page_title: Catalan Americans
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Catalan Americans / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the United States by county with the number of speakers of the Catalan language according to the 2000 United States Census. Español: Mapa de los Estados Unidos por condado con el número de hablantes del catalán según el censo de 2000.
context_page_description: Catalan Americans are Americans of Catalan descent. The group is formed by Catalan-born naturalized citizens or residents, their descendants and, to a lesser extent, citizens or residents of Catalan descent who still acknowledge Catalan ancestry.
  The Catalan or Catalonian ancestry is identified with the code 204 in the 2000 U.S. Census, with the name Catalonian, which is in the group 200-299 Hispanic categories. A total of 1,738 individuals who received the long-form Census questionnaire self-identified as Catalan Americans. In the same survey 1,660 people aged 5 or older indicated being able to speak the Catalan language, also with the name Catalonian. Because the long-form samples a sixth of the population, that figure puts the estimate of Catalan speakers in the US in 2000 at around 10,000 people. However, 8067 people born in Catalonia live in the United States of America.
  Catalonians self-identify as White American or Hispanic American. However, in the U.S.
context_section_description: Felipe Alfau (1902–1999), novelist and poet
  Thaddeus Amat y Brusi (1810–1878), Bishop of Monterey–Los Angeles
  Leonardo Balada (born 1933), composer
  Ángela Bofill (born 1954), R&B vocalist and songwriter
  Francesc Burgos, artist
  Patricia Clarkson (born 1959), actress
  Nini Camps, folk rock singer–songwriter
  Maria Canals-Barrera (born 1966), actress and singer
  John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model agency
  Julian Casablancas (born 1978), singer with the rock band The Strokes
  Xavier Cugat (1900–1990), bandleader
  Pedro de Alberni (1747–1802), governor of Las Californias
  Pedro Fages (1734–1794), governor of Las Californias
  Ernest Fenollosa (1853–1908), professor of philosophy and political economy
  Alex Ferrer (born 1960), judge in the courtroom television show Judge Alex
  Danay Ferrer (born 1974)
  Fernando Ferrer (born 1950), politician in The Bronx, New York City
  Frank Ferrer, American rock drummer and session musician
  Jorge Ferrer, author
  José Ferrer (1912–1992), actor
  Manuel Y. Ferrer, American virtuoso guitarist
  Prefuse73, musician
  Michelle Font (born 1982), Miss Washington USA 2008
  Valentí Fuster (born 1943), cardiologist
  Martin Garralaga (1894–1981), film and television actor
  Marc Gasol (born 1985), NBA player
  Pau Gasol (born 1980), NBA player
  Joseph Miró (born 1946), politician
  Francisco Mora y Borrell (1827–1905), Bishop of Monterey–Los Angeles
  Gaspar de Portolà i Rovira (1716–1784), explorer and governor of California (1767–1770) and founder of San Diego
  Manny Puig (born 1954), entertainer
  George Rabasa (born 1941), writer
  Joseph Sadoc Alemany (1814–1888), Roman Catholic archbishop and missionary
  Xavier Sala-i-Martin (born 1962), professor of economics at Columbia University
  Josh Segarra (born 1986), actor
  Assumpta Serna (born 1957), actress
  Oriol Servià (born 1974), race car driver in the IndyCar Series
  Carmen Reid, American–Catalonian Spanish teacher and Fulbright scholar
caption: Map of U.S. counties highlighting from grey to orange the number of speakers of Catalan
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