(1894–1993), Romanian-French stage and film actress and theatre director Petru Popescu (born 1944), Romanian-American writer, director and movie producer Ion Popescu-Gopo (1923–1989), graphic artist and animator Cristi Puiu (born 1967), film director and screenwriter R Connect-R (born 1982), musician Victor Rebengiuc (born 1933), film and stage actor Lia Roberts (born 1949), politician Edward G. Robinson (1893–1973), Romanian-American actor Gideon Rodan (born 1934), Romanian-American biochemist Alexandru Rosetti (1895–1990), linguist, editor, and memoirist Leon Rotman (born 1950), sprint canoer S Răzvan Sabău (born 1977), tennis player Nicolae Saramandu (born 1941), Romanian linguist and philologist Alec Secăreanu (born 1984), actor Serge Spitzer (born 1951), Romanian-American artist Saviana Stănescu (born 1967), Romanian-American poet, playwright and journalist Sorin Stati (1931–2008), linguist Simion Stoilow (1873–1961), mathematician Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea (1858–1918), writer and poet T Maria Tănase (1913–1963), singer and actress Toni Tecuceanu (1972–2010), comedy actor Cicerone Theodorescu (1908–1974), poet George Topîrceanu (1886–1937), poet, short story writer and humourist Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949-2015), politician, poet, writer, journalist, and a Member of the European Parliament Șerban Țițeica (1908–1985), quantum physicist V Elena Văcărescu (1864–1947), Romanian-French aristocrat writer Vazken I of Bucharest (1908–1994), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1953–1994) Ion Vianu (born 1934), writer and psychiatrist Ion Vîlcu (born 1966), software engineer, academic, administrator and diplomat Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (born 1949), mathematician Ion Vitner (1914–1991), literary critic and historian Cătălin Voicu (born 1965), politician George Vraca (1896–1964), stage and film actor Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016), historian and archaeologist, member of the Romanian Academy W Eugen Weber (born 1925), Romanian-born American historian Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001), minister Z George Mihail Zamfirescu (1898–1939), prose writer and playwright Bucharesters Bucharest