List of Romani Americans
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
- Ethel Brooks – United States’s first Romani female professor[1]
- Raymond Buckland, Wiccan writer
- Darren E. Burrows – actor and director
- Charles Chaplin Jr. – actor
- Bill Clinton – former president of Scottish Gypsy descent[2]
- Michael Costello – fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities[3]
- Billy Drago – actor[4]
- Karen Finley – performance artist, musician and poet[5]
- Caren Gussoff – author[6]
- Ian Hancock – University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist[7]
- Amber L. Hollibaugh – writer, film-maker and political activist[8]
- Tini Howard – comics writer[9]
- 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[10]
- Oksana Marafioti – author of Armenian and Romani descent[11]
- Richard Marcinko – commander and Vietnam War veteran
- Gina Marks – psychic and writer
- Jimmy Marks – victim of discrimination
- Rose Marks – psychic
- Jerry Mason – rock musician[12]
- Seanan McGuire – author
- Paul Miller – better known as GypsyCrusader, far-right political commentator
- Kelly Mitchell[13]
- Hillary Monahan – author
- Boris Pelekh – singer[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"
- Chrissy Teigen – model, television personality, author[16]
- Tracey Ullman – actress
- Cecilia Woloch – poet[17]
- Yul Brynner – Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma[18]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Overcoming racism: The US's first Romani woman professor – DW – 07/08/2024". amp.dw.com. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
- ^ "The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) - Donald Kenrick - Google Boeken". books.google.com. Retrieved June 3, 2025.
- ^ "About – MTCostello – Stello". MTCostello.com. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- ^ Saperstein, Pat (June 26, 2019). "Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies at 73". Variety. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
- ^ Roman Catholicism and the Work of Karen Finley. athe.org. Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
- ^ "Caren Gussoff". Aqueductpress.com. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
- ^ Kenrick, Donald (July 5, 2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). Scarecrow Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-8108-6440-5.
- ^ Anderson, Kelly. "Amber Hollibaugh Interview" (PDF). Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
- ^ Browne, Wendy (October 10, 2018). "Tini Howard's Captain America – WWAC %". WWAC. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- ^ "After Tough Year Greenwich Psychic Sues Private Investigator". Greenwich Free Press. December 25, 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 September 18, 2015.
- ^ ""The Queen of the Gypsy Nation"". National Geographic Society. May 24, 2012.
- ^ 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. September 25, 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.