Talk:List of Russian Americans
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[edit] Ethnicity lists discussion
Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) for current discussion of a potential policy to apply to all ethnicity lists on Wikipedia, including this one. JackO'Lantern 20:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] To Whichever Person.....
Who keeps adding such individuals as: Leonard Nimoy, Akim Tamiroff and Jack Palance after they've been removed - I think you may possibly need a geography and world cultures lesson. Nimoy was of Jewish Ukrainian parentage, Tamiroff was of Armenian and Georgian parentage and Palance was Ukrainian. Persistently adding these individuals is tantamount to adding Lucy Liu to a list of Scottish Americans. ExRat 00:46, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
I have sourced the list in accordance with Wikipedia's Original Research and Verifiability policies. Basically, anyone described by a reliable source as "Russian" or "Russian American" (i.e. as opposed to "of Russian descent", "Russian mother", etc.) is on the list. Here are the few people I couldn't find anything for. If you have a reliable source that fits that please restore the names:
- Leon Ames
- Agnes Bruckner
- Michael Chertoff - jurist
- Noam Chomsky - linguist and political philosopher
- David Copperfield (also magician)
- Anton Ivanovich Denikin - Russian White Army soldier - was he an American?
- Kirk Douglas
- Michael Douglas
- Michael Dudikoff
- Harrison Ford
- Oleg Kalugin - is he an American?
- Gata Kamsky - chess grandmaster
- Alexander Kerensky - former prime minister of Russian Provisional Government, 1917 - was he even an American citizen?
- Monica Lewinsky
- Anna Nalick - singer
- Larisa Oleynik
- William James Sidis - mathematician and child prodigy
- Yuri Temirkanov - is an American citizen?
- Michelle Trachtenberg
- Eugene Volokh
Mad Jack O'Lantern 08:02, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Potential listees
The following articles are linked to Category:Russian-Americans, but are not in this article. When verified as Russian Americans, they should be added to this list. I only found one person Sholom Aleichem who appeared to be a expatriate in the U.S., not an immigrant.
- Karen Kijewski
- Alexander Kerensky
- Paul Klebnikov
- Nikita Koloff
- Leonard Koppett
- Michele Lee
- Monica Lewinsky
- Kyrie Maezumi
- Dinah Manoff
- Mark Moya
- Suze Orman
- Maria Ouspenskaya
- Nicole Scherzinger
- Brian Schweitzer
- Alexander Procofieff de Seversky
- Anatole Shub
- Dimitri K. Simes
- Nikolai Sokoloff
- Raphael Soyer
- Regina Spektor
- Alexandra Sviridova
Thanks Hmains 03:08, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Inclusion of Jews
Jews do not really belong in this subject because they are considered to be a different nationality in Russia. Many of these names belong in Jewish Americans —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.127.37.235 (talk) 23:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC).
- What's called nationality (национальность) in the USSR/Russia is not the same as nationality in other places, which is roughly citizenship. This list does not include only ethnic Russians. ←Humus sapiens ну? 02:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps we could add some sort of indicator if they are non ethnic Russians from Russia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.108.115.69 (talk) 06:26, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
