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
• Michael Costello - fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities
• Billy Drago - actor
• Karen Finley - performance artist, musician and poet
• Nicolae Feraru - Romanian cimbalom player who immigrated to the United States and performs in Chicago
• Caren Gussoff - author
• Ian Hancock - University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist
• Amber L. Hollibaugh - writer, film-maker and political activist
• 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
• Oksana Marafioti - author of Armenian and Romani descent
• Richard Marcinko - commander and Vietnam War veteran
• Gina Marks - psychic and writer
• Jimmy Marks - victim of discrimination
• Rose Marks - psychic
• Jerry Mason - rock musician
• 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
• Hillary Monahan - author
• Zhena Muzyka - Founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea
• Boris Pelekh - singer
• 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
• Yul Brynner - Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma
• Glenda Bailey-Mershon - writer
• Nadia Hava-Robbins - Czech Romani poet and dancer who emigrated to the United States

See also

• Romani people
• List of Romani people

References