List of Famous people born in Neamț County, Romania

Mariana Simionescu is a retired tennis player from Romania.

Alexandru Iulian Maxim is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Turkish club Gaziantep F.K. and the Romania national team.

Sergiu Celibidache was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Sicilian Symphony Orchestra and several other European orchestras. Later in life, he taught at Mainz University in Germany and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ion Creangă was a Moldavian, later Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes. Creangă's main contribution to fantasy and children's literature includes narratives structured around eponymous protagonists, as well as fairy tales indebted to conventional forms. Widely seen as masterpieces of the Romanian language and local humor, his writings occupy the middle ground between a collection of folkloric sources and an original contribution to a literary realism of rural inspiration. They are accompanied by a set of contributions to erotic literature, collectively known as his "corrosives".

Joanna Marie Valentina "Zizi" Lambrino was the first wife of the later King Carol II of Romania. They had one son, Carol, born in 1920, in Bucharest.

Victor Brauner was a Romanian sculptor and painter of surrealistic images.

Petru Gherghel is a Romanian prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the ninth and current Bishop of Iaşi.

Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following, but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001), Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life:

Layton's work had provided the bolt of lightning that was needed to split open the thin skin of conservatism and complacency in the poetry scene of the preceding century, allowing modern poetry to expose previously unseen richness and depth.