List of Romanian Americans
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This is a list of notable Romanian-Americans.
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Contents |
[edit] Arts
- Alexandra Nechita - painter
- Jacquea Kapralik - artist[1]
- Antonio Luciano Pop - artist
- Amalia R. Pop - artist
- Rozalinda Vasai - artist
[edit] Business
- Peter Georgescu - chairman Emeritus, Young & Rubicam Inc.
- Joseph M. Juran - philantropist
- Stefan Minovici - CEO MIC & Associates INC
- Fabian Pascal - consultant to large software vendors
- John Rakolta Jr. - chairman and CEO, Walbridge Aldinger[2]
- George T. Haber - founder of Compcore and Gigapixel[citation needed]
[edit] Entertainment
- Samuel Bronston - film producer
- Lauren Bacall - actress[3]
- Christian Calson - filmaker
- I.A.L. Diamond - screenwriter[4]
- Stan Lee - comic book creator [5]
- Jean Negulesco - director[6]
- Edward G. Robinson - actor[7]
- John Houseman - actor and film producer
- Harvey Keitel - actor: Taxi Driver, Thelma and Louise, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction - just a few of his films [8]
- John Randolph - actor: Serpico, Prizzi's Honor. He is also a Tony Award winning actor [12]
- Steven Cojocaru - fashion critic, entertainment TV shows commentator, and celebrity interviewer [9]
[edit] Fashion
[edit] History
- Eugene Borza - professor of history at Pennsylvania State University
- Radu Florescu- emeritus professor of history at Boston College
[edit] Literature
- Andrew Calimach
- Nina Cassian - poet, journalist, film critic
- Andrei Codrescu
- Mircea Eliade
- Norman Manea
- Virgil Nemoianu - essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture
- Delmore Schwartz
- Saviana Stănescu - writer (poet, playwright)
- Matei Călinescu - professor at Indiana State University
- Saul Steinberg
- Ioan Petru Culianu - professor of divinity at the University of Chicago
[edit] Music
- Sergiu Comissiona - conductor and musician
- Michael Cretu - Musician creator of Enigma
- Angela Gheorghiu - soprano
- Alma Gluck - soprano
- Hugo Jan Huss - conductor
- Franz Kneisel - violinist and composer[10]
- Boris Levenson - composer
- P.F. Sloan - rock singer[citation needed]
[edit] Politics
- Martin Abern - politician
- Ion Mihai Pacepa - the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Eastern bloc
- Mircea Răceanu - diplomat
- Lia Roberts - former chairperson of the Nevada Republican Party, Honorary Consul for Romania in Las Vegas, and former Romanian presidential candidate
[edit] Religion
- Nathaniel Popp - Romanian Orthodox Archbishop
- Valerian Trifa - former archbishop of Romanian Orthodox Church of America and Canada
[edit] Science
- Andrei Alexandrescu
- Albert-László Barabási - scientist
- Adrian Bejan - professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University
- Tudor Ganea - mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology
- George Lusztig - mathematician, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ciprian Manolescu - mathematician
- Alexandru Marin - physicist
- George Emil Palade - Nobel Prize-winning biologist
- Gideon Rodan - biochemist and osteopath
- Napoleon Săvescu - physician
- Florentin Smarandache- professor of mathematics and science at the University of New Mexico
- David Wechsler - psychologist
- Dan-Virgil Voiculescu - mathematician, professor at the University of California, Berkeley
[edit] Sports
- Nadia Comaneci - Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
- Ernie Grunfeld - former NBA player
- Ely Culbertson - world champion bridge player
- Florin Felecan - chess FIDE Master
- Béla Károlyi - gymnastics coach
- Fred Lebow - founder of New York City Marathon
- Dominique Moceanu - US Olympic gymnast
- Stephen Negoesco - hall of fame soccer coach
- Teodora Ungureanu - gymnast
- Gheorghe Hagi - former captain of the Romania national football team
[edit] Theatre
- Andrei Şerban - director of theater and opera
[edit] Other
- Tony Alamo - controversial preacher, entrepreneur, singer
- Catherine Caradja - philantropist, aristocrat, Romanian expatriate to the U.S.
- George Pomutz - Union Brigadier General, commanded the 15th Iowa Regiment in the American Civil War
- Alexander Vraciu - World War II Navy pilot; ace[11]
- Daniel Negreanu - Professional Poker Player
- Vladimir Socor - specialist in the former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts
- Vladimir Tismăneanu - specialist in political systems and compared politics
- Dr. Adrian Gluck - inventor of the patented Memorabilia Cards, Surroundvision Imaging[citation needed]
[edit] References
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ [1] "the Romanian born Jacques Kapralik"
- ^ [2]
- ^ [3] Maternal Romanian-Jewish ancestry
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5] ".. Born in 1922 to poor working-class Jewish immigrants from Romania.. "
- ^ [6]
- ^ [7] "In 1904, as a 10-year-old Romanian Jewish immigrant named Manny Goldenberg, he was debating whether to become a rabbi or a lawyer. Instead, to our good fortune as movie fans, he became Edward G. Robinson, the movie star."
- ^ [8]
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