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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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- Further information: Category:Luxembourg Americans
- 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
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