Birth Name: Alexander Jo Pall
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 16, 1985
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*English (maternal grandfather)
*Serbian or Croatian (maternal grandmother)
Alex Pall is an American music producer. He is one-half of the duo The Chainsmokers, along with Andrew Taggart.
Alex’s father, William “Bill” Blatt Pall, was American, of Jewish descent. Alex’s mother, Margaret Olivia (Wolstenholme) D’Agostino, is an English immigrant, from London.
Alex’s paternal grandfather was David Boris Pall (the son of Adolph Pallant, later Pall, and of Masha “Mary” Donner). David was a Canadian chemist, from Thunder Bay, Ontario, who founded Pall Corporation, and invented the Pall filter used in blood transfusions. Adolph and Mary were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, from Melitopol, Zaporizhia Oblast.
Alex’s paternal grandmother was Josephine Harriet “Josie” Blatt (the daughter of Velvel “William” Moshe/Moses Blatt and Lucy Romberg). Velvel was the son of Polish Jewish immigrant Yosef Tavi Blatt, later Joseph Henry Blatt, of Wrocław, and of Louise Singer, whose father, Isidor Singer, later Isidore Singer, was a Polish Jewish immigrant, from Poznań, and whose mother, Pauline Abrams, was a German Jewish immigrant. Alex’s great-grandmother Lucy was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant, from Kharkiv, and was the daughter of Chanoch Henich “Henry” Chaimovych Romberg and Esther Malka/Mollie Solomovna Levinskaya/Levinsky.
Alex’s maternal grandfather was Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme (the son of Ethelbert George Wolstenholme and Clementina Ward). Gordon was English. Ethelbert was the son of Alfred Wolstenholme and Elizabeth Dickins. Clementina was the daughter of Herbert Ward and Elizabeth Allen.
Alex’s maternal grandmother was Lady Dušanka Messinger. Dušanka’s name was of Serbian or Croatian origin.
Sources: Genealogy of Alex Pall – https://www.geni.com
Obituary of Alex’s father – http://www.nytimes.com
Obituary of Alex’s paternal grandfather, David Boris Pall – http://www.nytimes.com
Birth record of Alex’s paternal grandmother, Josephine Harriet Blatt – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Alex’s paternal great-grandparents, Velvel “William” Moshe/Moses Blatt and Lucy Romberg – https://familysearch.org
Birth record of Alex’s mother – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Alex’s maternal grandparents, Sir Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme and Lady Dušanka Messinger – https://familysearch.org
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