This is a list of notable Romani Americans and Americans of Romani descent.
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List[edit]
- Béla Babai - musician
- Elek Bacsik - Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist
- Stiv Bators - punk rock vocalist
- Gratiela Brancusi - Romanian-born American actress
- Raymond Buckland, Wiccan writer
- Darren E. Burrows - actor and director
- Charles Chaplin Jr. - actor
- Michael Costello - fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities[1]
- Billy Drago - actor[2]
- Karen Finley - performance artist, musician and poet[3]
- Nicolae Feraru - Romanian cimbalom player who immigrated to the United States and performs in Chicago[4]
- Caren Gussoff - author[5]
- Ian Hancock - University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist[6]
- Amber L. Hollibaugh - writer, film-maker and political activist[7]
- Eugene Hütz - Ukrainian-born singer
- Johns family - subjects of the National Geographic Channel reality television series "American Gypsies"
- Priscilla Kelly - professional wrestler
- Ladislas Lazaro - politician
- Janet Lee - psychic who sued private investigator Bob Nygaard over alleged anti-Romani bias[8]
- Oksana Marafioti - author of Armenian and Romani descent[9]
- Richard Marcinko - commander and Vietnam War veteran
- Gina Marks - psychic and writer
- Jimmy Marks - victim of discrimination
- Rose Marks - psychic
- Jerry Mason - rock musician[10]
- Seanan McGuire - author
- Paul Miller - better known by his online alias GypsyCrusader, far-right political commentator, streamer, white supremacist, former Muay Thai fighter and convicted felon
- Kelly Mitchell[11]
- Hillary Monahan - author
- Zhena Muzyka - Founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea[12]
- Boris Pelekh - singer[13][14]
- Sani Rifati - Kosovar-American human rights activist and the President of Voice of Roma
- Levi and Matilda Stanley - 19th century immigrant Romanichal elders
- Nettie Stanley - matriarch of the family starring in the TLC reality television series "Gypsy Sisters"
- Tracey Ullman - actress
- Cecilia Woloch - poet[15]
- Yul Brynner - Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma[16]
- Glenda Bailey-Mershon - writer[15]
- Nadia Hava-Robbins - Czech Romani poet and dancer who emigrated to the United States[15]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "About - MTCostello - Stello". MTCostello.com. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-30.
- ^ Saperstein, Pat (2019-06-26). "Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies at 73". Variety. Retrieved 2021-05-13.
- ^ Roman Catholicism and the Work of Karen Finley. athe.org. Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
- ^ "Nicolae Feraru". www.arts.gov. August 12, 2013.
- ^ "Caren Gussoff". Aqueductpress.com. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ^ Kenrick, Donald (5 July 2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). Scarecrow Press. p. 108. ISBN 9780810864405.
- ^ Anderson, Kelly. "Amber Hollibaugh Interview" (PDF). Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ "After Tough Year Greenwich Psychic Sues Private Investigator". Greenwich Free Press. 25 December 2018.
- ^ IN HER BOOK AMERICAN GYPSY, OKSANA MARAFIOTI TRIES TO RECLAIM ROMANI CULTURE FROM REALITY TV. Los Angeles Times. September 6, 2012
- ^ "Jerry Mason - An American Gypsy Pioneer 2008®". Pioneergypsy.com. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ^ ""The Queen of the Gypsy Nation"". National Geographic Society. 24 May 2012.
- ^ "Zhena's Gypsy Tea founder to keynote Top Women awards | Pacific Coast Business Times". www.pacbiztimes.com. March 15, 2014.
- ^ Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). p. 205.
- ^ "A Theory Claims That Famous Rock Star Elvis Presley Might Have Had A Strong Indian Connection". The Times of India.
- ^ a b c "Roma literature in USA and Canada - RomArchive". www.romarchive.eu.
- ^ Barany, Zoltan D. (January 3, 2002). The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00910-2 – via Google Books.