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 * Adrian Constantin (b. 1970), Romanian-Austrian mathematician * Nicu Covaci (b. 1947), lead singer for Transsylvania Phoenix * Peter Freund (1936–2018), physicist * 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.