List of Romani Americans

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
• Bill Clinton – former president of Scottish Gypsy descent ^[1]
• Michael Costello – fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities ^[2]
• Billy Drago – actor ^[3]
• Karen Finley – performance artist, musician and poet ^[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 as GypsyCrusader, far-right political commentator
• Kelly Mitchell ^[12]
• Hillary Monahan – author
• 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"
• Chrissy Teigen – model, television personality, author ^[15]
• 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]

See also

• Romani people
• List of Romani people

References

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