List of people from Bucharest

This is a list of native Bucharesters.

A

Otto Ackermann (1909–1960), conductor
Anda Adam (born 1980), singer and model
Gheorghe Adamescu (1869–1942), literary historian and bibliographer
Olivia Addams (born 1996), singer
Adena, singer
Viorica Agarici (1886–1979), nurse and philanthropist, Righteous Among the Nations
Adolf Albin (1848–1920), chess player
Mircea Albulescu (1934–2016), actor
Radu Aldulescu (born 1954), novelist
Dan Andrei Aldea (1950–2020), singer
Liana Alexandra (1947–2011), composer, pianist, and music educator
Andrei Alexandrescu (born 1969), Romanian-American C++ and D language programmer and author
George Alexandru (1957–2016), actor
Nicoleta Alexandru (born 1968), singer
Florin-Alexandru Alexe (born 1979), economist and politician
Marius Alexe (born 1990), footballer
Paul Alexiu (1893–1963), general
Barbu Alinescu (1890–1952), general
Mosko Alkalai (1931–2008), Israeli actor
Radu Almășan (born 1980), singer
Melek Amet (1960–2008), model
Doru Ana (1954–2022), actor
David Andelman (born 1955), Israeli theoretical physicist
Aurelian Andreescu (1942—1986), singer
Eva Andrei, American physicist
Ion Andreescu (1850–1882), painter
Mihail Andricu (1894–1974), singer
Ion Valentin Anestin (1900–1963), graphic artist, engraver, painter, sculptor, journalist, and dramatist
Luminița Anghel (born 1968), dance/pop recording artist, songwriter, and politician
Babis Angourakis (1951–2014), Greek politician
Edward Aninaru (born 1976), photographer
Constantin Anton (1894–1993), general
Kristaq Antoniu (1907–1979), singer
Mitzura Arghezi (1924–2015), actress and politician
Dan Apostol (1957–2013), writer
Carol Ardeleanu (1883–1949), writer
Tudor Arghezi (1880–1967), writer
Costache Aristia (1800–1880), poet, actor, and translator
Ștefan Arteni (1947–2020), artist, painter, calligrapher, architect, philosopher, historian, essayist, and translator
Constantin C. Arion (1855–1923), politician
Bazil Assan (1860–1918), engineer, explorer, and economist
Alina Astafei (born 1969), track and field athlete
Alexandru Athanasiu (born 1955), politician and jurist
Genica Athanasiou (1897–1966), Romanian-French actress
Vera Atkins (1908–2000), British intelligence officer
Bogdan Aurescu (b. 1973), lawyer, diplomat and politician
Colette Avital (born 1940), Israeli diplomat and politician
Ana-Maria Avram (born 1961), composer
Chris Avram (1931–1989), actor

B

Emanoil Bacaloglu (1830–1891), mathematician, physicist, and chemist
Laura Badea-Cârlescu (b. 1970), fencer, Olympic, World and European champion in foil, International Fencing Hall of Famer
Constantin Banu (1873–1940), writer, journalist, and politician
Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin (born 1936), Israeli judge
Eugen Barbu (1924–1993), novelist, short story writer, and journalist
Linda Maria Baros (born 1981), poet, translator, and literary critic
Cezar Bădiță (born 1979), swimmer
Alexander Bălănescu (born 1954), violinist
Nicolae Bălcescu (1819–1852), soldier, historian, and journalist
Radu Bălescu (1932–2006), Romanian and Belgian scientist
Irina-Camelia Begu (born 1990), tennis player
Alexandra Bellow (born 1935), mathematician
Joana Benedek (born 1972), Romanian-Mexican actress
Marthe Bibesco (1886–1973), Romanian-French writer, socialite, and political hostess
Andreea Bibiri (born 1975), actress
Ingrid Bisu (born 1987), actress
Claudiu Bleonț (born 1959), actor
Lucian Boia (born 1944), historian
Cezar Bolliac (1813–1881), archaeologist, journalist, and poet
Dan Bordeianu (born 1975), actor
Mircea Bornescu (born 1980), footballer
Constantin Bosianu (1815–1882), jurist and politician
Ana Maria Brânză (born 1984), épée fencer
Vintilă Brătianu (1867–1930), construction engineer, mayor of Bucharest and Prime Minister of Romania
Emilian Bratu (1904–1991), chemical engineer
Florin Bratu (born 1980), footballer
Roxana Briban (1971–2010), operatic soprano
Silviu Brucan (1916–2006), communist politician
Dionis Bubani (1926–2006), Albanian writer, playwright, humorist, and translator
Dragoș Bucur (born 1977), actor
Gheorghe Bucur (born 1980), football player
Doina Bumbea (1950–1997), artist and abductee in North Korea

C

Alexandra Cadanțu (born 1990), tennis player
Nicolae Cajal (1919–2004), Jewish physician, academic, politician and philanthropist
Rukmini Maria Callimachi (born 1973), Romanian-American journalist and poet
Christian Calson (born 1975), Romanian-American independent filmmaker
Constantin Cantacuzino (1905–1958), aviator
Catherine Caradja (1893–1993), aristocrat and philanthropist
Costache Caragiale (1815–1877), actor and theatre manager
Mateiu Caragiale (1885–1936), poet and prose writer
Toma Caragiu (1925–1977), theatre, television and film actor
Ion Caramitru (1942–2021), stage and film actor
Nae Caranfil (born 1960), film director and screenwriter
Barbu Catargiu (1807–1862), politician and journalist
Paul Cazan (born 1951), football player
Vera Călin (1921–2013), Romanian-American literary critic, essayist and translator
George Călinescu (1899–1965), literary critic, historian, novelist and journalist
Ion I. Câmpineanu (1841–1888), politician, mayor of Bucharest and the first head of the National Bank of Romania
Gabriel Cânu (born 1981), footballer
Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956), poet, novelist and essayist
Nicu Ceaușescu (1951–1996), the youngest child of Romanian leader Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu
Remus Cernea (born 1974), activist
Nicole Cherry (born 1998), singer
Hristu Chiacu (born 1986), footballer
Maia Ciobanu (born 1952), composer and music educator
Victor Ciocâltea (1932–1983), chess master
Liviu Ciulei (1923–2011), theater and film director, film writer, actor, architect, educator, costume, and set designer
Henri Coandă (1886–1972), inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, and builder of an experimental aircraft
Alina Cojocaru (born 1981), ballet dancer
Dragoș Coman (born 1980), swimmer
Sergiu Comissiona (1928–2005), Romanian-Israeli-American conductor and violinist
Corneliu Coposu (1914–1995), politician and communist detainee
Grigore C. Crăiniceanu (1852–1935), military officer, War Minister, and member of the Romanian Academy
Michael Cretu (born 1957), Romanian–German musician
Nicolae Crețulescu (1812–1900), medical doctor and politician, second Prime Minister of Romania following the assassination of Barbu Catargiu; one of the first presidents of the Romanian Academy
Sergiu Cunescu (1923–2005), social democratic politician

D

Horia Damian (1922–2012), painter and sculptor
Alexandru Darie (1959–2019), theater director
Cella Delavrancea (1887–1991), pianist, writer, and teacher of piano
Henrieta Delavrancea (1897–1987), architect
Lucia Demetrius (1910–1992), novelist, poet, playwright, and translator
Cristian Diaconescu (born 1959), jurist and politician
Gheorghe Dinică (1934–2009), actor
Neagu Djuvara (1916–2018), historian, essayist, philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat
Dora d'Istria (1828–1888), Wallachian-born Romantic writer and feminist of Albanian descent
Ion G. Duca (1879–1933), prime minister of Romania (1933)
Florea Dumitrache (1948–2007), football player and twice winner of the Romanian Footballer of the Year award

E

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), historian of religion, fiction writer, and philosopher
David Emmanuel (1854–1941), mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy

F

Ștefan Fălcoianu (1835–1905), army general who served as Chief of the Romanian General Staff and War Minister
Nicolae Filimon (1819–1865), novelist and short-story writer
Nicolae Filipescu (1862–1916), politician, mayor of Bucharest
Răzvan Fodor (born 1975), singer and actor

G

Grigore Gafencu (1892–1957), politician, diplomat and journalist
Moses Gaster (1856–1939), Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar and a Hebrew linguist
Cristian Gațu (b. 1945), former handball player, twice winner of the World Championship with Romania and twice winner of the European Champions Cup with Steaua București
Alex Geana (born 1979), Romanian-American photographer and writer
Mircea Geoană (born 1958), politician
Dudu Georgescu (b. 1950), football player and twice winner of the European Golden Shoe
Haralamb H. Georgescu (1908–1977), modernist architect
Spiridon Georgescu [ro] (1887–1974), sculptor
Florin Gheorghiu (born 1944), chess player
Dimitrie Ghica (1816–1897), army officer, police prefect, politician, mayor of Bucharest and Prime Minister of Romania
Ion Ghica (1816–1897), revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and politician
Alexandru Ghika (1902–1964), mathematician
Dinu C. Giurescu (1927–2018), historian and politician, son of Constantin C. Giurescu
Alexandru G. Golescu (1819–1881), politician
Gheorghe Gruia (1940–2015), handball player and twice world champion, named Greatest Handball Player of All Time by the International Handball Federation (IHF)

H

Clara Haskil (1895–1960), classical pianist
Nicolae Herlea (1927–2014), opera singer, baritone
Dragomir Hurmuzescu (1865–1954), physicist and inventor
John Houseman (1902–1988), Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer

I

Andrei Iancu (born 1968), Romanian-American engineer and intellectual property attorney
Andrew Ilie (born 1976), tennis player
Cristina Ionda, actress
Cassius Ionescu-Tulcea (1923–2021), mathematician
Andrei Ioniță (born 1994), cellist
Anghel Iordănescu (born 1950), footballer and manager of the national football team
Edward Iordănescu (born 1978), football manager and former player
Diana Iovanovici Șoșoacă (born 1975), Romanian lawyer and politician
Iosif Iser (1881–1958), painter and graphic artist
Petre Ispirescu (1830–1887), folklorist and publicist
Nora Iuga (born 1931), poet, writer, and translator

J

Marcel Janco (1895–1984), Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist

K

Ioan Kalinderu (1840–1913), law professor, writer, silviculturist, confidant of King Carol I and head of the Romanian Academy
Karmen (born 1997), singer
Marin Karmitz (born 1938), French businessman
Sergiu Klainerman (born 1950), mathematician
Franz Kneisel (1865–1926), Romanian-American violinist
Alex Kozinski (born 1950), judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

L

Traian Lalescu (1882–1929), mathematician
Alexandra Maria Lara (born 1978), Romanian-born German actress
Dinu Lipatti (1917–1950), classical pianist and composer
Monica Lovinescu (1923–2008), essayist, short story writer, literary critic, translator and journalist
Gherasim Luca (1913–1994), Surrealist theorist and poet
Mircea Lucescu (b. 1945), former football player and coach

M

Alexandru Macedonski (1854–1920), poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic
Aureliu Manea (1945–2014), theatre director, actor, and writer
Roxana Maracineanu (born 1975), Romanian-born French backstroke swimmer
Gheorghe Marinescu (1863–1938), neurologist
Draga Olteanu Matei (1933–2020), film and stage actress
Cezar Mateus (born 1961), Romanian-American luthier
Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902–2000), communist politician and lawyer
Preda Mihăilescu (born 1955), mathematician
Ion Minulescu (1881–1944), avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist and playwright
Octavian Morariu (b. 1961), President of Rugby Europe
Jacob L. Moreno (1889–1974), Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychosociologist, thinker and educator
Maia Morgenstern (born 1962), film and stage actress

N

Gellu Naum (1915–2001), surrealist writer
Adrian Năstase (born 1950), politician, Prime Minister of Romania from 2000 to 2004
Ilie Năstase (born 1946), tennis player
Cristina Neagu (b. 1988), handball player. She has a record four IHF World Player of the Year awards.
Eddy Novarro (c. 1925–2003), photographer, collector and cosmopolitan

O

Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895), archaeologist, author and politician
Ion Oncescu (b. 1978), prolific arm wrestler, hall of famer

P

Sașa Pană (1902–1981), avant-garde poet, novelist, and short story writer
Theodor Paleologu (b. 1973), historian, diplomat and politician, son of Alexandru Paleologu
Cristina Pasaroiu (born 1987), soprano
Margareta Pâslaru (b. 1943), actress and singer
Marcel Pauker (1896–1938), communist militant
Nicolae Paulescu (1869–1931), physiologist and politician
Camil Petrescu (1894–1957), playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet
Dan Petrescu (1953–2021), Romanian businessman and billionaire, one of the richest persons in Romania at the time
Gică Petrescu (1915–2006), singer and composer
Andrei Pleșu (born 1948), philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic
Valentin Poénaru (born 1932), Romanian–French mathematician
Ana Maria Popescu (b. 1984), fencer, Olympic, World and European champion, former World No. 1 in épée
Elvira Popescu (1894–1993), Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director
Petru Popescu (born 1944), Romanian-American writer, director and movie producer
Ion Popescu-Gopo (1923–1989), graphic artist and animator
Emanoil Protopopescu-Pake (1845–1893), law professor, police prefect and politician, mayor of Bucharest
Cristi Puiu (born 1967), film director and screenwriter

R

Connect-R (born 1982), musician
Victor Rebengiuc (born 1933), film and stage actor
Lia Roberts (born 1949), politician
Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973), Romanian-American actor
Gideon Rodan (1934–2006), Romanian-American biochemist
Alexandru Rosetti (1895–1990), linguist, editor, and memoirist
C. A. Rosetti (1816–1885), writer, politician and leader of the Wallachian Revolution of 1848; the Romanian Academy was founded on his initiative.
Leon Rotman (born 1950), sprint canoer
Angelica Rozeanu (1921–2006), one of the most successful female table tennis players in the history of the sport

S

Răzvan Sabău (born 1977), tennis player
Nicolae Saramandu (born 1941), Romanian linguist and philologist
Paul Schwartz (born 1940), politician, Jewish Community president, mechanical engineer and inventor
Alec Secăreanu (born 1984), actor
Alina Șerban (born 1987), actress
Serge Spitzer (1951–2012), Romanian-American artist
Saviana Stănescu (born 1967), Romanian-American poet, playwright and journalist
Sorin Stati (1931–2008), linguist
Simion Stoilow (1873–1961), mathematician
Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea (1858–1918), writer and poet

T

Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca (1941–2017), historian and philologist
Maria Tănase (1913–1963), singer and actress
Toni Tecuceanu (1972–2010), comedy actor
Cicerone Theodorescu (1908–1974), poet
George Topîrceanu (1886–1937), poet, short story writer and humourist
Nicolas Trifon (1949–2023), academic, editor and linguist
Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949-2015), politician, poet, writer, journalist, and a Member of the European Parliament
Șerban Țițeica (1908–1985), quantum physicist
Cristian Țopescu (1937–2018), sports commentator, journalist and politician

V

Elena Văcărescu (1864–1947), Romanian-French aristocrat writer
Vazken I of Bucharest (1908–1994), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1953–1994)
Ion Vianu (born 1934), writer and psychiatrist
Ion Vîlcu (born 1966), software engineer, academic, administrator and diplomat
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (born 1949), mathematician
Ion Vitner (1914–1991), literary critic and historian
Cătălin Voicu (born 1965), politician
George Vraca (1896–1964), stage and film actor
Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016), historian and archaeologist, member of the Romanian Academy

W

Eugen Weber (1925–2007), Romanian-born American historian
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001), minister

Z

George Mihail Zamfirescu (1898–1939), prose writer and playwright