List of sons and daughters of the city of Cluj-Napoca

This is a list of famous people who were born in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca ( Transylvania ). The list does not claim to be complete.

Until 1800

Matthias Corvinus
(1443–1490)

Georg and Martin von Klausenburg , sculptors in the 2nd half of the 14th century
Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), King of Hungary and Duke of Austria
Franz Davidis (1510–1579), Unitarian theologian
Thomas Jordan (1540–1586), medical doctor
Stephan Bocskai (1557–1606), Prince of Transylvania
İbrahim Müteferrika (1670–1745), Ottoman polymath of Hungarian origin
Grigore Pintea (1670–1703), Hajduken leader

19th century

Pál Gyulai
(1826–1909)

Agnes Esterházy
(1891–1956)

János Bolyai (1802–1860), mathematician
Pál Gyulai (1826–1909), Hungarian poet and critic
Bertalan Székely (1835–1910), painter
Dezső Bánffy (1843–1911), politician
Gustav von Branovaczky (1850–1935), doctor and medical researcher, ophthalmologist, director of the city hospital and city physician in Kronstadt
Hugo II. Logothetti (1852–1918), Austro-Hungarian diplomat
Samuel Kende (1858–1928), art dealer, antiquarian and auctioneer
Gábor Finály (also Gabriel Finály ; 1871–1951), classical philologist and archaeologist
Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950), Hungarian landowner, politician and author of historical novels
Félix Somló (1873–1920), lawyer and professor
Dezső Szabó (1879–1945), Hungarian writer
István Somodi (1885–1963), high and long jumper
Emil Isac (1886–1954), poet, playwright and journalist, and in 1948 corresponding member of the Romanian Academy
Stefan von Bogdándy (1890 – unknown), Hungarian doctor and physical chemist
Sándor Reményik (1890–1941), Hungarian poet
Agnes Esterházy (1891–1956), Austrian actress
Martin Munkácsi (1896–1963), reportage and fashion photographer
Paul Martin (1899–1967), Hungarian director
Heinrich Schönfeld (1900–?), Austrian football player

20th century

1901-1930

Sándor Veress
(1907-1992)

Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
(1913–1998)

Abraham Wald (1902–1950), Romanian-American mathematician
Stella Roman (1904–1992), opera singer
Rudolf Kasztner (1906–1957), Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer
János Viski (1906–1961), Hungarian composer
Alexander Uriah Boskovitch (1907–1964), Israeli composer and music teacher
Emil Kolozsvári Grandpierre (1907–1992), Hungarian writer
Sándor Veress (1907–1992), Hungarian-Swiss composer
Yolanda Mohalyi (1909–1978), Hungarian-Brazilian painter
Elisabeth Hering (1909–1999), writer
Sándor Végh (1912–1997), violin virtuoso and violin teacher
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (1913–1998), Hungarian mathematician
Magda Frank (1914–2010), Hungarian-Argentine sculptor
Farkas Paneth (1917–2009), table tennis player
Adalbert Pall (1918-2001), football player
Joshua Blau (* 1919), Israeli Arabist and Semitist
Hans Loew (1919–2016), art teacher and graphic artist
Joseph Szövérffy (1920–2001), Hungarian Middle Latin , Germanist and comparativeist

László Jeney (1923–2006), Hungarian water polo player

Magda Herzberger (* 1926), author, poet, lecturer and composer as well as Holocaust survivor

János Kőrössy (1926–2013), jazz pianist

1931-1960

Sonia Iovan
(born 1935)

János Martonyi
(* 1944)

Ileana Gyulai
(* 1946)

Dragomir Cioroslan
(* 1954)

Hadrian Daicoviciu (1932–1984), historian, archaeologist and epigraphist
Adam Heller (* 1933), Israeli-American chemical engineer and entrepreneur
Ladislaus Löb (* 1933), Swiss Germanist
Radu-Anton Maier (* 1934), German painter, graphic artist, draftsman and book illustrator
Cornel Țăranu (* 1934), composer
Sonia Iovan (* 1935), artistic gymnast
Elena Săcălici (1935–1959), artistic gymnast
Florin Piersic (born 1936), actor
Ionel Haiduc (* 1937), professor of chemistry at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj
Olga Szabó-Orbán (* 1938), fencer
Ludovic Spiess (1938–2006), opera singer and politician
István Szilágyi (* 1938), writer
Schmu'el Halpert (* 1939), Israeli rabbi and politician
Eugen Cicero (1940–1997), jazz pianist
Ileana Silai (* 1941), middle-distance runner
János Martonyi (* 1944), Hungarian lawyer and politician
Ileana Gyulai (* 1946), foil fencer
Emil Grünzweig (1947–1983), Israeli teacher and peace activist
Gáspár Miklós Tamás (* 1948), Hungarian philosopher and politician
Margareta Juncu (* 1950), chess player
Radu Ardevan (* 1951), classical scholar
László Tőkés (* 1952), pastor and leader of the resistance against the Ceaușescu regime
Ștefan Taşnadi (1953–2018), weightlifter
Dragomir Cioroslan (* 1954), weightlifter
Ioan Pop (* 1954), fencer and sports official
Éva Ráduly-Zörgő (* 1954), javelin thrower
Valentin Lustig (* 1955), painter
Mircea Tiberian (* 1955), jazz pianist
Sorin Macavei (born 1956), volleyball player
Csaba Böjte (* 1959), founder of the charitable "Stiftung Heiligen Franziskus"