List of Famous people born in Romania

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

Daniel Gabriel Pancu is a Romanian former footballer who played mainly as an attacking midfielder or a forward.

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

Princess Elena Bibescu was a Romanian noblewoman and pianist, regarded as one of the greatest pianists of Europe in the nineteenth century.

Ion Iliescu is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as President of Romania from 1989 to 1996 and from 2000 until his retirement in 2004. Iliescu was a senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), of which he is the founder and honorary president.

György Kurtág is a Hungarian classical composer and pianist. He was an academic teacher of piano at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music from 1967, later also of chamber music, and taught until 1993.