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The English term gypsy or gipsy [16] is commonly used to indicate Romani people, [17] and use of the word gipsy in modern-day English is pervasive (and is a legal term under English law—see below), and some Romani organizations use it in their own organizational names, particularly in the United Kingdom.
Häns'che Weiss, famous for his Gypsy jazz style, won the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis; Hüsnü Şenlendirici – Turkish musician; Ion Voicu (1923–1997) – Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor, founder of Bucharest Chamber Orchestra; Irini Merkouri (born 1981) – Greek pop singer; Iva Bittová – Czech singer and violinist
Pages in category "Surnames of Romani origin" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Zhena Muzyka - Founder of Zhena’s Gypsy Tea [13] Boris Pelekh - singer [14] [15] 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"
Romani Americans practice many different religions, usually based on the version of Christianity common in their country of origin, but fundamentalist Christian denominations have been growing in popularity among them.
In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies, [88] which many Roma consider to be an ethnic slur. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] [ 91 ] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Roma, including "Gypsy". [ 92 ]
Lady Eleanor Furneaux Smith (1902–1945) – English writer of popular novels often romanticized historical and Romani settings; she believed her paternal great-grandmother to have been Romanichal Rodney Smith (1860–1947) – British evangelist who conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and the UK
An exception to this is that the most common surnames among the Polska Roma are typically Polish (e.g., Kwiatkowski or Majewski), or occasionally Polonized German names (e.g., Wajs or Szwarc) and Polonized Lithuanian names (e.g., Markiewicz or Karolowicz). The Polska Roma have maintained a very strict interpretation of the Romanipen cultural ...