LUXEMBOURG AMERICAN

'Luxembourg Americans', also known as 'Luxembourgian Americans', are citizens of the United States of Luxembourgian ancestry. According to the United States' 2000 Census, there are 45,139 Americans of full or partial Luxembourgian descent.[1]
Luxemborg Americans are over-whelmingly concentrated in the Midwest, where most originally settled in the nineteenth century. At the 2000 Census, the states with the largest self-reported Luxembourg American populations are Illinois (6,963), Wisconsin (6,580), Minnesota (5,867), Iowa (5,624), and California (2,824).[2]

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Notables



Chris Evert (born 1954), tennis player and winner of 21 Grand Slam titles

Red Faber (1888 – 1976), baseball player and Baseball Hall of Fame inductee

Hugo Gernsback (1884 – 1967), inventor and science fiction writer

Dennis Hastert (born 1942), Republican politician and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Paul O. Husting (1866 – 1917), Democratic politician and former United States Senator for Wisconsin

Richard F. Kneip (1933 – 1987), Democratic politician and former Governor of South Dakota

Paul Lauterbur (born 1929), chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Edward Steichen (1879 – 1973), photographer, painter, art gallery and museum curator

Matthew Woll (1880 – 1956), trade unionist and former Vice President of the AFL-CIO

Loretta Young (1913 – 2000), actress and 'Best Actress' Academy Award-winner

Notes


1. Total US population by ancestry
2. US population by ancestry and state

External links



Luxembourg American Cultural Society



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