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Vera Atkins C.B.E., Légion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre (1908-2000). Intelligence officer in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (1941-1945), office manager (from 1948) and director (1952-1961) of the UNESCO’s Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges.
J.J. Benjamin (1818-1864). Historian and traveller.
Octav Botnar (1913-1998). Businessman and philanthropist, founder of Datsun UK (later Nissan UK) and of the Automotive Financial Group.
Șerban Cantacuzino C.B.E. (n. 1928). Architect, Executive Editor of the ‘Architectural Review’ (1973), Secretary of the Royal Fine Art Commission (1979-1994), honorary member of the Union of Romanian Architects and of the Commission for Historic Monuments and Sites, founding president of Pro Patrimonio, The National Trust of Romania.
Barbu Aramand Călinescu (1922-2014). Architect for Cambridge University Estate Management.
Henri Marie Coandă (1886-1972). Inventor, aerodynamics pioneer, builder of the world’s first jet, discoverer of the Coandă effect of fluid dynamics, technical manager of the Bristol Airplane Company (1911-1914), designer of the Bristol-Coanda monoplanes.
Alina Cojocaru (b. 1981). Ballerina, principal dancer with the English National Ballet, former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
George Constantinescu (1881-1965). Scientist and engineer, creator of the theory of sonics in continuum mechanics, honorary member of the Romanian Academy and inventor, among many others, of the hydraulic machine-gun synchronisation gear, used by the Royal Air Forces from 1917 until World War II.
Moses Gaster (1856-1939). Linguist and philologist, Lecturer at the University of Oxford (1886-1891), hakham of the Sephardic Congregation in London (1887), principal of Judith Lady Montefiore College, Ramsgate (1891-1896), member of the councils of the Folklore, Biblical, Archaeological, and Royal Asiatic Society, collector of manuscripts and active leader of the Zionist movement.
Sir George Iacobescu C.B.E. (b. 1945). Civil and industrial engineer, chairman and chief executive officer of Canary Wharf Group, member of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum, Vice Patron of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, Patron of Jewish Care and the Community Safety Trust, former founding Co-Chairman of Teach First, Director of London First and member of the Advisory Board of the financial services organisation TheCityUK.
Diana Ionescu (b.1981). Pianist.
Prof. George (Ghiță) Ionescu (1913-1996). Diplomat, Secretary General of the Romanian Commission for the Armistice Agreement with the Allied Forces (1944-1945), Secretary General of the Romanian National Committee in exile (1955-1958), Director of the Romanian Section of Radio Free Europe (1958-1963), Professor at Manchester University and London School of Economics and Political Studies (1963-1968), President of the Committee on European Unification of the International Political Science Association.
Prof. Vladimir Mirodan (b. ). Director of Drama Centre London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the University of the Arts, London.
David Mitrany (1888-1975). Scholar, historian and political theorist, creator of the theory of functionalism in international relations.
Paul Neagu (1938-2004). Sculptor, painter, graphic artist, poet, teacher.
Ruxandra Obreja (b.). Controller of Business Development for the BBC World Service.
Ion Rațiu (1917-2000). Politician and businessman, co-founder of the British-Romanian Association, the World Union of Free Romanians and the Rațiu Family Charitable Foundation.
Nicolae Rațiu M.B.E. (b. ). Businessman and philanthropist, chairman of The Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation, Managing Director of Regent House Properties Ltd. and senior advisor to the family’s group companies in UK, France and Romania.
Prof. Julian Săvulescu (b. 1963). Philosopher and bioethicist, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Monash University, Head of the Melbourne–Oxford Stem Cell Collaboration, editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Eugen Sârbu (b. 1950). Violinist.
Constantin-Nicolae Silvestri (1913-1969). Conductor and composer, Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Viorel Virgil Tilea C.B.E. (1896-1972). Diplomat attached to the Romanian Legation in London (1919) and later Romanian Ambassador in London (1938-1940).