List of Romani Americans explained

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]
• Tini Howard - comics writer^[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
• 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^[12]
• Hillary Monahan - author
• Zhena Muzyka - Founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea^[13]
• 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"
• 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^[16]
• Nadia Hava-Robbins - Czech Romani poet and dancer who emigrated to the United States^[16]

See also

• Romani people
• List of Romani people

Notes and References

1. Web site: About - MTCostello - Stello . MTCostello.com . 2015-05-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150530161837/http://mtcostello.com/pages/about-us . May 30, 2015 .
2. Web site: Saperstein. Pat. 2019-06-26. Billy Drago, 'Untouchables' Star, Dies at 73. 2021-05-13. Variety. en-US.
3. http://www.athe.org/associations/12588/files/beasley.pdf&ved=0CCQQFjACahUKEwig49j2jIzHAhXHjpIKHT0HCmQ&usg=AFQjCNFm5ZExNhKKeHxNLN6yIewECsfVWA Roman Catholicism and the Work of Karen Finley.
4. Web site: Nicolae Feraru. August 12, 2013. www.arts.gov.
5. Web site: Caren Gussoff . Aqueductpress.com . 2015-09-18.
6. Book: Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). 108. 9780810864405 . Kenrick . Donald . 5 July 2007 . Scarecrow Press .
7. Web site: Anderson. Kelly. Amber Hollibaugh Interview. Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. 1 February 2013.
8. Web site: Browne . Wendy . 2018-10-10 . Tini Howard's Captain America - WWAC % . 2024-06-24 . WWAC . en-US.
9. Web site: After Tough Year Greenwich Psychic Sues Private Investigator . Greenwich Free Press. 25 December 2018 .
10. http://www.laweekly.com/arts/in-her-book-american-gypsy-oksana-marafioti-tries-to-reclaim-romani-culture-from-reality-tv-2369947 IN HER BOOK AMERICAN GYPSY, OKSANA MARAFIOTI TRIES TO RECLAIM ROMANI CULTURE FROM REALITY TV
11. Web site: Jerry Mason - An American Gypsy Pioneer 2008® . Pioneergypsy.com . 2015-09-18.
12. Web site: "The Queen of the Gypsy Nation". . 24 May 2012 .
13. Web site: Zhena's Gypsy Tea founder to keynote Top Women awards | Pacific Coast Business Times. March 15, 2014. www.pacbiztimes.com.
14. Book: Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). 205.
15. Web site: A Theory Claims That Famous Rock Star Elvis Presley Might Have Had A Strong Indian Connection. The Times of India.
16. Web site: Roma literature in USA and Canada - RomArchive. www.romarchive.eu.
17. Book: Barany, Zoltan D.. The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics. January 3, 2002. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-00910-2 . Google Books.