Personalities of Oaş Country

Personalities of Oaş Country

• Ioniță G. Andron (b. 20 aprilie 1917, Racșa, Oaş Country – d. 23 aprilie 1989, Negrești Oaș) - Photographer, lawyer
• Dr. Pop Mihai (b. 12 noiembrie 1936, Chiuzbaia, Baia Sprie city - d. 2004) - MD, director of City Hospital Negreşti, over two decades
• PhD Associate Professor Ioan Chioreanu-Oaș (b. 16 ianuarie 1922, Prilog - d. 29 nov. 2011, Baia Mare)
• Mihai FEHER, archpriest of Oaş Country
• Maria Tripon (b. 14 iulie 1962, Negrești-Oaș, Oaş Country, Satu Mare County) - teacher, artist, singer and ambassador of the folk music of Oaş Country
• Ph. D. Natalia Lazăr - director of the House of Culture Negrești Oaș and director of the ”Oașul” Folk Ensemble Negrești Oaș 
• H.E. Ionuț Silaghi de Oaș (in English also known as H.E. John Silaghi de Oaș, born in Negrești-Oaș city, the capital of Oaş Country), nobility, romanian artist, secretary general of the ”Oașul” Folk Ensemble Negrești Oaș
• Vasile Pop-Negreșteanu (b. 28 Decembrie 1955 in Negrești Oaș, Oaş Country, Satu Mare County)- painter
• Ion Țânțaș (b. 5 iulie 1909, Negrești Oaș, Oaş Country, Romania - d. 15 iulie 1973, Vama)- painter
• Ioan Nistor (b. 5 decembrie 1948, Prilog) – teacher and poet
• Maria Petca Poptean (b. 2 January 1954, Târșolț, Oaş Country, Satu Mare County)- artist, singer