This is a list of notable

Romani Americans It is estimated that there are one million Romani people in the United States. Though the Romani population in the United States has largely assimilated into American society, the largest concentrations are in Southern California, the Pacific ...

and Americans of Romani descent.

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Béla Babai Antal Béla Babai (April 27, 1914 – October 1, 1997) was a Romani-American violinist, and interpreter of Romani music. Babai was born in Austro-Hungarian Empire and emigrated to the United States in the late 1930s, where he became famous as "Th ...

- musician *

Elek Bacsik Elek Bacsik (22 May 1926 – 14 February 1993) was a Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist. He was the cousin of guitarist Django Reinhardt. Career Bacsik was born in Budapest, Hungary. He was the son of Árpád Bacsik and Erzséb ...

- Hungarian-American jazz guitarist and violinist *

Stiv Bators Steven John Bator (October 22, 1949 – June 4, 1990), known professionally as Stiv Bator and later as Stiv Bators, was an American punk rock vocalist and guitarist from Girard, Ohio. He is best remembered for his bands Dead Boys and The Lords ...

- punk rock vocalist * Gratiela Brancusi - Romanian-born American actress * Raymond Buckland, Wiccan writer *

Darren E. Burrows Darren E. Burrows (born September 12, 1966) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing Ed Chigliak in the television series '' Northern Exposure''. He also appeared in ''Cry-Baby'', '' Amistad'', '' Sunset Strip'', '' Forty ...

- actor and director * Charles Chaplin Jr. - actor * Michael Costello - fashion designer who made dresses for various celebrities *

Billy Drago William Eugene Burrows (November 30, 1945 – June 24, 2019), known professionally by his stage name Billy Drago, was an American television and film actor. Drago's films, in which he was frequently cast as a villain, included Clint Eastwood's ...

- actor *

Karen Finley Karen Finley (born 1956) is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity. Finley incorporates depictions of sexuality, ...

- 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 Ian Francis Hancock (Romani: Yanko le Redžosko; born 29 August 1942) is a linguist, Romani scholar and political advocate. He was born and raised in England and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani studies. He is director of ...

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

linguist, scholar, and activist * Amber L. Hollibaugh - writer, film-maker and political activist *

Tini Howard Tini Howard (born 1985) is an American comic book writer. She is best known for her work on ''X-Men'' titles, namely ''Excalibur (comics), Excalibur'' as well as Boom Studio's Power Ranger titles. It was announced in mid-October 2021 that she'd ...

- comics writer *

Eugene Hütz Eugene Hütz (; uk, Євген Гудзь, Yevhen Hudz, ; born Yevgen Oleksandrovych Nikolayev-Symonov, ua, Євген Олександрович Ніколаєв-Симонов, on 6 September 1972) is a Ukrainian-born singer, composer, disc ...

- Ukrainian-born singer * Johns family - subjects of the National Geographic Channel reality television series "American Gypsies" *

Priscilla Kelly Priscilla Lee Kelly (born June 5, 1997) is an American professional wrestler. She performs under the ring name Gigi Dolin in the NXT brand, and is one-half of the tag team Toxic Attraction with Jacy Jayne, and she is a former record-tying two-ti ...

- professional wrestler *

Ladislas Lazaro Ladislas Lazaro (June 5, 1872 – March 30, 1927) was an American politician who served as a Democrat U.S. Representative from from 1913 to 1927. Biography Born near Ville Platte, Evangeline (then part of St. Landry) Parish, Louisiana, Lazaro ...

- politician *

Janet Lee Janet Lee (, born October 22, 1976) is a Taiwanese-American retired tennis player. She won three doubles titles during her professional career on the WTA Tour. She competed in all four Grand Slam tournaments in both singles and doubles. Her car ...

- psychic who sued private investigator

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over alleged anti-Romani bias * Oksana Marafioti - author of Armenian and Romani descent * Richard Marcinko - commander and Vietnam War veteran *

Gina Marks Gina Marie Marks (born January 25, 1973) is an American psychic and convicted fraudster. Using the pseudonym of Regina Milbourne, she co-authored '' Miami Psychic: Confessions of a Confidante'', a memoir published by HarperCollins in 2006. In Au ...

- psychic and writer *

Jimmy Marks Jimmy Marks (February 14, 1945 – June 27, 2007) was a Romani American who lived in Spokane, Washington. He referred to himself as a "Rom". Marks became widely known in 1986 when the Spokane police department raided his home, performed searches, ...

- victim of discrimination * Rose Marks - psychic * Jerry Mason - rock musician *

Seanan McGuire Seanan McGuire (pronounced SHAWN-in; born January 5, 1978 in Martinez, California) is an American author and filker. McGuire is known for her urban fantasy novels. She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/ horror and the pseudon ...

- author * Paul Miller - better known by his online alias

GypsyCrusader Paul Nicholas Miller (born August 11, 1988), better known by his online alias GypsyCrusader, is an American far-right political commentator, streamer, white supremacist, former Muay Thai fighter and convicted felon. He is known for his livestrea ...

, 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 Boris Pelekh (''Boris Peleh′''; born Boris Fridrikhovich Pelekh, russian: Борис Фридрихович Пелех, 17 November 1981) is a Russian-born singer, composer, guitarist, most notable as the guitarist of the Gypsy punk band Gogo ...

- singer * Sani Rifati - Kosovar-American human rights activist and the President of Voice of Roma *

Levi and Matilda Stanley Levi Stanley (1818? – 3 December 1908) and Matilda Joles Stanley (1821? – 15 January 1878) were part of a larger family of Romani immigrants from England to Montgomery County, Ohio. The Stanley family was referred to as "Dayton's own Roman ...

- 19th century immigrant

Romanichal Romanichal Travellers ( ; more commonly known as English Gypsies or English Travellers) are a Romani subgroup within the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking world. There are an estimated 200,000 Romani in the United Kingdom; ...

elders * Nettie Stanley - matriarch of the family starring in the TLC reality television series "Gypsy Sisters" * Tracey Ullman - actress *

Cecilia Woloch Cecilia Woloch (born 1956) is an American poet, writer and teacher, known for her work in communities throughout the U.S. and around the world. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient and the author of six collections of poe ...

- 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

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Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

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