List of Romanian Americans
Encyclopedia
This is a list of notable Romanian-American
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Romanian-American
A Romanian American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 367,310 Americans indicated Romanian as their first ancestry, while 462,526 persons declared to have Romanian ancestry...
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
- Max AbramovitzMax AbramovitzMax Abramovitz was an architect best known for his work with the New York City firm Harrison & Abramovitz.- Life :...
– architect of Avery Fisher HallAvery Fisher HallAvery Fisher Hall is a concert hall, in New York City and is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, with a capacity of 2,738 seats.-History:... - Eugene Borza – professor of historyHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
at Pennsylvania State UniversityPennsylvania State UniversityThe Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service... - Allysin ChaynesAllysin ChaynesAllysin Chaynes is a pornographic actress. She made her debut in Joey Silvera's Butt Row Swallowed and won the 2001 XRCO Award for Cream Dream....
– adult film actress - Steven CojocaruSteven CojocaruSteven Cojocaru , known by the nickname "Cojo", is a Canadian fashion critic. He was born in Montreal, Quebec to a family of immigrants from Romania...
– fashion critic, entertainment TV shows commentator, and celebrity interviewer - Sergiu ComissionaSergiu ComissionaSergiu Comissiona was a Romanian conductor and violinist.-Early life:...
– conductor and musician - John DeLorean – engineer, founder of the DeLorean Motor Company
- Will EisnerWill EisnerWilliam Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
– comics writer, artist, and entrepreneur . - Sandu FloreaSandu FloreaSandu Florea is a Romanian-American comic book and comic strip creator, also known as an inker and book illustrator. A trained architect and a presence on the science fiction scene during the 1970s, he became a professional in the comics genre with albums such as Galbar, and was allegedly the only...
– illustrator, comic book, and comic strip creator - Ana Sarbu – Business leader and marketing executive
- Radu FlorescuRadu FlorescuRadu Florescu is a Romanian academic who holds the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College. He was Director of the East European Research Center at Boston College, and also a professor of history....
– emeritus professor of history at Boston CollegeBoston CollegeBoston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early... - Haralamb H. GeorgescuHaralamb H. GeorgescuHaralamb H. Georgescu , also known as Harlan Georgesco, was a twentieth century Romanian-American modernist architect. He had a 44-year career spanning time in both Romania and the United States before dying in California in 1977....
-architect - Alma GluckAlma GluckAlma Gluck was a Romanian-born American soprano, one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career .-Life and career:...
– soprano - Hank GreenbergHank GreenbergHenry Benjamin "Hank" Greenberg , nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank" or "The Hebrew Hammer," was an American professional baseball player in the 1930s and 1940s. A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation...
- Baseball Hall of Famer - Alexandra NechitaAlexandra NechitaAlexandra Nechita is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.- Biography :She was born in Vaslui, three months after her father, Niki Nechita, escaped from Communist Romania. She and her mother, Viorica Nechita, had to wait for two years before being allowed to join him in the United...
– painter - Jean NegulescoJean NegulescoJean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter....
– film director and screenwriter - M. B. "Bud" Seretean – former businessman and author, he founded Coronet IndustriesCoronet IndustriesCoronet Industries Incorporated is a chemical company that operated a plant converting phosphate to animal feed outside of Plant City, Florida. The plant operated for over 100 years before closing in March 2004 in the midst of an investigation by the United States Environmental Protection Agency,...
, a subsidiary of the RCA Corporation, and served as its President and Chairman of the Board. - Sebastian StanSebastian StanSebastian Stan is a Romanian-born American actor. He is best known for playing Prince Jack Benjamin on the television drama Kings and Carter Baizen on Gossip Girl.-Early life:...
– actor - Michael RaduMichael RaduMichael S. Radu was a Romanian-American political scientist and journalist who grew up in Romania. He was Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Co-Chairman of FPRI's Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security.Radu was born in...
– Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research InstituteForeign Policy Research InstituteThe Foreign Policy Research Institute is an American neoconservative think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S...
in Philadelphia - Ştefan BaciuStefan BaciuŞtefan Baciu was a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, translator, art critic, diplomat, and university professor who spent most of his life in exile, first in Latin America, then in the U.S....
– poet and writer - Matei CălinescuMatei CalinescuMatei Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana....
– professor at Indiana State UniversityIndiana State UniversityIndiana State University is a public university located in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.The Princeton Review has named Indiana State as one of the "Best in the Midwest" seven years running, and the College of Education's Graduate Program was recently named as a 'Top 100' by U.S... - Ion CârjaIon CârjaIon Cârja was a Romanian and American writer and anti-communist activist, who was a political prisoner in Communist Romania.-Biography:...
– writer and anti-communist activist - Nina CassianNina CassianNina Cassian is a Romanian poet, composer, journalist and film critic.. , The Independent She is noted for her translating abilities, and has rendered into Romanian the works of William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan...
– poet, journalistJournalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, film critic - Andrei CodrescuAndrei CodrescuAndrei Codrescu is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009....
– poet, writer, radio host - Ioan Petru Culianu – historian of religion
- Mircea EliadeMircea EliadeMircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day...
– philosopher, writer, historian of religions - Norman ManeaNorman ManeaNorman Manea is a Jewish Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He is a Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer in residence at Bard College...
– writer - Valery OişteanuValery OisteanuValery Oişteanu is a Soviet-born Romanian and American poet, art critic, essayist, photographer and performance artist, whose style reflects the influence of Dada and Surrealism. Oişteanu is the author of more than a dozen published books of poetry, a book of short fiction, and a book of essays...
poet, art critic, writer, essayist, and photographer - Virgil NemoianuVirgil NemoianuVirgil Nemoianu is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in “comparative literature” but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments...
– essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture - Thomas PavelThomas PavelThomas Pavel is a literary theorist, critic, and novelist currently teaching at the University of Chicago.- Biography :...
– literary theorist, critic, and novelist currently teaching at the University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
. - Petru PopescuPetru PopescuPetru Popescu is a Romanian-American writer, director and movie producer, author of best-selling novels "Almost Adam" and "Amazon Beaming".-Romanian beginnings:...
– screenwriter from Hollywood and best-selling author - Edward G. RobinsonEdward G. RobinsonEdward G. Robinson was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo...
– actor - Saviana StănescuSaviana StanescuSaviana Stănescu is an award-winning Romanian-American poet, playwright and journalist. She is currently the NYSCA playwright-in-residence for Women's Project, writer-in-residence of East Coast Artists, and Director of New Drama Program for the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York...
– writer (poet, playwright) - Dorin TudoranDorin TudoranDorin Tudoran is a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and dissident. A resident of the United States since 1985, he has authored more than fifteen books of poetry, essays, and interviews.-Early life:...
– poet, writer, journalist - George PomutzGeorge PomutzGeorge Pomutz was an ethnic Romanian officer during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War, and a diplomat.-Early life:...
– Union Brigadier General, commanded the 15th IowaIowaIowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
Regiment in the American Civil WarAmerican Civil WarThe American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25... - Alexander VraciuAlexander VraciuAlexander Vraciu was a leading United States Navy fighter ace and Congressional Medal of Honor nominee during World War II. He once shot down six Japanese fighters in eight minutes.-Biography:...
– World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
Navy pilot; ace - Lucian BanLucian Ban-Biography:Raised in the tiny farming village of Teaca, , Ban grew up listening to folk songs performed at weddings, birthdays, holidays and other celebrations....
– jazz piano player, composer - Sergiu ComissionaSergiu ComissionaSergiu Comissiona was a Romanian conductor and violinist.-Early life:...
– conductor and musician - Angela GheorghiuAngela GheorghiuAngela Gheorghiu is a Romanian soprano opera singer. Since her professional debut in 1990, she has sung as soprano leading roles at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden's Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La Scala, and many other opera houses in Europe and the United States...
– soprano - Shelby CincaShelby CincaShelby Serban-Alex Cinca is a Romania-born musician, one of the founding members of the DC post-punk band Frodus and the vaudevillian steampunk band, The Cassettes. He has also been a part of such bands as Frantic Mantis and Decahedron...
– punk rock guitarist - Virginia ZeaniVirginia ZeaniVirginia Zeani is a Romanian soprano, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially the role of in "La traviata".-Early life:Zeani was born Virginia Zehan, in Solovăstru, Romania...
– soprano - Mircea RăceanuMircea Raceanu-Early life:He was the son of two Transylvanian members of the underground Romanian Communist Party in the 1930s: a Romanian worker named Ileana Pop and a Jewish carpenter named Andrei Bernat, who was killed by Fascists during World War II. Mircea was born in Văcăreşti prison, where his mother was...
– diplomat - Nathaniel Popp – Romanian Orthodox Archbishop
- Marian Gh. Simion – Romanian-American scholar in religion, politics and conflict resolution
- Valerian TrifaValerian TrifaValerian Trifa was a Romanian Orthodox cleric and fascist political activist, who served as archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America and Canada...
– former archbishop of Romanian Orthodox Church of America and Canada - Richard WurmbrandRichard WurmbrandRichard Wurmbrand was a Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent. He was a youth during a time of anti-Semitic activity in Romania, but it was later, after becoming a believer in Jesus Christ as Messiah, and daring to publicly say that Communism and Christianity were not compatible, that he...
– minister, author and educator - Alexander RatiuAlexander RatiuAlexander Ratiu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest, political prisoner, and author.He was a priest in Giurtelecu Şimleului, Romania, and Plainfield, Illinois.- Education :...
– former Romanian Greek-CatholicRomanian Church United with Rome, Greek-CatholicThe Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic is an Eastern Catholic Church which is in full union with the Roman Catholic Church. It is ranked as a Major Archiepiscopal Church and uses the Byzantine liturgical rite in the Romanian language....
priestPriestA priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...
, political prisonerPolitical prisonerAccording to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’....
, and author. - Solomon SchechterSolomon SchechterSolomon Schechter was a Moldavian-born Romanian and English rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish...
– educator and theologian - Andrei AlexandrescuAndrei AlexandrescuAndrei Alexandrescu is a Romanian C++ programmer and author. He is particularly known for his pioneering work on policy-based design implemented via template metaprogramming. These ideas are articulated in his book Modern C++ Design and were first implemented in his programming library, Loki. He...
– C++C++C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
programmerProgrammerA programmer, computer programmer or coder is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal approach to...
and author - Adrian BejanAdrian BejanAdrian Bejan is an American professor and proponent of the constructal theory of design and evolution in nature. He is J. A...
– professor of mechanical engineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
at Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... - Ciprian FoiasCiprian FoiasCiprian Ilie Foias is a Romanian-American mathematician. He was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1995, for his contributions in operator theory....
- mathematician - Tudor GaneaTudor GaneaTudor Ganea was a Romanian mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology, especially homotopy theory. Ganea left Communist Romania to settle in the United States in the early 1960s...
– mathematicianMathematicianA mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, known for his work in algebraic topologyAlgebraic topologyAlgebraic topology is a branch of mathematics which uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariants that classify topological spaces up to homeomorphism, though usually most classify up to homotopy equivalence.Although algebraic topology... - George Lusztig – mathematician, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
- Ciprian ManolescuCiprian ManolescuCiprian Manolescu is a Romanian mathematician. He is presently an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles....
– mathematician - Nicholas Georgescu-RoegenNicholas Georgescu-RoegenNicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born Nicolae Georgescu was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist, best known for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, which situated the view that the second law of thermodynamics, i.e., that usable "free energy" tends to disperse...
– mathematician, statistician, and economist - George Emil PaladeGeorge Emil PaladeGeorge Emil Palade was a Romanian cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, together with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and...
– Nobel PrizeNobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
-winning biologist - Nicolae PopescuNicolae PopescuNicolae Popescu was a Romanian mathematician and Emeritus Professor. Popescu was elected a Member of the Romanian Academy in 1992. He is best known for his contributions to Algebra and the theory of Abelian categories. Since 1964 and until 2007 he collaborated on the characterization of abelian...
– doctor, scientific researcher at the National Institute of Health - Gideon RodanGideon RodanDr. Gideon Alfred Rodan was an American biochemist and Doctor of Medicine.Rodan was born in Bucharest, Romania. He completed an MD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.He researched the deformation of bone cells. His most notable...
– biochemistBiochemistBiochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...
and osteopath - Horaţiu NăstaseHoratiu NastaseHoraţiu Năstase is a Romanian physicist and professor in the String Theory group at Instituto de Física Teórica of the Universidade Estadual Paulista in São Paulo, Brazil....
– physicistPhysicistA physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
and professor in the High energy physics group at Brown UniversityBrown UniversityBrown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
in ProvidenceProvidence, Rhode IslandProvidence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...
, RI, USA. - Napoleon SăvescuNapoleon SavescuNapoleon Săvescu is a Romanian-American physician famous for being the supporter of some controversial theories regarding the origins and history of Dacians and Romanians...
– physician - Dan-Virgil VoiculescuDan-Virgil VoiculescuDan-Virgil Voiculescu is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free probability theory....
– mathematician, professor at the University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... - Nadia ComăneciNadia ComaneciNadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and the first female gymnast ever to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer...
– Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics (defected to the United States in 1989) - Florin FelecanFlorin FelecanFlorin Felecan is a chess International Master. Born in Romania, he resided in Evanston, Illinois, having moved there on July 17, 1997, along with his family....
– chess FIDE Master - Corina MorariuCorina MorariuCorina Marie Morariu is a former American female professional tennis player of Romanian heritage.Morariu turned professional in 1994. Mainly known as a doubles specialist, she won the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1999 with Lindsay Davenport. She also won the mixed doubles title at the...
– female former professional tennis player - Dominique MoceanuDominique MoceanuDominique "Domi" Helena Moceanu is an American gymnast who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S...
– US Olympic gymnast - Gheorghe MureşanGheorghe MuresanGheorghe Dumitru Mureşan, , also known as Ghiţă or George, is a retired Romanian professional basketball player. At 7 ft 7 in , he is one of the tallest players in NBA history, along with Sudanese player Manute Bol, who was also 7 ft 7 in. Both Mureşan's parents are of average size, and,...
– former NBA player; lives in USA - Sam PaulescuSam PaulescuSamuel Paulescu is an American football punter who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers as a street free agent in 2006...
– NFL punter - Liviu CiuleiLiviu CiuleiLiviu Ciulei was a Romanian theater and film director, film writer, actor, architect, educator, costume and set designer. During a career spanning over 50 years, he was described by Newsweek as "one of the boldest and most challenging figures on the international scene".-Biography:Born in...
– stage and film director - Andrei ŞerbanAndrei SerbanAndrei Șerban is a Romanian-born American theater director. A major name in twentieth-century theater, he is renowned for his innovative and iconoclastic interpretations and stagings...
– director of theater and opera - Ion Mihai PacepaIon Mihai PacepaIon Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the former Eastern Bloc. He is now a United States citizen, a writer, and a columnist....
– writer, columnist - Dan MoldeaDan MoldeaDan E. Moldea is a best-selling author and investigative journalist who has reported on organized crime and political corruption since 1974. He is the author of books about the rise and fall of Jimmy Hoffa, the contract killing of an Ohio businessman, the Mafia's penetration of Hollywood, and its...
– author and investigative journalist - Catherine CaradjaCatherine CaradjaPrincess Catherine Olympia Caradja was a celebrated Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist. Born in Bucharest, she grew up in England and France, and lived in Romania from 1908 to 1952, when she escaped from the communist regime on a Danube boat...
– philanthropistPhilanthropistA philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
, aristocrat, Romanian expatriate to the U.S. - Daniel NegreanuDaniel NegreanuDaniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player. He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is currently ranked second in the all-time career earnings list and is the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge. He plays a big...
– Professional PokerPokerPoker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
Player - Alexander RaţiuAlexander RatiuAlexander Ratiu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest, political prisoner, and author.He was a priest in Giurtelecu Şimleului, Romania, and Plainfield, Illinois.- Education :...
– author, priest, and political prisoner. - Solomon SchechterSolomon SchechterSolomon Schechter was a Moldavian-born Romanian and English rabbi, academic scholar, and educator, most famous for his roles as founder and President of the United Synagogue of America, President of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and architect of the American Conservative Jewish...
– educator and theologian - Beverly SillsBeverly SillsBeverly Sills was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. In her prime she was the only real rival to Joan Sutherland as the leading bel canto stylist...
– soprano - Vladimir TismăneanuVladimir TismaneanuVladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian and American political scientist, political analyst, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park...
– specialist in political systems and compared politics - Naomi WolfNaomi WolfNaomi Wolf is an American author and political consultant. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third wave of the feminist movement.-Biography:...
– american author - Adrian Zmed – actor best known from the T.J. Hooker television series.