Top 30 Most Famous people from Transylvania
1 Vlad the Impaler, Dracula
2 Bela Lugoji
3 Stan Lee
4 Art Garfunkel
5 Marisa Tomei
6 Audrey Hepburn
7 Lauren Bacal
8 Johny Weissmuler
9 Herman Oberth
10 Elie Wiesel
11 Hertha Muller
12 Matthias Corvinus
12 Victor Babeş
13 Ion Rațiu, Romanian politician
14 Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer
15 Traian Vuia, Romanian inventor and aviation pioneer
16 Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian novelist
17 Octavian Goga, Romanian poet and politician
18 Iancu de Hunedoara
19 Samuel von Brukenthal, administrator of Transylvania
20 Avram Iancu, Romanian revolutionary from 1848
21 Gheorghe Mureșan, Romanian basketball player
22 Florin Piersic, Romanian actor
23 Dumitru Prunariu, the first Romanian cosmonaut (and the only one for the moment)
24 Aurel Vlaicu, Romanian aviation pioneer
25 Sergiu Comisiona
26 János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (the name of Cluj Napoca main university is Babes-Bolyai)
27 George Coșbuc, Romanian poet
28 Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher – in fact the only Romanian philosopher that created an entire philosophical system to explain the universe
29 Johannes Honter, Renaissance humanist and Reformer
30 Gheorghe Lazar