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This is a list of notable Romanian-Americans.
- John Balaban, author, anti-Vietnam war activist, Poet-in-Residence and English professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina description
- Andrei Codrescu, author, humorist, English professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
- I.A.L. Diamond, movie scenarist
- Mircea Eliade, Historian of religions and fantasy writer
- Alma Gluck a.k.a. Reba Feinshohn, soprano, first person to sell one million copies of a record: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
- Sergiu Gorun, Professor of Chemistry at Brown University
- Ernie Grunfeld former NBA player
- Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach
- Norman Manea, writer
- Dominique Moceanu, US olympic gymnast
- Jean Negulesco, Film Director
- George Emil Palade, biologist, discoverer of ribosomes, Nobel Prize winner
- George Pomutz, Union Brigadier General who commanded the 15th Iowa Regiment in the American Civil War
- Nathaniel Popp, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop
- Lia Roberts, Republican Party fund-raiser, former chairperson of the Nevada Republican Party, Honorary Consul for Romania in Las Vegas, and former Romanian presidential candidate
- Edward G. Robinson, actor famous for roles in gangster films
- Florentin Smarandache, writer and mathematician, associate professor at University of New Mexico
- Alexander Vraciu, World War II Navy pilot, ace
- Johnny Weissmueller, actor famous for his portrayals of Tarzan, US Olympic gold medalist in swimming
- Adrian Zmed, actor, 1980s, best-known as Officer Vince Romano
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