# Blonde hair, red beard **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 10, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835 "2002-12-10T20:23:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/21 "2002-12-11T05:55:22Z")
Paternal ancestors: Prussian/Prussian/Prussian/Prussian Maternal ancestors: Irish/Native American/Native American (diff tribe)/Native American (yet a diff tribe) Hair: Blondish, much lighter in youth, Bleaches out big time in summer. Mustache: Amost invisible blonde Beard: Red to reddish brown, very sparse. Complexion: no tan, ruddy; with tan, very reddish copper. Eyes: Blue I’ll bet some anthropologists or geneticists would like to study my family tree. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/22 "2002-12-11T06:07:28Z")
Icelandic/Irish. Red on my head, blonde on my arms and legs. I don’t have a beard, but my other hair is red. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/23 "2002-12-11T08:31:52Z")
German/English here… blonde w/redish beard ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/24 "2002-12-11T12:05:56Z")
My dad is Sicilian, and he had a black beard mixed with red. So do I. My head hair is a very dark brown, nearly black, and that came from the Irish side of my family. Red-headed Sicilians are due to the Normans having ruled the island in the 11th-12 centuries. Scandinavians again. ---
**Author:** ![trader\_of\_shots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trader\_of\_shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trader_of_shots)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/25 "2002-12-11T12:30:29Z")
I am strawberry blonde and have a red beard - cept the middle of it goes white as snow… ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/26 "2002-12-11T13:34:40Z")
The hair on the top of my head _was_ red, but has faded to blond. My beard and sideburns are bright red, except for the bit directly under my bottom lip, which is white. I’m about 5/8ths Anglo-Saxon, and the rest is Danish. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/27 "2002-12-11T14:23:44Z")
IMO, its a mix of Norse and Irish that give the Red beard. ---
**Author:** ![jortega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecccb3/32.png) [@jortega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jortega)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/28 "2011-10-16T20:22:44Z")
I am Mexican, most likely mestizo and have black hair with reddish/blondish and black beard, I feel strange at times. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/29 "2011-10-16T20:54:45Z")
My uncles have reddish-brown hair (kind of a brassy brown tone - not attractive imho, which is why I dye mine :D) and flaming red beards. They are of the Eye-rish variety. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/30 "2011-10-16T21:00:45Z")
Appropriately, _The Walking Dead_ starts its 2nd season tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/31 "2011-10-17T02:32:34Z")
I have blond hair and a red beard, and am approximately 25% each Italian, German, Irish, and English. So there you go. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/32 "2011-10-17T02:55:42Z")
I’m just over half German, and the rest is a mix of French, Irish, English and Scots. With a smidge of Native American. I have brown hair. When my beard first came in, it was blonde, then turned bright orange. In my 30’s it turned brown, blond and red mixed. In my mid 40’s, it turned white. When I said “pick a color, any color”, I should have set some limits. ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/33 "2011-10-17T09:40:03Z")
_Zombie beard thread_ ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/34 "2011-10-17T09:42:38Z")
Do you nails and beard grow when you have died? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/35 "2011-10-17T13:15:02Z")
Let’s see. I am pure Ashkenazy from Russia and Lithuania. My maternal grandfather had platinum blond hair and blue eyes. My paternal grandmother had red hair. My mother had dark brown hair and brown eyes, my father dark brown hair and blue eyes. My brother and sister had dark brown hair and brown eyes. I had dark brown, nearly black hair, but my beard, mostly black, had a fair amount of red and underarms even more. My eyes are blue (with a few flecks of green). My wife had light brown (or dark blond) hair and green eyes. Of my children, two have brown hair (one very dark) and one is blond. Two have blue eyes and one is brown (although there is green underlying with so many brown flecks that the overall impression is brown. An evolutionist’s nightmare, it seems to me. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/36 "2011-10-17T13:24:33Z")
There’s guy I work with who has brown hair, a red beard, and blond (or at least very light) eyebrows. My take is that he looks like Neopolitan ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/37 "2011-10-18T02:13:39Z")
Happens. I like to blame all red hair on Neaderthal genes. My SO is Italian and he has dark brown hair, black eyebrows and lashes, and an auburn beard. Apparently red hair is quite common in some areas of Italy (Northern, especially) though he is the only one in the family with this coloring. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835/38 "2011-10-18T02:39:15Z")
My mom is pure Dutch and my dad is pure Lithuanian, I know that my maternal grandfather never got this red beard thing, but both my father and I get the rusty beard hair + blond hair thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-hair-red-beard/141835.md?page=1)