List of Romanian Americans
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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