukrainian or Береговой in Russian ) who had left the Russian Empire after the Russian Civil War, and a French mother.

Palance's parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in southwestern Ukraine ( Ternopil Oblast ) and his mother from the Lviv region.

Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky (; alternative transcriptions of names are Dmitri and Bortnyansky ; 28 October 1751 ) was a Russian composer of Ukrainian origin ; his father however had been born in the

Born in Tbilisi, at the time the capital of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, Gongadze was the son of a Georgian politician father and a Ukrainian nurse mother.

He was born in Brussels of a French father and Ukrainian mother.

Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

My father had none.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

The lyricist's father was a lawyer who had branched out into real estate.

There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

Edward Greville, born about 1565, had inherited Milcote on the execution of his father Lodowick for murder in 1589.

`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.

Scotty murmured, `` No, thanks '', so softly his father had to bend his gaunt height across the table and turn a round brown ear to him.

The infant, in white terry-cloth bathrobe, her face intense and purposeful, had essayed a few wobbly steps toward her father.

With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:

Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??

Their father, when he came back from those many business trips, just bumped their mother on the forehead with his lips and asked if anybody had thought to mix the martinis and put them in the electric icebox.

A Mexican justice of the peace had issue a writ against Chavez for taking part in the `` murder '' of Manuel Gonzales so he and his father were anxious to be taken out of danger.