A Romanian-American is a citizen of the United States who has significant Romanian heritage. Concentrations of the approximately 375,000 Romanian-Americans occur in New York, New York; Chicago, Illlinois and Detroit, Michigan.

List of famous 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.
• Alma Gluck a.k.a. Reba Feinshohn , soprano, first person to sell one million copies of a record: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny".
• Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach
• Dominique Moceanu, US olympic gymnast
• George Emil Palade, biologist, discoverer of ribosomes, Nobel Prize winner
• George Pomutz Union Brigadier General who commanded 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
• Johnny Weissmueller actor famous for his portrayals of Tarzan, US Olympic gold medalist in swimming.

External links

• Brief history of Romanians in America
• State by state Romanian population statistics