List of Famous people born in Cluj County, Romania

Abraham Wald

First Name Abraham
Last Name Wald
Born on October 31, 1902
Died on December 13, 1950 (aged 48)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Abraham Wald was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician who contributed to decision theory, geometry, and econometrics, and founded the field of statistical sequential analysis. One of the well known statistical works of his during World War 2 was how to minimize the damage to bomber aircraft taking into account the survivorship bias in his calculations. He spent his researching years at Columbia University.

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Ladislaus Löb

First Name Ladislaus
Born on May 8, 1933
Died on October 2, 2021 (aged 88)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Ladislaus Löb was a writer, translator, Holocaust survivor, scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment and Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He was the author of From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama (1974); a monograph, in German, on the nineteenth-century dramatist Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1996); and Dealing with Satan: Rezső Kasztner's Daring Rescue Mission (2008), in which he recounts his experiences an 11-year old boy sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and freed as the result of a controversial deal that Rezső Kasztner brokered with Adolf Eichmann.

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Eugen Cicero

First Name Eugen
Died on December 5, 1997 (aged 27)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Eugen Cicero, born Eugen Ciceu, nicknamed "Mister Golden Hands", was a Romanian-German jazz pianist who performed in the mixed classical-swing style.

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Matthias Corvinus

First Name Matthias
Last Name Corvinus
Born on February 23, 1443
Died on April 6, 1490 (aged 47)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I, was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and adopted the title Duke of Austria in 1487. He was the son of John Hunyadi, Regent of Hungary, who died in 1456. In 1457, Matthias was imprisoned along with his older brother, Ladislaus Hunyadi, on the orders of King Ladislaus the Posthumous. Ladislaus Hunyadi was executed, causing a rebellion that forced King Ladislaus to flee Hungary. After the King died unexpectedly, Matthias's uncle Michael Szilágyi persuaded the Estates to unanimously proclaim Matthias king on 24 January 1458. He began his rule under his uncle's guardianship, but he took effective control of government within two weeks.

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Benjamin Adegbuyi

Benjamin Adekunle Miron Adegbuyi
First Name Benjamin
Last Name Adegbuyi
Born on January 24, 1985 (age 39)
Born in Romania, Cluj County
Height 198 cm | 6'6

Benjamin Adekunle Miron Adegbuyi is a Romanian kickboxer and professional boxer. He is a two-time Glory Heavyweight Championship challenger and three-time winner of heavyweight tournament. Adegbuyi is also Superkombat World Grand Prix III 2012 tournament winner and 2018 Glory Heavyweight Grand Prix tournament runner-up. A professional since 2011, he also fought in K-1.

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Emil Jula

First Name Emil
Born on January 3, 1980
Died on August 22, 2020 (aged 40)
Born in Romania, Cluj County
Height 192 cm | 6'4

Emil Gabriel Jula was a Romanian professional footballer who played as a striker.

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Gheorghe Mureșan

First Name Gheorghe
Last Name Mureșan
Born on February 14, 1971 (age 53)
Born in Romania, Cluj County
Height 232 cm | 7'7

Gheorghe Dumitru Mureșan, also known as "Big Ghiță", is a Romanian retired professional basketball player. At 7 feet 7 inches (2.31 m), he is the tallest player ever to have played in the NBA.

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Olimpiu Moruțan

First Name Olimpiu
Born on April 25, 1999 (age 24)
Born in Romania, Cluj County
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Olimpiu Vasile Moruțan is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for Süper Lig club Galatasaray and the Romania national team.

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Virginia Ruzici

First Name Virginia
Last Name Ruzici
Born on January 31, 1955 (age 69)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Virginia Ruzici is a former professional tennis player from Romania. She won the 1978 French Open singles championship.

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Yehoshua Blau

First Name Yehoshua
Born on September 22, 1919
Died on October 20, 2020 (aged 101)
Born in Romania, Cluj County

Yehoshua Blau was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, previously Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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