Adam Clayton
Clayton in 2014, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Adam Charles Clayton
Place of Birth: Ploughley, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 March, 1960
Ethnicity: English
Adam Clayton is an English-born Irish musician. He is the bass guitarist of Irish rock band U2. Other members of the band are Bono, The Edge, and Larry Mullen, Jr.
Adam and his family are English, but have resided in County Dublin, Ireland, since Adam was a child. Adam is married to Brazilian-born human rights lawyer Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho. He has two children.
Adam’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Willis.
Source: Marriage record of Adam’s parents – https://familysearch.org
Born in England of English parents, so ethnically Enhlish, but as Irish as you get. To be Irish is much more than ancestry.