List of Romanian Americans

Linguists

Matei Călinescu – professor at Indiana State University

Mathematics

Richard Wurmbrand – minister, author and educator

Adrian Bejan – professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University

Ciprian Foias - mathematician

Tudor Ganea – mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology

George Lusztig – mathematician, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ciprian Manolescu – mathematician

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – mathematician, statistician, and economist

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu – mathematician, professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Albert-László Barabási - physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory

Historians, sociologists and philosophers

Eugene Borza – professor of history at Pennsylvania State University

Radu Florescu – emeritus professor of history at Boston College

Ioan Petru Culianu – historian of religion

Mircea Eliade – philosopher, writer, historian of religions

Architect

Max Abramovitz – architect of Avery Fisher Hall

Haralamb H. Georgescu -architect

Business

John DeLorean – engineer, founder of the DeLorean Motor Company

M. B. "Bud" Seretean – former businessman and author, he founded Coronet Industries, a subsidiary of the RCA Corporation, and served as its President and Chairman of the Board.

Actors

Dustin Hoffman seven Academy Awards nominations, winning two (for his performances in Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man), thirteen Golden Globes nominations, winning six (including an honorary one) and has won four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, a Genie Award, and an Emmy Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012.

Bela Lugosi - born in Lugoj, Romania. Played Count Dracula

Natalie Portman - Academy Award-winning actress.

Mila Kunis - born in Cernăuți

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - born in Ohio, to a Romanian Jewish father.

Winona Ryder - her father's family emigrated from Romania. She has two Academy Award nominations.

Fran Drescher

Amanda Bynes

Sebastian Stan – actor

Harvey Keitel

Andrew Garfield

Jon Lovitz

Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan)

Elsa Pataky

Edward G. Robinson – actor

Adrian Zmed – actor best known from the T.J. Hooker television series.

Brian Unger – actor, comedian, writer, producer, and commentator.

Tim Conway - comedic actor ("The Carol Burnett Show") (Romanian mother)

George Burns - comedic actor

Michael Lerner (actor)

Lauren Bacall - actress (Romanian mother)

Screenwriter, directors and producer of films and theatre

Stanley Kubrick - his father's parents and paternal grandparents were of Romanian origin. He won numerous awards (including an Oscar) and is considered among the most important contributions to world cinema in the twentieth century and he is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time. The song from the orgy scene from Eyes Wide Shut is a Romanian orthodox prayer played backwards.

Jean Negulesco – film director and screenwriter

Petru Popescu – screenwriter from Hollywood and best-selling author

Andrei Șerban – director of theater and opera

Singers and musicians

Sergiu Comissiona – conductor and musician

Lucian Ban – jazz piano player, composer

Shelby Cinca – punk rock guitarist

Angela Gheorghiu – soprano

Alma Gluck – soprano

Virginia Zeani – soprano

Beverly Sills – soprano

Margareta Paslaru - pop singer, whose style and manner of performing is also very similar to the 1960s light pop music of Petula Clark and Barbra Streisand, with homes in both Bucharest and New Jersey, the latter where she has lived for over 30 years, ever since emigrating from Romania in 1983.

Christina Grimmie

The Alchemist

Necro (rapper)

Sports

Nadia Comăneci – Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics (defected to the United States in 1989)

Hank Greenberg - Baseball Hall of Famer

Corina Morariu – female former professional tennis player

Dominique Moceanu – US Olympic gymnast

Gheorghe Mureșan – former NBA player; lives in USA

Sam Paulescu – NFL punter

Lou Groza - (January 25, 1924 – November 29, 2000) was an American football placekicker and offensive tackle who played his entire career for the Cleveland Browns.

Hroniss Grasu - current NFL center for the Chicago Bears

Comics Writers

Will Eisner – comics writer, artist, and entrepreneur

Sandu Florea – illustrator, comic book, and comic strip creator

Stan Lee - comic book writer, editor, publisher and former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

Military

Nicolae Dunca – (1837–1862), Captain of the 12th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers from New York

George Pomutz – Union Brigadier General, commanded the 15th Iowa Regiment in the American Civil War

Alexander Vraciu – World War II Navy pilot; ace

Religious

Nathaniel Popp – Romanian Orthodox Archbishop

Marian Gh. Simion – Romanian-American scholar in religion, politics and conflict resolution

Valerian Trifa – former archbishop of Romanian Orthodox Church of America and Canada

Alexander Ratiu – former Romanian Greek-Catholic priest, political prisoner, and author

Solomon Schechter – educator and theologian

Alexander Rațiu – author, priest, and political prisoner

Solomon Schechter – educator and theologian

Scientists

George Emil Palade – Nobel Prize-winning biologist

Nicolae Popescu – doctor, scientific researcher at the National Institute of Health

Gideon Rodan – biochemist and osteopath

Horațiu Năstase – physicist and professor in the High energy physics group at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA.

Napoleon Săvescu – physician

Liviu Librescu - engineer at Virginia Tech

Vasile M. Popov

Rodica Baranescu

Mihai Nadin

Writers

Elie Wiesel - Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, holocaust survivor, and Nobel Laureate

Ion Cârja – writer and anti-communist activist

Nina Cassian – poet, journalist, film critic

Andrei Codrescu – poet, writer, radio host

Thomas Pavel – literary theorist, critic, and novelist currently teaching at the University of Chicago

Norman Manea – writer

Valery Oișteanu poet, art critic, writer, essayist, and photographer

Virgil Nemoianu – essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture

Saviana Stănescu – writer (poet, playwright)

Bogdan Suceavă - mathematician and writer, professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton

Dorin Tudoran – poet, writer, journalist

Naomi Wolf – American author

Others

Alexandra Nechita – painter

Michael Radu – Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia

Mircea Răceanu – diplomat

Andrei Alexandrescu – C++ programmer and author

Florin Felecan – chess FIDE Master

Ion Mihai Pacepa – general of Securitate

Dan Moldea – author and investigative journalist

Cristian Gheorghiu - contemporary artist

Catherine Caradja – philanthropist, aristocrat, Romanian expatriate to the U.S.

Vladimir Tismăneanu – specialist in political systems and compared politics

De Hirsh Margules - painters

Michael Dukakis - educator and politician (two times Governor of Massachusetts)

George de Bothezat - born in St Petersburg to Bessarabian family. engineer, inventor and pioneer of helicopter flight

George Julian Zolnay - Hungarian sculptor, called the "sculptor of the Confederacy"