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This is a list of some of the most prominent Romanians. It contains historical and important contemporary figures (athletes, actors, directors etc.). Most of the people listed here are of Romanian ethnicity, whose native tongue is Romanian.
The following list of Romanians by net worth includes the 10 wealthiest Romanians individuals and families as determined by Forbes Romania. In addition to the annual rankings published by Forbes Romania , six Romanians are also featured in The World's Billionaires by Forbes .
TV show's logo Stephen the Great, commemorated on some stamps from 2004, the winner of the contest. In 2006, Romanian Television (Televiziunea Română, TVR) conducted a vote to determine whom the general public considered the 100 Greatest Romanians of all time, in a version of the British TV show 100 Greatest Britons.
On the night of November 27, 1989, a few weeks before the Romanian revolution, Comăneci defected with a group of other Romanians, crossing the Hungary–Romania border around Cenad. They were guided by Constantin Panait, a Romanian who later became an American citizen after defecting.
Häns'che Weiss, famous for his Gypsy jazz style, won the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis; Hüsnü Şenlendirici – Turkish musician; Ion Voicu (1923–1997) – Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor, founder of Bucharest Chamber Orchestra; Irini Merkouri (born 1981) – Greek pop singer; Iva Bittová – Czech singer and violinist
Dustin Hoffman – actor and filmmaker (part Romanian-Jewish descent) [15] Harvey Keitel – actor and producer (Romanian Jewish mother) Tristan Leabu – actor; Andrea Marcovicci – actress and singer; Carl Reiner – comedian and actor (Romanian Jewish mother) Edward G. Robinson – actor (Romanian-Jewish descent) [16] [17] Sebastian Stan ...
Kira Hagi, actress [13] and daughter of famous footballer Gheorghe Hagi [14]; Manuela Hărăbor, actress; Emil Hossu, actor; John Houseman, actor (born in Romania to a French-born Jewish father and an English mother, made his career in the United States as an English-language film and television actor) [15]
The list contains people who born or lived in Transylvania. 15th century ... Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Romanian-Hungarian writer, Archbishop of Esztergom, ...