List of Famous people born in Romania

Octavian Goga was a nationalistic and, later, far-right Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.

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.

Gheorghe Argeșanu was a Romanian cavalry general and politician who served as a Prime Minister of Romania for about a week in 1939.

Katalin Varga was the leader of the Transylvanian Miners' Movement in the 1840s.

Gavriil Munteanu was a Romanian scientist and translator. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.

Carl Filtsch was a Transylvanian pianist and composer. He was a child prodigy, and student of Frédéric Chopin.

Joseph Moses Juran was a Romanian-American engineer and management consultant. He was an evangelist for quality and quality management, having written several books on those subjects. He was the brother of Academy Award winner Nathan Juran.

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. Urmuz's Bizarre Pages were largely independent of European modernism, even though some may have been triggered by Futurism; their valorization of nonsense verse, black comedy, nihilistic tendencies and exploration into the unconscious mind have repeatedly been cited as influential for the development of Dadaism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Individual pieces such as "The Funnel and Stamate", "Ismaïl and Turnavitu", "Algazy & Grummer" or "The Fuchsiad" are parody fragments, dealing with monstrous and shapeshifting creatures in mundane settings, and announcing techniques later taken up by Surrealism.

Corina Căprioriu is a Romanian judoka. She has competed under the name Corina Ștefan since her 2016 marriage to Romanian wrestler Gheorghiță Ștefan.

Saul Steinberg was a Romanian American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker, most notably View of the World from 9th Avenue. He described himself as "a writer who draws".