The Romany, also known as gypsies, were a human ethnic group.
According to the Doctor, the Romany believed that the eye retained its last image after death. This image was called the optogram. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Robert Holmes, Doctor Who season 12 (BBC1, 1975)., The Crimson Horror [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2013).)
Prince Boris' mother once took in a group of gypsies for months on one of her dacha. (PROSE: Dead of Winter [+]James Goss, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2011).)
In 1883, when the Seventh Doctor told Inspector Mackenzie that Nimrod was Neanderthal, the policeman thought he meant that he had gypsy blood. (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)
Alistair Gaddis' grandmother claimed she had Romany blood. (PROSE: The Burning [+]Justin Richards, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)
Charley Pollard befriended gypsies in her youth. (AUDIO: Other Lives [+]Gary Hopkins, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2005).)
In 1933, Margaret Havers of Marpling believed that the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor were gypsies and told them to leave the village. (PROSE: Eater of Wasps [+]Trevor Baxendale, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).)
In 1935, Michael Gregson asked Melanie Bush if she and the Doctor travelled around like gypsies. (PROSE: 24 Crawford Street [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)
Gypsies were among the groups that the Nazis believed were inferior, and many of them were sent to concentration camps. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) In 1938, River Song flippantly told a German officer that she was on her way to a gay gypsy bar mitzvah for the disabled (referring to several such "undesirable" groups). (TV: Let's Kill Hitler [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 6 (BBC One, 2011).)
In 1952, Polly Wright, age ten, attended a fair where she visited a gypsy fortune teller, who warned her of a tall, dark stranger. (PROSE: Invasion of the Cat-People [+]Gary Russell, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)
In 1963, Ian Chesterton met a gypsy called Rosemary, who told him his future. (PROSE: The Splintered Gate [+]Justin Richards, Short Trips: Companions (Short Trips, 2003).)
In 1965, a Liverpool Detective-Inspector, after learning that the First Doctor was found in a police box, suspected that there might be more people inside "living like gypsies". (TV: "The Feast of Steven" [+]Part of The Daleks' Master Plan, Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner, Doctor Who season 3 (BBC1, 1965-1966).)
Circa 1970, the Second Doctor dressed like a gypsy while visiting a marketplace in Atlantis. (TV: The Underwater Menace [+]Geoffrey Orme, Doctor Who season 4 (BBC1, 1967).)
Stefan called the Sixth Doctor an "insolent gypsy." (PROSE: The Nightmare Fair [+]Graham Williams, adapted from The Nightmare Fair, Target Missing Episodes (Target Books, 1989)./AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair [+]Graham Williams, adapted from The Nightmare Fair, The Lost Stories (Big Finish Productions, 2009).)
In the 44th century, Elliot Sardick berated his son, Kazran, telling him that singing to sky fish was something a gypsy would do. (TV: A Christmas Carol [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2010 (BBC One, 2010).)
The Dreilyn were described as the gypsies of the galaxy. (COMIC: Redemption! [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).)