Elie Carafoli aeronautics engineer Henri Coandă Mihai Drăgănescu President of the Romanian Academy between 1990 and 1994 Traian Lalescu Mihail Manoilescu Nadia Comăneci Costin Nenițescu Aurel Persu Peter Stoica Simion Stoilow Gabriel Sudan Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen Radu Voinea President of the Romanian Academy between 1984 and 1990 Andrei Alexandrescu widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on C++ programming, head research scientist at Facebook, developer on D 2.0 Rodica Baranescu past president of SAE international, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering of USA. Radu Georgescu software engineer, entrepreneur and founder of GeCAD Software (technology bought by Microsoft that became Windows Security Essentials) Mircea Gradu automotive engineer and inventor, 2008 SAE International Ed Cole Innovation Award recipient, President of SAE International Mihail Roco chair of the US National Science and Technology Council subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET), Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation, founder of National Nanotechnology Initiative Dinu Brătianu politician, led the National Liberal Party (PNL) starting with 1934 Silvia Ciornei politician, member in the European Parliament Sergiu Cunescu politician Ion Iliescu former president of Romania Liviu Librescu aeronautics engineer and scientist, hero of the Virginia Tech massacre Radu Manicatide engineer and aircraft constructor, inventor of the M.R. microcar Mihai Nadin computer scientist, Human Computer Interaction pioneer, director of the Institute for Research in Anticipatory Systems Sergiu Nicolaescu film director Ion Mihai Pacepa chemist, general and the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the former Eastern Bloc Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire, one of the richest persons in Romania at his time Cristian Tudor Popescu journalist and SF author Vasile Mihai Popov controls engineer Dumitru Prunariu cosmonaut and first Romanian in space Lawrence Rauchwerger computer scientist Dan Roman entrepreneur, investor and IT professional Petre Roman politician George Necula computer scientist Ion Stoica computer scientist Florin-Teodor Tănăsescu, electrical engineer Mihaela Cardei, computer scientist