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This is a list of notable persons by nationality. By nationality. Delineating notable nationals of nation-states, and their significant dependent territories.
Marlene Dietrich – Born and raised in Germany becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1939 while renouncing her German citizenship. Diana Douglas; Deanna Durbin – Born in Canada. Became a U.S. citizen in 1923. Marie Dressler; Minnie Driver – Born in the United Kingdom raised in Barbados before becoming a U.S. citizen in 2017. [88] Samantha ...
This is a list of notable former United States citizens who voluntarily relinquished their citizenship, and through that act, their nationality. It includes only public figures who completed the process of relinquishment of United States citizenship . [ 1 ]
This is a list of denaturalized former citizens of the United States, that is, those who became citizens through naturalization and were subsequently stripped of citizenship. In the cases of Solomon Adler and Bhagat Singh Thind , they subsequently obtained United States citizenship.
Conceptually citizenship and nationality are different dimensions of state membership. Citizenship is focused on the internal political life of the state and nationality is the dimension of state membership in international law. [35] Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone has the right to nationality. [36]
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state. [1] [a]Though citizenship is often conflated with nationality in today's English-speaking world, [3] [4] [5] international law does not usually use the term citizenship to refer to nationality; [6] [7] these two notions are conceptually different dimensions of collective membership.
Foreign-born politicians may gain U.S. citizenship by means of birth (if one or both of their parents were citizens who met the requirements to transmit citizenship at birth), derivation (if they acquired citizenship from their parents after birth but before the age of 18), or naturalization (if they acquired citizenship by fulfilling the ...
The following is a list of notable Filipinos who have acquired Philippine citizenship through naturalization. In contrast, natural-born Filipinos, are individuals who have one or both parents who were Philippine citizens at the time of the birth of that individual.