{{Short description|none}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2007}} {{Jews by country}} This is a '''list of [[Romanian name|Romanian]] Jews''' who are or were Jewish or of Jewish ancestry.
==Academics== * [[Aaron Aaronsohn]], botanist * [[Yaakov Bar-Shalom]], electrical engineer * [[J. J. Benjamin]], historian * [[Martin Bercovici]], energy engineer * [[Noël Bernard (journalist)|Noël Bernard]], journalist * [[Randolph L. Braham]], political scientist, historian * [[Nicolae Cajal]], virologist and Jewish community leader * [[Gedeon Dagan]], hydrologist * [[Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea]], sociologist and Marxist theorist * [[Lazăr Edeleanu]], chemist * [[Zicman Feider]], biologist, acarologist<ref>''Contribution of the Romanian Jews to Culture and Civilisation'', Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania, Hasefer Press, Bucharest, 2004, {{ISBN|973-630-067-6}}</ref> * [[Herman Finer]], political scientist<ref>[https://www.grazian-archive.com/autobiography/student/STUS12.htm] "Mr. Herman Finer, an Englishman, Jewish"; born Jassy, Roumania (Who was Who)</ref> *[[Peter Freund]], theoretical physicist * [[Moses Gaster]], ''hakham'' (Sephardi scholar & Rabi), linguist (Hebrew, Romanian), early Zionist leader * [[Lucien Goldmann]], philosopher, critic, sociologist * [[Alexandru Graur]], linguist * [[Michael Harsgor]], historian * [[Joseph M. Juran]], industrial engineer * [[Ernest Klein]], linguist * Charles H. Kremer, dentist and war-crimes investigation activist<ref>{{cite web|last1=Blumenthal|first1=Ralph|title=DR. CHARLES KREMER, 89, DIES; PRESSED TRIFA WAR CRIME CASE|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/28/obituaries/dr-charles-kremer-89-dies-pressed-trifa-war-crime-case.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=30 July 2016|language=English|date=28 May 1987}}</ref> * [[Liviu Librescu]], physicist<ref>''[[Jewish Chronicle]]'', Apr 20 2007 p.3</ref> * [[Mario Livio]], astrophysicist * [[Edward Luttwak]], economist and historian * [[Norman Manea]], writer and college professor * [[Meinhard E. Mayer]], physicist * [[Serge Moscovici]], social psychologist * [[Victor Neumann]], historian and political analyst * [[Andrei Oișteanu]], historian and anthropologist * [[Zigu Ornea]], literary critic * [[Julius Popper]], explorer * [[Lazăr Șăineanu]], (Eliezer Schein) linguist and folklorist * [[Itamar Singer]] (1946–2012), Israeli historian * [[Heimann Hariton Tiktin]], linguist * [[Vladimir Tismăneanu]], historian and political analyst * [[David Wechsler]], psychologist * [[Avram Leib Zissu]], political leader, Zionist activist, author, opinion journalist
===Mathematicians=== * [[Peter Constantin]], mathematician * [[David Emmanuel (mathematician)|David Emmanuel]], mathematician * [[Murray Gerstenhaber]] (1927–2024), mathematician and lawyer * [[Sergiu Hart]], mathematician, economist * [[George Lusztig]], mathematician * [[Sergiu Klainerman]], mathematician * [[Solomon Marcus]], mathematician * [[Isaac Jacob Schoenberg]], mathematician
==Artists== * [[Avigdor Arikha]], painter * [[Victor Brauner]], painter and photographer * [[Sorel Etrog]], sculptor * [[André François (cartoonist)|André François]], painter and graphic artist * [[Idel Ianchelevici]], sculptor * [[Marcel Iancu]], architect and painter * [[Iosif Iser]], painter * [[Isidore Isou]], [[Letterist]] * [[Alex Leon]], painter * [[Moissaye Marans]], sculptor * [[M. H. Maxy]], painter * [[Constantin Daniel Rosenthal]], painter * [[Reuven Rubin]], painter * [[Herman Sachs]], muralist * [[Arthur Segal (painter)|Arthur Segal]], painter * [[Saul Steinberg]], cartoonist * [[Hedda Sterne]], painter, sculptor and graphic artist * [[Nicolae Vermont]], painter and graphic artist * [[Jean Weinberg]], photographer * [[Medi Dinu]], painter
==Business people== * [[Max Auschnitt]], financier * [[Emil Calmanovici]], financier and communist activist * [[Safra Catz]], business executive * [[Solomon Leibovici]], financier * [[Eduardo Saverin]] (grandson of a Romanian Jew), co-founder of [[Facebook]]
==Film and stage figures== * [[Israil Bercovici]], playwright * [[Lauren Bacall]], actress * [[Lucian Bratu]], director/film producer * [[Christian Calson]], director/writer * [[I. A. L. Diamond]], screenwriter * [[Abraham Goldfaden]], founder of Yiddish-language theater * [[Henric Hirsch]], director * [[Marin Karmitz]], director, producer * [[Elina Löwensohn]], actress * [[Sigmund Mogulesko]] *[[Maia Morgenstern]] (1962 - ) film and stage actress<sup>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110713103806/http://new.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1529]</sup> * [[Bernard Natan]], film producer * [[Ovitz family]], circus actors and traveling musicians * [[Edward G. Robinson]], actor * [[Winona Ryder]], actress * [[Abba Schoengold]]<ref>[[Jacob Pavlovich Adler|Jacob Adler]], "A Life on the Stage: A Memoir", translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, {{ISBN|0-679-41351-0}}. 68, 125, 203, 221</ref> * [[Dumitru Solomon]], playwright * [[Jacob Sternberg]], director * [[Yael Stone]], actress
==Miscellaneous== * [[Iancu Țucărman]], Holocaust and [[Iași pogrom]] survivor<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newsweek.ro/actualitate/a-murit-iancu-tucarman-penultimul-supravietuitor-al-trenurilor-mortii-din-timpul-pogromului|title=A murit Iancu Țucărman, penultimul supraviețuitor al "trenurilor morții" din timpul Pogromului|first=Alex|last=Darvari|newspaper=Newsweek România|date=9 January 2021|language=ro}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://adevarul.ro/news/societate/iancu-Tucarman-supravietuitor-pogromului-iasi-murit-cauza-covid-19-1_5ff8c5ae5163ec4271bc21c6/index.html|title=Iancu Țucărman, supraviețuitor al Pogromului de la Iași, a murit din cauza COVID-19|first=George Andrei|last=Cristescu|newspaper=[[Adevărul]]|date=8 January 2021|language=ro}}</ref>
==Musicians== * [[Art Garfunkel]], composer, singer-songwriter * [[Dana International]], Israeli singer and musician * [[Shlomo Artzi]], musician now living in Israel * [[Dan Bittman]], singer * [[Alexander Uriah Boskovich]], composer * [[Dumitru Bughici]] composer, pianist * [[Sergiu Comissiona]], conductor, violinist * [[Alma Gluck]], soprano * [[Sarah Gorby]] singer * [[Clara Haskil]], pianist * [[Philip Herschkowitz]], music theorist and composer * [[Gabriel Iranyi]], composer * [[Mindru Katz]], pianist * [[Max Leibowitz]] violinist and bandleader * [[Sammy Lerner]], composer * [[Yoel Levi]], conductor * [[Sergiu Luca]], violinist * [[Radu Lupu]], pianist * [[Silvia Marcovici]], violinist * [[Ion Marin]], conductor * [[Abraham Moskowitz]], singer and theatre actor * [[Joseph Moskowitz]], klezmer musician * [[Moishe Oysher]], cantor and singer * [[Simon Paskal]] singer, cantor and theatre actor * [[Mendi Rodan]]. conductor, composer and violinist. * [[Beverly Sills]], opera singer
==Political figures== * [[Martin Abern]], Trotskyist activist * [[Colette Avital]], Israeli politician * [[Davicion Bally]], public servant * [[Olga Bancic]], communist activist * [[Silviu Brucan]], communist politician and dissident * [[Simion Bughici]], communist politician * [[Avram Bunaciu]], communist politician * [[Iosif Chişinevschi|Iosif Chișinevschi]], communist politician * [[Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea]], communist activist * [[Mișu Dulgheru]], communist activist, spy * [[Miriam Eshkol]], wife of Israeli Prime Minister [[Levi Eshkol]] * [[Max Goldstein]], communist activist * [[Michael Howard]], British politician * [[Serge and Beate Klarsfeld|Serge Klarsfeld]], anti-Nazi activist * [[David Korner]], Trotskyist activist * [[Alex Kozinski]], judge * [[Leon Lichtblau]], communist activist * [[Samuel Leibowitz]], attorney * [[Vasile Luca]], communist politician * [[Gheorghe Gaston Marin]], communist politician * [[Nati Meir]], politician * [[Ghiță Moscu]], communist activist and politician * [[Alexandru Nicolschi]], communist politician * [[Ana Pauker]], communist politician * [[Marcel Pauker]], communist politician * [[Mircea Răceanu]], diplomat and dissident (Jewish father) * [[Leonte Răutu]], communist politician * [[Valter Roman]], communist politician * [[Petre Roman]], politician (Jewish father) * [[Leonte Tismăneanu]], communist politician * [[Ghizela Vass]], communist activist
==Religious figures== * [[Moses Gaster]], rabbi, philologist, community leader, early Zionist * [[David L. Genuth]], rabbi * [[Ernest Klein]], rabbi * [[Moses Rosen]], rabbi * [[Moses Josef Rubin]], rabbi * [[Alexandru Șafran]], rabbi * [[Meir Shapiro]], rabbi * [[Nicolae Steinhardt]], Christian Orthodox monk (Jewish father) * [[Richard Wurmbrand]], minister of religion
==Sportspeople==
===Baseball===
[[File:KevinYouklis.jpg|thumb|right|200px|All Star [[Kevin Youkilis]]]] * [[Harry Feldman]] * [[Hank Greenberg]] * [[Bud Selig]] * [[Kevin Youkilis]]
===Basketball=== * [[Ernie Grunfeld]], Romania-born US, NBA 6' 6" guard/forward & GM, Olympic champion<ref name="jewishvirtuallibrary1">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/basketballtoc.html |title=Jews in Sports: Basketball |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|date= |accessdate=May 25, 2010}}</ref>
===Boxing=== * [[Victor Zilberman]], boxer
===Canoeing=== * [[Leon Rotman]], sprint canoer, 2x Olympic champion (C-1 10,000 meter, C-1 1,000-meter) and bronze (C-1 1,000-meter), 14 national titles
===Chess=== * [[Abraham Baratz]], chess player * [[Alexandru Tyroler]], chess player * [[Bernardo Wexler]], chess player
===Fencing=== * [[Andre Spitzer]], fencing master and coach
===Football=== * [[Itay Shechter]], soccer player * [[Avi Strool]], soccer player * [[Samuel Zauber]], late soccer player * [[Rudolf Wetzer]], late soccer player * [[Jack Moisescu]], late soccer player * [[Elemer Hirsch]], late soccer player * [[Nicolae Hönigsberg]], late soccer player * [[Norberto Höfling]], late soccer player
===Table tennis=== * [[Angelica Rozeanu]] (Adelstin), Romania/Israel, 17x world champion, ITTFHoF
==Writers== * [[Aharon Appelfeld]] (1932–2018), novelist and Holocaust survivor * [[Iuliu Barasch]], physician and writer * [[Zelig Bardichever]], poet and songwriter * [[Max Blecher]], writer * [[Srul Bronshtein]], poet * [[Nina Cassian]], poet * [[Paul Celan]], poet * [[Andrei Codrescu]], poet and essayist * [[Vladimir Colin]], short story writer and novelist * [[Benjamin Fondane]], poet, playwright, and literary critic * [[Abraham Goldfaden]], poet and playwright * [[Alexandru Hâjdeu]], writer, founding member of the [[Romanian Academy]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqUKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA756 | title=Basarabia in secolul XIX | last1=Arbure | first1=Zamfir C. | date=1898}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FUkcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA855 | title=The Reform Advocate | date=1914}}</ref><ref>http://filosofieromaneasca.uv.ro/bogdanpetriceicuhasdeu.htm{{Dead link|date=May 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.muzeulhasdeu.ro/index.php?meniu=11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420193005/http://www.muzeulhasdeu.ro/index.php?meniu=11 | archive-date=20 April 2009 | title=Home}}</ref> * [[Zeydl Shmuel-Yehuda Helman]], songwriter, journalist and actor * [[D. Iacobescu]], poet * [[Isidore Isou]], poet * [[Irving Layton]], poet * [[Stan Lee]] (1922–2018) born Stanley Martin Lieber, writer, editor, publisher, and co-creator of most of the Marvel Comics Universe. * [[Gherasim Luca]], poet * [[Isac Ludo]], novelist * [[Norman Manea]], novelist * [[Cilibi Moise]], storyteller and humorist * [[Florin Mugur]], author (poetry, prose, essays) * [[Sașa Pană]], poet and short story writer * [[Maurice Samuel]], novelist * [[Elias Schwarzfeld]], historian and novelist * [[Mihail Sebastian]], playwright * [[Nicolae Steinhardt]], writer (Jewish father) * [[Alexandru Toma]], poet * [[Tristan Tzara]], poet and essayist, founder of [[Dadaism]] * [[Tudor Vianu]], literary critic * [[Ilarie Voronca]], poet and essayist * [[Elie Wiesel]], writer * [[Haralamb Zincă]] (Hary Isac Zilberman), writer * [[Gellu Naum]], poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator (Jewish Mother, Maria Naum née Rosa Gluck)
==See also== *[[History of the Jews in Romania]] *[[:Category:American people of Romanian-Jewish descent]]
==References== <references/>
{{Lists of Jews by country|noredlinks=yes}}
[[Category:Lists of Jews by nationality|Romanian]] [[Category:Romanian Jews| ]] [[Category:Lists of Romanian people|Jews]] [[Category:Lists of people by ethnicity|Jews, Romanian]]