Sighetu Marmației, Austrian Empire
1. Elie Wiesel (1928)
Activist
Holocaust survivor whose best known work, Night, details his experiences in the Buna, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz concentration camps. He wrote nearly sixty books and won numerous honors, including the National...
2. Grigore Arezanov (1958)
Footballer
Grigore Gogu Arezanov is a Romanian retired football player who played as a defender. He was involved in an incident in 1984 in which Universitatea Craiova and Romania national football...
3. György Jakubinyi (1946)
Roman Catholic Archbishop
György Miklós Jakubinyi is a Romanian cleric archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Sighetu Marmației he attended school in his...
4. Sorin Iodi (1976)
Footballer
Sorin Iodi is a Romanian football player currently under contract at Gloria Bistriţa.
5. Vasile Caciureac (1962)
Footballer
Vasile Caciureac is a Romanian former football striker. He played for a several Divizia A teams like Rapid Bucureşti FCM Braşov Petrolul Ploieşti FC Baia Mare and the defunct Victoria...
6. Ducu Bertzi (1955)
Romanian Musician
Ducu Bertzi is a Romanian folk musician. His songs are usually his own compositions but he also has in his repertoire some Romanian folk songs.
7. Claudio Rîşco (1978)
Olympic Boxeroxer
Claudio Rîşco is a retired Romanian boxer.
8. Alexandru Vlad (1989)
Romanian Footballer
Alexandru Nicolae Vlad is a Romanian footballer who plays as a left back or centre back for Ukrainian Premier League club FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.
9. Joel Teitelbaum (1887)
Grand Rebbe Of Satmar Hasidim Op
Joel Teitelbaum was the founder and first Grand Rebbe of the Satmar dynasty. A major figure in the postwar renaissance of Hasidism he espoused a strictly conservative and isolationist line...
10. Edmund Bordeaux Szekely (1905)
Hungarian Scholar
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely was a Hungarian philologist/linguist philosopher psychologist and natural living experimenter.
11. Emil Szolomajer (1974)
Footballer
Emil Szolomajer is a Romanian football player currently under contract at U Cluj.
12. Attila Gyagya (1982)
Footballer
Attila Gyagya is a Romanian football defender of Hungarian ethnicity. He currently plays for Kecskeméti TE. His former clubs are Szentesi TE and Orosháza FC. His dream is to play...
