List of Romanians of Armenian descent
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A list of notable Romania
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Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
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Armenians in Romania
Armenians have been present in what is now Romania and Moldova for over a millennium, and have been an important presence as traders since the 14th century...
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- Vartan Arachelian, journalist and writer
- Anda Călugăreanu, actress
- Florin HalagianFlorin HalagianFlorin Halagian is a former Romanian football player and manager of Armenian descent.On 25 March 2008 he was decorated by the president of Romania, Traian Băsescu for all activity and quality of football coach, for forming young generation on future champions with Ordinul "Meritul Sportiv" — ...
, football manager - Spiru HaretSpiru HaretSpiru C. Haret was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by...
, mathematician, physicist, and politician - Bedros Horasangian, writer, essayist, and journalist
- Garabet IbrăileanuGarabet IbraileanuGarabet Ibrăileanu was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, Iaşi University professor , and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the Viaţa Românească literary magazine between 1906 and 1930...
, literary critic - Mihail JoraMihail JoraMihail Jora was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor.Jora studied in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller. From 1929 to 1962 he was a professor at the conservatoire of Bucharest. He worked 1928 to 1933 as a director/conductor of the Broadcasting Orchestra in Bucharest...
, composer and conductor - David Ohanesian, opera tenor
- Virgil MadgearuVirgil MadgearuVirgil Traian N. Madgearu was a Romanian economist, sociologist, and left-wing politician, prominent member and main theorist of the Peasants' Party and of its successor, the National Peasants' Party...
, politician, economist, and sociologist - Manuc BeiManuc BeiManuc Bei was an Armenian merchant, diplomat and inn-keeper.-Life:He was born in Rousse as a subject of the Ottoman Empire....
, innkeeper, founder of Hanul lui Manuc - Vasile Morţun, socialist activist
- Varujan Pambuccian, computer programmer, represents the Armenian minority in the Chamber of DeputiesChamber of Deputies of RomaniaThe Chamber of Deputies is the lower house in Romania's bicameral parliament. It has 315 seats, to which deputies are elected by direct popular vote on a proportional representation basis to serve four-year terms...
- H. Dj. Siruni, historian, Orientalist and translator
- Alexandru Tatos, film director
- Harry TavitianHarry TavitianHarry Tavitian is a Romanian jazz pianist and singer, whose style covers free-jazz, blues, ethno-jazz and avant-garde. He plays piano solo, as well as with Orient Express septet and with Black Sea Orchestra...
, jazz musician - Herant Torosian, lawyer and diplomat
- Grigore Trancu-Iaşi, economist and politician
- Vazgen IVazgen IHis Holiness Vazgen I was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1955 and 1994, in one of the longest reigns of the Armenian Catholicoi. A native of Romania, he began his career as a philosopher, before becoming a Doctor of Theology and a member of the local Armenian clergy...
, Catholicos of ArmeniaCatholicos of ArmeniaThe Catholicos of All Armenians is the chief bishop of Armenia's national church, the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches that do not accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon. The first Catholicos of All Armenians was Saint Gregory the Illuminator... - Varujan VosganianVarujan VosganianVarujan Vosganian is a Romanian politician, economist, essayist and poet. A member of the National Liberal Party, Vosganian was Romania's Minister of Economy and Commerce in the Tăriceanu cabinet.-Biography:...
, economist and political figure - Iacob Zadig, general
- Krikor Zambaccian, art collector, founder of the Zambaccian MuseumZambaccian MuseumThe Zambaccian Museum in Bucharest, Romania is a museum in the former home of Krikor Zambaccian , an Armenian businessman and art collector. The museum was founded in 1947, closed by the Ceauşescu regime in 1977, and re-opened in 1992. It is now a branch of The National Museum of Art of Romania...