Galician Americans
Galician Americans are Americans of Galician descent.
The Galicians are a cultural and ethnolinguistic group whose historic homeland is Galicia, in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. Galician and Castilian are the official languages of the Autonomous Community of Galicia.
Galician migration to the United States took place mainly between 1868 and 1930, although there was a second smaller wave in the late 1940s and 1950s, when Galicians managed to form a small community in Newark.
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, but they may do so temporarily and without being naturalized American. The list below refers to US-born or U.S. citizens of Galician ancestry.
Notable people
- Estevez family
- *Joe Estevez
- *Martin Sheen
- **Emilio Estevez
- **Ramon Estevez
- **Charlie Sheen
- **Renée Estevez
- Jerry Garcia musician and songwriter.
- Ramón Verea Spanish journalist, engineer and writer; inventor of a calculator with an internal multiplication table.
- Yglesias family.
- *Jose Yglesias 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 American novelist and screenwriter. His parents were the novelists Jose Yglesias and Helen Yglesias.
- ***Matthew Yglesias Matthew Yglesias American economics journalist and political blogger.
- Perez Hilton known professionally as Perez Hilton, American blogger and television personality.
- Carmen Fariña teacher and politician.
- Octavio Vazquez composer and professor at Nazareth College (New York).
- Richard Fariña American folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist.
- Manolo Sánchez personal valet to the 37th president of the United States Richard Nixon.
- Sonia Villapol neurocientist, Medical Center, Houston.
- Alberto Avendaño journalist, Washington Post.
- Antonio Lage-Seara communicator, cultural activist.
- Cristina Pato, composer and professor.
- Novoa family from El Salvador, Mexico and originally from Maceda, Ourense, Galicia, Spain.
- * Fidel Antonio Novoa Meléndez
- ** Fidel Antonio Novoa Fuentes
- *** Ricardo Armando Novoa Arciniegas