List of Romanian Americans explained
This is a list of notable Romanian-Americans, including both original immigrants from Romania who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Academics
Literary critics
Mathematicians
- Alexandra Bellow – mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University
- Ana Caraiani – mathematician, member of the American Mathematical Society
- Ioana Dumitriu – mathematician, professor at the University of Washington
- Ciprian Foias – mathematician, distinguished professor at Texas A&M University
- Tudor Ganea – mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen – mathematician, statistician, and economist[2]
- Matei Machedon – mathematician, professor at the University of Maryland
- Ciprian Manolescu – mathematician, professor at Stanford University
- Florian Pop – mathematician, professor at the University of Pennsylvania
- Mihnea Popa – mathematician, professor at Northwestern University
- Sorin Popa – mathematician, professor at the University of California, Los Angeles
- Cristian Dumitru Popescu – mathematician, professor at the University of California, San Diego
- Ovidiu Savin – mathematician, professor at Columbia University
- Rodica Simion – mathematician, known for her work in combinatorics
- Ileana Streinu – mathematician, professor at Smith College
- Bogdan Suceavă – mathematician, professor at California State University Fullerton
- Dan-Virgil Voiculescu – mathematician, professor at the University of California, Berkeley
- Alexandru Zaharescu – mathematician, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Historians, sociologists and philosophers
Art
Architects
Business
Entertainment
Actors
Screenwriter, directors and producer of films and theatre
Singers and musicians
Sports
Law
Media/Journalism
Military
Politics
Religion
Sciences
Computer science
- Andrei Alexandrescu – computer scientist, worked as a research scientist at Facebook[65]
- Andrei Broder – computer scientist and distinguished scientist at Google
- Maria-Florina Balcan – computer scientist
- Mihaela Cardei – computer scientist and researcher, professor at Florida Atlantic University
- Flaviu Cristian – computer scientist, noted for his work in distributed systems
- Roxana Geambasu – computer scientist and associate professor of computer science at Columbia University
- Virgil Gligor – computer scientist, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, he has been inducted into the National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame
- Grigore Rosu – computer scientist, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Daniela Rus – director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Ion Stoica – computer scientist, professor of computer science at the University of California Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab
- Rada Mihalcea – computer scientist, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan
- Anca Mosoiu – computer scientist, credited with helping to build the tech industry in Oakland.
- Fabian Pascal – computer scientist, consultant to large software vendors such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, and Borland
- Matei Zaharia – computer scientist, creator of Apache Spark
Writers
- Stefan Baciu – poet
- John Balaban – poet
- Cristina A. Bejan – writer[66]
- Matei Călinescu – literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
- Ion Cârja – writer and anti-communist activist[67]
- Nina Cassian – poet, journalist, film critic[68]
- Andrei Codrescu – poet, writer, radio host[69]
- Thomas Pavel – literary theorist, critic, and novelist currently teaching at the University of Chicago[70]
- Norman Manea – writer[71]
- Valery Oișteanu – poet, art critic, writer, essayist, and photographer[72]
- Virgil Nemoianu – essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture[73]
- Michael Radu – political writer[74]
- Saviana Stănescu – writer (poet, playwright)[75]
- Dorin Tudoran – poet, writer, journalist[76]
- Marius Alexandru – Romanian-born author, poet and translator immigrated to the United States in 1997
Comics writers
Others
See also
Notes and References
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