I guess since as a kid Han Solo was my favorite Star Wars character, and I hated Jews as a kid, so I could never envision him as one. :D  Now that you mention it, you're right. He's 1/4th Jew, though. Everything I can find on Harrison Ford says he is 1/2 Jewish.    Harrison Ford's maternal grandparents, Anna Lifschutz and Harry Nidelman, were  Jewish  immigrants from  Minsk . [2]  His paternal grandparents, Florence Veronica Niehaus and John Fitzgerald Ford, were of  German  and  Irish Catholic  descent, respectively. [2]  When asked in which religion he was raised, Ford jokingly responded,  Democrat ; [4]  he has also said that he feels Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor. [5]