List of people from Timișoara

This is a list of people from Timișoara, Romania (included in the list are natives as well as permanent and/or temporary residents).

Arts

Architecture

• Ferenc Reitter (1813–1874), architect and engineer
• Aladár Árkay (1868–1932), architect, craftsman and painter
• Ernő Foerk (1868–1934), architect
• Károly Kós (1883–1977), architect, writer, graphic artist, ethnographer and politician

Comics

• André François (1915–2005), cartoonist

Literature and poetry

• Pelbartus Ladislaus (1430–1504), Franciscan writer and preacher
• Osman Ağa (1670–1725), military officer and autobiographer
• Ioan Slavici (1848–1925), writer and journalist; he attended the German-language high school in Timișoara
• Franz Xaver Kappus (1883–1966), military officer, journalist, editor and writer
• Miloš Crnjanski (1893–1977), writer and diplomat; he grew up in Timișoara
• Camil Petrescu (1894–1957), playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet; he taught at the Higher School of Commerce in Timișoara
• Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis (1899–?), novelist, journalist and literary critic
• Ezra Fleischer (1928–2006), poet and philologist
• Petre Stoica (1931–2009), poet and translator; he attended high school in Timișoara
• Ana Blandiana (b. 1942), poet, essayist and civil rights activist
• Șerban Foarță (b. 1942), writer; he lives in Timișoara
• Dorin Tudoran (b. 1945), poet, essayist, journalist and dissident
• Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (b. 1951), novelist and essayist
• Richard Wagner (b. 1952), novelist; he lived in Timișoara
• Herta Müller (b. 1953), novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature; she lived in Timișoara
• George Șerban (1954–1998), journalist, writer and politician; he lived in Timișoara
• Brîndușa Armanca (b. 1954), journalist and teacher

Painting

• Pavel Petrović (1818–1887), painter
• Ludwig Michalek (1859–1942), painter, graphic artist and engraver
• Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933), painter
• Julius Podlipny (1898–1991), painter, drawer and teacher; he lived in Timișoara
• Diet Sayler (b. 1939), painter and sculptor
• Bogdan Achimescu (b. 1965), visual artist

Sculpture

• Ingo Glass (b. 1941), sculptor

Business

• Meir Amigo (18th century), businessman, philanthropist and community leader; he lived in Timișoara
• Adam F. Poltl (1891–1969), businessman and politician
• Francesco Illy (1892–1956), inventor of espresso machine and founder of illy
• Ovidiu Tender (b. 1956), businessman
• Florentin Banu (b. 1967), businessman

Clergy

• Augustin Pacha (1870–1954), first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara
• Adalbert Boros (1908–2003), auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara
• Sebastian Kräuter (1922–2008), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara
• Martin Roos (b. 1942), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara
• László Tőkés (b. 1952), pastor and politician; he was an assistant pastor in Timișoara

Criminal

• Decebal Ștefan Emilian Mătăsăreanu (1966-1997), bank robber in America

Entertainment

Film, theatre and television

• Aleksa Bačvanski (1832–1881), actor and theatre director
• Gratiela Brancusi (b. 1989), actress
• Silviu Stănculescu (1932–1998), actor
• Robert Dornhelm (b. 1947), film and television director
• Julieta Szönyi (1949–2025), actress
• Andrei Ujică (b. 1951), screenwriter and film director
• Florin Călinescu (b. 1956), actor, theatre director, TV host, and politician
• Hanno Höfer (b. 1967), film director, producer, and musician
• Gábor Rappert–Vencz (b. 1967), stage actor
• Dan Negru (b. 1971), TV presenter and host
• Mile Cărpenișan (1975–2010), war correspondent
• Anca Miruna Lăzărescu (b. 1979), film director and screenwriter
• Alexandru Potocean (b. 1984), actor

Music

• Franz Limmer (1808–1857), composer and conductor; he lived in Timișoara
• Ion Ivanovici (1845–1902), military band conductor and composer
• Margaret Matzenauer (1881–1963), mezzo-soprano
• Zeno Coste (1907–1985), singer
• Charles Bruck (1911–1995), conductor
• Johanna Martzy (1924–1979), violinist
• Cornel Trăilescu (1926–2019), opera composer and conductor
• Francisco Kröpfl (1931–2021), composer and music theorist
• Ferdinand Weiss (1932–2002), pianist
• Hugo Jan Huss (1934–2006), conductor and music director
• Ervin Acél (1935–2006), conductor
• Ioan Holender (b. 1935), operatic baritone and the longest-serving director of the Vienna State Opera
• Nicu Covaci (b. 1947), soloist and guitarist of Phoenix
• Eugen Gondi (b. 1947), jazz drummer
• Mircea Baniciu (b. 1949), vocalist and guitarist of Pasărea Colibri
• Bujor Hoinic (b. 1950), composer, conductor and teacher
• Adrian Bărar (1960–2021), vocalist and guitarist of Cargo
• Aura Twarowska (b. 1967), mezzo-soprano; soloist of the Timișoara National Opera between 1997 and 2010
• Carmen Șerban (b. 1971), singer
• Pacha Man (b. 1975), hip-hopper
• Cristian Măcelaru (b. 1980), conductor

Military

• Pippo Spano (1369–1426), condottiero and merchant; ispán of Temes County between 1404 and 1424
• János Hunyadi (1407–1456), general and governor of Hungary; ispán of Temes County from 1441
• Pál Kinizsi (1432–1494), general; ispán of Temes County between 1478 and 1494
• György Dózsa (1470–1514), nobleman, soldier of fortune and leader of the Dózsa Rebellion of 1514; he was tortured and executed after unsuccessfully attempting to besiege the Timișoara Fortress
• Sava Temišvarac (fl. 1594–1612), vojvoda
• Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), field marshal; liberator of Timișoara from the Ottoman occupation (1716)
• Claude Florimond de Mercy (1666–1734), field marshal; first governor of the Banat of Temeswar
• Ernő Kiss (1799–1849), lieutenant general and one of the 13 Martyrs of Arad
• György Klapka (1820–1892), general
• Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza (1854–1924), last commander-in-chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army
• Theodore Maly (1894–1938), priest and intelligence officer

Politics

• Charles Robert (1288–1342), King of Hungary and Croatia; he moved his residence to Timișoara between 1316 and 1323
• Danilo Stefanović (1815–1886), Prime Minister of Serbia
• Vincențiu Babeș (1821–1907), lawyer, teacher, publicist and politician; he attended the German-language high school in Timișoara
• Carol Telbisz (1853–1914), lawyer, mayor of Timișoara and advisor to the Hungarian Royal Court
• Lucian Georgevici (1875–1940), lawyer and mayor of Timișoara
• Ferenc Marschall (1887–1970), politician
• Sorin Bottez (1930–2009), philologist, politician and diplomat
• Viorel Oancea (b. 1944), major general and mayor of Timișoara
• Gheorghe Ciuhandu (b. 1947), building engineer and mayor of Timișoara
• Mona Muscă (b. 1949), philologist and politician; she attended the University of Timișoara
• Anton Anton (b. 1949), engineer and politician
• Nicolae Robu (b. 1955), computer scientist and mayor of Timișoara
• Slavoliub Adnagi (b. 1965), politician
• Marius Lazurca (b. 1971), diplomat
• Dominic Fritz (b. 1983), conductor and mayor of Timișoara

Scholars

• Alfred von Domaszewski (1856–1927), historian
• Gyula Pikler (1864–1937), philosopher of law
• Arnold Hauser (1892–1978), art historian and sociologist
• Károly Kerényi (1897–1973), philologist and father of Greek mythology studies
• George Călinescu (1899–1965), literary critic and historian, writer, publicist and academician; he taught at the C.D. Loga High School in Timișoara
• Viorel Cosma (1923–2017), musicologist, lexicographer, music critic and teacher
• Myriam Yardeni (1932–2015), historian
• Andrei Markovits (b. 1948), political scientist and sociologist

Sciences

• János Bolyai (1802–1860), mathematician and father of non-Euclidean geometry; he did his military service at the Austrian garrison in today's Liberty Square
• Pavel Vasici-Ungureanu (1806–1881), physician
• Traian Lalescu (1882–1929), mathematician; he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Dimitrie Leonida (1883–1965), energy engineer; he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Jovan Hadži (1884–1972), zoologist
• Victor Vâlcovici (1885–1970), mechanician and mathematician; he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Constantin Cândea (1887–1971), chemist; he worked in Timișoara
• Constantin C. Teodorescu (1892–1972), engineer; he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timisoara
• Constantin Dinculescu (1898–1990), energy engineer; he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Remus Răduleț (1904–1984), electrical engineer; he attended the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Ioan Vlădea (1907–1976), engineer; he studied and taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Constantin Avram (1911–1987), structural engineer; he lived in Timișoara
• Caius Iacob (1912–1992), mathematician; he taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara
• Erwin Ringel (1921–1994), psychiatrist, neurologist and founder of the International Association for Suicide Prevention
• Victor Mercea (1924–1987), nuclear physicist
• Marianne Fillenz (1924–2012), neuroscientist
• Zvi Laron (b. 1927), endocrinologist; he attended the Institute of Medicine of Timișoara
• Alexandru Balaban (b. 1931), chemist
• Coleta de Sabata (1935–2021), engineer; she lived in Timișoara
• Peter Freund (1936–2018), theoretical physicist
• Peter L. Hammer (1936–2006), mathematician
• Karl Fritz Lauer (1938–2018), phytopathologist and herbologist; he studied and worked in Timișoara
• Păun Otiman (b. 1942), agronomist and economist; he lives in Timișoara
• Alexandru Moisuc (b. 1942), agronomist
• Gheorghe Benga (b. 1944), physician and molecular biologist
• George Lusztig (b. 1946), mathematician
• Traian V. Chirilă (b. 1948), chemist; he studied in Timișoara
• Valeriu Tabără (b. 1949), agronomist and politician; he lives in Timișoara
• Tudor Ratiu (b. 1950), mathematician
• Adrian Ioviță (b. 1954), mathematician
• Paul Pîrșan (b. 1956), agronomist; he lives in Timișoara
• Titu Andreescu (b. 1956), mathematician
• Laura Baudis (b. 1969), particle astrophysicist
• Adrian Constantin (b. 1970), mathematician
• Cosmin Alin Popescu (b. 1974), environmental scientist; he lives in Timișoara

Sports

Fencing

• Andre Spitzer (1945–1972), fencing master and coach, one of the 11 athletes and coaches killed by terrorists in the Munich massacre

Football

• Ștefan Kovács (1920–1995), football player and coach
• Abraham Klein (b. 1934), football referee
• Zoltán Meskó (b. 1986), American football punter

High jump

• Iolanda Balaș (1936–2016), Olympic high jumper

Mountaineering

• Horia Colibășanu (b. 1977), mountain climber

Swimming

• Johnny Weissmuller (1904–1984), Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor

Tennis

• Edina Gallovits (b. 1984), tennis player