List of Romani Americans
This is a list of notable Romani Americans.
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To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Romani American or must have references showing they are Romani American and are notable.
List
- Béla Babai - musician
- Elek Bacsik - Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist
- Stiv Bators - punk rock vocalist
- Gratiela Brancusi - Romanian-born American actress
- Darren E. Burrows - actor and director
- Charles Chaplin Jr. - actor
- Cher - singer[1]
- Michael Costello - fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities[2]
- Billy Drago - actor[3]
- Karen Finley - performance artist, musician and poet[4]
- Nicolae Feraru - Romanian cimbalom player who immigrated to the United States and performs in Chicago[5]
- Caren Gussoff - author[6]
- Ian Hancock - University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist
- Rita Hayworth - actress[7]
- Amber L. Hollibaugh - writer, film-maker and political activist[8]
- 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[9]
- Oksana Marafioti - author of Armenian and Romani descent[10]
- Richard Marcinko - commander and Vietnam War veteran
- Gina Marks - psychic and writer
- Jimmy Marks - victim of discrimination
- Rose Marks - psychic
- Jerry Mason - rock musician[11]
- Seanan McGuire - author
- Kelly Mitchell[12]
- Paul Miller, better known by his online alias GypsyCrusader, far-right political commentator, streamer, white supremacist, former Muay Thai fighter and convicted felon
- Hillary Monahan - author
- Zhena Muzyka - Founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea[13]
- Boris Pelekh - singer
- Elvis Presley - rock singer and actor of rumored German Roma ancestry[14][15]
- 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[16]
- Yul Brynner - Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma[17]
- Glenda Bailey-Mershon - writer[18]
- Nadia Hava-Robbins - Czech Romani poet and dancer who emigrated to the United States[18]
See also
References
- "Roma in America".
- "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".
- "Caren Gussoff". Aqueductpress.com. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- Kenrick, Donald (5 July 2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). 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".
- 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.
- "Roma literature in USA and Canada".
- The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics.
- "Roma literature in USA and Canada".
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