List of Famous people born in Maramureș County, Romania

Vasile Frank Timiș is a Romanian-Australian businessman living in London, with interests in mining and oil extraction industries. The Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth at £162m (US$238m) as of April 2008, making him the 497th richest person in Britain. The Romanian magazine Capital reckoned Timiș to be the 9th richest Romanian, estimating his wealth at $290m as of 2006. In 2012 he became the richest Romanian with a net worth of £1.34 billion (US$2.13 billion). A BBC News investigation alleged that Timiș paid £35.20 in tax in 2017 despite living a life of luxury, and included a statement from the Tax Justice Network suggesting that Timiș be investigated for tax fraud.

György Miklós Jakubinyi is a Romanian cleric, the former archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Sighetu Marmației, he attended school in his native town from 1952 to 1963 before beginning his religious training that year at the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia. Ordained a priest in 1969 by Áron Márton, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop at Șumuleu Ciuc in 1990. The following year, he became administrator of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania. He was made archbishop in 1994, and retired in 2019.

Gheorghe Mihali is a retired Romanian football defender and current manager.

Lucian Mureșan is the first and current Major Archbishop of the Greek Catholic Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. As Major Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, he is the head of the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic.

Paula Seling is a Romanian singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and television personality. Raised in Baia Mare, she attended Gheorghe Șincai National College and later moved to Bucharest to pursue a career in music.

Vasile Miriuță is a Romanian-born naturalized Hungarian football manager and former footballer. From December 2020, he is the head coach of Liga III side Minaur Baia Mare.

Alexandru Mesian is a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. Born in Ferneziu, now part of Baia Mare city, he graduated from Gheorghe Şincai High School. Admitted to the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Iași in 1957, Mesian was expelled on the orders of the communist authorities the same year, as he was from a family that belonged to the banned Greek-Catholic Church. He performed his military service from 1957 to 1960, working as a technician in Baia Mare from 1950 to 1990. Mesian studied theology and was ordained a priest in secret in 1965, emerging into the open in 1990, after the fall of the regime. In 1994, he was consecrated auxiliary bishop for the Lugoj Eparchy, advancing to bishop in 1996 with the retirement of Ioan Ploscaru.

Vasile Bizău is a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. He was born in Dragomireşti, Maramureș County into a Greek-Catholic family that continued in the faith while the church was banned under the communist regime. He graduated from high school in Baia Mare in 1988 and studied theology there from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 to 2000 he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome through the master's degree level, pursuing doctoral studies in the same city from 2001 to 2002. Ordained deacon in Giuleşti Commune in 1996, he became a priest the following year in Baia Mare. With his return to Romania in 2000, he became parish priest at two churches in Baia Mare, and started teaching at the Northern University. Elected bishop in 2007, he was proclaimed titular bishop of Appiaria by Pope Benedict XVI and consecrated at the Blaj Cathedral. In 2011, Archbishop Lucian Mureşan transferred Bizău to Baia Mare, where he became Bishop of Maramureş.