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).

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

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 (b. 1949), 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

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