List of Romanian Jews
This is a list of 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 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 Herman Finer, political scientist 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 Liviu Librescu, physicist 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 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, 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 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[2] Bernard Natan, film producer Ovitz family, circus actors and traveling musicians Edward G. Robinson, actor Winona Ryder, actress Abba Schoengold Dumitru Solomon, playwright Jacob Sternberg, director Yael Stone, actress == Miscellaneous == Iancu Țucărman, Holocaust and Iași pogrom survivor == 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.