This is a list of some of the most prominent Romanians

Romanians

The Romanians are an ethnic group native to Romania, who speak Romanian; they are the majority inhabitants of Romania....

. It contains historical and important contemporary figures (athletes, actors, directors etc.).

Most of the people listed here are of Romanian ethnicity, whose native tongue is Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

. There are also a few mentioned who were born in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 and can speak Romanian, though not of Romanian ethnicity.

Medieval

• Basarab I the Founder
  Basarab I of Wallachia
  Basarab I the Founder was voivode or prince of Wallachia . His rise seems to have taken place in the context of the war between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Orthodox states in the north of the Balkan Peninsula...
  
  , first voivode of Wallachia
  Wallachia
  Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
  
  
• Mircea cel Bătrân (Mircea the Elder), voivode of Wallachia
  Wallachia
  Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
  
  
• Neagoe Basarab
  Neagoe Basarab
  Neagoe Basarab was the Voivode of Wallachia between 1512 and 1521. Born into the boyar family of the Craioveşti as the son of Pârvu Craiovescu or Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr, Neagoe Basarab, who replaced Vlad cel Tânăr after the latter rejected Craioveşti tutelage, was noted for his abilities and...
  
  , voivode of Wallachia
  Wallachia
  Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
  
  
• Ioan Corvin
  John Hunyadi
  John Hunyadi John Hunyadi (Hungarian: Hunyadi János , Medieval Latin: Ioannes Corvinus or Ioannes de Hunyad, Romanian: Iancu (Ioan) de Hunedoara, Croatian: Janko Hunjadi, Serbian: Сибињанин Јанко / Sibinjanin Janko, Slovak: Ján Huňady) John Hunyadi (Hungarian: Hunyadi János , Medieval Latin: ...
  
   voivode of Transylvania
  Transylvania
  Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
  
   and Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary
  Kingdom of Hungary
  The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...
  
  
• Nicolaus Olahus
  Nicolaus Olahus
  Nicolaus Olahus ; January 10, 1493, Sibiu-January 15, 1568, Trnava/Nagyszombat) was the Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary, and a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate.-Early life:...
  
  , Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Kingdom of Hungary
• Ştefan cel Mare, voivode of Moldavia
  Moldavia
  Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...
  
  
• Vlad Ţepeş (Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula), voivode, Dracula
  Dracula
  Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...
  
   inspiration
• Alexandru cel Bun
  Alexandru cel Bun
  Alexander cel Bun was a Voivode of Moldavia, reigning between 1400 and 1432, son of Roman I Mușat. He succeeded Iuga to the throne, and, as a ruler, initiated a series of reforms while consolidating the status of the Moldavian Principality....
  
  , voivode of Moldavia
• Petru Rareş
  Petru Rares
  Peter IV Rareș was twice voievod of Moldavia: 20 January 1527 to 18 September 1538 and 19 February 1541 to 3 September 1546. He was an illegitimate child born to Ștefan cel Mare...
  
  , voivode of Moldavia
• Mihai Viteazul, prince of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania

Renaissance Age

• Antioch Kantemir
  Antioch Kantemir
  Prince Antiokh Dmitrievich Kantemir was a Moldavian-born Russian Enlightenment man of letters and diplomat.Kantemir was born to the Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir and Princess Kassandra Cantacuzene in...
  
  ; poet and Russian ambassador
• Dimitrie Cantemir
  Dimitrie Cantemir
  Dimitrie Cantemir was twice Prince of Moldavia . He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer....
  
  ; ruler of Moldavia, historian, writer, and music composer
• Constantin Brancoveanu
  Constantin Brâncoveanu
  Constantin Brâncoveanu was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.-Ascension:A descendant of the Craioveşti boyar family and related to Matei Basarab, Brâncoveanu was born at the estate of Brâncoveni and raised in the house of his uncle, stolnic Constantin Cantacuzino...
  
  

Modern era

• Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza
• King Carol I of Romania
  Carol I of Romania
  Carol I , born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was reigning prince and then King of Romania from 1866 to 1914. He was elected prince of Romania on 20 April 1866 following the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza by a palace coup...
  
  , of German origins
• King Ferdinand I of Romania
  Ferdinand I of Romania
  Ferdinand was the King of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death.-Early life:Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, the Roman Catholic Prince Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern, was a son of Leopold, Prince of...
  
  
• King Carol II of Romania
  Carol II of Romania
  Carol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...
  
  
• King Mihai of Romania

Politicians

• Ion Antonescu
  Ion Antonescu
  Ion Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships...
  
  , prime minister and Conducător (Leader) during World War II
• Alexandru Averescu
  Alexandru Averescu
  Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets . He first rose to prominence during the peasant's revolt of 1907, which he helped repress in violence...
  
  , general and politician
• Nicolae Bălcescu
  Nicolae Balcescu
  Nicolae Bălcescu was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution.-Early life:...
  
  , historian, revolutionary
• Antoine Bibesco
  Antoine Bibesco
  Antoine, Prince Bibesco was a Romanian aristocrat, lawyer, diplomat and writer.- Biography :His father was Prince Alexandre Bibesco, the last surviving son of the Hospodar of Wallachia. His mother was Helene Epourano, daughter of a former Prime Minister of Romania...
  
  , diplomat, writer
• Ion I. C. Brătianu
  Ion I. C. Bratianu
  Ion I. C. Brătianu was a Romanian politician, leader of the National Liberal Party , the Prime Minister of Romania for five terms, and Foreign Minister on several occasions; he was the eldest son of statesman and PNL leader Ion Brătianu, the brother of Vintilă and Dinu Brătianu, and the father of...
  
  
• Lascăr Catargiu
  Lascar Catargiu
  Lascăr Catargiu was a Romanian conservative statesman born in Moldavia. He belonged to an ancient Wallachian family, one of whose members had been banished in the 17th century by Prince Matei Basarab, and had settled in Moldavia.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ion Duca, prime minister in interbellum Romania
• Petre Dumitrescu
  Petre Dumitrescu
  Petre Dumitrescu was a Romanian general during World War II, who led the Romanian Third Army on its campaign against the Red Army in the eastern front.-Early life and military career:...
  
  , general
• Avram Iancu
  Avram Iancu
  Avram Iancu was a Transylvanian Romanian lawyer who played an important role in the local chapter of the Austrian Empire Revolutions of 1848–1849. He was especially active in the Ţara Moţilor region and the Apuseni Mountains...
  
  , revolutionary
• Mihail Lascăr
  Mihail Lascar
  Mihail Lascăr was a Romanian General during World War II, and Minister of Defense from 1946 to 1947.After graduating from the Infantry Officer School in 1910 with the rank of 2nd lieutenant, he fought in the Second Balkan War and in World War I, being promoted to major...
  
  , WWII general, Minister of Defense
• Mugur Isărescu
  Mugur Isarescu
  Mugur Isărescu is the Governor of the National Bank of Romania. From 22 December 1999 to 28 November 2000 he served as Prime Minister. He is a member of the Romanian Academy....
  
  , economist, former Prime Minister
• Mihail Manoilescu
  Mihail Manoilescu
  Mihail Manoilescu was a Romanian journalist, engineer, economist, politician and memoirist, who served as Foreign Minister of Romania during the summer of 1940...
  
  , economist and politician
• Nicolae Rădescu
  Nicolae Radescu
  Nicolae Rădescu was a Romanian army officer and political figure. He was the last pre-communist rule Prime Minister of Romania, serving from December 7, 1944 to March 1, 1945....
  
  , prime minister during WWII
• Dimitrie Sturdza
  Dimitrie Sturdza
  Dimitrie Sturdza was a Romanian statesman of the late 19th century, and president of the Romanian Academy between 1882 and 1884.-Biography:Born in Iaşi, Moldavia, and educated there at the Academia Mihăileană, he continued his studies in Germany, took part in the political movements of the time,...
  
  
• Octavian Goga
  Octavian Goga
  Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.-Life:Born in Răşinari, nearby Sibiu, he was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party in Austria-Hungary. Before World War I,...
  
  , writer, former Prime Minister
• Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea
  Barbu Stefanescu Delavrancea
  Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea was a Romanian writer and poet, considered one of Romania's greatest figures in the National awakening of Romania.-External links:*...
  
  , former mayor of Bucharest
  Bucharest
  Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
  
  

National Peasants' Party

National Peasants' Party

The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...

 

• Emil Constantinescu
  Emil Constantinescu
  Emil Constantinescu was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000.He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist...
  
  , former President of Romania
  President of Romania
  The President of Romania is the head of state of Romania. The President is directly elected by a two-round system for a five-year term . An individual may serve two terms...
  
  
• Radu Vasile
  Radu Vasile
  Radu Vasile is a Romanian politician, historian and poet.-Education and Professional Activity:*1967 - Graduate, with exceptional results, of the Faculty of History - University of Bucharest...
  
  , economist and politician, former Prime Minister
• Gheorghe Ciuhandu
  Gheorghe Ciuhandu
  Gheorghe Coriolan Ciuhandu is a Romanian politician.He has been the mayor of Timişoara since 1996 and was one of the losing candidates for president in the 2004 presidential elections, in which he represented the Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party...
  
  , Mayor of Timişoara
  Timisoara
  Timișoara is the capital city of Timiș County, in western Romania. One of the largest Romanian cities, with an estimated population of 311,586 inhabitants , and considered the informal capital city of the historical region of Banat, Timișoara is the main social, economic and cultural center in the...
  
  , National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  
• Ion Raţiu
  Ion Ratiu
  Ion Raţiu was a Romanian politician and the presidential candidate of the National Peasants' Party in the 1990 elections, in which he ranked third with 4.29% of the vote.-Biography:...
  
  , politician, National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  
• Corneliu Coposu
  Corneliu Coposu
  -Early life:Coposu was born in Bobota, Sălaj County to the Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu and his wife Aurelia Coposu...
  
  , politician, National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  
• Doina Cornea
  Doina Cornea
  Doina Cornea is a Romanian human rights activist and French professor. She was notable as a dissident during the communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu.-Dissidence under communism:...
  
  , noted dissident and intellectual, National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  
• Iuliu Maniu
  Iuliu Maniu
  Iuliu Maniu was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician. A leader of the National Party of Transylvania and Banat before and after World War I, he served as Prime Minister of Romania for three terms during 1928–1933, and, with Ion Mihalache, co-founded the National Peasants'...
  
  , politician, one of the creators of the National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  
• Ion Mihalache
  Ion Mihalache
  Ion Mihalache was a Romanian agrarian politician, the founder and leader of the Peasants' Party and a main figure of its successor, the National Peasants' Party .-Early life:...
  
  , politician, National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  

National Liberal Party (Romania)

National Liberal Party (Romania)

The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...

 

Former members before November 1947, when the Romanian Communists

Communist Romania

Communist Romania was the period in Romanian history when that country was a Soviet-aligned communist state in the Eastern Bloc, with the dominant role of Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its successive constitutions...

 dissolved the party:

• Ion C. Brătianu, Prime Minister of Romania
  Prime Minister of Romania
  The Prime Minister of Romania is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was styled President of the Council of Ministers , when the term "Government" included more than the Cabinet, and the Cabinet was called The Council of Ministers...
  
  
• Ion I. C. Brătianu
  Ion I. C. Bratianu
  Ion I. C. Brătianu was a Romanian politician, leader of the National Liberal Party , the Prime Minister of Romania for five terms, and Foreign Minister on several occasions; he was the eldest son of statesman and PNL leader Ion Brătianu, the brother of Vintilă and Dinu Brătianu, and the father of...
  
  , politician, one of the founders of the Liberal movement in Romania
  National Liberal Party (Romania)
  The National Liberal Party , abbreviated to PNL, is a centre-right liberal party in Romania. It is the third-largest party in the Romanian Parliament, with 53 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 22 in the Senate: behind the centre-right Democratic Liberal Party and the centre-left Social...
  
  , Prime Minister, son of Ion C. Brătianu
• Ion G. Duca
  Ion G. Duca
  Ion Gheorghe Duca was prime minister of Romania from November 14 to December 30, 1933, when he was assassinated for his efforts to suppress the fascist Iron Guard movement.-Life and political career:...
  
  , Prime Minister, assassinated by Iron Guard
  Iron Guard
  The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given to a far-right movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II. The Iron Guard was ultra-nationalist, fascist, anti-communist, and promoted the Orthodox Christian faith...
  
  
• Ion Ghica
  Ion Ghica
  Ion Ghica was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania . He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times...
  
  , mathematician, diplomat, Prime Minister
• Mihail Kogălniceanu
  Mihail Kogalniceanu
  Mihail Kogălniceanu was a Moldavian-born Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexander John Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I. He...
  
  , lawyer, historian, publicist, Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Internal Affairs
• C. A. Rosetti
  C. A. Rosetti
  Constantin Alexandru Rosetti was a Romanian literary and political leader, born in Bucharest into a Phanariot Greek family.In 1845, Rosetti went to Paris, where he met Alphonse de Lamartine, the patron of the Society of Romanian Students in Paris. In 1847, he married Mary Grant, the sister of the...
  
  , publicist

Former members after 1989:

• Theodor Stolojan
  Theodor Stolojan
  Theodor Dumitru Stolojan is a Romanian politician. An economist by training, he is a leader of the Democratic-Liberal Party. He previously served as Prime minister of Romania from September 1991 to November 1992. He and his wife Elena have a son, Vlad Stolojan, and a daughter, Ada Palea...
  
  , leader of the party 2002–2004, expelled in 2006
• Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu
  Mihai Razvan Ungureanu
  Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is a Romanian historian, diplomat and politician. He was the foreign minister of Romania from December 28, 2004 to March 12, 2007...
  
  , Minister of Foreign Affairs 2004–2007, head of Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service
  Serviciul de Informatii Externe
  The Foreign Intelligence Service, or Serviciul de Informaţii Externe in Romanian, is, under Law no. 1/1998, "the state body specialized in foreign intelligence concerning the national security and the safeguarding of Romania and its interests"....
  
   since 2007

Current members:

• Radu Câmpeanu
  Radu Câmpeanu
  Radu-Anton Câmpeanu is a Romanian politician. He was president of the National Liberal Party between 1990 and 1995, a party he helped re-found after the fall of communism, and a Senator between 1990 and 1992 and also between 2004 and 2008. He ran against Ion Iliescu in the 1990 Romanian...
  
  , first leader of the party after the 1989 revolution
  Romanian Revolution of 1989
  The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a series of riots and clashes in December 1989. These were part of the Revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several Warsaw Pact countries...
  
  
• Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
  Calin Popescu-Tariceanu
  Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu is a Romanian politician. He was the Prime Minister of Romania between 29 December 2004 and 22 December 2008...
  
  , former Prime Minister
• Crin Antonescu
  Crin Antonescu
  George-Crin-Laurenţiu Antonescu is a Romanian politician, currently serving as President of the National Liberal Party . He was a candidate for the Romanian Presidential Elections of 2009. He is a member of the Senate, his election having taken place during the 2008 legislative election...
  
  , current leader of the party

Romanian Communist Party

Romanian Communist Party

The Romanian Communist Party was a communist political party in Romania. Successor to the Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to communist revolution and the disestablishment of Greater Romania. The PCR was a minor and illegal grouping for much of the...

 

• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
  Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
  Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej was the Communist leader of Romania from 1948 until his death in 1965.-Early life:Gheorghe was the son of a poor worker, Tănase Gheorghiu, and his wife Ana. Gheorghiu-Dej joined the Communist Party of Romania in 1930...
  
  
• Gheorghe Gaston Marin
  Gheorghe Gaston Marin
  Gheorghe Gaston Marin was a Romanian former communist politician who had many roles under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceauşescu. He was born Gheorghe Grossmann in Pădureni Vaslui County...
  
  , (previously Grossmann) politician, vice-president of the Government under Gheorghiu Dej
• Elena Ceauşescu
  Elena Ceausescu
  Elena Ceaușescu was the wife of Romania's Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania.-Background:She was born Elena Petrescu into a peasant family in Petrești commune, Dâmboviţa County, in the informal region of Wallachia. Her family was supported by her father's job...
  
   – deputy premier under her husband
• Nicolae Ceauşescu
  Nicolae Ceausescu
  Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian Communist politician. He was General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and as such was the country's second and last Communist leader...
  
  , the last Romanian Communist head of state
• See also: list of Romanian communists

Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)

Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)

The Democratic Liberal Party is a populist, centre-right party in Romania. It was formed on 15 December 2007, when the Democratic Party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party. From 2004 to 2007, the Democratic Party was part of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance...

 

• Traian Băsescu
  Traian Basescu
  Traian Băsescu is the current President of Romania. After serving as the mayor of Bucharest from June 2000 until December 2004, he was elected president in the Romanian Presidential Elections of 2004 and inaugurated on December 20, 2004...
  
  , the current president of Romania
• Theodor Stolojan
  Theodor Stolojan
  Theodor Dumitru Stolojan is a Romanian politician. An economist by training, he is a leader of the Democratic-Liberal Party. He previously served as Prime minister of Romania from September 1991 to November 1992. He and his wife Elena have a son, Vlad Stolojan, and a daughter, Ada Palea...
  
  , economist and politician, former prime minister
• Emil Boc
  Emil Boc
  Emil Boc is the Prime Minister of Romania, having served since December 2008. In June 2004, he was elected Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city in Transylvania. Boc is also the president of the Democratic Liberal Party, who designated him as Prime Minister in 2008. On October 13, 2009, his...
  
  , the current prime minister and president of the Democratic Liberal Party
  Democratic Liberal Party (Romania)
  The Democratic Liberal Party is a populist, centre-right party in Romania. It was formed on 15 December 2007, when the Democratic Party merged with the Liberal Democratic Party. From 2004 to 2007, the Democratic Party was part of the governing Justice and Truth Alliance...
  
  
• Vasile Stoica
  Vasile Stoica
  Vasile Stoica was a Romanian political writer, diplomat, and close assistant of European statesmen Tomáš Masaryk and Ion I.C. Brătianu.-Early life and education:...
  
  , politician
• Vasile Blaga
  Vasile Blaga
  Vasile Blaga is a Romanian politician and the current Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, and a former Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice former Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs....
  
  

Social Democratic Party (Romania)

Social Democratic Party (Romania)

The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...

 

• Mircea Geoană
  Mircea Geoana
  Dan Mircea Geoană is a Romanian politician, who served as president of the upper chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate from December 20, 2008 until he was revoked by the senators on November 23, 2011. From 21 April 2005 until 21 February 2010 he was the head of the Partidul Social...
  
  , former Foreign Minister, former president of the Social Democratic Party
  Social Democratic Party (Romania)
  The Social Democratic Party is the major social-democratic political party in Romania. It was formed in 1992, after the post-communist National Salvation Front broke apart. It adopted its present name after a merger with a minor social-democratic party in 2001. Since its formation, it has always...
  
  
• Cristian Diaconescu
  Cristian Diaconescu
  Cristian Diaconescu is a Romanian jurist and politician. A member of the National Union for the Progress of Romania and formerly of the Social Democratic Party , he has sat in the Romanian Senate since 2004, representing Constanţa County from 2004 until 2008, and Bucharest since then...
  
  
• Adrian Năstase
  Adrian Nastase
  Adrian Năstase is a Romanian politician who was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.He competed as the Social Democratic Party candidate in the 2004 presidential election, but was defeated by centre-right Justice and Truth Alliance candidate Traian Băsescu.He was...
  
  , former Prime Minister

Diplomats

• Alexandru Paleologu
  Alexandru Paleologu
  Alexandru Paleologu was a Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat and politician. He is the father of historian Theodor Paleologu.-Biography:...
  
  , diplomat,writer
• Theodor Paleologu
  Theodor Paleologu
  Theodor Paleologu is a Romanian historian, diplomat and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party , he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since 2008...
  
  , diplomat, son of Alexnadru Paleologu, politician
• Eugen Filotti
  Eugen Filotti
  Eugen Filotti was a Romanian diplomat, journalist and writer. As a diplomat he worked at the League of Nations in Geneva and then as minister plenipotentiary in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary. As minister plenipotentiary to Budapest he issued transit visas for Jews during the Holocaust...
  
  , diplomat
• Grigore Gafencu
  Grigore Gafencu
  Grigore Gafencu was a Romanian politician, diplomat and journalist.-Political career:Gafencu studied law and received his Ph.D. in law from the University of Bucharest. During World War I, he participated as a lieutenant and received the Mihai Viteazul Order for courage in battle...
  
  , diplomat
• Savel Rădulescu
  Savel Radulescu
  Savel Rădulescu was a Romanian diplomat. He started his career in 1921 and worked as secretary of Nicolae Titulescu at the League of Nations. For his diplomatic activity he was distinguished with the Order of Malta...
  
  , diplomat
• Nicolae Titulescu
  Nicolae Titulescu
  Nicolae Titulescu was a well-known Romanian diplomat, at various times government minister, finance and foreign minister, and for two terms President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations . He was a member of the Freemasonry.-Early years:...
  
  , diplomat, politician of the National Peasants' Party
  National Peasants' Party
  The National Peasants' Party was a Romanian political party, formed in 1926 through the fusion of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania and the Peasants' Party . It was in power between 1928 and 1933, with brief interruptions...
  
  
• Constantin Vişoianu
  Constantin Visoianu
  Constantin Vișoianu was a Romanian jurist, diplomat and politician....
  
  , diplomat
• Cristian Diaconescu
  Cristian Diaconescu
  Cristian Diaconescu is a Romanian jurist and politician. A member of the National Union for the Progress of Romania and formerly of the Social Democratic Party , he has sat in the Romanian Senate since 2004, representing Constanţa County from 2004 until 2008, and Bucharest since then...
  
  , diplomat,politician, jurist

Architecture

• Horia Creangă
  Horia Creangă
  -References:...
  
  , Modernism
• Marcel Iancu, Modernism
• Ion Mincu
  Ion Mincu
  Ion Mincu was an architect, engineer, professor and politician in Romania.He promoted a Romanian style in architecture, by integrating in his works the specific style of traditional Romanian architecture...
  
  
• Alexandru Oraşcu
  Alexandru Orascu
  Alexandru Hristea Orăscu was a Romanian architect famous for his Neoclassicist and Renaissance-revival works. He studied architecture in Berlin and Munchen. He was the president of the Romanian Architects’ Society.-External links:**...
  
  , Neoclassicism

Dance

• Sergiu Anghel
  Sergiu Anghel
  Sergiu Anghel is a choreographer born in Mediaş, Transylvania, Romania.He is a graduate of the Choreography high school in Cluj and Bucharest, class of 1973. In 1974 he set up the ballet group Contemp' based on contemporary Repertory...
  
  , choreographer, director, scenarist
• Alina Cojocaru
  Alina Cojocaru
  Alina Cojocaru is a female principal dancer with The Royal Ballet of London.-Early years:Alina Cojocaru was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She has one sister. From a young age she studied gymnastics...
  
  , ballerina
• Sergiu Pobereznic
  Sergiu Pobereznic
  Sergiu Pobereznic Romanian born retired English ballet principal dancer.-Dancing career:Born in Romania, Sergiu Pobereznic moved to England at 11 and trained at the Royal Ballet School. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1986, becoming a Soloist in 1990...
  
  , Romanian born retired English ballet principal dancer

Painting

• Călin Alupi
  Calin Alupi
  Calin Alupi was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter, cited along with Corneliu Baba or Alexandru Ciucurencu as one of the greatest painters of the period amongst his countrymen....
  
  
• Theodor Aman
  Theodor Aman
  Theodor Aman was a Romanian painter of Armenian descent. His style is often considered to be a predecessor of Impressionism.He is buried in Bellu cemetery.-External links:...
  
  
• Gheorghe Tattarescu
  Gheorghe Tattarescu
  Gheorghe Tattarescu was a Moldavian-born Romanian painter and a pioneer of neoclassicism in his country's modern painting.-Early life and studies:...
  
  
• Ion Andreescu
  Ion Andreescu
  -Biography:He was born in Bucharest into a merchant's family. In 1869 he entered Theodor Aman's Fine Arts School.By 1872 he was an instructor of drawing and calligraphy at the Bishop's School in Buzău. In 1873 he left the Bishop's School for the Tudor Vladimirescu Communal Secondary School, also...
  
  
• Corneliu Baba
  Corneliu Baba
  Corneliu Baba was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.-Early life:Having first studied under his father, the academic painter Gheorghe Baba, Baba studied briefly at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bucharest, but did not receive a...
  
  
• Sabin Bălaşa
  Sabin Balasa
  Sabin Bălaşa was a contemporary Romanian painter. His works are described by himself as belonging to cosmic Romanticism.He completed his high school education at Frații Buzești High School in Craiova in 1950....
  
  
• Octav Băncilă
  Octav Bancila
  Octav Băncilă was a Romanian realist painter and left-wing activist. He was the brother of Sofia Nădejde, a feminist journalist, and the brother-in-law of Ion Nădejde .-Biography:...
  
  
• Ignat Bednarik
  Ignat Bednarik
  Ignat Bednarik was a Romanian painter who worked in almost every genre of painting before devoting himself purely to watercolor. He was also interested in decorative art, design, interior decoration and book illustration...
  
  
• Horia Bernea
  Horia Bernea
  -External links:** Editura Liternet: , ISBN: 973-8475-14-7...
  
  
• Victor Brauner
  Victor Brauner
  Victor Brauner was a Romanian Jewish painter of surrealistic images.-Early life:He was born in Piatra Neamţ, the son of a timber manufacturer who subsequently settled in Vienna with his family for a few years. It is there that young Victor attended elementary school...
  
  
• Marius Bunescu
  Marius Bunescu
  Marius Bunescu was a Romanian painter, organizer of the National Museum of Art, and director of the Anastase Simu Museum....
  
  
• Silvia Cambir
  Silvia Cambir
  Silvia Cambir is a Romanian Expressionist painter, portraitist, and book illustrator.Born in Hanul Conache, Galaţi County, Cambir studied at the University of Bucharest Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, as well as at the Academy of Fine Arts under Camil Ressu. She became a member of the Union...
  
  
• Henri Catargi
  Henri Catargi
  Henri Catargi was a renowned Romanian painter from Braşov.-Biography:Born on December 6, 1894 in Bucharest, Henri Catargi would eventually become one of the top Romanian artists, a major influence in the national 20th century world of arts and an inspiration for many young generations of Romanian...
  
  
• Alexandru Ciucurencu
  Alexandru Ciucurencu
  Alexandru Ciucurencu was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter.A collection of Ciucurencu's paintings can be seen in Dr. Frasier Crane's apartment in the sitom Frasier, in the episode "The Guilt Trippers" .-External links:**...
  
  
• Aurel Ciupe
  Aurel Ciupe
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Nicolae Dărăscu
  Nicolae Darascu
  Nicolae Dărăscu was a Romanian painter. He was influenced by Impressionism and Neo-impressionism.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ştefan Dimitrescu
  Stefan Dimitrescu
  Ştefan Dimitrescu was a Romanian Post-impressionist painter and draftsman.-Biography:Born in Huşi into a modest family, he completed his primary and secondary studies in his hometown...
  
  
• Zamfir Dumitrescu
  Zamfir Dumitrescu
  Zamfir Dumitrescu is a famous contemporary Romanian painter.Zamfir Dumitrescu was born in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated in 1970 from the Bucharest Institute of Art "Nicolae Grigorescu", the class of Corneliu Baba....
  
  
• Dumitru Ghiaţă
  Dumitru Ghiata
  Dumitru Ghiaţă was a Romanian landscape painter. He painted still lives with flowers, compositions, in a simple, direct, sober coloured style, in a synthetic drawing recalling folk traditions .-External links:*...
  
  
• Nicolae Grigorescu
  Nicolae Grigorescu
  Nicolae Grigorescu was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting.-Biography:He was born in Pitaru, Dâmboviţa County, Wallachia. In 1843 the family moved to Bucharest. At a young age , he became an apprentice at the workshop of the painter Anton Chladek and created icons for the church of...
  
  
• Marcel Iancu
• Iosif Iser
  Iosif Iser
  Iosif Iser was a Romanian painter and graphic artist.Born to a Jewish family, he was initially inspired by Expressionism, creating drawings with thick, unmodulated, lines and steep angles...
  
  
• Marcel Janco
  Marcel Janco
  Marcel Janco was a Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect, art theorist and cultural promoter, known as the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. His first contribution came in the 1910s, when he joined up with poets Tristan Tzara and Ion Vinea...
  
  
• Ştefan Luchian
  Stefan Luchian
  Ștefan Luchian or Lukian was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.-Early life:He was born in Ștefănești, a village of Botoșani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu. The Luchian family moved to Bucharest in 1873 and his mother desired...
  
  
• Pârvu Mutu
• Paul Neagu
  Paul Neagu
  Paul Neagu was an internationally important British-Romanian artist, working in diverse media such as drawing, sculpture, performance art and watercolor...
  
  
• Mihai Nechita
  Mihai Nechita
  Mihai Nechita-Burculet is a Romanian painter.He studied Plastic Arts at the Art Academy of Iaşi, History of Arts at the Nicolae Grigorescu Art Academy of Bucharest. His professors include: Dan Hatmanu, Dimitrie Gavrilean, and Victor Mihailescu-Craiu...
  
  
• Alexandra Nechita
  Alexandra Nechita
  Alexandra 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...
  
  
• Silviu Oravitzan
  Silviu Oravitzan
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Theodor Pallady
  Theodor Pallady
  Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.-Biography:Pallady was born in Iaşi, but at a young age, his family moved to Dresden, where he studied engineering at the Dresden University of Technology between 1887 and 1889. At the same time, he studied art with Erwin Oehme, who, recognising his artistic...
  
  
• Gheorghe Petraşcu
  Gheorghe Petrascu
  Gheorghe Petraşcu was a Romanian painter. He won numerous prizes throughout his lifetime and had his paintings exhibited posthumously at the Paris International Exhibition and the Venice Biennale. He was the brother of N. Petraşcu, a literary critic and novelist.-External links:**...
  
  
• Ştefan Pelmuş
  Stefan Pelmus
  Ştefan Pelmuş is a contemporary Romanian painter born August 19, 1949 in Valea Calugareasca. Pelmus studied under Ion Salisteanu si Ilie Pavel and is a graduate of the Nicolae Grigorescu Fine Arts Institute in Bucharest where he currently lives and works...
  
  
• Gabriel Popa
  Gabriel Popa
  Gabriel Popa was a Romanian painter.Popa was born on July 18, 1937 in Ploiești, Romania. He graduated from the Art Institute in Cluj Napoca. He moved to Timişoara in 1961. He was a professor, between 1962–1974, at the city's Art Institute, teaching painting and drawing. Since 1974, Gabriel Popa...
  
  
• Camil Ressu
  Camil Ressu
  Camil Ressu was a Romanian painter and academic, one of the most significant art figures of Romania.-Early life and career:Born in Galaţi, Ressu originated from an Aromanian family that migrated to Romania from Macedonia at the start of the 19th century. His father, Constantin Ressu, who was a...
  
  
• Dumitru Rusu
  Dumitru Rusu
  Dumitru Rusu is a Romanian painter whose artistic activity draws inspiration from the rural charm and folklore of Bukovina, where he resides. Born in Suceava on November 6, 1938, he graduated from the Institute of Art in Cluj-Napoca and has had numerous exhibitions both in Romania and in other...
  
  
• Jean Alexandru Steriadi
  Jean Alexandru Steriadi
  Jean Alexandru Steriadi was a Romanian painter and drawing artist. He made portraits and compositions based on a strong, expressive drawing; then he evoluated towards impressionistic influenced landscapes in which the subtle harmony is combined with a refined sense of picturesque...
  
  
• Francisc Şirato
  Francisc Sirato
  Francisc Şirato was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, art critic, and designer.-External links:*...
  
  
• George Ştefănescu
  George Stefanescu
  George Ştefănescu was a contemporary Romanian painter. From 1989 to 2007 he lived in Lüdinghausen, Germany....
  
  
• Nicolae Tonitza
  Nicolae Tonitza
  Nicolae Tonitza was a Romanian painter, engraver, lithographer, journalist and art critic. Drawing inspiration from Post-impressionism and Expressionism, he had a major role in introducing modernist guidelines to local art.-Biography:...
  
  
• Traian Trestioreanu
  Traian Trestioreanu
  Traian Trestioreanu was a Romanian painter, sketcher, and muralist.He studied painting at the Academia de Belle Arte, having among his teachers Camil Ressu....
  
  
• Ion Ţuculescu
  Ion Tuculescu
  Ion Ţuculescu was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter, although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously, when, in the spring of 1965, a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II...
  
  

Sculpture

• Constantin Brâncuşi
  Constantin Brancusi
  Constantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
  
  
• Oscar Han
  Oscar Han
  Oscar Han was a Romanian sculptor and writer. A student of Dimitrie Paciurea at the Academy of Arts in Bucharest, he was a member of the Group of Four together with painters Nicolae Tonitza, Francisc Şirato and Ştefan Dimitrescu...
  
  
• Ion Irimescu
  Ion Irimescu
  Acad. Prof. Dr. Honoris Causa Ion Irimescu was one of Romania's greatest sculptors and sketchers as well as a Member of the Romanian Academy. In 2001 he was awarded the Prize of Excellence for Romanian Culture...
  
  
• Ion Jalea
  Ion Jalea
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Cornel Medrea
  Cornel Medrea
  Cornel Medrea was a Romanian sculptor.He won numerous awards, including Honorary Diploma at the Barcelona International Exhibition, 1929; Great Prize at the Paris International Exhibition, 1937; International Prize at the New York Exhibition, 1939; National Prize for Sculpture, 1945; State Prize,...
  
  
• Miliţa Petraşcu
  Milita Petrascu
  Miliţa Petraşcu was a Romanian sculptor of great renown....
  
  
• Dimitrie Paciurea
  Dimitrie Paciurea
  Dimitrie Paciurea – 14 July 1932) was a Romanian sculptor. His representational and symbolic style contrasts strongly to the more abstract style of his contemporary and co-national Constantin Brâncuşi....
  
  

Writing

• Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...
  
  
• Andrei Codrescu
  Andrei Codrescu
  Andrei 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 and essayist
• Andrei Pleşu
  Andrei Plesu
  Andrei Gabriel Pleşu is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician.- Biography :Born in Bucharest, the son of Radu Pleşu, a surgeon and Zoe Pleşu , he spent much of his early youth in the country side...
  
  , writer, philosopher, essayist, journalist
• Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu, philologist, linguist
• Horia-Roman Patapievici
  Horia-Roman Patapievici
  Horia-Roman Patapievici is a Romanian physicist and essayist who currently serves as the head of the Romanian Cultural Institute. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, supporting more openness regarding the files of the...
  
  , writer, philosopher, essayist
• Ion Pillat
  Ion Pillat
  Ion Pillat grew up in Bucharest. He was a poet, best known for his volume Pe Argeş în sus and Poeme într-un vers...
  
  , poet, publicist, academic
• Lucian Blaga
  Lucian Blaga
  -Biography:Lucian Blaga was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the interbellum period. He was a philosopher and writer higly acclaimed for his originality, a university professor and a diplomat. He was born on May 9, 1895 in Lancrăm, near Alba Iulia, Romania, his father being an...
  
  , philosopher, poet, playwright
• Marin Sorescu
  Marin Sorescu
  - Biography :Born to a family of farmworkers in Bulzeşti, Dolj County, Sorescu graduated from the primary school in his home village. After that he went to the Buzesti Brothers High School in Craiova, after which he was transferred to the Predeal Military School. His final education was at the...
  
  , poet, playwright
• Nae Ionescu
  Nae Ionescu
  Nae Ionescu was a Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist. Near the end of his career, he became known for his antisemitism and devotion to far right politics, in the years leading up to World War II.-Life:...
  
  , philosopher, writer, logician
• Nichita Danilov
  Nichita Danilov
  Nichita Danilov is a Romanian poet. He served as the acting Ambassador of Romania to Moldova in 1999.-Early life:...
  
  , poet, essayist, novelist
• Nichita Stănescu
  Nichita Stanescu
  Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian language poet, loved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.-Biography:...
  
  , poet and playwright
• Petre Ţuţea
  Petre Tutea
  - Early years: from Marxism to the Legionary Movement :Petre Ţuţea was born in the village of Boteni, Muscel region . His father, Petre Bădescu, was a Romanian Orthodox priest and his mother, Ana Ţuţea, was of peasant stock. After the First World War, Ţuţea left his village to finish high school in...
  
  
• Vasile Alecsandri
  Vasile Alecsandri
  Vasile Alecsandri was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia....
  
  , poet and playwright
• Vasile Voiculescu
  Vasile Voiculescu
  Vasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.-Early life and education:Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleşcoi, a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent...
  
  , poet, writer, playwright
• Virgil Nemoianu
  Virgil Nemoianu
  Virgil 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, philosopher of culture
• George Cǎlinescu
  George Calinescu
  George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
  
  , literary critic

Philosophers

• Constantin Noica
  Constantin Noica
  Constantin Noica was a Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet. His preoccupations were throughout all philosophy, from epistemology, philosophy of culture, axiology and philosophic anthropology to ontology and logics, from the history of philosophy to systematic philosophy, from ancient to...
  
  , philosopher
• Emil Cioran
  Emil Cioran
  -Early life:Emil M. Cioran was born in Răşinari, Sibiu County, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. His father, Emilian Cioran, was a Romanian Orthodox priest, while his mother, Elvira Cioran , was originally from Veneţia de Jos, a commune near Făgăraş.After studying humanities at the...
  
  , essayist, philosopher
• Stéphane Lupasco
  Stéphane Lupasco
  Stéphane Lupasco Stéphane Lupasco Stéphane Lupasco (born Ştefan Lupaşcu; (1900–1988) was a Romanian philosopher who developed Non-Aristotelian logic.-Early years:Stéphane Lupasco was born in Bucharest on 11 August 1900. His family belonged to the old Moldavian aristocracy...
  
  , philosopher
• Theodor Paleologu
  Theodor Paleologu
  Theodor Paleologu is a Romanian historian, diplomat and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party , he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest since 2008...
  
  , politician, philosopher

Poets

• Mihai Eminescu
  Mihai Eminescu
  Mihai Eminescu was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul , the official newspaper of the Conservative Party...
  
  , poet and journalist
• Nichita Stănescu
  Nichita Stanescu
  Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian language poet, loved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.-Biography:...
  
  , poet
• Mircea Dinescu
  Mircea Dinescu
  Mircea Dinescu is a Romanian poet, journalist and editor.He was born in Slobozia, the son of Ştefan Dinescu, a metalworker and Aurelia . Dinescu studied at the Faculty of Journalism of the Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy, and was considered a gifted young poet during his youth, with several poetry...
  
  , poet, journalist
• Tudor Arghezi
  Tudor Arghezi
  Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer, best known for his contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest , he explained that his pen name was related to Argesis, the Latin name for the Argeş River.-Early life:Along with Mihai Eminescu, Mateiu Caragiale, and...
  
  , poet
• George Bacovia
  George Bacovia
  George Bacovia was a Romanian symbolist poet. While he initially belonged to the local Symbolist movement, his poetry came to be seen as a precursor of Romanian Modernism and eventually established him in critical esteem alongside Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga and Ion Barbu as one of the most...
  
  , poet
• Ion Barbu
  Ion Barbu
  Ion Barbu was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet.He was born in Câmpulung-Muscel, Argeş County, the son of Constantin Barbilian and Smaranda, born Şoiculescu. He attended Ion Brătianu High School in Piteşti and Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest...
  
  , poet
• Paul Celan
  Paul Celan
  Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
  
  , poet (German language)
• George Coşbuc
  George Cosbuc
  George Coşbuc was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy....
  
  , poet
• Octavian Goga
  Octavian Goga
  Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.-Life:Born in Răşinari, nearby Sibiu, he was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party in Austria-Hungary. Before World War I,...
  
  , poet and political figure
• Radu Gyr
  Radu Gyr
  Radu Gyr was a Romanian poet, essayist, playwright and journalist....
  
  , poet
• Iulia Hasdeu
  Iulia Hasdeu
  Iulia Haşdeu had a famous father in the person of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, a Romanian writer and philologist. Even though she died of tuberculosis at the age of 18, Iulia made many significant achievements. She wrote poems and prose, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and canto....
  
  , poet
• Isidore Isou
  Isidore Isou
  Isidore Isou , born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist...
  
  , poet
• Irving Layton
  Irving Layton
  Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...
  
   , poet
• Gherasim Luca
  Gherasim Luca
  Gherasim Luca was a Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet. He is frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.- Biography :...
  
  , surrealist poet
• Andrei Mureşanu
  Andrei Muresanu
  Andrei Mureșianu was a Romanian poet and revolutionary of Transylvania .Born to a family of peasants, he studied philosophy and theology in Blaj. Starting in 1838, Mureșianu was a professor at Brașov...
  
  , poet and revolutionary
• Gellu Naum
  Gellu Naum
  Gellu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group...
  
  , poet

Writers

• Marthe Bibesco
  Marthe Bibesco
  Marthe, Princess Bibesco was a Romanian-French writer of the Belle Époque...
  
  , writer
• Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...
  
  , playwright
• Mateiu Caragiale
  Mateiu Caragiale
  Mateiu Ion Caragiale was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I. Caragiale's style, associated with Symbolism, the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle, and early modernism, was...
  
  , novelist
• Mircea Cărtărescu
  Mircea Cartarescu
  Mircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, then he worked at the Writers'...
  
  , writer, essayist
• Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
  Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
  Ioan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.-Study:...
  
  , writer, essayist
• Ion Creangă
  Ion Creanga
  Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes...
  
  , writer, especially of children's stories
• Ioan Petru Culianu, historian of religion
• Mircea Eliade
  Mircea Eliade
  Mircea 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...
  
  , historian of religion; also novelist
• Mihail Fărcăşanu
  Mihail Farcasanu
  Mihail Fărcăşanu was a Romanian journalist, diplomat and writer. He was president of the National Liberal Youth from 1940 to 1946. Pursued by the authorities due to his anticommunist actions, he managed to flee the country in 1946, and was later sentenced to death...
  
  , writer, novelist
• Virgil Gheorghiu
  Virgil Gheorghiu
  Virgil Gheorghiu may refer to:*Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, novelist*Virgil Gheorghiu , poet and pianist who was immortalised in the work of Geo Bogza...
  
  , novelist
• Paul Goma
  Paul Goma
  Paul Goma is a Romanian writer, also known for his activities as a dissident and leading opponent of the communist regime before 1989. Forced into exile by the communist authorities, he became a political refugee and currently resides in France as a stateless person...
  
  , writer
• Vintilă Horia
  Vintila Horia
  Vintilă Horia was a Romanian writer.-Biography:Born in Segarcea, he graduated from the Saint Sava National College, then studied Law, and then Letters, including terms at universities in Italy and Austria...
  
  , prominent writer
• Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
  
  , playwright
• Petre Ispirescu
  Petre Ispirescu
  Petre Ispirescu was a Romanian printer and publicist.-Biography:Born in Bucharest, his parents wanted him to be a priest and he was entrusted to study with a monk at the Metropolitan Church, after he studied with a priest at the Doamna Bălaşa Church....
  
  , writer
• Herta Müller
  Herta Müller
  Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...
  
  , writer, 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
  Nobel Prize in Literature
  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
  
  
• Oskar Pastior
  Oskar Pastior
  Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo....
  
  , writer
• Marin Preda
  Marin Preda
  Marin Preda was a Romanian novelist, one of the best-known post-WWII Romanian writers.Preda was born in Teleorman county, in a village called Siliştea-Gumeşti, into a family of peasants. He first studied at school in his home village, then schools in Abrud and Cristur-Odorhei...
  
  , novelist
• Vasile Pogor
  Vasile Pogor
  Vasile Pogor , was a Romanian poet, translator, politician, and founding member of the Junimea literary society....
  
  , writer
• Doina Ruşti
  Doina Rusti
  Doina Ruşti is a contemporary Romanian novelist. All her works were published after the Romanian Revolution of 1989....
  
  , novelist
• Liviu Rebreanu
  Liviu Rebreanu
  Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.- Life :Born in Târlișua , Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants...
  
  , writer
• Mihail Sadoveanu
  Mihail Sadoveanu
  Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting republican head of state under the communist regime . One of the most prolific Romanian-language writers, he is remembered mostly for his historical and adventure novels, as...
  
  , novelist
• Mihail Sebastian
  Mihail Sebastian
  -Life:Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila. After finishing his secondary studies, Sebastian went on to study law in Bucharest, but was soon attracted to the literary life and the exciting ideas of the new generation of Romanian intellectuals, as epitomized by the literary group...
  
  , writer, playwright
• Ioan Slavici
  Ioan Slavici
  Ioan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare , with the comedy Fata de birău...
  
  , writer
• Panait Istrati
  Panait Istrati
  Panait Istrati was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.-Early life:...
  
  , novelist
• Nicolae Iorga
  Nicolae Iorga
  Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Co-founder of the Democratic Nationalist Party , he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly as Prime Minister...
  
  , historian, politician
• Gabriel Liiceanu
  Gabriel Liiceanu
  Gabriel Liiceanu is a Romanian philosopher.He graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philosophy in 1965, and from Faculty of Classical Languages in 1973. He earned a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1976....
  
  , writer, editor
• Nicolae Milescu
  Nicolae Milescu
  Nicolae Milescu was a Moldavian writer, traveler, geographer, and diplomat. Milescu spoke 9 languages: Romanian, Latin, Greek, Modern Greek, French, German, Turkish, Swedish and Russian...
  
  , writer, diplomat
• Urmuz
  Urmuz
  Urmuz was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations...
  
  , writer
• Richard Wagner (novelist)
  Richard Wagner (novelist)
  Richard Wagner is a Romanian-born German novelist. He has published a number of short stories, novels and essays....
  
  , writer

Literary critics

• George Călinescu
  George Calinescu
  George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
  
  
• Garabet Ibrăileanu
  Garabet Ibraileanu
  Garabet Ibrăileanu was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, Iaşi University professor , and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the Viaţa Românească literary magazine between 1906 and 1930...
  
  
• Eugen Lovinescu
  Eugen Lovinescu
  Eugen Lovinescu was a Romanian modernist literary historian, literary critic, academic, and novelist, who in 1919 established the Sburătorul literary club. He was the father of Monica Lovinescu, and the uncle of Horia Lovinescu, Vasile Lovinescu, and Anton Holban...
  
  
• Titu Maiorescu
  Titu Maiorescu
  Titu Liviu Maiorescu was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century....
  
  
• Ovidiu Papadima
  Ovidiu Papadima
  Ovidiu Papadima was a Romanian literary critic, folklorist, and essayist....
  
  
• Ovidiu Pecican
  Ovidiu Pecican
  Ovidiu Coriolan Pecican is a Romanian historian, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist...
  
  

Historians

• Gheorghe I. Brătianu
  Gheorghe I. Bratianu
  Gheorghe I. Brătianu was a Romanian politician and historian. A member of the Brătianu family and initially affiliated with the National Liberal Party, he broke away from the movement to create and lead the National Liberal Party-Brătianu.Born in Ruginoasa, Baia County to Ion I.C...
  
  
• George Călinescu
  George Calinescu
  George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
  
  
• Constantin Daicoviciu
  Constantin Daicoviciu
  Constantin Daicoviciu – May 27, 1973) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian historian and archaeologist.He was rector of Babeş-Bolyai University, and a member of the Romanian Academy....
  
  
• Nicolae Densuşianu
  Nicolae Densusianu
  Nicolae Densuşianu was a Transylvanian-born Romanian ethnologist and collector of Romanian folklore. His main work, for which he is chiefly remembered, was the posthumously printed Dacia Preistorică , with a preface contributed by C. I...
  
  
• Constantin C. Giurescu
  Constantin C. Giurescu
  Constantin C . Giurescu was a Romanian historian, member of Romanian Academy and professor at the University of Bucharest.Born in Focşani, son of historian Constantin Giurescu, he completed his primary and secondary studies in Bucharest...
  
  
• Neagu Djuvara
  Neagu Djuvara
  Neagu Djuvara is a Romanian historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat.-Early life:A native of Bucharest, he descended from an aristocratic Aromanian family...
  
  
• Adrian Cioroianu
  Adrian Cioroianu
  Adrian Mihai Cioroianu is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with Romanian history...
  
  
• Dinu C. Giurescu, Member of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences ' is an internationally recognised academic research and educational institution that conducts and supports multidisciplinary studies in exact sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, and also supports the arts, linguistics, literature, political...
  
   and Member of the Romanian Academy since 2002.
• Nicolae Iorga
  Nicolae Iorga
  Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. Co-founder of the Democratic Nationalist Party , he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly as Prime Minister...
  
  
• Vasile Pârvan
  Vasile Pârvan
  Vasile Pârvan was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.He studied history in Bucharest, with Nicolae Iorga as one of his professors. He continued his studies in Germany. His Ph.D. thesis, written in 1909, was titled The nationality of merchants in the Roman Empire...
  
  
• A. D. Xenopol
• Alexandru Zub
  Alexandru Zub
  Alexandru Zub is a Romanian historian, biographer, essayist, political activist and academic. A former Professor at the University of Iaşi, noted for his contribution to the study of cultural history and Romanian history, he is currently head of the A. D. Xenopol Institute of History and Archeology...
  
  

Journalists

• Eugen Filotti
  Eugen Filotti
  Eugen Filotti was a Romanian diplomat, journalist and writer. As a diplomat he worked at the League of Nations in Geneva and then as minister plenipotentiary in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary. As minister plenipotentiary to Budapest he issued transit visas for Jews during the Holocaust...
  
  , journalist, Director of the Press
• Leonard Miron
  Leonard Miron
  Leonard Miron is a Romanian television and radio presenter and journalist and works for Romanian National Television . He was born in Galaţi, Romania but was brought up in Piteşti and graduated from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy before starting a career in media...
  
  , journalist and Romanian National TV presenter
• Cristian Tudor Popescu
  Cristian Tudor Popescu
  Cristian Tudor Popescu is a Romanian journalist, essayist and short-story writer. Author of science fiction stories during his youth, he has also hosted talk shows for various television stations, and had contributions as a literary critic and translator...
  
  , journalist and science-fiction writer
• Ion Cristoiu
  Ion Cristoiu
  Ion Cristoiu is a Romanian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the daily Evenimentul Zilei during its heyday in the 1990s, when the average daily circulation topped 600,000, making it the most read newspaper in Romania, and one of the most read in Eastern Europe as well...
  
  

Composers

• George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
  , composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, teacher
• Pascal Bentoiu
  Pascal Bentoiu
  Pascal Bentoiu is a Romanian Modernist composer.Bentoiu studied harmony, counterpoint and composition with Mihail Jora and piano with Theophil Demetriescu. He spent three years researching the rhythm and harmony of Romanian folk music at the Bucharest Folklore Institute and then began composing...
  
  , composer
• Tiberiu Brediceanu
  Tiberiu Brediceanu
  Tiberiu Brediceanu was a Romanian composer. He is the father of the composer and conductor Mihai Brediceanu....
  
  , composer and conductor
• Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor and music critic.He studied in Cluj, Vienna and Budapest before becoming one of the pioneers of Romanian opera - his opera Luceafarul is cited as the first opera in Romanian...
  
  , opera composer
• Nicolae Brânzeu,composer and conductor
• Eduard Caudella
  Eduard Caudella
  Eduard Caudella was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied with Henri Vieuxtemps.-Operas:*Harţă Răzeşul *Hatmanul Baltag *Beizadea Epaminonda...
  
  , composer
• Paul Constantinescu
  Paul Constantinescu
  Paul Constantinescu was a Romanian composer.-Major works:*Piano concerto*Violin concerto*Symphony No.1*The Nativity *A stormy night *Pana Lesnea Rusalim...
  
  , composer
• Dimitrie Cuclin
  Dimitrie Cuclin
  Dimitrie Cuclin was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer.-Early life:Dimitrie Cuclin was born in the city of Galaţi, a port on the left shore of the Danube. His father was an immigrant from czarist Bessarabia, from the village of Cucleni, near the...
  
  , composer
• Constantin Dimitrescu
  Constantin Dimitrescu
  Constantin Dimitrescu was a Romanian classic composer and music teacher, one of the most prominent representatives of the late Romantic period.-Background:...
  
  , composer, cellist
• Sabin Dragoi
  Sabin Dragoi
  Sabin Drăgoi was a Romanian composer and specialist on folk music. His wide output included orchestral and chamber works, film music and operas.-Major works:*Constantin Brâncoveanu*Kir Ianulea*Horia*The Misfortune...
  
  , composer
• Iancu Dumitrescu
  Iancu Dumitrescu
  Iancu Dumitrescu is a Romanian avant-garde composer.- Life and works :Dumitrescu received a master's degree in composition in Bucharest; Alfred Mendelssohn was among his teachers...
  
  , composer, conductor, musicologist
• Iosif Ivanovici
• Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...
  
  
• Liviu Marinescu
  Liviu Marinescu
  Liviu Marinescu is a Romanian composer of orchestral and chamber music, currently teaching at California State University, Northridge...
  
  , composer
• Nonna Otescu
  Nonna Otescu
  Nonna Otescu was a significant Romanian composer....
  
  , composer
• Anton Pann
  Anton Pann
  Anton Pann , was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher...
  
  , composer
• Ciprian Porumbescu
  Ciprian Porumbescu
  Ciprian Porumbescu was a Romanian composer born in Şipotele Sucevei in Bukovina . He was among the most celebrated Romanian composers of his time; his popular works include Crai nou, Trei culori, Song for the 1st of May, Ballad for violin and piano, and Serenada...
  
  , composer
• Cornel Trailescu
  Cornel Trailescu
  Cornel Trăilescu is an Romanian opera composer and conductor.-Major works:*Puss in boots *Bălcescu *Love and Sacrifice -Sources:...
  
  , composer

Musicians

• Dan Andrei Aldea
  Dan Andrei Aldea
  Dan Andrei Aldea is a Romanian rock multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, best known for his work with the band Sfinx, but also for his solo career....
  
  , rock guitarist, composer, singer
• Christian Badea
  Christian Badea
  Christian Badea is a Romanian opera and symphonic conductor.A native of Bucharest, Romania, Badea's early training was as a classical violinist. He later studied conducting at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He has performed as a conductor of both the opera and symphonic repertoires...
  
  , conductor
• Lucian Ban
  Lucian 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 composer & pianist
• Sergiu Celibidache
  Sergiu Celibidache
  - Biography :Celibidache was born in Roman, Romania, and began his studies in music with the piano, after which he studied music, philosophy and mathematics in Bucharest, Romania and then in Paris...
  
  , orchestra conductor
• Marin Constantin
  Marin Constantin
  Marin Constantin was a Romanian award-winning musician, conductor and composer.-Biography:Constantin was born in Urleta, Prahova County, Romania. He was the founder in 1963 of the Madrigal Chamber Choir and had been its conductor and director ever since...
  
  , conductor of the Madrigal chamber choir
• Nicu Covaci
  Nicu Covaci
  Nicolae Covaci is a Romanian painter, music composer, best known as the leader of Romanian Rock and cult band Phoenix, for which he is vocalist and guitar player, with more than 40 years of activity.-Biography:...
  
  , rock guitarist, composer, vocalist
• Michael Cretu
  Michael Cretu
  Michael Cretu is a Romanian musician. He is known also as Curly, MC or Curly M.C. because of his fair curled hair . His peak musical activity was with the Enigma project, which was mainly based in Germany....
  
  , musician (Enigma
  Enigma (musical project)
  Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...
  
  )
• Grigoraş Dinicu
  Grigoras Dinicu
  Grigoraş Ionică Dinicu was a Romanian composer and violinist or violin virtuoso. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" and for making popular the tune Ciocârlia, composed by his grandfather Angheluș Dinicu for "nai"...
  
  , violinist, composer
• George Georgescu
  George Georgescu
  George Georgescu was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associate of George Enescu, he received honors from the French and communist Romanian governments and...
  
  , orchestra conductor
• Valeriu Găină
  Kruiz
  Cruise is a rock band from the former Soviet Union. While the band was originally formed in 1978, they were largely unknown in the west for a number of years...
  
  , ghitarist
• Clara Haskil
  Clara Haskil
  Clara Haskil was a Romanian classical pianist, renowned as an interpreter of the classical and early romantic repertoire....
  
  , pianist
• Hugo Jan Huss
  Hugo Jan Huss
  Hugo Jan Huss was an orchestra conductor and music director.He was born in Timişoara, Romania and died in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He studied at the Bucharest Conservatory of Music where he was the favorite student of Constantin Silvestri...
  
  , orchestra conductor and violinist
• Ovidiu Lipan
  Ovidiu Lipan
  Ovidiu Lipan 'Ţăndărică' is a Romanian drummer.He played between 1966 and 1975 with the Romanian rock band Roşu şi Negru. In 1975 he joined Transsylvania Phoenix. In 1977 he settled in Germany, but after 1990 he moved back to Romania. Now he has solo projects and also plays with Phoenix...
  
  , drummer (Phoenix
  Transsylvania Phoenix
  Transsylvania Phoenix is a Romanian rock band formed in 1962 in Timişoara by guitarists Nicu Covaci and Kamocsa Béla. Guitarist Claudiu Rotaru, vocalist Florin "Moni" Bordeianu and drummer Ioan "Pilu" Ştefanovici completed the early lineup...
  
  )
• Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...
  
  , pianist, composer
• Radu Lupu
  Radu Lupu
  Radu Lupu is a Romanian concert pianist. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....
  
  , pianist
• Cristi Minculescu, rock singer and composer
• Jonel (Ionel) Perlea
  Jonel Perlea
  Jonel Perlea was a Romanian conductor particularly associated with the Italian and German opera repertories.Born Ionel Perlea in Ograda, Romania, he studied in Munich, then in Leipzig. He made his debut at a concert in Bucharest in 1919, then worked as répétiteur in Leipzig and Rostock...
  
  , conductor
• Valentin Radu
  Valentin Radu
  Valentin Radu is founder, artistic director and conductor of Vox Ama Deus, with performances at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and other various city, suburban, and Main Line area venues, has led numerous orchestras and vocal ensembles in Europe and the U.S., including the ,...
  
  , conductor, Vox AmaDeus
• Constantin Silvestri
  Constantin Silvestri
  -Early life:Silvestri, born of Austro-Italian-Romanian stock, was brought up on his own by his mother, his father dying from alcoholism and his stepfather dying when the boy was 16. He had learnt how to play the piano and organ before the age of 6. He played the piano in public at 10 and was a...
  
  , orchestra conductor and composer
• Laura Stoica
  Laura Stoica
  Laura Stoica was a Romanian singer, composer and actress.In 1986, she graduated from the "Popular Arts School" in Târgovişte with a degree in classic canto. Afterwards, she participated at all the major new-talent contests held in Romania...
  
  , pop-rock singer and composer
• Cristian Vasile
  Cristian Vasile
  Cristian Vasile was a Romanian, well-known tango-romance singer between 1928 and 1949, famous for songs like "Zaraza", "Aprinde o ţigară", "Ce să-ţi mai scriu", "Pentru tine am făcut nebunii", "Nunuţo". He died in 1974 in Sibiu...
  
  , tango singer
• Dorin Liviu Zaharia
  Dorin Liviu Zaharia
  Dorin Liviu Zaharia was one of the most interesting figures of the 1960s and '70s Romanian pop music scene. He was probably the first Romanian musician interested in mixing Romanian folklore with Indian music. He sang with the band Olympic '64, developing a sound and attitude that were in contrast...
  
  , composer and singer
• Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician.Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones from each pipe by changing the embouchure.He is...
  
  , pan flute
  Pan flute
  The pan flute or pan pipe is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting usually of five or more pipes of gradually increasing length...
  
   musician
• Vlad Gheorghiu, guitarist of the band Jet Lag Gemini
  Jet Lag Gemini
  Jet Lag Gemini is a rock band from the United States. Formed in 2004, they released their debut EP, Business, in the summer of 2006. Their first full-length album, "Fire the Cannons" was released on January 22, 2008...
  
  
• Matei Gheorghiu, bassist of the band Jet Lag Gemini
  Jet Lag Gemini
  Jet Lag Gemini is a rock band from the United States. Formed in 2004, they released their debut EP, Business, in the summer of 2006. Their first full-length album, "Fire the Cannons" was released on January 22, 2008...
  
  
• Tudor Gheorghe
  Tudor Gheorghe
  Tudor Gheorghe is a Romanian musician, actor and poet known primarily for his politically charged musical career and his collaborations with well known figures of late 20th century Romanian poetry. Tudor's recording work is often associated with anti communist activism and has received much...
  
  , musician, composer and singer

Classic

• Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti
  Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...
  
  , pianist and composer
• Radu Lupu
  Radu Lupu
  Radu Lupu is a Romanian concert pianist. He has won a number of the most prestigious awards in classical piano, including first prizes in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition....
  
  , pianst
• Angela Gheorghiu
  Angela Gheorghiu
  Angela 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
• Hariclea Darclée
  Hariclea Darclée
  Hariclea Darclée was a celebrated Romanian operatic soprano. She possessed an agile, powerful, and beautiful voice that was wielded with a fine technique. An extremely beautiful woman, Darclée's stage presence was as elegant and refined as her singing...
  
  , soprano
• Ileana Cotrubaş
  Ileana Cotrubas
  Ileana Cotrubaş is a Romanian opera soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was much admired for her acting skills and facility for singing opera in many different languages.-Biography:...
  
  , soprano
• Mariana Nicolescu, soprano
• Virginia Zeani
  Virginia Zeani
  Virginia 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

Hip hop

• Tataee
  Tataee
  Vlad Irimia , primarily known by his stage name Tataee, is a Romanian record producer, rapper, record executive, and music manager. He is one of the founders and the main producer of the well-known Romanian hip hop trio B.U.G...
  
  , producer, composer, vocalist
• Guess Who
  Guess Who (rapper)
  Laurenţiu Mocanu , better known by his stage name Guess Who is a Romanian rapper. He began his career as a member of the rap group Anonim along with group members Zekko and Griffo, and later launched a successful solo career in music...
  
  , vocalist, composer

Instruments

• Alexander Bălănescu
  Alexander Balanescu
  Alexander Bălănescu is a violinist and founder of the Balanescu Quartet.He emigrated with his family to Israel in 1969....
  
  , violinist
• Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir
  Gheorghe Zamfir is a Romanian pan flute musician.Zamfir is known for playing an expanded version of the traditional Romanian-style pan flute of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones from each pipe by changing the embouchure.He is...
  
  , panpipes player
• Ion Voicu
  Ion Voicu
  Ion Voicu was a Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor of Romani ethnicity. In 1969 he founded the award-winning Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, which is now conducted by his son Mădălin Voicu....
  
  , violinist
• Johnny Răducanu
  Johnny Raducanu
  Johnny Răducanu was a Romanian jazz pianist of Romani ethnic background, whose family has a long musical tradition dating back to the 17th century....
  
  , jazz pianist

Film and theatre

List of Romanian Actors

• Mircea Albulescu
  Mircea Albulescu
  Mircea Albulescu is a Romanian actor, university professor , journalist, poet, writer of prose, member of the Writers' Union of Romania . He was born as Iorgu Constantin V. Albulescu, in Bucharest, on October 4, 1934...
  
  , actor
• Ştefan Bănică, Jr.
  Stefan Banica, Jr.
  Ștefan Bănică, Jr. is a Romanian entertainer, the son of actor Ștefan Bănică. In his early career he starred in a couple of successful romantic films ....
  
  , actor
• Monica Bârlădeanu
  Monica Bârladeanu
  -Career:Born in Iaşi, she studied law at the University of Iaşi. Bîrlădeanu was a popular television host before accepting her first film role in 2004. In 2005 she played a nurse in the award-winning feature The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu. In 2006 she guest starred on the hit United States television...
  
  , actress
• Radu Beligan
  Radu Beligan
  Radu Beligan is a Romanian actor who has appeared in theatre, film, television, and radio.He played many celebrated roles by major Romanian playwrights and universally known roles by Shakespeare, Goldoni,...
  
  , actor, director
• Joana Benedek
  Joana Benedek
  Joana Benedek is a Mexican-Romanian actress.She left her native land in search of work. She first moved to Venezuela before moving to Mexico. In Caracas she continued to study, but later left her studies to work as a model.In 1997 she signed a contract with a prestigious cosmetics company in New...
  
  , actress
• Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...
  
  , playwright
• Ion Caramitru
  Ion Caramitru
  Ion Caramitru is a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, as well as a political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu.-Early life and...
  
  , actor
• Mircea Crișan, actor, comic, cabaretist
• Gheorghe Dinică
  Gheorghe Dinica
  Gheorghe Dinică was a Romanian actor.Dinică showed an early interest in acting, being part of different amateur theater troupes since he was 17. In 1957, he entered The National Institute of Theatre and Cinematography Art in Bucharest. He graduated in 1961, already drawing public attention with...
  
  , actor
• Maria Filotti
  Maria Filotti
  Maria Filotti was a Romanian actress of Greek origin...
  
  , actress
• Luminiţa Gheorghiu
  Luminita Gheorghiu
  Luminiţa Gheorghiu is an actress at Teatrul Bulandra in Bucharest, Romania one of the most respected theater actresses in East Central Europe. She has also appeared in a number of films, mostly in Romanian, but also in French....
  
  , actress
• Marcel Iureş
  Marcel Iures
  Marcel Iureş is a Romanian stage and screen actor.Iureş was born 2 August 1951 in Băileşti, Romania and is one of Romania's most acclaimed stage and film actors. Iureş entered the Institutul de Arta Teatrala si Cinematografica in Bucharest in 1974 and graduated in 1978...
  
  , actor
• Elena-Cristina Marchisano
  Elena-Cristina Marchisano
  Elena-Cristina Marchisano is a Romanian TV, theater and film actor living in Los Angeles.-Biography:Marchisano was born in Piatra Neamţ, Romania. She moved to Bucharest to study acting at the UNATC "I.L Caragiale" where her teacher was the actor and theater director Ion Cojar...
  
  , actress
• Alexandra Maria Lara
  Alexandra Maria Lara
  Alexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-born German actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of historical and crime films...
  
  , actress
• Anamaria Marinca
  Anamaria Marinca
  Anamaria Marinca is a Romanian actress. She made her debut with the Channel 4 film Sex Traffic, for which she won British Academy Television Award for Best Actress...
  
  , actress
• Nicolas Masson, director
• Nicolae Massim
  Nicolae Massim
  Nicolae Massim was a Romanian theater director. A graduate of the School of Liberal Arts and Philosophy of the University of Cluj, Romania, and of the Institute of Dramatic Arts and Cinematography of Bucharest, he made his directorial debut staging historical plays by the renowned historian...
  
  , director
• George Mihăiţă
  George Mihaita
  George Mihăiţă is a Romanian actor.He studied in the Institute of Theatrical Art and Cinematography of Bucharest -now known as The National University of Theatrical Art and Cinematography I.L.Caragiale Bucharest] -and graduated with honors....
  
  , actor
• Cătălin Mitulescu
  Catalin Mitulescu
  Cătălin Mitulescu is a Romanian film director. He graduated from the UNATC in Bucharest in 2001.He is best known for the short film Trafic , which won him the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and for the debut feature The Way I Spent the End of the World , which was screened...
  
  , film director
• Maia Morgenstern
  Maia Morgenstern
  Maia Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ...
  
  , actress
• Florentina Mosora
  Florentina Mosora
  Florentina Ioana Mosora or Florentina Stan-Mosora was a Romanian and Belgian biophysicist. In her earlier years, before 1964, she was a film actress in the Romanian film industry.-Biography:...
  
  , movie actress and later scientist and professor of medical biophysics
• Cristian Mungiu, film director
• Jean Negulescu, film director, Oscar nominee
• Sergiu Nicolaescu
  Sergiu Nicolaescu
  Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu is a Romanian film director, actor and politician. He is best known for his historical films, such as Mihai Viteazul , Dacii , Razboiul Independenţei , as well as for his series of...
  
  , film director
• Amza Pellea
  Amza Pellea
  Amza Pellea was one of the most important Romanian actors, being remarked both for his theatre and his film acting.Born in Băileşti, in Oltenia, he attended the Carol I High School...
  
  , actor
• Florin Piersic
  Florin Piersic
  -Biography:His family left Cluj when it was ceded to Hungary in 1940, and moved to Cernăuţi after the city's occupation by Romania the following year. There, his father was appointed to the role of chief municipal veterinary. Later they returned home, and Florin graduated from the High School for...
  
  , actor, movies
• Florian Pittiş
  Florian Pittis
  Florian Pittiş was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer.He attended the Gheorghe Lazăr High School in Bucharest and in 1968 he graduated from the Institute of Theatre...
  
  , actor
• Elvira Popescu
  Elvira Popescu
  Elvira Popescu was a Romanian-born French stage and movie actress and theatre director.-Life and career:Born in Bucharest, Popescu studied drama at the Conservatorul de Artă Dramatică, under the guidance of Constantin Nottara and Aristizza Romanescu. She made her debut at the National Theatre...
  
  , actress
• Corneliu Porumboiu
  Corneliu Porumboiu
  Corneliu Porumboiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
  
  , film director
• Cristi Puiu
  Cristi Puiu
  Cristi Puiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.Puiu's first interest in art was painting and in 1992, he was admitted as a student at the Painting Department of Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school and graduated in...
  
  , film director
• Victor Rebengiuc
  Victor Rebengiuc
  Victor Rebengiuc is an award-winning Romanian film and stage actor, also known as a civil society activist. Since 1957, he has been a member of the Bulandra Theater company, acting in more than 200 roles on that stage alone...
  
  , actor
• Edward G. Robinson
  Edward G. Robinson
  Edward 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
• Andrei Şerban
  Andrei Serban
  Andrei 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 theatre and opera
• Sebastian Stan
  Sebastian Stan
  Sebastian 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
• Saviana Stănescu
  Saviana Stanescu
  Saviana 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...
  
  , playwright
• Constantin Tănase
  Constantin Tanase
  Constantin Tănase was a Romanian actor and writer for stage, a key figure in the revue style of theater in Romania.-Life:Born into a working-class family living in a peasant house in Vaslui, Romania...
  
  , cabaretist, comic and poet, shot by the soviet army of occupation in Bucharest, in 1945
• Grigore Vasiliu Birlic
  Grigore Vasiliu Birlic
  Grigore Vasiliu Birlic was one of the greatest Romanian actors, with a rich history in theatre, television and film. He was best known for comedy roles....
  
  , actor
• Tora Vasilescu
  Tora Vasilescu
  Tora Vasilescu is a Romanian actress, who has recently appeared in the first Romanian soap opera, "Numai iubirea" ....
  
  , actress
• Johnny Weissmuller
  Johnny Weissmuller
  Johnny Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven...
  
  , actor

Religion

• Arsenie Boca
  Arsenie Boca
  Arsenie Boca was a Romanian Orthodox monk, theologian and artist. He was persecuted by the Communists and named among the 100 greatest Romanians....
  
  
• Teoctist Arăpaşu
  Teoctist Arapasu
  Teoctist was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.Teoctist served his first years as patriarch under the Romanian Communist regime, and was accused by some of collaboration...
  
  , Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
• Miron Cristea
  Miron Cristea
  Miron Cristea, was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian cleric and politician....
  
  , first Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
  Romanian Orthodox Church
  The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...
  
  
• Iuliu Hossu
  Iuliu Hossu
  Iuliu Hossu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Cluj-Gherla Diocese and later cardinal and victim of the Communist regime...
  
  , Greek-Catholic
  Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
  The 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....
  
   bishop of the Cluj-Gherla Diocese and later cardinal
  Cardinal (Catholicism)
  A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
  
  
• Justinian Marina
  Justinian Marina
  Justinian Marina was a Romanian Orthodox prelate...
  
  , Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
• Iustin Moisescu
  Iustin Moisescu
  Iustin Moisescu was Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1977 to 1986.-Theological preparation:...
  
  , Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
• Nicodim Munteanu
  Nicodim Munteanu
  Nicodim Munteanu also known as Patriarch Nicodim was the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church between 1939 and 1948.-Biography:...
  
  , Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church
• Dumitru Stăniloae
  Dumitru Staniloae
  Dumitru Stăniloae was a Romanian Eastern Orthodox priest, theologian, academic, and professor. Father Stăniloae worked for over 45 years on a comprehensive Romanian translation of the Philokalia, a collection of writings by the Church Fathers, together with the hieromonk, Arsenie Boca, who brought...
  
  , priest, translated the Philokalia
  Philokalia
  The Philokalia is a collection of texts written between the 4th and 15th centuries by spiritual masters of the Eastern Orthodox hesychast tradition. They were originally written for the guidance and instruction of monks in "the practise of the contemplative life". The collection was compiled in...
  
   into Romanian
• Vasile Suciu
  Vasile Suciu
  Vasile Suciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop of the Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, considered to be the most important theologian of the Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania.After completing high school in Blaj, he pursued his theological studies in Rome at the ...
  
  , Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop
  Metropolitan bishop
  In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.Before the establishment of...
  
   of the Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia
• Alexandru Todea
  Alexandru Todea
  Alexandru Todea was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Alba Iulia Diocese and later cardinal. He was also a victim of the communist regime....
  
  , Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop of the Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia and later cardinal
• Lucian Turcescu
  Lucian Turcescu
  Lucian Turcescu , is a Romanian-born Canadian professor of theology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.He emigrated to Canada in 1992, and obtained his Ph.D. in theology from the University of Toronto in 1999. Turcescu taught for six years at St...
  
  , Orthodox theologian teaching at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), president of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies, 2004–2008
• Richard Wurmbrand
  Richard Wurmbrand
  Richard 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...
  
  , pastor, author of Tortured for Christ
• Daniel Ciobotea, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church

Athletics

• Iolanda Balaş
  Iolanda Balas
  Iolanda Balaş is a former Romanian athlete of Hungarian descent, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever.-Early life:...
  
  , high jump
• Paula Ivan
  Paula Ivan
  -References:...
  
  
• Lia Manoliu
  Lia Manoliu
  Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who won three Olympic medals, including one gold. She was the first Track & Field athlete to compete at six Olympics....
  
  , discus thrower
• Gabriela Szabo
  Gabriela Szabo
  Gabriela Szabo is a Romanian track and field athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in 5000 m and winner of bronze and silver medals in 1996 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Olympics in 1500 m, respectively....
  
  
• Violeta Beclea-Szekely
• Doina Melinte
  Doina Melinte
  Doina Ofelia Melinte is a retired Romanian athlete.She won gold medals over 1500 metres at the European Indoor Championships in 1985, 1988 and 1990, the latter race even being a European record time with 4:00.27...
  
  , 3000 m

Basketball

• Ernie Grunfeld
  Ernie Grunfeld
  Ernest "Ernie" Grunfeld is the General Manager of the Washington Wizards. He was also once a professional basketball player...
  
  , NBA guard/forward & GM, Olympic champion
• Gheorghe Mureşan
  Gheorghe Muresan
  Gheorghe 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,...
  
  

Boxing

• Lucian Bute
  Lucian Bute
  Lucian Bute is a Romanian-Canadian professional boxer, currently based in Montreal, Canada. Bute is the current IBF Super Middleweight champion...
  
  
• Adrian Diaconu
  Adrian Diaconu
  Adrian Diaconu is a Romanian professional boxer, living and fighting out of Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
  
  
• Leonard Doroftei
  Leonard Doroftei
  Leonard Dorin Doroftei is a Romanian-Canadian former boxer, the WBA Lightweight World Champion from 5 January 2002 to 24 October 2003.-Amateur highlights:...
  
  
• Mihai Leu
  Mihai Leu
  Mihai Leu also known as Michael Loewe is a Romanian former professional boxer who lived and fought out of Hamburg, Germany. He is the former WBO Welterweight Champion....
  
  
• Francisc Vaştag
  Francisc Vastag
  Francisc Vaştag was the first Romanian boxer to win the supreme belt in his category. His victory greatly stimulated boxing in Romania. The champion boxer Adrian Diaconu said that he considers Vaştag to be a brother and mentor.-References:**...
  
  
• Victor Zilberman
  Victor Zilberman
  Victor Zilberman is a retired boxer from Romania.He represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...
  
  , Olympic welterweight boxer, bronze medal

Canoe

• Leon Rotman
  Leon Rotman
  Leon Rotman is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.-Life and sporting career:...
  
  , sprint canoer, 2-time Olympic champion (C-1 10,000 meter, C-1 1,000-meter) and bronze (C-1 1,000-meter), 14 national titles

Chess

• Adolf Albin
  Adolf Albin
  right|thumb|Adolf AlbinAdolf Albin was a Romanian chess player, especially known for the countergambit that bears his name, and for the first chess book written in Romanian.- Life :...
  
  
• Florin Gheorghiu
  Florin Gheorghiu
  Florin Gheorghiu is a Romanian chess player and university lecturer in foreign languages.Born in Bucharest, his prodigious talent for the game was evidenced by his many early achievements; he became an International Master in 1963 and Romania's first Grandmaster just two years later...
  
  
• Georg Marco
  Georg Marco
  Georg Marco was a Romanian chess player.He was born in Chernivtsi , Bukovina...
  
  
• Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu
• Victor Ciocâltea
  Victor Ciocâltea
  Victor Ciocâltea was a Romanian chess master. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978...
  
  

Football

• Ioan Andone
  Ioan Andone
  Ioan Andone is a Romanian football coach and former player.-Career:He made his Divizia A debut with Corvinul Hunedoara in 1979. He later went to Dinamo Bucureşti where he helped win the league title in 1984 and 1990 and the cup title in 1984, 1986 and 1990. In 1990 he was bought by Spanish team...
  
  
• Ilie Balaci
  Ilie Balaci
  Ilie Balaci is a retired Romanian football midfielder.He was born in Bistreţ, Dolj County and debuted in Divizia A with FC Universitatea Craiova in 1973. He played 12 seasons for Universitatea, winning the league titles in 1980 and 1981. The team also won the Romanian Cup in 1977, 1978, 1981 and...
  
  
• Ladislau Bölöni
  Ladislau Bölöni
  László Bölöni is a Romanian football manager and former player, who currently manages Greek club PAOK.-Club career:...
  
  
• Cristian Chivu
  Cristian Chivu
  Cristian Eugen Chivu is a Romanian footballer. He currently plays for Internazionale of the Italian Serie A. He usually plays as a left back but can play as a center back as well as in defensive midfield when needed....
  
  
• Cosmin Contra
  Cosmin Contra
  Cosmin Marius Contra is a retired Romanian footballer who played mainly as a right defender.Offensive-minded, he could also appear as a midfielder, and played professionally in four countries , mainly in Spain, where he appeared for three clubs, mainly Getafe CF, which he helped consolidate in the...
  
  
• Nicolae Dica
  Nicolae Dica
  Nicolae Constantin Dică is a Romanian football attacking midfielder. He is a playmaker or forward known for his incisive passing and long balls...
  
  
• Nicolae Dobrin
  Nicolae Dobrin
  Nicolae Dobrin was a Romanian football player. Dobrin is considered by many to be the best Romanian player of the 1960s and 1970s and one of the most talented players ever to play the game...
  
  
• Helmuth Duckadam
  Helmuth Duckadam
  Helmuth Robert Duckadam is a retired Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.He was dubbed "the hero of Seville" due to his heroics in the 1986 European Cup Final, won by his main club, Steaua Bucureşti...
  
  
• Ilie Dumitrescu
  Ilie Dumitrescu
  Ilie Dumitrescu is a former Romanian football player and current coach, he last managed Steaua Bucureşti. A tricky forward, he shot to fame when his frontline partnership with Gheorghe Hagi and Florin Răducioiu led the Romania national football team to the 1994 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal,...
  
  
• Bolborea Dumitru, assistant coach of Steaua Bucharest
• Ioan Viorel Ganea
• Dorin Goian
  Dorin Goian
  Dorin Goian is a Romanian footballer who plays for Scottish Premier League club Rangers. A physical centre back, he is also a member of the Romanian national team.-Foresta Fălticeni:...
  
  
• Gheorghe Hagi
  Gheorghe Hagi
  Gheorghe Hagi is a former Romanian footballer. He was famous for his passing, close control, long shots and was regarded as one of the best attacking midfielders in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s and is considered the greatest Romanian footballer of all time...
  
  
• Cătălin Hâldan
• Adrian Iencsi
  Adrian Iencsi
  Adrian Mihai Iencsi is a Romanian football player who plays for Târgu Mureş in Liga I. Previously, he enjoyed spells at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamţ, Rapid Bucureşti, Spartak Moscow, Apollon Limassol and Kapfenberger SV...
  
  
• Adrian Ilie
  Adrian Ilie
  -Career as football player:Young Ilie started to play football for Electroputere Craiova from a very early age. In 1991, aged 17, he made his debut for the first team...
  
  
• Anghel Iordănescu
  Anghel Iordanescu
  Anghel Iordănescu is a Major General and former Romanian football striker, currently a politician. In 2007 Iordănescu retired from football, and the following February, after his predecessor resigned, he became a member of the Romanian Senate, sitting on the Social Democratic Party benches.-Career...
  
  
• Emerich Jenei
  Emerich Jenei
  Emerich Jenei or Imre Jenei is a Romanian former football player and coach...
  
  
• Michael Klein
  Michael Klein
  Michael Klein is the name of:* Michael Klein , Romanian football player, played in Romania and at Bayer Uerdingen* Michael L...
  
  
• Miodrag Belodedici
  Miodrag Belodedici
  Miodrag Belodedici is a Romanian former football player.Nicknamed The deer due to his elegant tackles, he won the European Cup twice, in 1986 with Steaua Bucureşti and 1991 with Red Star Belgrade, thus becoming the first player to win the trophy with two different clubs...
  
  
• Marius Lăcătuş
  Marius Lacatus
  Marius Mihai Lăcătuş is a Romanian retired football player and football coach. He is so far the most successful football player ever to play for Steaua Bucureşti...
  
  
• Mircea Lucescu
  Mircea Lucescu
  Mircea Lucescu is a Romanian former football player and current coach, and one of the most successful Romanian football managers. He is also the father of Rapid Bucharest coach, Răzvan Lucescu...
  
  
• Silviu Lung
  Silviu Lung
  Silviu Lung is a retired Romanian football goalkeeper. He was born in Sânmiclăuş, Satu Mare and debuted in Divizia A with Universitatea Craiova in 1974. He played fourteen seasons with Universitatea, winning two league titles. In 1988 he joined Steaua Bucureşti and won another league title the...
  
  
• Viorel Moldovan
  Viorel Moldovan
  Viorel Dinu Moldovan is a retired Romanian football forward, who was a key part of the Romanian national team in the 1990s...
  
  
• Dorinel Munteanu
  Dorinel Munteanu
  Dorinel Ionel Munteanu is a Romanian former football midfielder, and current manager of Oţelul Galaţi.-Club career:Munteanu started to play football for Metalul Bocşa, a team which offered him the first chance to play in Divizia B in 1986...
  
  
• Adrian Mutu
  Adrian Mutu
  Adrian Mutu is a Romanian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Cesena.-Argeş Piteşti:Mutu began his professional career with his home club Argeş Piteşti...
  
  
• Claudiu Niculescu
  Claudiu Niculescu
  Claudiu Iulian Niculescu is currently playing for Universitatea Cluj soccer team. He has previously played for Universitatea Craiova and Dinamo Bucureşti and has also played at Genoa 1893 for a season....
  
  
• Gheorghe Popescu
  Gheorghe Popescu
  Gheorghe Gică Popescu is a former Romanian footballer who played as a defender, and was a key part of the Romania national team in the 1990s. He played for a string of European clubs in an illustrious career that saw him amass many honours...
  
  
• Florin Răducioiu
  Florin Raducioiu
  Florin Valeriu Răducioiu is a former Romanian football striker, who played for Dinamo Bucureşti, A.C. Milan, Brescia Calcio, West Ham United, RCD Espanyol, VfB Stuttgart and A.S...
  
  
• Ioan Sabău
  Ioan Sabau
  Ioan Ovidiu Sabău is a former Romanian football midfielder, who was born in Câmpia-Turzii and debuted in Divizia A with U Cluj in 1986. He is currently manager of FCM Târgu Mureş....
  
  
• Tibor Selymes
  Tibor Selymes
  Tibor Selymes is a retired Romanian footballer, and current manager.He was born in Bălan and debuted in Divizia A with FC Braşov in 1988...
  
  
• Bogdan Stelea
  Bogdan Stelea
  Bogdan Gheorghe Stelea is a retired Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Having played professionally into his 40's, he played for all three major first division clubs in his country's capital, and also spent a vast part of his career in Spain, mainly with Salamanca.-Club career:Stelea...
  
  
• Florin Prunea

Gymnastics

• Simona Amânar
  Simona Amânar
  Simona Amânar is a Romanian gymnast. She is a seven-time Olympic medalist and a ten-time world medalist. Amânar helped Romania to win four consecutive world team titles as well as the 2000 Olympic team title. She has a vault named after her, the Amanar...
  
  
• Oana Ban
  Oana Ban
  Oana Mihaela Ban is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She is an Olympic gold medalist with the team and a world silver medalist on beam and with the team...
  
  
• Octavian Belu
  Octavian Belu
  Octavian Ioan Atanase Bellu is the current head of the Romanian national women's artistic gymnastics team. He was the main coach with interruptions, between 1990 and 2005 and returned as head of the national team in 2010...
  
   – former women's coach
• Sabina Cojocar
  Sabina Cojocar
  Sabina Carolina Cojocar is a retired international elite artistic gymnast from Romania as well as a singer...
  
  
• Nadia Comăneci
  Nadia Comaneci
  Nadia 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...
  
  
• Aurelia Dobre
  Aurelia Dobre
  Aurelia Dobre is a former artistic gymnast from Romania, who was the 1987 World Champion. She is still held in high esteem by many gymnastics fans today for her clean technique as well as balletic and artistic flair...
  
  
• Marian Drăgulescu
  Marian Dragulescu
  Marian Drăgulescu is a Romanian artistic gymnast. During his senior gymnastics career he has won an impressive number of 26 medals at Olympic games, World or European Championships among which eight gold medals at World Championships...
  
  
• Emilia Eberle
  Emilia Eberle
  Gertrude Emilia Eberle , was a Romanian gymnast of ethnic Hungarian - German descent who was of European, World, and Olympic calibre.Eberle, a pupil of the famous fellow ethnic Hungarian husband-wife coaching team Béla Károlyi and Márta Károlyi before they defected from Romania to the United...
  
  
• Alexandra
  Alexandra
  Alexandra is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek name Αλέξανδρος . Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν "to defend" and the noun ἀνδρός , genitive of ἀνήρ "man". Thus it may be roughly translated as "protector of man"...
  
  
• Gina Gogean
  Gina Gogean
  Gina Gogean is a retired gymnast from Romania who competed internationally in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. During her career she won an impressive number of 30 medals at Olympic Games, world championships or continental championships...
  
  
• Sandra Izbaşa
  Sandra Izbasa
  Sandra Raluca Izbaşa is a Romanian artistic gymnast. Her best event is the floor exercise on which she is an Olympic champion and a three-time European Champion. She also won medals on balance beam, vault, all around, and with the team...
  
  
• Marta Károlyi
  Marta Károlyi
  Márta Károlyi , is an American gymnastics coach and the National Team Coordinator for USA Gymnastics. Károlyi is originally from Romania, she and her husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians, and trained athletes there as well, but defected to the United States in 1981...
  
  , gymnastics coach
• Alexandra Marinescu
  Alexandra Marinescu
  Alexandra Marinescu is a retired Romanian Olympic artistic gymnast. She is an Olympic bronze medalist with the team and a two-time world champion with the team. Individually, she is a world silver medalist on beam and a seven-time Junior European medalist. She currently works as a minimal electro...
  
  
• Lavinia Miloşovici
  Lavinia Milosovici
  Lavinia Corina Miloşovici is a Romanian Olympic gymnast. An exceptionally successful athlete on the international competition circuit, Miloşovici, also known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, is considered to be one of Romania's top gymnasts of the 1990s and one of the most prolific female...
  
  
• Dominique Moceanu
  Dominique Moceanu
  Dominique "Domi" Helena Moceanu is an American gymnast who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S...
  
   – Born in U.S. to Romanian immigrants.
• Aura Andreea Munteanu
  Aura Andreea Munteanu
  Aura Andreea Munteanu, known as Andreea Munteanu , is a retired world-class Romanian gymnast.Andreea became interested in gymnastics in 1994 after watching a competition on television. Inspired by the meet, she began using her mother's bed as a makeshift vault, prompting her parents to enroll her...
  
  
• Steliana Nistor
  Steliana Nistor
  Steliana Nistor is a Romanian gymnast. She is an Olympic and a world bronze medalist with the team. Individually, she is a world all around and beam silver medalist and a multiple European medalist on beam and uneven bars. Her best events were the uneven bars, the beam and the all around...
  
  
• Maria Olaru
  Maria Olaru
  Maria Ludovica Olaru is a retired Olympic artistic gymnast from Romania. She is an Olympic, world, and European gold medalist with the team. Individually, she is the 1999 all around world champion and the 2000 Olympic all around silver medalist. Her best event was the vault on which she medaled at...
  
  
• Cătălina Ponor
  Catalina Ponor
  Cătălina Ponor is a gymnast from Constanţa, Romania. After beginning training with the national team in 2002, Ponor won several medals with the Romanian team, along with individual balance beam and floor exercise medals. Almost unknown until late 2003, Ponor has made several important...
  
  
• Claudia Presăcan
• Andreea Răducan
  Andreea Raducan
  Andreea Mădălina Răducan is a retired gymnast from Bârlad, Romania.Răducan began competing in gymnastics at a young age and was training at the Romanian junior national facility by the age of 12½. As one of the standout gymnasts of the Romanian team in the late 1990s, Răducan was known for both...
  
  
• Monica Roşu
  Monica Rosu
  Monica Roşu is an artistic gymnast from Romania. During her career she won two Olympic gold medals , a silver medal with the team at world championships and two gold continental medals ....
  
  
• Daniela Silivaş
  Daniela Silivas
  Viorica Daniela Silivaş-Harper , best known as Daniela Silivaş, is a Romanian gymnast who is most famous for winning six medals in women's artistic gymnastics at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea...
  
  
• Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie
  Nicoleta Daniela Sofronie
  Nicoleta Daniela Sofronie, is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is an Olympic and a European gold medalist with the team. She is also an Olympic silver medalist of floor and the 2004 European all around silver medalist.-Gymnastics career:She started gymnastics in 1992 in her hometown Constanţa and...
  
  
• Ioan Silviu Suciu
  Ioan Silviu Suciu
  Ioan Silviu Suciu is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. His best event was the pommel horse. One of his closest rivals was his team mate and pommel horse Olympic champion Marius Urzică, who was defeated by Suciu in Ljubljana, 2004, when the latter won the title while Urzică took 8th place...
  
  
• Corina Ungureanu
  Corina Ungureanu
  Corina Georgiana Ungureanu is a world-class Romanian artistic gymnast who competed internationally between 1993 and 1999...
  
  
• Teodora Ungureanu
  Teodora Ungureanu
  Teodora Ungureanu is a retired Romanian gymnast who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics. She is a three-time Olympic medalist and a world silver medalist. After retirement from gymnastics she enjoyed a successful career as a gymnastics coach...
  
  
• Marius Urzică
  Marius Urzica
  Marius Daniel Urzică is a Romanian gymnast. Urzică is an Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a three-time European champion on pommel horse. He competed at three Olympic games, medaling each time on pommel horse and contributed to the team bronze in Athens 2004...
  
  

Rowing

• Constanţa Burcică
  Constanta Burcica
  Constanţa Burcică is a Romanian Olympic rower. She has been in the winning boat all three times the women's lightweight double scull event has been held at the Olympics....
  
  
• Georgeta Damian
  Georgeta Damian
  Georgeta Damian-Andrunache is a female rower from Romania and winner of five Olympic gold medals. She is married to Valeriu Andrunache....
  
  
• Elena Georgescu
  Elena Georgescu
  Elena Georgescu-Nedelcu is a Romanian coxswain who has won five Olympic medals in the eights competition.-References:* *...
  
  
• Doina Ignat
  Doina Ignat
  Doina Ignat is a Romanian rower, who has won six Olympic medals during her career.-References:* *...
  
  
• Elisabeta Lipă
  Elisabeta Lipa
  Elisabeta Lipă is a retired rower from Romania, who was born under the name of Elisabeta Oleniuc. She is the most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, winning five golds, two silvers and one bronze...
  
  
• Ivan Patzaichin
  Ivan Patzaichin
  Ivan Patzaichin is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won seven medals, more than any other competitor in the history of the Canadian canoeing events...
  
  
• Viorica Susanu
  Viorica Susanu
  Viorica Susanu is a Romanian rower and winner of four Olympic Gold medals.Susanu rowed in the Romanian women's eight that won the rowing World Championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999, and the 2000 Summer Olympics...
  
  

Tennis

• Ilie Năstase
  Ilie Nastase
  Ilie Nastase is a Romanian former professional tennis player, one of the world's top players of the 1970s. Năstase was the World No. 1 tennis player between 1973 and 1974 . He is one of the five players in history to win more than 100 ATP professional titles . He was inducted into the...
  
  
• Andrei Pavel
  Andrei Pavel
  Andrei Pavel is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Romania. He is currently coaching former world No. 1 and the current world No. 15 of the WTA, Jelena Janković.-Career:...
  
  
• Victor Hănescu
  Victor Hanescu
  Victor Hănescu is a Romanian tennis player. He achieved his career high rank of no. 26 on July 6, 2009.- Professional career :...
  
  
• Dinu Pescariu
  Dinu Pescariu
  Dinu Dănuţ Mihai Pescariu is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1991. The right-hander represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: in Barcelona and in Atlanta . He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on August 6, 1998, when he became the number 75 of...
  
  
• Răzvan Sabău
  Razvan Sabau
  Răzvan Sabău is a Romanian tennis player.Born in Bucharest, Romania, Sabău trained at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in his junior years and in 1993 he won the Wimbledon junior singles title, finishing the year as the No. 2 junior in the world. He ranked No...
  
  
• Ion Ţiriac
  Ion Tiriac
  Ion Țiriac is a Romanian former tennis player and businessman. He is also the current owner of the Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open.-Sports career:...
  
  ; also a very successful businessman
• Virginia Ruzici
  Virginia Ruzici
  Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She was born in Câmpia Turzii, Romania and turned professional in 1975. One of her main assets on court was her powerful forehand....
  
   1978 French Open winner
• Magda Rurac
  Magda Rurac
  Magda Rurac of Romania was an outstanding tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.Rurac was ranked in the top 10 in unofficial world rankings in 1948 and 1949. For that reason, she is considered by many to be one of the best female players ever to come out of Romania. She played for Romania's...
  
  
• Irina Spîrlea
  Irina Spîrlea
  Irina Spîrlea is a former tennis player from Romania, who turned professional in 1990. She won four singles and six doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on October 13, 1997, when she became number 7 in the world...
  
  
• Ruxandra Dragomir
  Ruxandra Dragomir
  Ruxandra Dragomir Ilie is a retired female tennis player from Romania, who won four singles and five doubles titles during her career. The right-hander reached her highest individual ranking on the WTA Tour on August 25, 1997, when she became the number 15 of the world...
  
  
• Sorana Cîrstea
  Sorana Cîrstea
  Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea, is a Romanian tennis player. Her career high rank was World No. 23, achieved on 17 August 2009, after she reached the quarterfinals of the 2009 French Open and the semifinals of the 2009 Los Angeles Open.- Playing style :...
  
  
• Edina Gallovits
  Edina Gallovits
  Klaudia Edina Gallovits-Hall is a Romanian female tennis player of Hungarian descent on her father's side. She is currently ranked 75th in the world and her career highest ranking of No. 54 was achieved on April 28, 2008...
  
  
• Monica Niculescu
  Monica Niculescu
  Monica Niculescu is a Romanian tennis player. As of October 24, 2011 she is ranked No. 29 at the WTA Tour Singles Ranking. Her highest WTA ranking is currently her present ranking in singles, reached on 24 Oct 2011, and No. 24 in doubles, reached on June 7, 2010.Niculescu was born in Slatina,...
  
  
• Ioana Raluca Olaru
  Ioana Raluca Olaru
  Ioana Raluca Olaru is a Romanian tennis player. As of 2 August 2010, she is ranked World No. 158 in singles and No. 104 in doubles. The winner of nine singles and six doubles ITF Circuit titles, Olaru reached one WTA Tour singles final, at the 2009 Gastein Ladies, losing to Andrea Petkovic 6–2, 6–3...
  
  

Other sports

• Laura Badea
  Laura Badea
  Laura Gabriela Badea-Cârlescu is a Romanian fencer and olympic champion in foil competition.She received a gold medal in foil at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...
  
  , Romanian fencer and olympic champion in foil competition
• Luminiţa Dinu-Huţupan handball player
• Alina Dumitru, olympic judo champion
• Daniel Negreanu
  Daniel Negreanu
  Daniel 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...
  
  , Canadian poker player
• Angelica Rozeanu
  Angelica Rozeanu
  Angelica Rozeanu was a Romanian table tennis player of Jewish origin, and one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport.-Table tennis career:...
  
   (Adelstin), 17-time world table tennis
  Table tennis
  Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
  
   champion; ITTF Hall of Fame

Biology

• Grigore Antipa
  Grigore Antipa
  Grigore Antipa was a Romanian Darwinist biologist who studied the fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name....
  
  , hydrobiologist
• Ana Aslan
  Ana Aslan
  Ana Aslan was a Romanian biologist and physician. She is considered to be a founding figure of gerontology and geriatrics in Romania. In 1952, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Ana Aslan, the Geriatric Institute in Bucharest was founded...
  
  , geriatrics researcher
• Victor Babeş
  Victor Babes
  Victor Babeș was a Romanian physician, biologist, and one of the earliest bacteriologists. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases....
  
  , biologist
• Dimitrie Brândză
  Dimitrie Brândza
  Dimitrie Brândză was a Romanian botanist. He founded the Botanical Garden of Bucharest which is now named in his honor.He was a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, as well as a member of the Romanian Academy....
  
  , botanist
• Ioan Cantacuzino
  Ioan Cantacuzino
  Ioan C. Cantacuzino was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist, a professor at the Romanian School of Medicine and Pharmacy and a member of the Romanian Academy...
  
  , microbiologist
• Wilhelm Knechtel
  Wilhelm Knechtel
  Wilhelm Knechtel was an ethnic German Austrian-Romanian gardener and botanist.-Biography:Born in Bohemia in a village now belonging to Nový Bor, Knechtel worked in Prague, then entered into the service of Archduke Maximilian in 1860 at Miramare Castle in Trieste, Italy...
  
  , botanist
• Andy Lehrer, entomologist
• Nicolae Leon
  Nicolae Leon
  Nicolae Leon was a Romanian biologist of world renown. He was the elder brother of the naturalist Grigore Antipa.-External links:*...
  
  , biologist
• Gheorghe Marinescu
  Gheorghe Marinescu
  Gheorghe Marinescu was a Romanian neurologist, founder of the Romanian School of Neurology.After the attendance of Medicine at the Bucharest University, Marinescu received most of his medical education as preparator at the laboratory of histology at the Brâncoveanu Hospital and as assistant at...
  
  , neurologist
• Mina Minovici
  Mina Minovici
  Mina Minovici was a Romanian forensic scientist, famous for his extensive research regarding cadaverous alkaloids, putrefaction, simulated mind diseases, and criminal anthropology...
  
  , forensic scientist
• Constantin Parhon, endocrinologist
• George Emil Palade
  George Emil Palade
  George 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...
  
  , 1974 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
  
  winner
• Nicolae Paulescu
  Nicolae Paulescu
  Nicolae Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, the discoverer of insulin . The "pancreine" was a crude extract of bovine pancreas in salted water, after which some impurites were removed with hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.-Early life and activities:Born in Bucharest,...
  
  , discovered insulin
• Emil Racoviţă
  Emil Racovita
  Emil Racoviţă was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania...
  
  , biologist and speleologist

Chemistry

• Lazăr Edeleanu
  Lazar Edeleanu
  Lazăr Edeleanu was a Romanian chemist of Jewish origin.He was the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and the inventor of the modern method of refining crude oil.- His childhood and studies:...
  
  , chemist
• Henrick Kacser, physical chemist
• Costin Neniţescu
  Costin Nenitescu
  Costin D. Neniţescu was a prominent Romanian chemist, and a professor at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy, a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, and a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Natural Scientists in...
  
  , founder of the Romanian school of Organic Chemistry
• Petre Frangopol, physical and organic chemist/biophysical chemist, Emeritus Professor
• Nicolae Teclu
  Nicolae Teclu
  Nicolae Teclu ; was a Romanian chemist, who gave his name to the worldwide-used "Teclu burner". He studied engineering and architecture, and then chemistry, continuing his career by becoming professor for general and analytical chemistry in Vienna...
  
  , inventor of the Teclu gas burner

Physicians

• Carol Davila
  Carol Davila
  Carol Davila was a prestigious Romanian physician of Italian ancestry.-Biography:He started from humble beginnings, most probably as an abandoned child, and the surname Davila was bestowed on him by his adoptive family and guirdian...
  
  
• Iuliu Haţieganu
  Iuliu Hatieganu
  Iuliu Haţieganu was an eminent Romanian clinician, physician, and activist. He was the brother of politician Emil Haţieganu.He is especially famed for his research into tuberculosis. He was rector of Babeş-Bolyai University and a member of the Romanian Academy....
  
  
• Raed Arafat
  Raed Arafat
  Raed or Rayed Arafat is a Syrian-born Romanian intensive care physician of Palestinian origin. An anesthesiologist, he is the founder and of Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication , as well as its Mureş County coordinator.-Biography:Born in Damascus to a Palestinian couple from...
  
  , the founder and of Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscitation and Extrication (SMURD), (a Syrian-born Palestinian refugee
  Palestinian refugee
  Palestinian refugees or Palestine refugees are the people and their descendants, predominantly Palestinian Arabic-speakers, who fled or were expelled from their homes during and after the 1948 Palestine War, within that part of the British Mandate of Palestine, that after that war became the...
  
   , he lives in Romania for several decades)
• David Wechsler
  David Wechsler
  David "Wex" Wechsler was a leading American psychologist. He developed well-known intelligence scales, such as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children .-Biography:...
  
  , psychologist
• Daniel O David, professor, psychologist, and psychotherapist
• Adrian Bejan
  Adrian Bejan
  Adrian Bejan is an American professor and proponent of the constructal theory of design and evolution in nature. He is J. A...
  
  , inventor of constructal theory
  Constructal theory
  The constructal law puts forth the idea that the generation of design in nature is a physics phenomenon that unites all animate and inanimate systems, and that this phenomenon is covered by the Constructal Law...
  
  
• Alexandru Ciurcu
  Alexandru Ciurcu
  Alexandru Ciurcu was a Romanian inventor and publisher, famous for his invention with Just Buisson of a reaction engine. It used rocket propulsion and was successfully used to power to boat in 1886. The two men envisioned that such motors would later be used for air travel.-Sources:...
  
  , inventor, with M.M. Just Buisson, of the first reactive engine
• George Constantinescu
  George Constantinescu
  George Constantinescu was a Romanian scientist, engineer and inventor. During his career, he registered over 130 inventions. He is the creator of the theory of sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics, in which he described the transmission of mechanical energy through vibrations.Born in...
  
  , inventor
• Anastase Dragomir
  Anastase Dragomir
  Anastase Dragomir was a distinguished Romanian inventor, most famous for his "catapultable cockpit" patent as an early version of the modern ejection seat....
  
  , inventor – parachute cell, predecessor of the ejection seat
• Rodrig Goliescu
  Rodrig Goliescu
  Rodrig Goliescu was a Romanian inventor, engineer, and Lieutenant, who built the avioplan, the first airplane with a tubular fuselage.The model, with a length of 1.2 m was successfully tested in 1909, having a take off angle of 30 degrees...
  
  , inventor – the first airplane with a tubular fuselage
• Petrache Poenaru
  Petrache Poenaru
  Petrache Poenaru was a Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era.Poenaru, who had studied in Paris and Vienna and, later, completed his specialized studies in England, was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, teacher and organizer of the educational system, as well as a politician,...
  
  , inventor
• Elie Radu
  Elie Radu
  Elie Radu was a distinguished Romanian artisan and civil engineer.-Sources:*...
  
  , architect, engineer
• Anghel Saligny
  Anghel Saligny
  Anghel Saligny was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time. He also designed the storage facilities in Constanţa seaport, one of the earliest examples of reinforced concrete architecture in...
  
  , engineer
• Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen
  Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen
  Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen was a Romanian engineer and physicist, who did pioneering work in the field of telegraphy and telephony...
  
  , engineer
• Vasile Vasilescu, professor, neurophysiologist specialized in membrane biophysics

Aerospace

• Henri Coandă
  Henri Coanda
  Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others...
  
  , aircraft designer and discoverer of the Coanda effect
  Coanda effect
  The Coandă effect is the tendency of a fluid jet to be attracted to a nearby surface. The principle was named after Romanian aerodynamics pioneer Henri Coandă, who was the first to recognize the practical application of the phenomenon in aircraft development....
  
   of fluidics
• Elie Carafoli
  Elie Carafoli
  Elie Carafoli was an accomplished Romanian engineer and aircraft designer. He is considered a pioneering contributor to the field of Aerodynamics....
  
  , aeronautics engineer
• Aurel Vlaicu
  Aurel Vlaicu
  Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.-Biography:Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi , Geoagiu, Transylvania. He attended Calvinist High School in Orăştie and took his Baccalaureate in Sibiu in 1902...
  
  , flight pioneer
• Traian Vuia
  Traian Vuia
  Traian Vuia was a Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer who designed, builtand flew an early aircraft. His first flight traveled about 12 m at Montesson, France on March 18, 1906...
  
  

Mathematics

• Emanoil Bacaloglu
  Emanoil Bacaloglu
  Emanoil Bacaloglu was a Wallachian and Romanian mathematician, physicist and chemist and a scubadiver, medic, shoe salesman, a vegetarian,policeman and fireman....
  
  
• Dan Barbilian
• Florin Boca, university professor of mathematics
• Anton Davidoglu
  Anton Davidoglu
  Anton Davidoglu was a Romanian mathematician of international reputation....
  
  
• George Georgescu, Emeritus Professor of mathematics and logic
• Ion Ghica
  Ion Ghica
  Ion Ghica was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania . He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times...
  
  
• Alexandru Ghika
  Alexandru Ghika
  Alexandru Ghika was a Romanian mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis.-Life:...
  
  
• Spiru Haret
  Spiru Haret
  Spiru C. Haret was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by...
  
  
• Traian Lalescu
  Traian Lalescu
  Traian Lalescu was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics....
  
  
• Octav Mayer
  Octav Mayer
  -External links:*...
  
  
• Gheorghe Mihoc
  Gheorghe Mihoc
  Gheorghe Mihoc was a famous Romanian statistician. He was born in Brăila, the son of a worker.In 1908, his father moved the family to Bucharest. Here he attended elementary school and the Gheorghe Şincai high school...
  
  
• Grigore Moisil
  Grigore Moisil
  Grigore Constantin Moisil was a Romanian mathematician, computer pioneer, and member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic, , Algebraic logic, MV-algebra, algebra and differential equations...
  
  , Member of the Romanian Academy
• Miron Nicolescu
  Miron Nicolescu
  Miron Nicolescu was a Romanian mathematician.Born in Giurgiu, he attended the Matei Basarab high school in Bucharest. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Bucharest in 1924, he went to Paris, where he enrolled at the École Normale...
  
  , Member of the Romanian Academy
• Octav Onicescu
  Octav Onicescu
  Octav Onicescu was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics.-Biography:...
  
  
• Preda Mihăilescu
  Preda Mihailescu
  Preda V. Mihăilescu is a Romanian mathematician, best known for his proof of Catalan's conjecture.Born in Bucharest, he is the brother of Vintilă Mihăilescu. After leaving Romania in 1973, he settled in Switzerland. He studied mathematics and computer science in Zürich, receiving his Ph.D. from...
  
  
• Valentin Poénaru
  Valentin Poénaru
  Valentin Alexandre Poénaru is a Professor of Mathematics at Université de Paris-Sud. He specializes in low-dimensional topology.Born in Romania, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. In 1962, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in...
  
  
• Dimitrie Pompeiu
  Dimitrie Pompeiu
  -Biography:After studying in Dorohoi and Bucharest, he went to France, where he studied mathematics at the University of Paris . He obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1905 with a thesis, On the continuity of complex variable functions, written under the direction of Henri Poincaré...
  
  
• Nicolae Popescu
  Nicolae Popescu
  Nicolae 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...
  
  , Member of the Romanian Academy
• Simion Stoilow
  Simion Stoilow
  Simion Stoilow or Stoilov was a Romanian mathematician, creator of the Romanian school of complex analysis, and author of over 100 publications.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gheorghe Vrânceanu
  Gheorghe Vranceanu
  Gheorghe Vrânceanu was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and topology....
  
  
• Gheorghe Ţiţeica
  Gheorghe Titeica
  Gheorghe Ţiţeica publishing as George or Georges Tzitzeica) was a Romanian mathematician with important contributions in geometry. He is recognized as the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry....
  
  , Member of the Romanian Academy
• Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
  Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
  Dan-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....
  
  

Physics

• Emanoil Bacaloglu
  Emanoil Bacaloglu
  Emanoil Bacaloglu was a Wallachian and Romanian mathematician, physicist and chemist and a scubadiver, medic, shoe salesman, a vegetarian,policeman and fireman....
  
  , physicist, chemist and mathematician
• Victor Albert Bailey
  Victor Albert Bailey
  Victor Albert Bailey, 18 December 1895, Alexandria, Egypt - 7 December 1964, Geneva, Switzerland was a British-Australian physicist. He was the eldest of four surviving children of William Henry Bailey, a British Army engineer, and his wife Suzana, née Lazarus, an expatriate Romanian linguist.He...
  
  , physicist (Romanian on his mother's side)
• Cristian Constantinescu, solid-state physicist, professor
• Peter George Oliver Freund
  Peter Freund
  Peter George Oliver Freund is a professor emeritus of theoretical physics at the University of Chicago. He has made important contributions to particle physics and string theory. He is also active as a writer.-Biography:...
  
  , physicist
• Mihai Gavrilă
  Mihai Gavrilă
  Mihai Gavrilă is a Romanian quantum physicist, member of the Romanian Academy since 1974. He made fundamental contributions to quantum theories of electromagnetic interactions with atoms. His parents were Ion and Florica Gavrilă...
  
  , theoretical quantum physicist, professor, Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy
  Romanian Academy
  The Romanian Academy is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 acting members who are elected for life....
  
  
• Horia Hulubei
  Horia Hulubei
  Horia Hulubei was a Romanian atomic/nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy.-Education:He studied at the University of Iaşi and in Paris at the Sorbonne, with the Nobel laureate Jean Perrin as his PhD advisor; he obtained his Ph.D. from the...
  
  , atomic physicist, professor, Member of the Romanian Academy
• Theodor V. Ionescu
  Theodor V. Ionescu
  Theodor V. Ionescu, Prof. Dr. Doc. was a Romanian physicist and inventor who made remarkable discoveries in plasma physics, ionosphere physics, ion coupling electrons in dense plasmas, masers, magnetron amplifiers, and Zeeman effects related to controlled nuclear fusion and quantum emission...
  
  , plasma physicist, professor, Member of the Romanian Academy
• Alexandru Marin
  Alexandru Marin
  Alexandru Adalbert "Alex" Marin was an experimental particle physicist, a professor of physics at MIT, Boston University and Harvard University, and a researcher at CERN and JINR....
  
  , physicist, professor
• Florentina I. Mosora
  Florentina Mosora
  Florentina Ioana Mosora or Florentina Stan-Mosora was a Romanian and Belgian biophysicist. In her earlier years, before 1964, she was a film actress in the Romanian film industry.-Biography:...
  
  , biophysicist and nuclear medicine professor, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium
• Horaţiu Năstase
  Horatiu Nastase
  Horaţiu 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....
  
  
• Alexandru Proca
  Alexandru Proca
  Alexandru Proca was a Romanian physicist who studied and worked in France. He developed the vector meson theory of nuclear forces and the relativistic quantum field equations that bear his name for the massive, vector spin-1 mesons...
  
  , theoretical physicist, Member of the Romanian Academy
• Ștefan Procopiu
  Stefan Procopiu
  -Biography:Procopiu was born in 1890 in Bârlad, Romania. His father, Emanoil Procopiu, was employed at the Bârlad courthouse. His mother, Ecaterina Tașcă was the daughter of Gheorghe I...
  
  , theoretical physicist, Member of the Romanian Academy
• Dr. Carmen Sabău, Member Emeritus of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences ' is an internationally recognised academic research and educational institution that conducts and supports multidisciplinary studies in exact sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, and also supports the arts, linguistics, literature, political...
  
  
• Mircea Sabău, high-energy physicist and nuclear medicine imaging, Member of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences
  The American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences ' is an internationally recognised academic research and educational institution that conducts and supports multidisciplinary studies in exact sciences, mathematics, natural sciences, and also supports the arts, linguistics, literature, political...
  
  
• Ionel Solomon, solid-state physicist, professor, Member of the French Academy, former President of the French Physics Society
• Șerban Țițeica, theoretical physicist, founder of the Romanian modern school of theoretical physics, Member of the Romanian Academy
• Radu Pârvan, plasma physicist, Professor Emeritus.
• Voicu Vlad Grecu, Ph.D., nuclear physicist, professor

Computer Science

• Ştefan Odobleja
  Stefan Odobleja
  Ştefan Odobleja was a Romanian scientist, one of the precursors of cybernetics. His major work, Psychologie consonantiste, first published in 1938 and 1939, in Paris, had established many of the major themes of cybernetics regarding cybernetics and systems thinking ten years before the work of...
  
  , scientist, precursor of cybernetics
• Mihai Nadin
  Mihai Nadin
  Mihai Nadin is a scholar and researcher in electrical engineering, computer science, aesthetics, semiotics, human-computer interaction , computational design, post-industrial society, and anticipatory systems...
  
  , computer scientist
• Victor Toma, computer engineer, born in Romanian Bessarabia

Others

• Dimitrie Gusti
  Dimitrie Gusti
  Dimitrie Gusti was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932-1933...
  
  , sociologist
• David Mitrany
  David Mitrany
  David Mitrany was a Romanian-born, naturalized British scholar, historian and political theorist. The richest source of information concerning Mitrany’s life and intellectual activity are the memoirs he published in 1975 in The Functional Theory of Politics.-Professional life:Mitrany worked on...
  
   (1888–1975), political theorist
• George Pomutz
  George Pomutz
  George 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:...
  
   (1818–1882), ethnic Romanian United States general in the Civil War, and a diplomat
• Emil Racoviţă
  Emil Racovita
  Emil Racoviţă was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania...
  
  , polar explorer
• Henri Stahl
  Henri Stahl
  Henri Stahl was a Romanian stenographer and writer. Stahl was the chief stenographer of the Romanian Parliament and in 1908, he created an original system of a stenography, which became the Romanian stenography standard. In 1914, he published the first Romanian "classic science fiction" novel, Un...
  
  , stenographer
• Henri H. Stahl
  Henri H. Stahl
  Henri H. Stahl was a Romanian Marxist cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, and social historian.-Biography:...
  
  , cultural anthropologist, ethnographer, sociologist, social historian

Polymaths

• Simion Bărnuţiu
  Simion Barnutiu
  Simion Bărnuţiu was a Transylvanian-born Romanian historian, academic, philosopher, jurist, and liberal politician. A leader of the 1848 revolutionary movement of Transylvanian Romanians, he represented its Eastern Rite Catholic wing...
  
  , jurist, priest, politician, publicist, lawyer, writer, professor
• Matyla Ghyka
  Matyla Ghyka
  Prince Matila Costiesco Ghyka , K.C.V.O., M.C. , was a novelist, mathematician, historian, philosopher and diplomat at the Romanian Plenipotentiary Minister in the United Kingdom during the late 1930s and until 1940...
  
  , famous polymath, architect, mathematician and author
• Mihail Kogălniceanu
  Mihail Kogalniceanu
  Mihail Kogălniceanu was a Moldavian-born Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexander John Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I. He...
  
   lawyer, historian, publicist, politician, cultural pacemaker

Business

• Dinu Patriciu
  Dinu Patriciu
  Dan Costache "Dinu" Patriciu , is a billionaire businessman and entrepreneur with a long standing involvement in real estate. In 1998 he led an investor buyout of the previously state-owned Romanian oil company, Rompetrol...
  
  , former CEO of Rompetrol
  Rompetrol
  The Rompetrol Group N.V. , is a Romanian oil company, that operates in many countries throughout Europe:unclear what "market share": refining? downstream? extraction? well services?*Romania - 2nd largest oil company, 40% market share...
  
  
• George Becali, owner of FC Steaua Bucharest
• Octav Botnar
  Octav Botnar
  Octav Botnar was a self-made businessman who founded Datsun UK, and a noted philanthropist, who donated over £100 million in his lifetime....
  
  , Nissan UK chairman, billionaire
• Iosif Constantin Drăgan
  Iosif Constantin Dragan
  Iosif Constantin Drăgan was a Romanian and Italian businessman, writer and historian. In 2005, he was the second wealthiest Romanian, according to the Romanian financial magazine Capital, having a wealth estimated at $850 million...
  
  , gas tycoon, billionaire and academic
• John De Lorean
  John De Lorean
  John Zachary DeLorean was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, most notably with General Motors, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company....
  
  , US car industry executive, engineer, inventor of Pontiac GTO Muscle car and Delorean DMC-12
• Darius Muica, famous banker

Miscellaneous Famous People

• Ana Cumpănaş
  Ana Cumpanas
  Ana Cumpănaş or Anna Sage, nicknamed Woman in Red , was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian prostitute and brothel owner in the American cities of Chicago and Gary...
  
   (a.k.a. Anna Sage), the "Woman in Red" who helped FBI catch John Dillinger
  John Dillinger
  John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was an American bank robber in Depression-era United States. He was charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana police officer during a shoot-out. This was his only alleged homicide. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations...
  
  

See also

• List of Romanian inventors and discoverers
• List of Jewish Romanians
• List of Romanian-Americans
• List of Vlachs for Vlachs
  Vlachs
  Vlach is a blanket term covering several modern Latin peoples descending from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. English variations on the name include: Walla, Wlachs, Wallachs, Vlahs, Olahs or Ulahs...
  
   from South of Danube
  Danube
  The Danube is a river in the Central Europe and the Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It is classified as an international waterway....
  
   (Aromanians
  Aromanians
  Aromanians are a Latin people native throughout the southern Balkans, especially in northern Greece, Albania, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and as an emigrant community in Serbia and Romania . An older term is Macedo-Romanians...
  
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• List of people by nationality