Romanian-American
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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, Illinois 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 (http://www.johnbalaban.com/)
- 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 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
- Johnny Weissmueller, actor famous for his portrayals of Tarzan, US Olympic gold medalist in swimming
External links
- Brief history of Romanians in America (http://feefhs.org/ro/urs/hurs-ria.html)
- State by state Romanian population statistics (http://www.euroamericans.net/romanians.htm)