List of Romani Americans
This is a list of notable Romani Americans and Americans of Romani descent.
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List
[edit]- Bรฉla Babai โ musician
- Elek Bacsik โ Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist
- Gratiela Brancusi โ Romanian-born American actress
- Raymond Buckland, Wiccan writer
- Darren E. Burrows โ actor and director
- Charles Chaplin Jr. โ actor
- Bill Clinton โ former president of Scottish Gypsy descent[1]
- Michael Costello โ fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities[2]
- Billy Drago โ actor[3]
- Karen Finley โ performance artist, musician and poet[4]
- Caren Gussoff โ author[5]
- Ian Hancock โ University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist[6]
- Amber L. Hollibaugh โ writer, film-maker and political activist[7]
- Tini Howard โ comics writer[8]
- Eugene Hรผtz โ Ukrainian-born singer
- Johns family โ subjects of the National Geographic Channel reality television series "American Gypsies"
- Priscilla Kelly โ professional wrestler
- Ladislas Lazaro โ politician
- Janet Lee โ psychic who sued private investigator Bob Nygaard over alleged anti-Romani bias[9]
- Oksana Marafioti โ author of Armenian and Romani descent[10]
- Richard Marcinko โ commander and Vietnam War veteran
- Gina Marks โ psychic and writer
- Jimmy Marks โ victim of discrimination
- Rose Marks โ psychic
- Jerry Mason โ rock musician[11]
- Seanan McGuire โ author
- Paul Miller โ better known as GypsyCrusader, far-right political commentator
- Kelly Mitchell[12]
- Hillary Monahan โ author
- Boris Pelekh โ singer[13][14]
- Sani Rifati โ Kosovar-American human rights activist and the President of Voice of Roma
- Levi and Matilda Stanley โ 19th century immigrant Romanichal elders
- Nettie Stanley โ matriarch of the family starring in the TLC reality television series "Gypsy Sisters"
- Chrissy Teigen โ model, television personality, author[15]
- Tracey Ullman โ actress
- Cecilia Woloch โ poet[16]
- Yul Brynner โ Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma[17]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- โ "The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) - Donald Kenrick - Google Boeken". books.google.com. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
- โ "About โ MTCostello โ Stello". MTCostello.com. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- โ Saperstein, Pat (June 26, 2019). "Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies at 73". Variety. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
- โ Roman Catholicism and the Work of Karen Finley. athe.org. Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
- โ "Caren Gussoff". Aqueductpress.com. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- โ Kenrick, Donald (July 5, 2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). Scarecrow Press. p.ย 108. ISBNย 978-0-8108-6440-5.
- โ Anderson, Kelly. "Amber Hollibaugh Interview" (PDF). Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- โ Browne, Wendy (October 10, 2018). "Tini Howard's Captain America โ WWACย %". WWAC. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- โ "After Tough Year Greenwich Psychic Sues Private Investigator". Greenwich Free Press. December 25, 2018.
- โ IN HER BOOK AMERICAN GYPSY, OKSANA MARAFIOTI TRIES TO RECLAIM ROMANI CULTURE FROM REALITY TV. Los Angeles Times. September 6, 2012
- โ "Jerry Mason โ An American Gypsy Pioneer 2008ยฎ". Pioneergypsy.com. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- โ ""The Queen of the Gypsy Nation"". National Geographic Society. May 24, 2012.
- โ Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). p.ย 205.
- โ "A Theory Claims That Famous Rock Star Elvis Presley Might Have Had A Strong Indian Connection". The Times of India. September 25, 2019.
- โ "Famous American model Chrissy Teigen learns she has Romani roots, reacts with enthusiasm! - Romea.cz - Everything about Roma in one place". Archived from the original on January 30, 2025. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
- โ "Roma literature in USA and Canada โ RomArchive". www.romarchive.eu.
- โ Barany, Zoltan D. (January 3, 2002). The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics. Cambridge University Press. ISBNย 978-0-521-00910-2 โ via Google Books.
