Galician Americans

Galician Americans
Total population
(1,339^[1])
Regions with significant populations
Florida, New York
Languages
American English, Spanish, Galician
Religion
Christianity (Roman Catholicism) Other religions

Galician Americans are Americans of Galician descent.

The Galicians (Galician: Galegos; Spanish: Gallegos) are a nationality, cultural and ethnolinguistic group whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula (Europe). Galician and Castilian are the official languages of the Autonomous Community of Galicia.

Galician migration to North America took place mainly between 1868 and 1930,^[2] although there was a second smaller wave in the late 1940s and 1950s, when Galicians managed to form a small community in Newark.^[3]

There are some notable Galician-born persons who have lived or are now residing in the US, such as musician Cristina Pato or teacher Anxo Brea,^[4] but they may do so temporarily and without being naturalized American. The list below refers to US-born or US citizens of Galician ancestry.

Notable Galician-Americans

Estevez family
- Joe Estevez (b. 1946)
- Martin Sheen (b. Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez, 1940)
  - Emilio Estevez (b. 1962; son of Martin)
  - Ramon Estevez (b. 1963; son of Martin)
  - Charlie Sheen (b. Carlos Irwin Estévez, 1965; son of Martin)
  - Renée Estevez (b. 1967; daughter of Martin)
Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995) was a musician and songwriter.
Ramón Verea – Spanish journalist, engineer and writer. Inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table
Yglesias family
- Jose Yglesias – (November 29, 1919 – November 7, 1995) was an American novelist and journalist. Yglesias was born in the Ybor City section of Tampa, Florida, and was of Cuban and Spanish descent. His father was from Galicia.
  - Rafael Yglesias – Rafael Yglesias (May 12, 1954, New York) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His parents were the novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias.
    - Matthew Yglesias – Matthew Yglesias (May 18, 1981) is an American economics journalist and political blogger.
Perez Hilton – Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. (born March 23, 1978), known professionally as Perez Hilton is an American blogger and television personality.
Carmen Fariña is a teacher and politician.
Octavio Vazquez (b.1972) is a composer and professor at Nazareth College (New York).

References

↑ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
↑ "Los gallegos en USA se hacen visibles". La Opinion Coruña newspaper. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
↑ "La Pequeña Galicia de EE.UU.". La Voz de Galicia newspaper. Retrieved 2015-05-04.
↑ "Un galego, mellor profesor de Historia do Estado de Nova York". Galicia Confidencial newspaper. Retrieved 2015-05-08.

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European Americans

Central Europe	Austrian¹ Czech Silesian German¹ Amish Frisian German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian Polish¹ Kashubian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss

Eastern Europe	Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Chechen Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn

Northern Europe	Estonian Finnish Latvian Lithuanian Scandinavian Danish Faroese Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish

Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Turkish⁴

Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sanmarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano

Western Europe	Belgian Flemish British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch French Basque Breton Cajun Corsican Irish

Other Europeans	Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁷ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños

¹ Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I. ² Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands. ⁷ Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.

Spanish Americans by location

Region of settlement Colonial-era Spanish settlers in the US California Louisiana (Isleño) New Mexico Texas Hawaii Puerto Rico Region of origin Asturias Basque Country Canary Island Catalonia Galicia

Hispanic and Latino American groups

Caribbean	Cuban Dominican Puerto Rican Nuyorican

North American	Hispano Californio Nuevomexicano Tejano Creoles of Louisiana Isleño Mexican Chicano Indigenous Mexican Punjabi

Central American	Costa Rican Guatemalan Honduran Nicaraguan Panamanian Salvadoran

South American	Argentine Bolivian Brazilian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Paraguayan Peruvian Uruguayan Venezuelan

European	Spanish Asturian Basque Catalan Canarian Galician Jews

Racial groups	All groups American Indians/Native American Asian Black White Multiracial Castizo "Cholo" Mestizo Mulatto Pardo Zambo

Linguistic groups	Hispanic Portuguese

Ethnic groups	Christians Garifuna Muslims

Related ethnic groups	Belizean Guyanese Haitian Portuguese Surinamese

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