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This is a list of notable
Romani Americans and Americans of Romani descent.
List
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
References
^
"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 .
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"After Tough Year Greenwich Psychic Sues Private Investigator" . Greenwich Free Press . 25 December 2018.
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IN HER BOOK AMERICAN GYPSY, OKSANA MARAFIOTI TRIES TO RECLAIM ROMANI CULTURE FROM REALITY TV .
Los Angeles Times . September 6, 2012
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"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.
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"A Theory Claims That Famous Rock Star Elvis Presley Might Have Had A Strong Indian Connection" . The Times of India .
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"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.