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List of Romani Americans
Last updated
August 26, 2025
This is a
list of notable
Romani Americans
and Americans of Romani descent.
Contents
List
See also
References
Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity
Afghan
African-American Jews
African Americans
Alabama Creoles
Albanian
Algerian
Amish
Anglo-Americans
Angolan
Antiguan and Barbudan
Arab
Argentine
Armenian
Asian
Assyrian
Australian
Austrian
Azerbaijani
Bahamian
Baloch
Bangladeshi
Barbadian
Bashalde
Basque
Belarusian
Belgian
Belizean
Bengali
Beninese
Berber
Bermudian
Bhutanese
Bissau-Guinean
Bolivian
Bosniak
Bosnian
Brazilian
British
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cajun
Californio
Cambodian
Cameroonian
Canadian
Canarian
Cape Verdean
Catalan
Caribbean
Central Asian
Chamorros
Chilean
Chinese
Colombian
Congolese
Coptic
Cornish
Cossack
Costa Rican
Croatian
Cuban
Cypriot
Czech
Danish
Dominican Americans (Dominica)
Dominican Americans (Dominican Republic)
Dutch
Dutch West Indian
Ecuadorian
Egyptian
English
Equatoguinean
Eritrean
Estonian
Faroese
Fijian
Filipino
Finnish
French
French-Canadian
French Polynesian
Frisian
Fula
Fuzhou
Gabonese
Galician
Gambian
Garifuna
German
Ghanaian
Greek
Greenlandic
Grenadian
Guamanian Jews
Guatemalan
Guinean
Gujarati
Guyanese
Haitian
Hakka
Hispanic and Latino
Hispanos
Hmong
Hoklo
Honduran
Hongkonger
Hungarian
Icelandic
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Indian
Indo-Caribbean
Indo-Fijian
Indonesian
Iranian
Iraqi
Irish
Irish Travellers
Israeli
Italian
Iu Mien
Ivorian
Jamaican
Japanese
Jews
Jordanian
Kalmyk
Karen
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Kenyan
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Liberian
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Louisiana Creole
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Luxembourg
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Malawian
Malayali
Malaysian
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Malian
Maltese
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Micronesian
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Mongolian
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North African
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Nuevomexicano
Old Stock
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Palauan
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Panamanian
Papuan
Paraguayan
Pashtun
Peruvian
Polish
Portuguese
Puerto Rican
Puerto Rican Jews
Punjabi
Romani
Romanian
Russian
Rusyn
Saint Lucian
Salvadoran
Sammarinese
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Saudi
Scotch-Irish
Scottish
Senegalese
Serbian
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Sierra Leonean
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Singaporean
Slovak
Slovene
Somali
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South African
South Asian
South Sudanese
Spanish
Sri Lankan
Sudanese
Surinamese
Swedish
Swiss
Syrian
Syrian Jews
Taiwan
Tajik
Tamil
Tanzanian
Tejanos
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Togolese
Tongan
Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Tunisian
Turkish
Turkmen
Ugandan
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Uruguayan
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Uyghur
Venezuelan
Vietnamese
Vincentian
Virgin Islander
Welsh
Yemeni
Yoruba
Yugoslav
Zimbabwean
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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
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