73 Notable alumni of
Babes-Bolyai University
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Babes-Bolyai University is 735th in the world, 259th in Europe, and 3rd in Romania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 73 notable alumni from Babes-Bolyai University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Gheorghe Mureșan
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- actorbasketball player
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Gheorghe Dumitru Mureșan, known as The Giant ( Romanian: [ˈɡit͡sə]) is a Romanian former professional basketball player. At 7 feet 7 inches (2.31 m), he is one of the two tallest players to have ever played in the NBA.
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Klaus Iohannis
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- school teacherwriterpoliticianschool inspectorphysics teacher
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Klaus Werner Iohannis, sometimes referred to by his initials KWI in the Romanian press, is a Romanian politician, physicist, and former physics teacher who has been serving as the president of Romania since 2014. He became the president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) in 2014, after previously serving as the leader of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR) between 2002 and 2013. Prior to entering national politics, he was a physics teacher at the Samuel von Brukenthal National College in his native Sibiu.
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Laura Codruța Kövesi
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- Studied in 1991-1995
- Occupations
- prosecutor
- Biography
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Laura Codruța Kövesi is the first European Chief Prosecutor and the former chief prosecutor of Romania's National Anticorruption Directorate (Romanian: Direcția Națională Anticorupție - DNA), a position she held from 2013 until she was fired on the order of Justice Minister Tudorel Toader on 9 July 2018. Prior to this, between 2006 and 2012 Kövesi was the Prosecutor General of Romania (Romanian: Procuror General), attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice.
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George Coșbuc
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- writerengineerteacherpoetjournalist
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George Coșbuc was a Romanian poet, translator, teacher, and journalist, best remembered for his verses describing, praising and eulogizing rural life, its many travails but also its occasions for joy. In 1916 he was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Ana Blandiana
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- children's writertranslatorwriterpoetjournalist
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Ana Blandiana is a Romanian poet, essayist, and political figure. She is considered one of the famous contemporary Romanian authors. She took her name after Blandiana, near Vințu de Jos, Alba County, her mother's home village.
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Emil Boc
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- politicianlawyereconomist
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Emil Boc is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in July 2004. Boc was also the president of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), which proposed and supported him as Prime Minister in late 2008, from December 2004 until July 2012.
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Petre Țuțea
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- juristeconomistpoliticianphilosopher
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Petre Țuțea was a Romanian philosopher, journalist, and economist.
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Corneliu Coposu
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- journalistlawyerjuristpolitician
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Corneliu Coposu ( Romanian: [korˈnelju koˈposu]) (20 May 1914 – 11 November 1995) was a Christian Democratic and liberal conservative Romanian politician, the founder of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romanian: Partidul Național Țărănesc Creștin Democrat), the founder of the Romanian Democratic Convention (Romanian: Convenția Democratică), and a political detainee during the communist regime. His political mentor was Iuliu Maniu (1873–1953), the founder of the National Peasant Party (PNȚ), the most important political organization from the interwar period. He studied law and worked as a journalist.
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Gáspár Miklós Tamás
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- In 1972 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacheropinion journalistwriterpoliticianpolitical scientist
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Gáspár Miklós Tamás, often referred to as TGM, was a Romanian-born Hungarian political philosopher and public intellectual, influenced by Marxism and libertarian socialism. He was a contributor to online newspaper Mérce and to OpenDemocracy, where he wrote primarily about political and aesthetic questions. He was the father of British poet and writer Rebecca Tamás.
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Ioan Gyuri Pascu
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- composeractorpianisttelevision actorsongwriter
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Ioan Gyuri Pascu was a Romanian pop music singer, producer, actor, and comedian, also known for his participation in the comedy group Divertis and for his activity in Romanian cinema and television. Moving between rock music, rhythm and blues, reggae, and jazz, the multi-instrumentalist Pascu founded a number of bands and registered success particularly during the early 1990s, when he was the lead singer of a group known as The Blue Workers. Pascu was the manager of several alternative music acts with his label Tempo Music and remained an outspoken critic of Romanian commercial radio.
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Sándor Kányádi
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- writerpoettranslatorchildren's writerlinguist
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Sándor Kányádi was a Hungarian poet and translator from the region of Transylvania, Romania. He was one of the most famous and beloved contemporary Hungarian poets. He was a major contributor to Hungarian children's literature. His works have been translated into English, Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German, French, Romanian and Portuguese.
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Ion Rațiu
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- journalistlawyerpoliticiandiplomat
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Ion Rațiu was a Romanian lawyer, diplomat, journalist, businessman, writer, and politician. In addition, he was the official presidential candidate of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚCD) in the 1990 Romanian presidential election in which he subsequently finished third, behind the neo-communist Ion Iliescu of the National Salvation Front (FSN) and Radu Câmpeanu of the National Liberal Party (PNL), with only 617,007 votes (or 4.29%).
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Doina Cornea
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- Studied in 1948
- Occupations
- writerdissidentuniversity teachertranslatorhuman rights activist
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Doina Cornea was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was a dissident during the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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Victor Ciorbea
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- judgelawyeruniversity teacherpoliticiantrade unionist
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Victor Ciorbea is a Romanian jurist, politician, and civil/public servant. He was the Mayor of Bucharest between 1996 and 1997 and, after his resignation from this public dignity/position, Prime Minister of Romania from 12 December 1996 to 30 March 1998. He had also served as the Ombudsman between 2014 and 2019.
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Eduard Raul Hellvig
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- politicianjournalist
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Eduard Raul Hellvig is a Romanian political scientist, journalist and politician who served as director of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) from 2015 to 2023. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and previously of the Conservative Party (PC), he represented Bihor County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 2004 to 2008, and sat for Ilfov County from 2012 to 2013. In the Victor Ponta cabinet, he was Minister of Regional Development and Tourism in 2012. During 2007, he was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Romania, a position he once again took up in 2013, and which he left upon becoming SRI director.
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Hunor Kelemen
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- poetwriterpoliticianveterinarian
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Hunor Kelemen is a Romanian politician and Hungarian language writer. The current president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies since 2000, and was nominated as his party's candidate for the 2009, 2014, and 2019 presidential elections. From December 2009 to May 2012 he was Romania's Minister of Culture in the Emil Boc and Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu governments, a role he has reprised between March and October 2014 in the government headed by Victor Ponta. In 2020, he was re-elected as a member of parliament and became the deputy prime minister of Romania.
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Mihail Neamțu
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- essayistpoliticiantheologiantelevision presenter
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Mihail Neamțu, born 1978, is a Romanian conservative politician. He received a PhD in theology from King's College London and has written several books on politics, religion, and culture.
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Vasile Dîncu
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- writerpoliticianuniversity teachersociologist
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Vasile Sebastian Dîncu is a Romanian politician, sociologist, professor and writer who served as Deputy Prime Minister in the Cioloș Cabinet and was Minister of National Defence in the Ciucă Cabinet.
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Pavel Bartoș
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- film actoractor
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Pavel Bartoș is a Romanian actor and television presenter, known for hosting Românii au talent (Romanian's Got Talent) and The Voice of Romania.
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Ioan-Aurel Pop
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- historianuniversity teacherart historianmedievalist
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Ioan-Aurel Pop is a Romanian historian. Pop was appointed Professor of History at Babeș-Bolyai University in 1996. He has since been Chairman of the Department of Medieval History and the History of Premodern Art at Babeș-Bolyai University. Since 2012, Pop has been Rector at Babeș-Bolyai University. In 2018 he was elected President of the Romanian Academy and re-elected in 2022.
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Andrian Candu
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- politician
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Andrian Candu is a former Moldovan politician, who served as President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 2015 and 2019. He left political life and went back to consultancy business,, being focused on advisory and business project development, where previously he has built a successful career. Candu served as Vice President of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova from 30 May 2013 to 11 July 2014, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy of the Republic of Moldova from 2 July 2014 – 23 January 2015, President of the Parliament Of the Republic of Moldova between 23 January 2015 – 24 February 2019, deputy of the PDM faction in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in 3 consecutive legislatures: 24 December 2010 – 11 July 2014, 9 December 2014 - 9 March 2019, 9 March 2019 – 19 February 2020. On 20 February 2020, together with five Members of the Parliament, Andrian Candu formed the "PRO MOLDOVA" Parliamentary Group, which was later registered as a political party, which he chaired for 1.5 years.
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Cozmin Gușă
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- journalistphysicistpolitical analystpolitician
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Cozmin Horea Gușă is a Romanian physicist, journalist and politician. A member of the National Initiative Party (PIN), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from 2004 to 2008.
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Géza Szőcs
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- Studied in 1978
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
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Géza Szőcs was an ethnic Hungarian poet and politician from Transylvania, Romania, who served as Secretary of State for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources in Hungary from 2 June 2010 to 13 June 2012.
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Ion Cristoiu („Coroiul”)
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- writerjournalist
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Ion Cristoiu is a conservative Romanian journalist and a controversial figure in the Romanian public due to his involvement as informant at Securitate. He was editor-in-chief of the daily Evenimentul Zilei during its heyday in the 1990s, when the average daily circulation topped 600,000, making it the most read newspaper in Romania, after “Romania Libera” (1 ml) and one of the most read in Eastern Europe as well. He also founded or played a major role at a number of the weekly publications during that era: Expres, Expres Magazin, and Zig-Zag. All these publications were highly critical of president Ion Iliescu.
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Rareș Bogdan
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- politicianjournalist
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Ioan-Rareș Bogdan is a Romanian politician who has been a PNL member of the European Parliament for Romania since 2019. He was the leader of the National Liberal Party's electoral list for the 2019 elections. He sits with the European People's Party group (EPP for short).
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Emil Hurezeanu
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- In 1979 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- political scientistjurist-consultantwriterbooksellerlawyer
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Emil Horaţiu Hurezeanu is a Romanian journalist and writer. He has served as Romania's ambassador in Germany since 5 May 2015. Since 19 May 2021, he has been accredited as ambassador of Romania in Austria by incumbent President Klaus Iohannis.
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George Maior
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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George-Cristian Maior is a Romanian politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Romanian Parliament, elected as a senator from the Social Democrat Party. He was the head of the Romanian Intelligence Service between October 2006 – January 2015 and ambassador to the United States since September 17, 2015. His father, Liviu Maior, is the former Minister of Education (1992–1996) and ambassador to Canada.
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Dumitru Radu Popescu
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- writerpoliticianscreenwriterpoetplaywright
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Dumitru Radu Popescu was a Romanian novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and short story writer. He was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy and was, between 1980 and 1990, Chairman of the Romanian Writers' Union.
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Augustin Lazăr
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- magistrate
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Augustin Lazăr is a university professor and author of legal publications, career magistrate. Lazăr served as the Prosecutor General of the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice of Romania from April 28, 2016, until 27 April, 2019.
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Béla Markó
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- poetwriterpoliticianliterary translator
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Béla Markó is a Romanian politician and writer of Hungarian ethnicity. The former leader of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was also the Deputy Premier in the Emil Boc government (which came to power on December 23, 2009); he had also been Minister of State in the Tăriceanu cabinet between 2004 and 2007, in charge of culture, education and research and European integration.
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Liviu Pop
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liviu-Marian Pop is a Romanian politician. He was a very controversial Romanian interim Education Minister in the cabinet of Victor Ponta.
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Angela Moldovan
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- singer
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Angela Moldovan was a Romanian singer of popular music and, to a lesser public knowledge, an accomplished opera singer, but also an actress, mostly known for her roles in the musical Veronica and its sequel Veronica se întoarce.
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Andrei Pippidi
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- university teacher
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Andrei-Nicolae Pippidi is a Romanian historian and professor emeritus at the University of Bucharest. He specialised in South-Eastern European history of the 15th–19th century, in Romanian history of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, and in the relationship between South-Eastern Europe and the Occident.
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Anatol E. Baconsky
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- 1945-1949 studied jurisprudence
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- writerliterary criticpoettranslatorlinguist
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Anatol E. Baconsky, also known as A. E. Bakonsky, Baconschi or Baconski, was a Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic. Praised for his late approach to poetry and prose, which transgresses the genres and introduces an aestheticized, original and progressively dark perspective to Romanian literature, he was also criticized for his early commitment to Socialist Realism and communism. Much of his work belongs to the field of travel literature, recording his experiences in the Eastern Bloc, the Far East and Soviet Union, and finally Central Europe. He was also a critically acclaimed translator of foreign works, including the Mahābhārata and poems by Jorge Semprún, Artur Lundkvist and others, the author of world literature anthologies, and the editor of monographs on Romanian and foreign painters.
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Ion Negoițescu
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- librarianphilologistsecretarytranslatorliterary critic
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Ion Negoiţescu was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist, one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle. A rebellious and eccentric figure, Negoiţescu began his career while still an adolescent, and made himself known as a literary ideologue of the 1940s generation. Moving from a youthful affiliation to the fascist Iron Guard, which he later came to regret, the author became a disciple of modernist doyen Eugen Lovinescu, and, by 1943, rallied the entire Sibiu Circle to the cause of anti-fascism. He was also one of the few openly homosexual intellectuals in Romania to have come out before the 1990s—an experience which, like his political commitments, is recorded in his controversial autobiographical writings.
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Egon Balas
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- economistuniversity teachermathematician
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Egon Balas was an applied mathematician and a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and did fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming.
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Constantin Daicoviciu
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- archaeologisthistorian of classical antiquityuniversity teacherpoliticianeditor
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Constantin Daicoviciu was a Romanian historian and archaeologist, professor at the University of Cluj, and titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- 1940-1945 studied philosophy
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- minerwriterplaywrightopinion journalistphilosopher
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Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu was a Romanian philosopher, novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
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Franz Halberg
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- chronobiologistuniversity teacher
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Franz Halberg was a scientist and one of the founders of modern chronobiology. He first began his experiments in the 1940s and later founded the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota. Halberg published many papers also in the serials of the History Commission of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. He also published in "Wege zur Wissenschaft, Pathways to Science". He was a member of many international bodies, was awarded five honorary doctorates and was a member of the Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. In the 1950s, he introduced the word circadian, which derives from the Latin about (circa) a day (diem).
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Daniel Barbu
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- historiansociologistpublisher
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Daniel-Constantin Barbu is a Romanian political scientist, publisher, essayist, journalist, and professor at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Science. The head of the Research Institute at the University of Bucharest, and former dean of the Faculty, he was also director of Realitatea Românească, a daily newspaper, in 1991–1992. Barbu worked as a State Adviser for President Emil Constantinescu between 1997 and 1999. He is the author as of June 2007 of eight books and many more articles on political science, and a contributor to the magazine Sfera Politicii. He is also a member of the Romanian Senate from Bucharest and former Minister of Culture.
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György Frunda
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- barristerpolitician
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György Frunda is a Romanian jurist, politician, and lawyer. A member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he has been a member of the Romanian Senate for Mureș County since 1992, and was twice the UDMR's candidate for the office of Romanian President (in 1996 and 2000). Since 1992, Frunda has been a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), serving as president of the delegation since September 2004, and sitting with the European People's Party (EPP). A member of the Constituent Assembly in 1990–1992, he served on the commission drafting the Romanian Constitution.
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Laura Pavel
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- linguisttranslatorliterary critic
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Laura Pavel is a Romanian essayist and literary critic.
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Péter Eckstein-Kovács
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- politicianlawyer
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Péter Eckstein-Kovács is a Romanian lawyer and politician. A former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Cluj County from 1990 to 1992 and a member of the Cluj-Napoca city council from 1992 to 1996. That year, he was elected to the Romanian Senate, where he served until 2008, except for a stint as Minister-Delegate for National Minorities in the Radu Vasile cabinet (1999) and a break until he was elected again in November 2000.
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Ruxandra Cesereanu
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- short story writernovelistessayistpoetresearcher
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Ruxandra-Mihaela Cesereanu or Ruxandra-Mihaela Braga is a Romanian poet, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and literary critic. Also known as a journalist, academic, literary historian and film critic, Cesereanu holds a teaching position at the Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), and is an editor for the magazine Steaua in Cluj-Napoca.
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Marcian Bleahu
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- geographerwriterpoliticiangeologist
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Marcian David Bleahu (14 March 1924, in Brașov – 30 July 2019, in Bucharest) was a Romanian geologist, speleologist, geographer, alpinist, explorer, writer and politician. He is well known for his scientific contributions to the development of the theories of global tectonics (applied to the study of the geology of the Carpathian Mountains), for his pioneering in speleology and for the development of this science, but also for the popularization of science and of ecology in Romania.
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François Bréda
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- translatorliterary criticpoetplaywrightliterary historian
- Biography
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François Bréda was a Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic, literary historian, translator and theatrologist.
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Simona Miculescu
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- diplomat
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Simona-Mirela Miculescu is a senior Romanian diplomat, currently serving as Permanent Delegate of Romania to UNESCO, with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Prior to this she was Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office in Belgrade, and before that, the Permanent Representative of Romania to the United Nations in New York. She also served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania, and is the first woman in Romania's diplomatic history to be granted the rank of Ambassador.
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Jur Hronec
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- university teachermathematician
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Jur Hronec was a Slovak mathematician.
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Csaba Sógor
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- reformed pastorpolitician
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Csaba Sógor is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament, representing the Hungarian minority. He is also the member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania. Currently Sógor is the candidate for the Member of the European Parliament on behalf of the European People's Party (EPP).
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Raoul Șorban
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- painterjournalistpublisher
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Raoul Șorban was a Romanian painter, journalist, writer, essayist, art historian, academic, and memoirist.
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Pavel Dan
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- literary criticwriter
- Biography
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Pavel Dan was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian prose writer.
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Ovidiu Pecican
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- historianscience fiction writerpublisherwriterbiographer
- Biography
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Ovidiu Coriolan Pecican is a Romanian historian, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, playwright, and journalist of partly Serbian origin. He is especially known for his political writings on disputed issues such as regional autonomy for Transylvania, and for his co-authorship of a controversial history textbook for 11th and 12th grade high-school students.
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Ioan Buteanu
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ioan Buteanu was a leader of the Transylvanian Romanian Revolutionaries in 1848 and a prefect of Zaránd County between 1848 and 1849.
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Jean-Jacques Askenasy
- Occupations
- neurologist
- Biography
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Jean-Jacques Askenasy is an Israeli neurologist. He is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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Dora Pavel
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- In 1969 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Dora Pavel is a Romanian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist.
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Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan
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- university teacherbotanical collectorbotanist
- Biography
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Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan was a Russian-born Israeli botanist, who became part of the academic staff at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She studied the flora of Israel and published dozens of articles and several analytical flora books. Just after her 91st birthday, she received the 1991 Israel Prize for her unique contribution to the Land of Israel studies.
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Nicolae Giosan
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- agronomist
- Biography
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Nicolae Giosan was a Romanian agricultural engineer and communist politician.
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Mircea Zaciu
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- literary criticliterary historianscreenwriterdiarist
- Biography
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Mircea Zaciu was a Romanian critic, literary historian and prose writer.
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Loránt-György Vincze
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- actorjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Lóránt Vincze is a Romanian politician currently serving as a Member of the European Parliament on behalf of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR/RMDSZ).
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Florina Ilis
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Florina Ilis is a contemporary Romanian writer who has published haiku volumes and novels. As of March 2005 she is part of the Writers' Union of Romania.
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Oleg Balan
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- politician
- Biography
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Oleg Balan is a Moldovan jurist and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Moldova between 18 February 2015 and 20 January 2016.
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Irina Petraș
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- translatorwriterliterary critic
- Biography
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Irina Petraș is a Romanian writer, literary critic, essayist, translator and editor.
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Karol Telbizov
- Occupations
- lawyerjournalist
- Biography
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Karol Telbizov was a lawyer, journalist and editor-in-chief of Bulgarian newspaper Banat Bulgarian Voice issued in Romania. He was a dedicated researcher of Banat Bulgarian ethnography, culture and traditional clothing.
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Alexandru Roșca
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- scientistpsychologist
- Biography
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Alexandru Roṣca was a Romanian psychologist and professor. In 1991, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Salvator Cupcea
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- psychiatristanthropologistpsychologistdiplomat
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Salvator P. Cupcea was a Romanian psychologist, physician, and political figure. From beginnings as a researcher for the Victor Babeș University of Cluj, alongside his friend Alexandru Roșca, he became noted as a pioneer of experimental psychology and psychoanalysis, studying in particular the social marginals. He later immersed himself in the social hygiene and eugenics movement, also specializing in genetic medicine, biological anthropology, and criminology. A collaborator of Iuliu Moldovan, he taught classes at the latter's Institute for much of World War II, when he focused on studying the intelligence of various body types.
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Aurel Pantea
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- literary criticpoet
- Biography
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Aurel Pantea is a Romanian poet and literary critic.
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Iosif Matula
- Occupations
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Iosif Matula is a Romanian engineer and politician. A member of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL), he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014.
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Károly Vekov
- Enrolled in Babes-Bolyai University
- Studied in 1966-1971
- Occupations
- historianart historianpolitician
- Biography
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Károly Vekov was a Hungarian-Romanian historian and professor. He also served as a politician in Romania as part of the Hungarian community.
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Augustin Deac
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- historianjournalistbiographer
- Biography
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Augustin Deac was a Romanian author and history professor.
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Ilarion Felea
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- priesttheologianeditor
- Biography
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Ilarion V. Felea was a priest and theologian of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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Marius Crainic
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Marius Nicolae Crainic is a Romanian mathematician working in the Netherlands.
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Valeriu Moldovan
- Years
- 1875-1954 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Valeriu A. Moldovan was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian lawyer and politician.
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Ágnes Mócsy
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Ágnes Mócsy is a Professor of Physics at the Pratt Institute who works on theoretical nuclear physics. She is also a filmmaker, science communicator and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
