# What people's produce red hair?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peoples-produce-red-hair/228388 "2004-02-10T03:42:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![alice\_adrift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@alice\_adrift](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_adrift)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peoples-produce-red-hair/228388/21 "2004-02-11T03:56:37Z")

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you’re forgetting the jews. lots of jews have red hair. king david was a redhead. or so it is told.

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**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-peoples-produce-red-hair/228388/22 "2004-02-11T12:56:55Z")

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> [@Zoe](#):
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> Scotland – Norway – Ireland – Take your Pict.

Best pun of the evening, so far.

There’s an interesting map at the bottom of [this page](http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_1.htm) for Great Britain, showing the frequency of people with red hair. Intriguingly, it appears that red hair is only slightly more prevalent in the Scottish highlands than in most of England, while Wales has a higher percentage than either region. The northern most part of England and southern Scotland, however, appears to have the highest of all incidence of red hair.

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