List of Romani people
This is a list of notable Romani people and people of Romani descent.
Politicians and activists
- Juscelino Kubitschek - Brazilian president. His mother was of Czech and Roma descent.
- Damian Draghici – (born 1970) Currently Member of the European Parliament, former MP Romanian Parliament - Senator, Adviser of the Prime Minister on Roma issues
- Rajko Đurić – (born 1947) Serbian writer and academic, leader of Roma Union of Serbia
- Alfonso Mejia-Arias – musician, writer and politician, Mexico
- Ian Hancock – Romani scholar and activist, born in UK, living in USA, Professor at the University of Texas
- Lívia Járóka – Hungarian Member of the European Parliament
- Mădălin Voicu – (born 1952) Romanian politician. His father, Ion Voicu, is Romani
- Ştefan Răzvan – (? – 1595) Prince of Moldavia, Ruled Moldavia for four months. (Romani father)
- Nicolae Păun – Romanian politician
- Ágnes Osztolykán - Hungarian politician
- Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia – Ex-member of the European Parliament, founder of the Romani Union, Spain
- Viktória Mohácsi – (born 1975) Hungarian Member of the European Parliament
- Ronald Lee – (born 1934, in Montreal), Canadian Romani novelist, activist and U.N. delegate
- Romani Rose – German Sinto activist
- Dávid Daróczi – (1972–2010) Government Spokesperson of the Republic of Hungary
- Rudolf Sarközi – chairman of the Austrian Romani association Kulturverein.
- Sani Rifati – Serbian activist
- Ali Krasniqi – Albanian writer and activist
- Bajram Haliti – Kosovar activist
- Flórián Farkas - Hungarian politician
- Soraya Post - (born 1956) Swedish politician for the Feminist Initiative party.
Authors and writers
- Veijo Baltzar – Finnish writer[1]
- Rajko Djuric – (born 1947) Serbian writer & activist
- Caren Gussoff – American writer. Claims "Romani and mixed heritages".
- Delia Grigore – (born 1972) Romanian writer, academic and activist
- Ronald Lee – Canadian writer, Romani activist and lecturer at the University of Toronto.[2]
- Matéo Maximoff – French writer
- Louise Doughty – British writer
- John Bunyan – Christian author[3]
- Lafcadio Hearn – Irish writer[4]
- Charlie Smith – poet.
- Baja Saitovic Lukin – poet
- Mehmed Merejan
- Ceija Stojka – (born 1933) Austrian author and painter
- Katarina Taikon – (1932-1995) Swedish children's writer
- Bronisława Wajs – (1908–1987) AKA "Papusza", Polish poet and singer
Musicians
- Azis - (1978-) Bulgarian chalga (pop-folk) singer.
- Alfonso Mejia-Arias - (1961-) Mexican musician and activist.[5]
- Cher Lloyd-(1993) British pop singer/rapper of Romani descent.
- Sinan Sakić - Serbian Folk singer of Romani descent.
- Django Reinhardt - (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) Belgian-born pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique (sometimes called 'hot' jazz guitar) that has since become a living musical tradition within French Manouche culture.
- Mariska Veres – (1947–2006) Lead singer of the Dutch rock group Shocking Blue. Daughter of Hungarian Romani violinist Lajos Veres and Franco-Russian mother.
- Marianne Rosenberg - (Born: March 10, 1955 (age 65 years), Berlin, Germany, German singer with notable fame throughout Europe, her Father Otto Rosenberg a Romani/Sinti survivor from Auschwitz.
- Carmen Amaya – (1913–1963) Spanish flamenco dancer
- Vicente Escudero – Spanish flamenco singer, dancer and choreographer; occasionally painter, writer and actor.
- Sotis Volanis- Greek Singer.
- Pyotr Leshchenko – Russian (born 1858–1903))
- Grigoraş Dinicu – Romanian composer and violinst
- Anjeza Shahini – Albanian
- Pista Dankó – (born 1858–1903) Hungarian-born bandleader and composer
- Sandro de América – (1945–2010) Argentinian singer and actor
- Adam Ant – (born 1954) British punk/new wave musician; maternal grandmother is Romanichal.
- Elek Bacsik – (1926–1993) Hungarian-born American jazz violinist and guitarist
- Robi Botos – Canadian musician and composer from Hungary
- Joe Zawinul – Austrian musician. His grandmother was a Hungarian Romani, and his grandfather was from southern Moravia.
- Eugene Hütz – Ukrainian singer, guitarist, writer and actor
- Šaban Bajramović – (1936–2008) Serbian singer
- János Bihari – (1764–1824) Hungarian violinist
- Věra Bílá – (born 1954) Czech folk and pop singer
- Iva Bittová – (born 1958) Czech singer, violinist and composer
- Diego "El Cigala" – (born 1968, Madrid) Spanish flamenco singer
- Joaquín Cortés – Spanish flamenco dancer
- "Rayito" Antonio Rayo – Spanish Guitarist, singer and composer. Father Gitano (Iberian Kalo) and mother Japanese
- Panna Cinka – (1711–1772) Hungarian Violinist, born in Kingdom of Hungary in modern Slovakia
- Georges Cziffra – (1921–1994) Hungarian virtuoso pianist
- Drafi Deutscher – (1946–2006) German Sinto songwriter, singer and composer
- Damian Draghici – Romanian, composer and Jazz panflute player, Politician
- Fanfare Ciocărlia – (formed 1996) Romanian brass band
- "Falete" Rafael Ojeda Rojas – Spanish singer
- Lolita Flores – (1958) Spanish singer and actress.
- Antonio Flores – (1961–1995) was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor.
- Rosario Flores – (born 1963) Spanish singer and actress, Latin Grammy award winner
- Camarón de la Isla – (1950–1992) Spanish flamenco singer
- Kal – Romani world music Band from Serbia
- Nicolas Reyes (born 1958) – Franco-Spanish singer, guitar player; lead singer for the Gipsy Kings, a band made up mostly of members of his extended family
- Tonino Baliardo – Franco-Spanish guitar player; also a member of the GIpsy Kings
- Los Niños de Sara – French (Spanish origin, Iberian Kale) rumba and flamenco singers and guitar players
- Ketama – Spanish new-flamenco band
- Sasha Kolpakov – (born 1943) Russian guitarist
- Biréli Lagrène – (born 1966) French jazz guitarist, violinist and bassist
- Denny Laine – British musician (The Moody Blues, Wings)
- Félix Lajkó – (born 1974) Hungarian-Serbian violinist and composer (part Romani)
- Albert Lee - (born 1943) London born and raised country rock guitar legend. His father is Romanichal.[6]
- Joe Longthorne – (born 1955) English singer and impressionist
- Irini Merkouri – (born 1981) Greek pop singer
- Aggelopoulos Manolis – (1939–1989) Greek singer and actor
- Sofi Marinova – Bulgarian singer
- Boban Marković – Serbian brass bandleader and trumpet player
- Jerry Mason – American Singer, Guitarist
- Carlos Montoya – (1903–1993) Spanish flamenco guitarist
- Ramón Montoya – (1889–1949) Spanish flamenco guitarist
- Ivo Papazov – (born 1952) Bulgarian jazz clarinetist
- Manitas de Plata – (born 1921) Spanish guitarist
- Valentina Ponomaryova – (born 1939) Russian singer
- Džej Ramadanovski – born 1964 in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), modern Serbian folk singer
- Johnny Răducanu – (born 1931) Romanian jazz musician
- Esma Redzepova – (1943-2016) Macedonian singer and songwriter
- Jimmy Rosenberg – (born 1980) Dutch swing guitarist
- Marianne Rosenberg – (born 1955) German singer and songwriter. Daughter of German Gypsy who survived Auschwitz.
- Paulus Schafer - (born 1978) Dutch jazz guitarist
- Tchavolo Schmitt – (born 1954) French jazz guitarist
- Taraful Haiducilor – (Taraf de Haïdouks) Romanian band, formed 1989
- Nicolae Neacşu ("Culai") – Lăutar, was the leader of Taraf de Haïdouks
- Wally Tax – Dutch rock singer, of The Outsiders. Son of a Dutch father and a Russian Romani mother.
- Ion Voicu – (1923–1997) Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor, founder of Bucharest Chamber Orchestra
- Sotis Volanis – Greek pop folk singer
- Harri Stojka – Austrian jazz guitarist
- Radoslav Banga – of Czech group Gypsy.cz
- Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin – Ayọ (stage name), German singer
- Didem – Turkish Bellydancer
- Romica Puceanu – (1928–1996) Romanian singer (Urban Lăutarească Music)
- Gabi Luncă – (born 1938) Romanian singer (Urban Lăutarească Music)
- Pere Pubill Calaf "Peret" – (born 1935) Catalan Spanish singer, guitar player and composer
- Edyta Górniak - (born 1972) Polish singer
- Robert Plant - (born 1948) English singer and songwriter (former vocalist of Led Zeppelin). Romanichal mother
Cinema and theater
- Yul Brynner – Actor. Romani
- Tony Gatlif - French film director
- Bob Hoskins – Actor. Grandmother was Romani from Germany.
- Óscar Jaenada- Spanish actor
- Marcia Nicole Barandyai known as Manoush – French-German actress. Her mother is of Manouche origin.
- Nikolai Slichenko – Russian actor
- Snooki - Nicole Elizabeth Polizzi - American reality television personality
- Ştefan Bănică, Sr. – Romanian actor
- Ştefan Bănică, Jr. – Romanian actor and musician
Artists
- Antonio Solario – Italian artist
- Helios Gómez – Spanish artist, writer and poet
- Otto Mueller – painter and printmaker, Sinti mother
- Micaela Flores Amaya, La Chunga, Flamenco dancer and painter
- Joe Machine, (1973) British Stuckist painter
Athletes
- Ilie Năstase – Romanian tennis player of selfdeclared Romani descent
Boxers
- Johnny Frankham -British Boxer, Knocked down Cassius Clay in an exhibition fight.
- Dawid Kostecki – Polish light heavyweight boxer of Romani descent
- Ivailo Marinov – also known as Ismail Mustafov, Ismail Huseinov or Ivailo Khristov) is a Rom Bulgarian boxer, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Serafim Todorov – was a Bulgarian/Georgian boxer at the 1996 Summer Olympics who won a silver medal. He is the last boxer to ever defeat the highly regarded Floyd Mayweather Jr.
- Jem Mace – Bareknuckle Boxing Champion, Father of Modern Boxing; called "The Gypsy," but denies Romani ancestry in his autobiography
- Johann Wilhelm Trollmann – German light-heavyweight boxer killed during the Porajmos
- Silvio Branco – Italian light heavyweight Boxing Champion
- Michele di Rocco – Italian Light Welterweight Boxing Champion
- Zoltan Lunka – Germany
- Faustino Reyes – Spanish Boxing he won the silver medal in the featherweight division (– 57 kg), 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
- Billy Joe Saunders – British Boxing, represented Great Britain in the 2008 Olympics
- Norbert Kalucza – Hungarian Boxing
- Jakob Bamberger - German amateur boxer, twice the German Vice-flyweight champion, Olympic selection in 1936, in the years 1970/80 activist in Sinti civil rights movement[7]
Football players-managers
- Jesús Navas – Spanish (Manchester City)
- José Antonio Reyes – Spanish (Sevilla)[8][9]
- Pierre-Yves André – French (Retired)
- Aljoša Asanović - Croatian (Retired)
- Richard Carpenter – English (Retired)
- Freddy Eastwood – Welsh (Free Agent)
- Arturo Garcia, Arzu – Spanish (Free Agent)
- André-Pierre Gignac – French (Olympique Marseille)
- Dani Güiza – Spanish (Getafe)
- José Mari – Spanish (Xerez CD)
- Petre Marin – Romanian (Retired)
- Bănel Nicoliță – Romanian (Nantes)
- Christos Patsatzoglou - Greek (Iraklis Psachna)
- Ricardo Quaresma – Portuguese (Porto)
Various
- Rodney "Gipsy" Smith – (1860–1947), British evangelist
- Sofia Kovalevskaya – Major Russian female mathematician of 1/4 Romani descent[10]
- Jimmy Marks – litigant in a lawsuit against the city of Spokane, Washington
- Settela Steinbach – Holocaust victim
- Ceferino Giménez Malla – Spanish beatified Catholic catechist
References
- "Members of IRWA". International Romani Writers Association (IRWA). Retrieved 17 September 2009.
- "My Current Bio". Romano Kopachi, the Romani Tree. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- Mayall, David. Gypsy identities, 1500-2000: from Egipcyans and moon-men to the ethnic Romany. 2003. Routledge. Page 156. Google Books. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
- McWilliams, Vera (2007). Lafcadio Hearn. Published by READ BOOKS. pp. 476 pages. ISBN 978-1-4067-2796-8. Retrieved 15 May 2009.
- "Famous Gypsies". www.imninalu.net.
- Watts, Derek; Eric Clapton (2008). Country boy: a biography of Albert Lee. McFarland. pp. 4–10, 14, 17. ISBN 978-0-7864-3658-3.
- Michail Krausnick, Wo sind sie hingekommen? Der unterschlagene Völkermord an den Sinti und Roma, Gerlingen 1995, S. 80-81. und Jörg Boström (Hrsg.), Das Buch der Sinti, Westberlin 1981.
- "Caborn wants Aragones action". 2 January 2005 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- Balague, Guillem (1 February 2004). "Focus: Jose Antonio Reyes". the Guardian.
- "Women mathematicians by Dubreil-Jacotin".
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