- Florentin Smarandache
Florentin Smarandache is a Romanian-American writer and associate professor of mathematics and science at the University of New Mexico, Gallup, New Mexico. Smarandache was born in Bălceşti, in the Romanian county of Vâlcea. According to his own autobiographical accounts, in 1986 he was refused an exit visa by the Ceauşescu regime that would have allowed him to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians at the University of California, Berkeley. - Napoleon Săvescu
Napoleon Săvescu is a Romanian-American physician famous for being the supporter of some controversial theories regarding the origins and history of Dacians and Romanians. He is also the founder of the New York City-based "Dacia Revival International Society", which since 2000 is the organizer of the annually-held International Congress of Dacology. - Saul Steinberg
Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914-May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for "The New Yorker" magazine. - Andrei Codrescu
Poet, essayist and novelist Andrei Codrescu has been contributing commentaries to NPR's award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered since 1983. During this time, he's also reported from Romania, Cuba and New Orleans. In 1989, Codrescu returned to his birthplace of Romania after an absence of more than 20 years, a homecoming he documented for NPR through a series of six commentaries. - Vladimir Tismăneanu
Vladimir Tismăneanu is a Romanian and American political scientist, sociologist, and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. A specialist in political systems and compared politics, he is editor of the "East European Politics and Societies" academic review and director of the University of Maryland's "Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies". Tismăneanu is a contributor to several periodicals, including "Journal of Democracy", … - Valerian Trifa
Valerian Trifa (monastic name of Viorel D. Trifa; June 28, 1914 - January 28 1987) was a Romanian Orthodox cleric and politician, the archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America and Canada. For part of his life, he was a naturalized citizen of the United States. - Andrei Şerban
Andrei Şerban is a Romanian-born American theatre director. A major name in twentieth-century theater, he is renowned for his innovative and iconoclastic interpretations and stagings. Since 1992, he is Professor of Theatre at the Columbia University School of the Arts. - Norman Manea
Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Romanian writer and intellectual. Born in Burdujeni, currently a neighborhood of Suceava. Because he was Jewish in the time of Fascist-controlled Romania ("see: Romania during World War II"), Manea was deported in 1941 (at the age of 5) together with the rest of his family to a concentration camp in Transnistria, but survived, along with his whole family. He was educated at the Institute of Civil Engineering, in Bucharest. - Nina Cassian
Nina Cassian is a Romanian poet, journalist, film critic, and classical composer. She is noted for her translating abilities, and has rendered into Romania the works of William Shakespeare, Bertold Brecht, Christian Morgenstern, Yiannis Ritsos, and Paul Celan. She has published more than fifty books of her own poetry. Born in Galaţi, she was married with fellow writer Vladimir Colin in 1943 (divorced in 1948), and later with Al. I. Ştefănescu. - Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, born Nicolae Georgescu was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist. - Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is one of the most well-known gymnasts in the world and, along with Olga Korbut, is credited with popularizing the sport around the world. - George Emil Palade
George Emil Palade is a Romanian-born American cell biologist. In 1974, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, for his discoveries concerning the structure and function of organelles in biological cells. - Edward G. Robinson
Edward Goldenberg Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, Yiddish: עמנואל גאלדנבערג; December 12, 1893 - January 26, 1973) was an American stage and film actor of Romanian origin. Born to an Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1903. He attended Townsend Harris High School and then City College of New York, … - George Pomutz
George Pomutz was an ethnic Romanian United States general in the Civil War, and a diplomat. - Alexandra Nechita
Alexandra Nechita (b. August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist. - Radu Florescu
Radu Florescu (b. 23 October, 1925, Bucharest) is a Romanian academic who holds the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College. He was Director of the East European Research Center at Boston College. Florescu received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Christ Church College, University of Oxford in Great Britain, before moving to the United States, where he completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University. - Adrian Zmed
Adrian Zmed (born March 4, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Romanian-American television and film actor. Zmed is better known for his roles as "Johnny Nogerelli" in "Grease 2", and as "Officer Vince Romano" in the "T.J. Hooker" television series, where he starred alongside William Shatner. Zmed took on the role of Danny Zuko in "Grease" twice: first during the original Broadway run in the 1970s, and again during the show's revival in 1995. - Lia Roberts
Lia Roberts (7 May 1949 in Bucharest), is a Romanian-American politician and former presidential candidate in Romania in 2004 who withdrew from the race due to poor poll numbers. Born Lia Sandu, she is a naturalized citizen of the United States who emigrated from Romania in 1979. Currently she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she serves as honorary consul for the Romanian Consulate of Las Vegas. She is the former leader of the Nevada Republican Party. - Liviu Librescu
Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 - April 16, 2007;) was a Romanian born and educated Israeli-American scientist and academic whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. His last academic position was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. - 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. His thinking places him at the intersection of Neo-Platonism and Neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, … - Ion Mihai Pacepa
Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the former Eastern bloc. He is now an American citizen. In July 1978, Pacepa was a two-star Romanian Securitate general who simultaneously held the rank of advisor to President Nicolae Ceauşescu, acting chief of his foreign intelligence service and state secretary in Romania’s Ministry of Interior. - Dominique Moceanu
Dominique Helena Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood, California) is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S. Women's Gymnastics team in Atlanta (the "Magnificent 7"). The hallmarks of Moceanu's gymnastics, in the early stage of her elite career, were daring tricks on balance beam and spunky, inspired presentation on floor exercise. In the latter part of her elite career, … - Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City. - Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber on December 28, 1921) is an American writer, editor, was the Chairman Emeritus of Marvel Comics, and memoirist. Though no longer officially connected to the company, save for the title of "Chairman Emeritus", Stan Lee remains a visible face in the industry. With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he introduced complex, … - Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900-July 18, 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter. Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently settled there. - 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. After graduation he became conductor and music director of the Symphony Orchestra in Arad, a city in western Romania, close to his native town. In 1968, he went to Paris, France and did not return to Romania. - Sergiu Comissiona
Sergiu Comissiona (1928 in Bucharest, Romania - March 5, 2005, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA) was a Romanian-American conductor. A familiar figure in over 25 countries, Sergiu Comissiona was internationally recognized as one of the most dynamic, sensitive, and experienced conductors of his time. Born in Bucharest, Romania, he began violin studies at the age of five, was hired as a violinist by the Romanian State Ensemble while still in his teens, … - George Lusztig
George (Gheorghe) Lusztig is a Romanian-born American mathematician. He is a Norbert Wiener Professor at the Department of Mathematics, MIT. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest. He left Romania for the United States, where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His early work was on the index theory of elliptic operators, … - Sandra Romain
Sandra Romain is a Romanian pornographic actress. - Joseph M. Juran
Joseph Moses Juran (b. December 24, 1904) is an American industrial engineer and philanthropist. Juran is known as a business and industrial quality "guru," while making significant contributions to management theory, human resource management and consulting as well. He wrote several books, and is known worldwide as one of the most important 20th century thinkers in quality management. - John Houseman
John Houseman (September 22, 1902 - October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born actor and film producer. He was born Jacques Haussmann in Bucharest to a French-born Jewish father and an English mother. He was educated in England at Clifton College before emigrating to the United States, where he took the stage name of John Houseman. Along with Orson Welles, Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, … - Matei Călinescu
Matei Călinescu is a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended the Ion Luca Caragiale High School in Bucharest, taking his diploma in 1952. He emigrated from Romania to the United States in 1973. Currently an Emeritus Professor at Indiana University, Călinescu returned to Romania in 2003. - Adrian Bejan
Adrian Bejan, Ph.D. (MIT, 1975) is a Romanian-born American professor of mechanical engineering and inventor of the constructal theory of global optimization under local constraints. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University. - Alma Gluck
Alma Gluck, was an American soprano, one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career (around 1910). Marcia Davenport was the child of her first marriage (to Bernard Glick); Alma Gluck later married violinist Efrem Zimbalist and had two children, Efrem Jr. (Stephanie Zimbalist's father) and Maria. Born to a Jewish family in Iaşi, Romania, Gluck moved to the United States at a young age. - Béla Károlyi
Béla Károlyi, is a world-renowned Romanian gymnastics coach of Hungarian ethnicity. He possesses Romanian and American citizenship. Together with his wife, Márta, (sometimes called Martha), Károlyi has coached both the United States and Romanian Olympic teams to medal success. Károlyi pioneered the Romanian centralized gymnastics training system in Romania in the late 1960s and early 1970s. - Alexander Vraciu
Alexander Vraciu (born November 2, 1918) was a leading U.S. Navy fighter ace during World War II. Born of Romanian immigrant parents in East Chicago, Indiana, Vraciu lived briefly in Romania as a child. He graduated form DePauw University in 1941 and enlisted in the Navy that June. He was commissioned a naval aviator in August 1942, and at the end of March 1943, as a Naval Reserve Ensign, he joined Fighting Squadron Six under Lieutenant Commander Edward O'Hare, … - Michael Radu
Michael Radu is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Co-Chairman of FPRI’s Center on Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Radu has studied terrorist and insurgent groups worldwide since the mid-1980s. He is the author or editor of twelve books on international affairs. He was a National Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, … - John Randolph
John Randolph (June 1, 1915 - February 24, 2004) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American film, television and stage actor. - Andrei Alexandrescu
Andrei Alexandrescu is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on advanced C++ programming. He is particularly known for his pioneering work on policy-based design implemented via template metaprogramming. These ideas are articulated in his book "Modern C++ Design" (Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-70431-5) and were first implemented in his programming library, Loki. He also implemented the "move constructors" concept in his MOJO library. - Fabian Pascal
Fabian Pascal is a consultant to large software vendors such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, and Borland, but is better known as an author and seminar speaker. Born in Romania, Pascal lives in the San Francisco, California area of the US, and works in association with Christopher J. Date. Pascal is known for his sharp criticisms of the data management industry, trade press, current state of higher education, Western culture and alleged media bias.
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