List of Famous people born in Romania
Réka Szőcs
Réka Szőcs is a Hungarian football goalkeeper currently playing in the Hungarian First Division for MTK Hungária, with whom she has also played the Champions League. She is a member of the Hungarian national team.
Jean Constantin
Jean Constantin was a well-known Romanian comedian of Greek ethnicity. Constantin was born in Techirghiol, and died in Constanţa.
Zoltán Kemény
Zoltán Kemény was a sculptor.
Adrian Năstase
Adrian Năstase is a Romanian former politician who was the Prime Minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.
Mihaela Dascălu
Mihaela Dascălu is a retired Romanian speed skater, and the most successful speed skater from that country.
Erwin Stoff
Erwin Stoff is a Romanian-born American film producer. He is best known for being the president of company 3 Arts Entertainment, Inc., based in Beverly Hills, CA. Among his credits are The Matrix, I Am Legend, Beautiful Creatures, Edge of Tomorrow, and 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. He is of Romanian-Jewish background.
Marcel Pavel
Marcel Pavel is a folk music singer in Romania. His singing talents brought him to the top of the Romanian charts more than once. In 2002, Marcel was elected as The best male voice. His first hit was "Frumoasa mea" by Ovidiu Komornyc. His latest album is "Te vreau langa mine". One of his songs: 'Unde esti?'(Where are you?) was chosen as the best song in 2001.
Mara Kayser
Elek Schwartz
Alexandru "Elek" Schwartz was a Romanian professional footballer and coach of the Netherlands national team. With S.L. Benfica he won the national Championship and Cup trophies of 1965 and led the club into the final of the European Champion Clubs' Cup.
Louis Dolivet
Louis Dolivet born as Ludovici Udeanu was an émigré writer, editor of Free World, film producer, and alleged Soviet spy born in Austria-Hungary, who later obtained French citizenship. From 1942–1949, he was married to Academy Award and Tony Award winning actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, of the prominent American Whitney family.