List of Romanian Americans

This is a list of notable Romanian-Americans. Pages in category "Romanian-Americans" There are 40 pages in this section of this category.* Romanian-American

Authors

• John Balaban, author, anti-Vietnam War activist, Poet-in-Residence and English professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina description
• Andrei Codrescu, author, humorist, English professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• Mircea Eliade, historian of religions and fantasy writer
• Norman Manea, writer
• Andrew Calimach, author of many Greek mithology]] books
• Claudia Moscovici, writer
• Saul Steinberg, cartoonist and illustrator

Entertainment

• I.A.L. Diamond, movie scenarist
• Brad Dourif, actor
• Jean Negulesco, Film Director
• Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for roles in gangster films
• Jacques Kapralik artist and writer of theater stories
• Johnny Weissmuller, actor famous for his portrayals of Tarzan, US Olympic gold medalist in swimming
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress
• Adrian Zmed, actor, 1980s, best-known as Officer Vince Romano in T.J. Hooker.
• Art Garfunkel, actor and singer

Sports

• Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics]
• Béla Károlyi, world renowed gymnastics coach; has coached Romania's and United States olympic teams
• Ely Culbertson world champion bridge player
• Ernie Grunfeld former NBA player
• Dominique Moceanu, US Olympic gymnast

Arts

• Alexandra Nechita, recognised painter

Music

• Sergiu Comissiona, conductor and musician
• Franz Kneisel violonist and composer
• Hugo Jan Huss orchestra conductor

Business

• Peter Georgescu, Chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam Inc.
• John Rakolta Jr., Chairman and CEO, Walbridge Aldinger
• John Rakolta Sr., Chairman and CEO, Walbridge Aldinger

Science

• Alexandru Marin, 1945 - 2005, physicist, professor at MIT, Boston University and Harvard. Major works include MUON detector at CERN
• Gideon Rodan, biochemist and osteopath
• Fabian Pascal, consultant of large software vendors
• Sergiu Gorun, Professor of Chemistry at Brown University
• David Wechsler, psychologist; developped many intelligence scales
• George Emil Palade, biologist, discoverer of ribosomes, Nobel Prize winner
• Napoleon Săvescu, physician famous for being the supporter of some controversial theories regarding the origins and history of Dacians and Romanians
• Vasile Popov, is a leading System theoryt and control engineering specialist;well known for having developed a method to analyze stability of nonlinear dynamical systems

Politics

• Gheorghe Gaston Marin, communist politician
• Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-level defector from the Soviet bloc
• Lia Roberts, Republican Party fund-raiser, former chairperson of the Nevada Republican Party, Honorary Consul for Romania in Las Vegas, and former Romanian presidential candidate

Other

• Adrian Gluck, inventor of Memorabilia cards, Surroundvision imaging, 3-D Statugraphy, Mappick mapping system
• Ioan P. Culianu, professor at University of Chicago, expert in gnosticism and Mediaeval magic
• Alma Gluck , soprano, first person to sell one million copies of a record: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
• George Pomutz, Union Brigadier General who commanded the 15th Iowa Regiment in the American Civil War
• Nathaniel Popp, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop
• Alexander Vraciu, World War II Navy pilot, ace [1]
• Florin Felecan, chess FIDE Master