20 Famous People from Romania

First gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games

Musician known as "The Master of the Pan Flute"

Communist dictator who was overthrown and executed in the Romanian Revolution in 1989

One of the world's top tennis players of the 1970s

Playwright and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre

Greatest Romanian footballer of all time who played and thre FIFA World Cups

Poet, novelist, and journalist, regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet

Sculptor, painter and photographer who made his career in France

Artistic gymnast who won 31 medals at Olympics, World and European championships

Politician who served as President of Romania from 1989 to 1996 and from 2000 to 2004

Actor who starred as Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Nicknamed "Ghita", tallest player ever to have played in the NBA

Female tennis player who has been ranked world No.1

Engineer and aerodynamics pioneer who was working on propeller planes

Historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher

Voivode of Wallachia whose reputation inspired the name of the vampire Count Dracula

Cell biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1974

Female athlete who won medals in the 1500 m and 5000 m events at the Olympics

Composer regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history

Author of the bestseller Night, a book about his experience in the Nazi concentration camp