Camil Baciu (born Camillo Kaufman 21 June 1926, Galați – died 22 April 2005, Paris) was a Romanian journalist and science fiction writer.

Camil Baciu was born Camillo Kaufman, in Galați Romania to a Jewish family.

He studied in Vasile Alecsandri high school and later in the Polytechnic institute in Bucharest, majoring in Hydraulics.

He worked as an engineer for seven years but later switched vocation and started writing plays and prose.

In 1974 he wrote the play "Pledoyer Pour August" which showed in Théâtre de l’Atelier on Paris.