List of Famous people born in Bucharest, Romania

Adrian Severin is a Romanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament.

Pierre Hassner, born 31 January 1933 in Bucharest, Romania; died 26 May 2018 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, was a geopolitologist and philosopher naturalized Romanian French.

George III Valentin, Prince Bibescu was a Romanian early aviation pioneer and automobile enthusiast.

Cristian Gaţu is a retired Romanian handball player. He earned 212 caps with the national team, winning the world title in 1970 and 1974 and medalling at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics. After retiring from competitions he became a coach and sports official, appointed as Secretary of State for Youth and Sports in 1991–1993 and President of the Romanian Handball Federation in 1997–2014.

Valentin Samungi is a retired Romanian handball player. He won the world title in 1970 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1972.

Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, better known as Caroline Lacroix, was the most prominent and notorious of Leopold II of Belgium's mistresses.

Natalia Dumitresco was a French-Romanian abstract painter associated with the Réalités Nouvelles salon of Paris after the Second World War, a movement influenced by the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Alberto Magnelli. Other abstract expressionist painters associated with the Réalités Nouvelles include Serge Poliakoff and Alexandre Istrati. Dumitresco later married Alexandre Istrati

Medeea Ana-Maria Marinescu is a Romanian film actress. She played the role of Elena in the French films "Je vous trouve très beau"(2006) and Silvia in "Donnant Donnant" (2010)

Nicu Ceaușescu was a Romanian physicist and communist politician who was the youngest child of Romanian leaders Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered the President's heir presumptive.