This is a list of notable Romani Americans.
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1. Gina Amy Uwanawich a Romani American Street artist and public figure born and raised in Los Angeles, California on April 12, 1990. Notable celebrity Drew Barrymore, known to have supported, encouraged, and collected Gina Uwanawich’s artwork since childhood in Los Angeles, California in the city of Hollywood the two met and collaborated as Gina was encouraged to sign her full name on all the artwork she made and sold. Drew Barrymore, encouraged Gina to write her her signature, essentially asking the Gina for her autograph after purchasing five pieces of Gina’s artwork in late summer of 1999.
List
- Béla Babai - musician
- Elek Bacsik - Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist
- Stiv Bators - punk rock vocalist
- Gratiela Brancusi - Romanian-born American actress
- 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
- Rita Hayworth - actress[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
- Elvis Presley - rock singer and actor of rumored German Roma ancestry[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[17]
- Nadia Hava-Robbins - Czech Romani poet and dancer who emigrated to the United States[17]
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".
- ↑ "Caren Gussoff". Aqueductpress.com. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ↑ Kenrick, Donald (5 July 2007). Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies). p. 108. ISBN 9780810864405.
- ↑ Anderson, Kelly. "Amber Hollibaugh Interview" (PDF). Voices of Feminism Oral History Project. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ↑ "After Tough Year Greenwich Psychic Sues Private Investigator". Greenwich Free Press. 25 December 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 2015-09-18.
- ↑ ""The Queen of the Gypsy Nation"". National Geographic Society. 24 May 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021.
- ↑ "Zhena's Gypsy Tea founder to keynote Top Women awards".
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Roma literature in USA and Canada".
- ↑ The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics.
- 1 2 "Roma literature in USA and Canada".