List of Famous people born in Romania
Claudiu Niculescu
Claudiu Iulian Niculescu is a Romanian football coach and former striker. From January 2021, he is the head coach of Liga II side Concordia Chiajna.
Marius Baciu
Marius Achim Baciu is a Romanian former player and current football manager of Saudi Arabian club Al-Taqadom.
Marcel Lupovici
Henri Coandă
Henri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others. He invented a great number of devices, designed a "flying saucer" and discovered the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics.
Lajos Márk
Sebastian Kräuter
Sebastian Kräuter was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Timișoara diocese in Romania between 1990 and 1999.
Horațiu Rădulescu
Horațiu Rădulescu was a Romanian-French composer, best known for the spectral technique of composition.
Augustin Pacha
Augustin Pacha was a Romanian cleric, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara. Born into a Banat Swabian family in Măureni (Moritzfeld), Caraş-Severin County, he was the twelfth of thirteen children and his father was a shoemaker. Following theological studies at the diocesan seminary in Timișoara, he was ordained a priest in 1893 in the city's Roman Catholic cathedral. In 1927 he was consecrated bishop at the Timișoara cathedral, becoming titular bishop of Lebedus. Three years later, he became the first Bishop of Timișoara, a diocese succeeding the former one at Cenad, the last bishop having departed Romania in 1923, leaving Pacha as Apostolic Administrator. In February 1934, alarmed by rising Nazi sentiment among the Swabians of his diocese, he visited Adolf Hitler, receiving a polite reply to his complaints but no concrete action.
Dinu Lipatti
Constantin "Dinu" Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from causes related to Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.
Cornel Țălnar
Cornel Țălnar is a Romanian football manager and former player.