List of Romani Americans
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This is a list of notable Romani Americans and Americans of Romani descent.
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- 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]
- Caren Gussoff – author[4]
- Ian Hancock – University of Texas linguist, scholar, and activist[5]
- Amber L. Hollibaugh – writer, film-maker and political activist[6]
- Tini Howard – comics writer[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 as GypsyCrusader, far-right political commentator
- Kelly Mitchell[11]
- Hillary Monahan – author
- Boris Pelekh – singer[12][13]
- 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
- Tracey Ullman – actress
- Cecilia Woloch – poet[14]
- Yul Brynner – Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a Romanian Roma[15]
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