List of Romani people

Politicians and activists

• László Berényi – Hungarian politician
• Dávid Daróczi – Government Spokesperson of the Republic of Hungary
• Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia – Spanish politician, former MP, ex-member of the European Parliament and founder of the Romani Union
• Damian Draghici – current Member of the European Parliament, former MP Romanian Parliament – senator, adviser of the Prime Minister on Roma issues
• Rajko Đurić – Serbian writer and academic, leader of Roma Union of Serbia
• Flórián Farkas – Hungarian politician
• James Farnell – Australian politician
• Bajram Haliti – Kosovar activist
• Ian Hancock – Romani scholar and activist, born in UK, living in USA, professor at the University of Texas
• Amber L. Hollibaugh – American writer, filmmaker and activist.
• Lívia Járóka – Hungarian Member of the European Parliament
• Orbán Kolompár – Hungarian politician and activist
• Ali Krasniqi – Albanian writer and activist
• Juscelino Kubitschek – Brazilian president, his mother was of Czech and Roma descent
• Ronald Lee –, Canadian Romani novelist, activist and U.N. delegate
• Mihály Lukács – Hungarian politician
• Washington Luís – Brazilian president of Portuguese and Romani descent
• Alfonso Mejia-Arias – musician, writer and politician, Mexico
• Carlos Miguel - Portuguese politician, cabinet member
• Viktória Mohácsi – Hungarian Member of the European Parliament
• Ágnes Osztolykán – Hungarian politician
• Talaat Pasha – former Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
• Nicolae Păun – Romanian politician
• Soraya Post – Swedish politician for the Feminist Initiative party.
• Ştefan Răzvan – Prince of Moldavia, ruled Moldavia for four months
• Sani Rifati – Serbian activist
• Ernest Rogers – English communist
• Romani Rose – German Sinto activist
• Rudolf Sarközi – chairman of the Austrian Romani association Kulturverein
• József Varga – Hungarian politician
• Mădălin Voicu – Romanian politician. His father, Ion Voicu, is Romani

  Authors and writers

• Veijo Baltzar – Finnish writer
• Edward Dębicki – Polish poet
• Rajko Djuric – Serbian writer & activist
• Karen Finley – American performance artist, musician and poet
• Delia Grigore – Romanian writer, academic and activist
• Caren Gussoff – American writer, claims Romani and mixed heritages.
• Bajram Haliti – Kosovan author
• Lafcadio Hearn – Irish writer
• Usin Kerim – Bulgarian poet
• Menyhért Lakatos – Hungarian Romani writer
• Ronald Lee – Canadian writer, Romani activist and lecturer at the University of Toronto.
• Baja Saitovic Lukin – poet
• Oksana Marafioti – American writer of Armenian and Romani descent
• Matéo Maximoff – French writer
• Mehmed Merejan – Bulgarian poet
• David Morley – British poet, critic, anthologist, editor and ecologist
• Anton Pann – Romanian musicologist, composer and poet
• Muharem Serbezovski – Macedonian singer and writer
• Charlie Smith – poet
• Ceija Stojka – Austrian author and painter
• Katarina Taikon – Swedish children's writer
• Bronisława Wajs – AKA "Papusza", Polish poet and singer
• Mikey Walsh – British author

  Musicians

• Remu Aaltonen – Finnish musician
• Carmen Amaya – Spanish flamenco dancer
• Remedios Amaya – Spanish flamenco singer
• Aniya la Gitana – Flamenco guitarist, singer and dancer
• Adam Ant – British pop singer
• Gitano Antón – Spanish rapper and member of La Excepción
• Azis – Bulgarian chalga singer.
• Elek Bacsik – Hungarian jazz violinist and guitarist, multiinstrumentalist
• Šaban Bajramović – Serbian singer
• Janika Balázs – was a Serbian musician
• Tonino Baliardo – Franco-Spanish guitar player; also a member of the Gipsy Kings
• Kálmán Balogh – Hungarian musician
• Radoslav Banga – of Czech group Gypsy.cz
• Vierka Berkyová – Slovak singer
• János Bihari – Hungarian violinist
• Věra Bílá – Czech folk and pop singer
• Iva Bittová – Czech singer, violinist and composer
• Robi Botos – Canadian musician and composer from Hungary
• Georges Boulanger – Romanian violinist
• Sibel Can – Turkish singer
• Manolo Caracol – Spanish flamenco singer
• Antonio Carbonell – Spanish singer and songwriter
• Panna Cinka – Hungarian Violinist, born in Kingdom of Hungary in modern Slovakia
• Fanfare Ciocărlia – Romanian Romani band
• Sandu Ciorba, Romanian Roma singer
• Connect-R – Romanian rapper, singer, record producer and actor
• Joaquín Cortés – Spanish flamenco dancer
• Georges Cziffra – Hungarian composer and pianist
• Pista Dankó – Hungarian-born bandleader and composer
• Sandro de América – Argentine singer and actor
• Camarón de la Isla – Spanish flamenco singer
• Manitas de Plata – French flamenco guitarist
• Angelo Debarre – French guitarist
• Drafi Deutscher – German Sinto songwriter, singer and composer
• Grigoraş Dinicu – Romanian composer and violinist
• Damian Draghici – Romanian, composer and Jazz panflute player, Politician
• Sébastien El Chato – French singer and guitarist
• Diego El Cigala – Spanish flamenco guitarist
• Christian Escoudé – French jazz guitarist
• Vicente Escudero – Spanish flamenco singer, dancer and choreographer; occasionally painter, writer and actor
• Rafael Ojeda Rojas alias Falete – Spanish singer
• Antonio Flores – was a Spanish singer-songwriter and actor
• Lolita Flores – Spanish singer and actress
• Rosario Flores – Spanish singer and actress, Latin Grammy award winner
• Cornelis Fuhler – Dutch/Australian musician and composer
• Kendji Girac – French singer of Romani and Spanish descent
• Edyta Górniak – Polish singer
• César Guerra-Peixe – Brazilian composer
• Nicolae Guță – Romanian manele singer
• Taraful Haiducilor – Romanian band, formed 1989
• Kostas Hatzis – Greek musician
• Eugene Hütz – Ukrainian singer, guitarist, writer and actor
• Natalia Jiménez – Spanish pop singer
• Kal – Romani world music Band from Serbia
• Ketama – Spanish new-flamenco band
• Cher Lloyd – British international pop singer/rapper of Romani descent.
• Angel Jordanov Kapsov – Bulgarian pop-folk singer
• Didem Kınalı – Turkish belly dancer and singer
• Sasha Kolpakov – Russian guitarist
• Mónika Juhász Miczura – Hungarian folk singer
• Fapy Lafertin – Belgian jazz guitarist
• Biréli Lagrène – French jazz guitarist, violinist and bassist
• Félix Lajkó – Hungarian-Serbian violinist and composer
• Roby Lakatos – Hungarian violinist
• Tony Lakatos – Hungarian saxophonist
• Albert Lee – London-born and -raised country rock guitar legend. His father is Romanichal.
• Pyotr Leshchenko – Russian
• Joe Longthorne – English singer and impressionist
• Los Niños de Sara – French rumba and flamenco singers and guitar players
• Fănică Luca – Romanian musician*Georges Boulanger – Romanian violinist
• Gabi Luncă – Romanian singer
• Aggelopoulos Manolis – Greek singer and actor
• Eeki Mantere – Finnish musician
• Sofi Marinova – Bulgarian singer
• Boban Marković – Serbian brass bandleader and trumpet player
• Jerry Mason – American rock singer, guitarist and songwriter
• Irini Merkouri – Greek pop singer
• Ionică Minune – Romanian accordionist
• Alba Molina - Spanish flamenco singer
• Carlos Montoya – Spanish flamenco guitarist
• Ramón Montoya – Spanish flamenco guitarist
• Ferus Mustafov – Macedonian saxophonist
• Nicolae Neacşu – Lăutar, was the leader of Taraf de Haïdouks
• Mary Nótár – Hungarian musician
• Gergő Oláh – Hungarian singer
• Ginesa Ortega – Spanish flamenco singer
• Isabel Pantoja – Spanish singer
• Ivo Papazov – Bulgarian jazz clarinetist
• Aladár Pege – Hungarian jazz musician
• Pere Pubill Calaf "Peret" – Catalan Spanish singer, guitar player and composer
• Zlata Petrović – Serbian pop folk singer
• Robert Plant – English singer and songwriter. Romanichal mother
• Valentina Ponomaryova – Russian singer
• Romica Puceanu – Romanian singer
• Gigi Radics – Hungarian singer
• Johnny Răducanu – Romanian jazz musician
• Džej Ramadanovski – born 1964 in Belgrade, modern Serbian folk singer
• "Rayito" Antonio Rayo – Spanish Guitarist, singer and composer. Father Gitano and Japanese mother
• Esma Redzepova – Macedonian singer and songwriter
• Babik Reinhardt – French guitarist
• Django Reinhardt – Belgian-born jazz guitarist and composer
• Nicolas Reyes – Franco-Spanish singer, guitar player; lead singer for the Grammy Award winning group Gipsy Kings, a band made up mostly of members of his extended family
• Reyhan – Bulgarian singer
• Jimmy Rosenberg – Dutch swing guitarist
• Marianne Rosenberg – German singer and songwriter. Daughter of German Gypsy who survived Auschwitz.
• Sabicas – Spanish flamenco guitarist
• Sinan Sakić – Serbian Folk singer of Romani descent
• Florin Salam – Romanian musician
• Tanja Savić – Serbian pop-folk singer
• Paulus Schafer – Dutch jazz guitarist
• Tchavolo Schmitt – French jazz guitarist
• Hüsnü Şenlendirici – Turkish musician
• Selim Sesler – Turkish clarinetist
• Harri Stojka – Austrian jazz guitarist
• Wally Tax – Dutch rock singer, of The Outsiders. Son of a Dutch father and a Russian Romani mother
• Tomatito – Spanish flamenco guitarist
• Manuel Torre – Spanish flamenco musician
• Mariska Veres – Lead singer of the Dutch rock group Shocking Blue. Daughter of Hungarian Romani violinist Lajos Veres and Franco-Russian mother
• Ion Voicu – Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor, founder of Bucharest Chamber Orchestra
• Mădălin Voicu – Romanian musician
• Sotis Volanis – Greek singer
• Ronnie Wood – British musician
• Yuri Yunakov – Turkish-Bulgarian musician
• Joe Zawinul – Austrian musician. His grandmother was a Hungarian Romani, and his grandfather was from southern Moravia

  Cinema and theater

• Jesús Castro – Spanish actor
• Fairuza Balk – American actress
• Ştefan Bănică, Jr. – Romanian actor and musician
• Ştefan Bănică, Sr. – Romanian actor
• Alba Flores – Spanish actress
• Lolita Flores – Spanish actress
• Elena Furiase – Spanish actress
• Tony Gatlif – French film director
• Jill Hennessy – Canadian actress and musician
• Bob Hoskins — British actor
• Manoush – French-German-Albanian actress.
• Nikolai Slichenko – Russian actor
• Rosa Taikon – Swedish actress
• Leonor Teles - Portuguese filmmaker
• Tracey Ullman – British comedic actress

  Artists

• Micaela Flores Amaya, La Chunga, Flamenco dancer and painter
• Lita Cabellut – Spanish female artist
• Tracey Emin – British artist
• Helios Gómez – Spanish artist, writer and poet
• Joe Machine – British Stuckist
• Otto Mueller – painter and printmaker, Sinti mother
• Antonio Solario – Italian artist

  Athletes

• Mathew Dumba - ice hockey player
• Ilie Năstase – Romanian tennis player of selfdeclared Romani descent
• Mirko Petrović – Serbian long-distance runner

  Boxers

• Jakob Bamberger – German amateur boxer
• Johnny Frankham – British boxer
• Zoltan Lunka – Germany
• Ivailo Marinov – also known as Ismail Mustafov, Ismail Huseinov or Ivailo Khristov, is a Roma Bulgarian boxer
• Michele di Rocco – Italian Light Welterweight Boxing Champion
• Billy Joe Saunders – British boxer, represented Great Britain in the 2008 Olympics
• Serafim Todorov – was a Bulgarian/Georgian boxer at the 1996 Summer Olympics who won a silver medal.
• Johann Wilhelm Trollmann – German light-heavyweight boxer killed during the Porajmos
• Silvio Branco – Italy
• Boris Georgiev – Bulgaria
• Kirkor Kirkorov – Bulgaria
• Dawid Kostecki – Poland
• Faustino Reyes – Spain
• Samuel Carmona – Spain
• Dorel Simion – Romania
• Marian Simion – Romania
• Domenico Spada – Italy
• Tyson Fury - British Boxer

  Football players

• Aljoša Asanović – Croatian
• Antonio Amaya – Spanish
• Carlos Aranda – Spanish
• Marcos Márquez – Spanish
• Daniel López Ramos – Spanish
• José Rodríguez Martínez – Spanish
• Antonio Cortés Heredia – Spanish
• José Luis Muñoz León – Spanish
• Jesús Seba – Spanish
• Ezequiel Calvente – Spanish
• Tony Vairelles – French
• Freddy Eastwood – Welsh
• János Farkas – Hungarian
• André-Pierre Gignac – French
• Dani Güiza – Spanish
• Rab Howell – English
• Ruzhin Kerimov – Bulgarian
• Vitaly Lanko – Belarusian
• Predrag Luka – Serbian
• Petre Marin – Romanian
• Jesús Navas – Spanish
• Bănel Nicoliță – Romanian
• Nacho Novo – Spanish
• Oleksandr Noyok – Ukrainian
• Marian Ognyanov – Bulgarian
• Dejan Osmanović – Serbian
• Christos Patsatzoglou – Greek
• István Pisont – Hungarian
• Ricardo Quaresma – Portuguese
• José Antonio Reyes – Spanish
• Dragoslav Šekularac – Serbian
• Emra Tahirović – Bosnian
• Michael Ballack – German.

  Various

• Florin Cioabă – Romanian Pentecostal
• Ceferino Giménez Malla – Spanish beatified Catholic catechist
• Paul Henry – New Zealand radio and television broadcaster
• Sofia Kovalevskaya – Russian mathematician of 1/4 Romani descent
• Hristo Kyuchukov – Bulgarian specialist
• Jimmy Marks – litigant in a lawsuit against the city of Spokane, Washington
• Róisín Mullins – Irish dancer and choreographer
• Kerope Patkanov – Armenian Garachi scientist
• Juliette Peirce – Wife of mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce
• Ștefan Răzvan – Ruler of Moldovia
• Rodney "Gipsy" Smith –, British evangelist
• Settela Steinbach – Holocaust victim
• Petr Torak, MBE – UK police officer working with the Roma community
• Alfie Best – British businessman
• Michael Costello – American Roma fashion designer