Vasile (name)
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The male name Vasile is of Greek origin and means "King".
Vasile is a male Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 or a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

. It is equivalent to the English
English language
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 name Basil
Basil (name)
The name Basil , , has origins from the male Greek name Vassilios which first appeared during the Hellenistic period. It is derived from "basileus" a Greek word of pre-Hellenic origin meaning "king", from which words such as basilica and basilisk , as well as the eponymous herb derive, and the...

.

As a first name

  • Vasile Alecsandri
    Vasile Alecsandri
    Vasile Alecsandri was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folk songs and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia....

    , poet
  • Vasile Blaga
    Vasile Blaga
    Vasile Blaga is a Romanian politician and the current Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, and a former Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice former Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs....

    , politician
  • Vasile Buhăescu
    Vasile Buhaescu
    Vasile Buhăescu is a Romanian football player, currently at FC Vaslui. He started his career at the second team of the Vaslui, FCM Husi, but in October 2005, he was selected by Mircea Rednic to play in the first team. His first match was against Pandurii Targu-Jiu, and he was seen then as a great...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Cârlova
    Vasile Cârlova
    Vasile Cârlova was a Wallachian officer and early Romantic poet.-Biography:Born into a low-ranking Romanian boyar family in Buzău, Cârlova remained an orphan in 1816, and, after being adopted by an aunt, moved to Craiova...

    , Wallachia
    Wallachia
    Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...

    n officer and poet
  • Vasile Conta
    Vasile Conta
    Vasile Conta was a Romanian philosopher, poet, and politician.He was born in Ghindăoani, a village in Bălţăteşti commune, Neamţ County....

    , philosopher
  • Vasile Dîncu
    Vasile Dîncu
    Vasile Dincu is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union.In his party he belongs to the so-called...

    , politician
  • Vasile Dumitrescu
    Vasile Dumitrescu
    Vasile Dumitrescu is a Romanian bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1934 FIBT World Championships in Engelberg.-References:*...

    , bobsledder
  • Vasile Gergely
    Vasile Gergely
    László Vasile Gergely is a Romanian former football player.-Career:Gergely played for CSM Baia Mare , Viitorul Bucharest , Dinamo Bucharest in Romania and Hertha BSC Germany, and Durban City in South AfricaHe played a total of 145 games in Divizia A, scoring seven goals and 35 games in Bundesliga...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Ghindaru
    Vasile Ghindaru
    Vasile Ghindaru is a Romanian football player, currently under contract at CSMS Iași. He pays as a Defensive Midfielder.-Geylang United FC:...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Godja
    Vasile Godja
    Vasile Ioan Godja is a Romanian former pro football player and football coach.Godja was head-coach of Teraktor Sazi F.C. an Iranian football club during the early 1990s, while working for Iran Tractor Manufacturing Co. , one of the industries in Tabriz, Iran...

    , soccer coach
  • Vasile Goldiş
    Vasile Goldis
    Vasile Goldiş was a Romanian politician and member of the Romanian Academy.-Early life:He was born on 12 November 1862 in his grandfather's house in the village of Mocirla. His parents were Isaia and Floarea Goldiş. The family of his father had its origins in the Chişcău village, Bihor County...

    , politician
  • Vasile Hutopilă
    Vasile Hutopila
    Vasile Hutopilă born March 17, 1953 in Izvoarele Sucevei , Suceava County, Bukovina, Romania, is a contemporary Romanian painter of Ukrainian ethnicity. His works belong to impressionism.- Early years :...

    , Hutsul painter
  • Vasile Iordache
    Vasile Iordache
    Vasile Iordache is a former Romanian football goalkeeper and current assistant coach at Steaua Bucureşti, being responsible with goalkeepers' training.-Career:...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Jula
    Vasile Jula
    Vasile Ilie Jula is a Romanian footballer currently playing for FC Zalău. Jula began his career at Universitatea Cluj, playing in the 1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup. He later went on to play for Gloria Bistriţa before moving to CFR Cluj during the summer of 2004.Jula plays as a centre back.In 2005 he was...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Kogălniceanu, politician
  • Vasile Luca
    Vasile Luca
    Vasile Luca was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian and Soviet communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party from 1945 and until his imprisonment in the 1950s...

    , communist politician
  • Vasile Lucaciu
    Vasile Lucaciu
    Vasile Lucaciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic priest and an advocate of equal rights with the Hungarians in Transylvania....

    , Greek-Catholic priest
  • Vasile Lupu
    Vasile Lupu
    Vasile Lupu was a Moldavian Voivode between 1634 and 1653. Vasile Coci surnamed "the wolf" who ruled as Prince of Moldavia had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years. Vasile was of Albanian origin and Greek education...

    , Moldavia
    Moldavia
    Moldavia is a geographic and historical region and former principality in Eastern Europe, corresponding to the territory between the Eastern Carpathians and the Dniester river...

    n Voivode
  • Vasile Maftei
    Vasile Maftei
    Vasile Maftei is a Romanian football player currently playing at CFR Cluj. He is a centre-back.-International goals:*He made his international debut on 28 February 2006.-References:...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Milea
    Vasile Milea
    Vasile Milea was Nicolae Ceauşescu's minister of defense during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and was involved in the reprisal phase of the revolution that took 162 lives....

    , communist Minister of Defense
  • Vasile Miriuţă
    Vasile Miriuta
    Vasile Miriuţă is a Romanian-born Hungarian retired football player who played in Romania for FC Baia Mare, Dinamo Bucureşti and Gloria Bistriţa, in Hungary for Győri Rába ETO, Videoton FC Fehérvár, Ferencváros Budapest, Újpest FC and Budapest Honvéd FC, in France forFC Bourges and in Germany for...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Oprea
    Vasile Oprea
    Vasile Oprea is a former Romanian handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Romanian handball team which won the bronze medal. He played all six matches and scored seven goals....

    , handball player
  • Vasile Păcuraru
    Vasile Pacuraru
    Vasile Păcuraru is a Romanian professional football player.-External links:*...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Pârvan
    Vasile Pârvan
    Vasile Pârvan was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.He studied history in Bucharest, with Nicolae Iorga as one of his professors. He continued his studies in Germany. His Ph.D. thesis, written in 1909, was titled The nationality of merchants in the Roman Empire...

    , historian
  • Vasile Pogor
    Vasile Pogor
    Vasile Pogor , was a Romanian poet, translator, politician, and founding member of the Junimea literary society....

    , poet
  • Vasile Popescu
    Vasile Popescu
    Vasile Popescu was a Romanian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Romanian basketball team, which was eliminated in the first round of the 1952 tournament. He played both matches....

    , basketball player
  • Vasile M. Popov
    Vasile M. Popov
    Vasile Mihai Popov is a leading systems theorist and control engineering specialist. He is well known for having developed a method to analyze stability of nonlinear dynamical systems, now known as Popov criterion.- Biography :...

    , systems theorist
  • Vasile Roaită
    Vasile Roaită
    Vasile Roaită was a Romanian railway worker for Căile Ferate Române, shot during the Griviţa Strike of 1933 and later touted as a proletarian hero under the Communist regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.-Notes:...

    , railway worker
  • Vasile Stati
    Vasile Stati
    Vasile Stati is a Moldovan politician and linguist.- Biography :He studied history and philology at the Moldovan language Department of the State University of Chişinău....

    , Moldova
    Moldova
    Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

    n politician
  • Vasile Stîngă
    Vasile Stînga
    Vasile Stîngă is a former Romanian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics....

    , handball player
  • Vasile Stoica
    Vasile Stoica
    Vasile Stoica was a Romanian political writer, diplomat, and close assistant of European statesmen Tomáš Masaryk and Ion I.C. Brătianu.-Early life and education:...

    , writer and politician
  • Vasile Suciu
    Vasile Suciu
    Vasile Suciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop of the Archdiocese of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, considered to be the most important theologian of the Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania.After completing high school in Blaj, he pursued his theological studies in Rome at the ...

    , bishop
  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

    , Moldovan politician
  • Vasile Tomoiagă
    Vasile Tomoiaga
    Vasile Tomoiagă was a 1984 Olympic Silver Medallist, along with fellow Romanians Dumitru Răducanu and Dimitrie Popescu. Their team competed in the Men's Rowing event, in the Coxed Pairs division....

    , rower
  • Vasile Ursu Nicola
    Vasile Ursu Nicola
    Vasile Ursu Nicola, known as Horea, was a Transylvanian Romanian leader of the Revolt of Horea, Cloşca and Crişan in 1784-85. After the revolt was defeated, he was executed by being broken on the wheel....

     (Horea), leader of peasant revolt
  • Vasile Voiculescu
    Vasile Voiculescu
    Vasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.-Early life and education:Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleşcoi, a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent...

    , writer
  • Vasile Zavoda
    Vasile Zavoda
    Vasile Zavoda , commonly known as Zavoda II or Tigrul Akbar, is a former Romanian football player.- Overview :He played for Metalul Baia Mare between 1947 and 1951, before joining Steaua Bucureşti...

    , soccer player
  • Vasile Zetu, Poet
  • Vasile Zottu, Chief of General Staff

As a surname

  • Cornelia Vasile, violinist
  • Cristian Vasile
    Cristian Vasile
    Cristian Vasile was a Romanian, well-known tango-romance singer between 1928 and 1949, famous for songs like "Zaraza", "Aprinde o ţigară", "Ce să-ţi mai scriu", "Pentru tine am făcut nebunii", "Nunuţo". He died in 1974 in Sibiu...

    , tango-romance singer
  • Niculina Vasile
    Niculina Vasile
    Niculina Vasile is a retired high jumper from Romania, who set her personal best on 2 June 1985, jumping 1.98 metres at a meet in Bucharest. A three-time national champion , Vasile competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California), where she finished in 11th place .-References:* *...

    , high jumper
  • Radu Vasile
    Radu Vasile
    Radu Vasile is a Romanian politician, historian and poet.-Education and Professional Activity:*1967 - Graduate, with exceptional results, of the Faculty of History - University of Bucharest...

    , politician and Prime Minister of Romania
  • Florian Vasile, sailor

Other uses

  • Pârâul lui Vasile
    Pârâul lui Vasile
    The Pârâul lui Vasile River or Chisălău River is a tributary of the Miletin River in Romania.-References:* Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - Bucureşti...

    , a river in Romania
  • Valea lui Vasile
    Valea lui Vasile River
    The Valea lui Vasile River is a tributary of the Topa River in Romania.-References:* Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - Bucureşti* Institutul de Meteorologie şi Hidrologie - Rîurile României - Bucureşti 1971-Maps:...

    , a river in Romania
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