Sighetu Marmației as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016), Swedish writer; survivor of the Holocaust, Hungarian/Dutch composer and pianist (1904-1989)): Elie Wiesel, Hédi Fried, Géza Frid and some more.
Celebrities from Sighetu Marmației