Birth Name: Samuel Benjamin Harris
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 9, 1967
Ethnicity:
*Likely English, with 1/128 Scots-Irish (Northern Irish) (father)
*Ashkenazi Jewish (mother)
Family Info: Sam Harris is an American neuroscientist, author and philosopher.
Sam’s father, Elliott Berkeley Harris Jr., was a quaker. His mother, Susan Harris (born Spivak), is Jewish. Sam has said that his upbringing was secular.
Sam’s paternal grandparents were Elliott Berkeley Harris Sr. and Rebecca Wilson Land (the daughter of Willian Raines Land Sr. and Mary Gregory LeGrande). The surname LeGrande is often French, which might indicate some French ancestry. Only one of Sam’s ancestors can be traced back beyond the United States, his paternal second great-grandmother, Abigail Blackburn, was born in loughgall, Northern Ireland. Though it is likely that most of his father’s ancestors were of English descent.
Source: http://www.geni.com/people/Sam-Harris/6000000036156958969
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/100757/qa-sam-harris
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