Oprah Winfrey (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images) Oprah is an American media mogul, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist and one of the most influential people in the world. She is best known for her talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show, her TV network OWN and her magazine “O” traced her lineage back to Liberia (Kpelle People), Cameroon (Bamiléké People) and Zambia.

Condoleezza Rice The Former U.S. Secretary of States and current Stanford University Provost Condi Rice was surprised to learn that her mtDNA traced back to the Tikar people of Cameroon. The people in Ghana had thought that she looked like she might descend from their Ashanti Tribe.

Vanessa L. Williams This American singer, actress, producer and the first African American to win the Miss America crown found through DNA analysis that she is 23 percent from Ghana, 17 percent from the British Isles, 15 percent from Cameroon, 12 percent Finnish, 11 percent Southern European, 7 percent Togo, 6 percent Benin, 5 percent Senegal and 4 percent Portuguese. “Now, I can’t wait to go to Ghana and Cameroon and Togo and Senegal” Vanessa Williams said.