Galician Americans

Galician Americans are Americans of Galician descent.

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

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 people

Lists of Americans
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Category

Estevez family
- Joe Estevez (born 1946)
- Martin Sheen (born Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez, 1940)
  - Emilio Estevez (born 1962; son of Martin)
  - Ramon Estevez (born 1963; son of Martin)
  - Charlie Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estévez, 1965; son of Martin)
  - Renée Estevez (born 1967; daughter of Martin)
Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) 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) 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 (born May 12, 1954, New York) American novelist and screenwriter. His parents were the novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias.
    - Matthew Yglesias Matthew Yglesias (born May 18, 1981) American economics journalist and political blogger.
Perez Hilton Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. (born March 23, 1978) known professionally as Perez Hilton, American blogger and television personality.
Carmen Fariña teacher and politician.
Octavio Vazquez (born 1972) composer and professor at Nazareth College (New York).
Richard Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist.

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gollark: Also very backward.

gollark: The magical community is very small and they probably get random dark lords popping up a lot.

gollark: A competent cabal could trivially use it to give any pair of houses exclusive house cup ability, unless a teacher just meddled.

gollark: It isn't well-designed. The seeker basically does everything and you can be on the field for arbitrary amounts of time.

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 German¹ Amish German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Kashubian Liechtensteiner Polish¹ Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Armenian⁶ Azerbaijani⁴ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁴ Kazakh⁴ Russian^1, ² Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn
Northern Europe	Danish Greenlandic Estonian Faroese Finnish Icelandic Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish
Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Cypriot Croatian Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Alaskan Serbs Turkish⁴
Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sammarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano
Western Europe	Belgian British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots Scottish Welsh Dutch French Acadian Basque Breton Cajun Canadian Corsican Huguenot Frisian Irish Luxembourgian
Other Europeans	White Americans Non-Hispanic whites White Hispanic and Latino Melungeon Métis Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁵ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños French Canadian Acadian Cajun
By region	California Hawaii White Southerners Maryland
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 has most of its territory in Asia, but 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 Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey span the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. ⁵ 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. ⁶ Armenia is located entirely in Asia, but historically has stronger tie with Europe.

Spanish Americans by location
Region of settlement Colonial-era Spanish settlers California Louisiana (Isleño) New Mexico Texas Hawaii Puerto Rico Region of origin Asturias Basque Country Canary Islands Catalonia Galicia

Hispanic and Latino American groups in the United States
Caribbean	Cuban Dominican Puerto Rican Nuyorican
North American¹	Hispano Californio Nuevomexicano Tejano Creoles of Louisiana Isleño Mexican Chicano Indigenous Mexican La Raza 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
African	Angolan Cape Verdean Equatoguinean Bissau-Guinean
Racial groups	All groups Amerindian Asian Punjabi Black White Multiracial Quadroon Castizo "Cholo" Mestizo Mulatto Pardo Zambo
Languages	American English Chicano New Mexican New York Latino Spanish Isleño Spanish New Mexican Spanish Spanglish Portuguese
Ethnic and religious groups	Christians Garifuna Jews Muslims
Other themes	Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
Related ethnic groups	Belizean Cape Verdean Filipino Guyanese Haitian Portuguese Surinamese Jamaican
Notes ¹ Mexicans and descendants of settlers from the Spanish colonies of the modern United States.

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