Birth Name: Billie Jean Moffitt
Place of Birth: Long Beach, California
Date of Birth: November 22, 1943
Ethnicity: English, Scottish, Irish
Billie Jean King is an American former professional tennis player. She is the daughter of Bill and Mildred Rose Moffitt. On the show Finding Your Roots, she stated that she thought she had partial Native American roots; a DNA test indicated that she is of 100% European descent. Specific ethnicity percentages weren’t mentioned on the show.
Billie’s paternal grandparents were Willis D. Moffitt (the son of Willis D. Moffitt and Georgie Etta Mason) and Blanche G. Campell (the daughter of Elizabeth Campell).
Billie’s maternal grandparents were Roscoe William Jerman (the son of William David Jerman and Lizzie May Luce) and Doris Mae Holliday.
Sources: Genealogy of Billie Jean King – http://www.geni.com
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