List of people from Timișoara

This is a list of people from Timișoara, Romania.

• Alexandru Balaban (b. 1931), chemist
• Iolanda Balaș (1936–2016), Olympic gold medalist in high jump
• Mircea Baniciu (b. 1949), singer for Transsylvania Phoenix and Pasărea Colibri
• Gheorghe Benga (b. 1944), physician and molecular biologist
• Ana Blandiana (b. 1942), poet
• Gheorghe Ciuhandu (b. 1947), mayor (1996–2012)
• Horia Colibășanu (b. 1977), mountaineer
• Nicu Covaci (b. 1947), lead singer for Transsylvania Phoenix
• Peter L. Hammer (1936–2006), mathematician
• Hanno Höfer (b. 1967), film director
• Ioan Holender (b. 1935), opera director
• Francesco Illy (1892–1956), coffee machinery inventor
• Adrian Iovita (b. 1954), mathematician
• Ion Ivanovici (1845–1902), composer of "Waves of the Danube"
• Yohan Kende (b. 1949), Israeli Olympic swimmer
• Károly Kerényi (1897–1973), classical philologist
• Ernő Kiss (1799–1849), one of The 13 Martyrs of Arad
• Károly Kós (1883–1977), architect
• Ștefan Kovács (1920–1995), football player and coach
• Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza (1854–1924), Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army
• George Lusztig (b. 1946), mathematician
• Andrei Markovits (b. 1948), U.S. political scientist and specialist in German Studies
• Zoltán Meskó (b. 1986), American football player
• Tudor Ratiu (b. 1950), mathematician
• Andre Spitzer (1945–1972), Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics fencing coach and victim of the Munich massacre
• Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis (1899–?), novelist
• Sava Temišvarac (1594–1612), Serb military commander
• Dorin Tudoran (b. 1945), poet and dissident
• Andrei Ujică (b. 1951), film director
• Johnny Weissmuller (1904–1984), Tarzan actor

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