Rusyns

Rusyns, also called Ruthenians, Ruthenes, Rusins, Rysins, Carpatho-Rusins, and Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the Ruthenians that did not become Ukrainians in the 19th century.

Famous Ruthenians

• Andy Warhol (birth name Warhola) - son of two Rusyns from Slovakia, artist.
• Tom Ridge - son of an evidently mixed-blood Cherokee father and Rusyn mother whose family comes from Slovakia, politician.
• Sandra Dee (birth name Alexandra Zuck) - granddaughter of Rusyn immigrants, actress.
• Robert Urich, Hollywood actor. His paternal grandparents, Peter Juric and Theresa Pillar, were born in the Carpatho-Rusyn villages of Venecia and Lukov (Sarys County) in the pre-World War I Hungarian kingdom,