Browsing the web, I found interesting listings on famous Roma people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roma,_Sinti_and_Mixed_People http://www.imninalu.net/famousGypsies.htm
I don´t know many of them anyway, but, let´s forget about singers. Bob Hoskins, Charles Chaplin... Not bad. But, always artists? Well, there´s a nobel prize (August Krogh).
And well again, you know that soccer players in Spain are our pride... Real Madrid´s José Antonio Reyes, part of the team that won the European Cup a month ago, is Roma. Dani Güiza also is called often "the gipsy from Jerez" but I´m not sure if it´s a "school nickname" because he´s quite dark-haired, like calling "Chinese" someone with narrow eyes. Could be. Typical Spanish, not despective. Had "Chineses" in most of my classes when I was little... "If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none." (Fahrenheit 451)
