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- Adolf AlbinAdolf Albinright|thumb|Adolf AlbinAdolf Albin was a Romanian chess player, especially known for the countergambit that bears his name, and for the first chess book written in Romanian.- Life :...
(1848–1920) - Mircea AlbulescuMircea AlbulescuMircea Albulescu is a Romanian actor, university professor , journalist, poet, writer of prose, member of the Writers' Union of Romania . He was born as Iorgu Constantin V. Albulescu, in Bucharest, on October 4, 1934...
(born 1934) - Tudor ArgheziTudor ArgheziTudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer, best known for his contribution to poetry and children's literature. Born Ion N. Theodorescu in Bucharest , he explained that his pen name was related to Argesis, the Latin name for the Argeş River.-Early life:Along with Mihai Eminescu, Mateiu Caragiale, and...
(1880–1967) - Vera AtkinsVera AtkinsVera Atkins, CBE was a British Intelligence Officer during World War II.-Early life:...
(1908–2000) - Colette AvitalColette AvitalColette Avital is an Israeli diplomat and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and One Israel between 1999 and 2009.-Biography:...
(born 1940)
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- Cezar BădiţăCezar BaditaCezar Bădiţă is an international medley swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that tournament, at the 2000 European Aquatics Championships in Helsinki, Finland, he won the silver medal at the 200 m individual...
(born 1979) - Nicolae BălcescuNicolae BalcescuNicolae Bălcescu was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution.-Early life:...
(1819–1852) - Cezar BolliacCezar BolliacCezar Bolliac or Boliac, Boliak was a Wallachian and Romanian radical political figure, amateur archaeologist, journalist and Romantic poet.-Early life:...
(1813–1881) - Silviu BrucanSilviu BrucanSilviu Brucan was a Romanian communist politician. Though he disagreed with Nicolae Ceauşescu's policies, he never gave up his communist beliefs and did not oppose communist ideology...
(1916–2006)
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- Nicolae CajalNicolae CajalNicolae Cajal was a Romanian Jewish physician, academic, politician, and philanthropist. He was President of the Jewish Communities' Federation of Romania from 1994 to his death....
(1919–2004) - George CălinescuGeorge CalinescuGeorge Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies...
(1899–1965) - Christian CalsonChristian CalsonChristian Calson is a Romanian-born American independent filmmaker best known for his use of anti-film and shock-cinema techniques.-Biography:...
(born 1975) - Constantin CantacuzinoConstantin Cantacuzino (aviator)Constantin Cantacuzino was a Romanian aviator, one of his country's leading World War II fighter aces, and a member of the Cantacuzino family.-World War II:...
(1905–1958) - Catherine CaradjaCatherine CaradjaPrincess Catherine Olympia Caradja was a celebrated Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist. Born in Bucharest, she grew up in England and France, and lived in Romania from 1908 to 1952, when she escaped from the communist regime on a Danube boat...
(1893–1993) - Costache CaragialeCostache CaragialeCostache Caragiale was a Romanian actor and theatre manager who had an important role in the development of the Romanian theatre....
(1815–1877) - Mateiu CaragialeMateiu CaragialeMateiu Ion Caragiale was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I. Caragiale's style, associated with Symbolism, the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle, and early modernism, was...
(1885–1936) - Nae CaranfilNae CaranfilNae Caranfil is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.-Career:Nae Caranfil is the son of important Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil...
(born 1960) - Mircea CărtărescuMircea CartarescuMircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, then he worked at the Writers'...
(born 1956) - Barbu CatargiuBarbu CatargiuBarbu Catargiu was a conservative Romanian journalist and politician. He was the first Prime Minister of Romania in 1862 until he was assassinated on 20 June that year...
(1807–1862) - Maia CiobanuMaia CiobanuMaia Ciobanu is a Romanian composer and music educator. She is also the author of books, studies and papers on music.-Biography:Maia Ciobanu was born in Bucharest, Romania, and studied at the Conservatory Ciprian Porumbescu...
(born 1952) - Victor CiocâlteaVictor CiocâlteaVictor Ciocâltea was a Romanian chess master. He was awarded the International Master title in 1957 and the International Grandmaster title in 1978...
(1932–1983) - Henri CoandăHenri CoandaHenri Marie Coandă was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others...
(1886–1972) - Alina CojocaruAlina CojocaruAlina Cojocaru is a female principal dancer with The Royal Ballet of London.-Early years:Alina Cojocaru was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She has one sister. From a young age she studied gymnastics...
(born 1981) - Dragoş ComanDragos ComanDragoş Coman is an international freestyle swimmer from Romania, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia....
(born 1980) - Sergiu ComissionaSergiu ComissionaSergiu Comissiona was a Romanian conductor and violinist.-Early life:...
(1928-2005) - Michael CretuMichael CretuMichael Cretu is a Romanian musician. He is known also as Curly, MC or Curly M.C. because of his fair curled hair . His peak musical activity was with the Enigma project, which was mainly based in Germany....
(born 1957) - Sergiu CunescuSergiu CunescuSergiu Cunescu was a Romanian social democratic politician, the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Romania between 1990 and 2001.-Biography:...
(1923–2005)
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- Grigore GafencuGrigore GafencuGrigore Gafencu was a Romanian politician, diplomat and journalist.-Political career:Gafencu studied law and received his Ph.D. in law from the University of Bucharest. During World War I, he participated as a lieutenant and received the Mihai Viteazul Order for courage in battle...
(1892-1957) - Moses GasterMoses GasterMoses Gaster was a Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist. He was also the son-in-law of Michael Friedländer, principal of Jews' College. The surname Gaster is taken from Spanish Castro, indicating his Sephardic...
(1856–1939) - Mircea GeoanăMircea GeoanaDan Mircea Geoană is a Romanian politician, who served as president of the upper chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate from December 20, 2008 until he was revoked by the senators on November 23, 2011. From 21 April 2005 until 21 February 2010 he was the head of the Partidul Social...
(born 1958) - Florin GheorghiuFlorin GheorghiuFlorin Gheorghiu is a Romanian chess player and university lecturer in foreign languages.Born in Bucharest, his prodigious talent for the game was evidenced by his many early achievements; he became an International Master in 1963 and Romania's first Grandmaster just two years later...
(born 1944) - Ion GhicaIon GhicaIon Ghica was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania . He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times...
(1816—1897) - Alexandru GhikaAlexandru GhikaAlexandru Ghika was a Romanian mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis.-Life:...
(1902–1964) - Alexandru G. GolescuAlexandru G. GolescuAlexandru G. Golescu was a Romanian politician who served as a Prime Minister of Romania in 1870 .-Early life:...
(1819—1881)
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- Traian LalescuTraian LalescuTraian Lalescu was a Romanian mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics....
- Alexandra Maria LaraAlexandra Maria LaraAlexandra Maria Lara is a Romanian-born German actress. She performs predominantly in leading roles in a variety of historical and crime films...
- Dinu LipattiDinu LipattiDinu Lipatti was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. He was elected posthumously to the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...
- Monica LovinescuMonica LovinescuMonica Lovinescu was a Romanian essayist, short story writer, literary critic, translator, and journalist, noted for her activities as an opponent of the Romanian Communist regime. She published several works under the pseudonyms Monique Saint-Come and Claude Pascal. She is the daughter of...
- Gherasim LucaGherasim LucaGherasim Luca was a Surrealist theorist and Romanian poet. He is frequently cited in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.- Biography :...
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- Alexandru MacedonskiAlexandru MacedonskiAlexandru Macedonski was a Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades...
- Roxana MaracineanuRoxana MaracineanuRoxana Maracineanu or Mărăcineanu is a Romanian-born French former backstroke swimmer. She won the silver medal in the 200 m backstroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....
- Gheorghe MarinescuGheorghe MarinescuGheorghe Marinescu was a Romanian neurologist, founder of the Romanian School of Neurology.After the attendance of Medicine at the Bucharest University, Marinescu received most of his medical education as preparator at the laboratory of histology at the Brâncoveanu Hospital and as assistant at...
- Delia MatacheDelia MatacheDelia Matache , known by the stage name of Delia, is a Romanian eurobeat singer. She has started her stage music activity in 1999 with N&D music band and had release 4 albums, and after the split off in 2003 she had released another two solo albums.-Biography:She was born in Bucharest City,...
- Ion Gheorghe MaurerIon Gheorghe MaurerIon Gheorghe Iosif Maurer was a Romanian communist politician and lawyer.-Biography:Born in Bucharest to a Saxon father and a Romanian mother of French origin, he completed studies in Law and became an attorney, defending in court members of the illegal leftist and Anti-fascist movements...
- Leonard MironLeonard MironLeonard Miron is a Romanian television and radio presenter and journalist and works for Romanian National Television . He was born in Galaţi, Romania but was brought up in Piteşti and graduated from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy before starting a career in media...
- Jacob L. MorenoJacob L. MorenoJacob Levy Moreno was a Jewish Romanian-born Austrian-American leading psychiatrist and psychosociologist, thinker and educator, the founder of psychodrama, and the foremost pioneer of group psychotherapy...
- Maia MorgensternMaia MorgensternMaia Morgenstern is a Romanian film and stage actress, described by Florin Mitu of AMOS News as "a symbol of Romanian theater and film". In the English-speaking world, she is probably best known for the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ...
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- Saşa PanăSasa PanaSaşa Pană was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, and short story writer.-Biography:...
- Marcel PaukerMarcel PaukerMarcel Pauker was a Romanian communist militant and husband of the future Romanian Communist leader Ana Pauker....
- Nicolae PaulescuNicolae PaulescuNicolae Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, the discoverer of insulin . The "pancreine" was a crude extract of bovine pancreas in salted water, after which some impurites were removed with hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide.-Early life and activities:Born in Bucharest,...
- Camil PetrescuCamil PetrescuCamil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, philosopher and poet. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era.- Life :...
- Andrei PleşuAndrei PlesuAndrei Gabriel Pleşu is a Romanian philosopher, essayist, journalist, literary and art critic, and politician.- Biography :Born in Bucharest, the son of Radu Pleşu, a surgeon and Zoe Pleşu , he spent much of his early youth in the country side...
- Cristi PuiuCristi PuiuCristi Puiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.Puiu's first interest in art was painting and in 1992, he was admitted as a student at the Painting Department of Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school and graduated in...