Can Spanish People have Red Hair?

Question

According to my father, who is filipino, his grandmother was full Spanish. And he said that she had Red Hair, White skin, and blue eyes. For sure she was Spanish, but I am unsure about her appearance. My father does really remember her though.

Answer 1

yes spanish people can have red hair those gauls were everywhere it's likely that spanish people have gaulish ancestry

Answer 2

Man you know very little about Spain. Of course a lot of spaniards have red hair, blue eyes and freckles.

Red hair is caratheristic of an ethnic group called celtics.

The Celtics occupied the northwestern coast of Spain, French britain and of course Ireland and Scotland.

As you can see now a days the mentioned above share phenotipic caractheristics and cultural caractheristics like the red hair, blue eyes and the tipical pipes...

There was a famous spanish conqueror, Pedro de Alvarado to whom the aztecs named  "Tonatiuh". (Sun god),  he was a handsome but brutal man, with red hair and beard and also blue eyed!!!.

Also my father who is an spanish and french descendant is kind of red haired, green eyed and we are mexican...

Answer 3

Castillian Spanish usually are fair and frequently are blonde and some reheaded with blue eyes.

Answer 4

My FIL is Spanish and he has red hair. I haven't seen any other Spaniards with red hair though...

Answer 5

yes u can have red hair.

Answer 6

The father of a neighbor who lives two doors up the street was a native of Spain, and she has red hair.  Wikipedia notes that four percent of Europeans have red or auburn hair, including natives of the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, in addition to natives of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Scandinavia--places where red hair is much more common.