List of Famous people born in Sibiu, Romania

Klaus Werner Iohannis is the president of Romania. He became leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014, after having served as leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (DFDR/FDGR) from 2002 to 2013. Iohannis was a physics teacher and a school inspector before entering full-time politics.

Norbert von Hannenheim, with full name Norbert Wolfgang Stephan Hann von Hannenheim was an Austro-Hungarian-born German composer. He is seen as one of the most brilliant later pupils of Arnold Schoenberg.

Radu Vasile was a Romanian politician, historian, and poet.

Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.

Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and the American Robert Goddard.