100 Notable alumni of
University of Bucharest
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The University of Bucharest is 185th in the world, 64th in Europe, and 1st in Romania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Bucharest sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Emil Cioran
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- In 1932 graduated with Licentiate in philosophy
- Occupations
- writerdiaristtranslatoraphoristphilosopher
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Emil Mihai Cioran was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms. His works frequently engaged with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism. In 1937, Cioran moved to the Latin Quarter of Paris, which became his permanent residence, wherein he lived in seclusion with his partner, Simone Boué, until his death in 1995.
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Adrian Mutu
- Occupations
- association football player
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Adrian Mutu is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who currently is the head coach of the Liga I club CFR Cluj. During his playing career, he was deployed as a forward or an attacking midfielder.
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Mircea Eliade
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- biographerdiplomathistoriannovelistliterary critic
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Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but (at least in the minds of the religious) actually participate in them.
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Eugène Ionesco
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- diaristgraphic artistplaywrightwriterillustrator
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Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd, which includes a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.
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Elena Ceaușescu
- Occupations
- civil servant
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Elena Ceaușescu was a Romanian communist politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. She was also the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania. Following the Romanian Revolution in 1989, she was executed alongside her husband on 25 December.
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Nicu Ceaușescu
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- politician
- Biography
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Nicu Ceaușescu was a Romanian physicist and communist politician who was the youngest child of Romanian leaders Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu. He was a close associate of his father's political regime and considered the President's heir presumptive.
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Valentin Ceaușescu
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- physicist
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Valentin Ceaușescu is a Romanian physicist. He is the eldest and only surviving child of former communist President Nicolae Ceaușescu and Elena Ceaușescu.
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Ion Luca Caragiale
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- children's writertranslatorwriterlinguistjournalist
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Ion Luca Caragiale, commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humour. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life. His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.
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Zoia Ceaușescu
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- mathematician
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Zoia Ceaușescu was a Romanian mathematician, the daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena. She was also known as Tovarășa Zoia (comrade Zoia).
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Andrey Kuraev
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- writertheologianuniversity teachermissionarypreacher
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Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kuraev is an Orthodox theologian and missionary and a defrocked Protodeacon of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Victor Ponta
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- lawyerinternational forum participantprosecutorpolitician
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Victor Viorel Ponta is a Romanian jurist and politician, who served as Prime Minister of Romania between his appointment by President Traian Băsescu in May 2012 and his resignation in November 2015. A former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and its leader from 2010 to 2015, he was also joint leader (2012–2014) of the then-governing Social Liberal Union (USL), an alliance with the National Liberal Party (PNL). Ponta was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Gorj County from 2004 to 2020. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister-Delegate for Relations with Parliament from 2008 to 2009.
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George Bacovia
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- writerpoet
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George Bacovia was a Romanian symbolist poet. While he initially belonged to the local Symbolist movement, launched as a poet by Alexandru Macedonski with the poem and poetry collection Plumb ("Lead"), his poetry came to be seen as a precursor of Romanian Modernism and eventually established him in critical esteem alongside Lucian Blaga, Tudor Arghezi, Ion Pillat, Ion Barbu, and Octavian Goga as one of the most important interwar Romanian poets. In the 1950s, he wrote the poem "Cogito", which is his poetical testament.
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Nichita Stănescu
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- journalistpoettranslatoressayist
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Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist.
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Mircea Cărtărescu
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- In 1999 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherscience fiction writerwriterprose writerliterary critic
- Biography
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Mircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.
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Corneliu Vadim Tudor
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- sociologistpoethistorianjournalistpolitician
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Corneliu Vadim Tudor, also colloquially known as "Tribunul", was a poet, writer, and journalist who was the leader of the Greater Romania Party (Romanian: Partidul România Mare) and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a Romanian senator from 1992 to 2008. He was born and died in Bucharest, Romania.
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Emil Constantinescu
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- geologistpoliticianlawyer
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Emil Constantinescu is a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000.
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1907
- Occupations
- chemistphysicistteacher
- Biography
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Ștefania Mărăcineanu was a Romanian physicist. She worked with Marie Curie studying the element named for Curie's homeland Polonium. She made proposals that would lead to Irène Joliot-Curie's Nobel Prize. Mărăcineanu believed that Joliot-Curie had taken her work on Induced radioactivity to gain the prize.
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Rona Hartner
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- composerfilm actoractorsinger
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Rona Hartner was a German-Romanian actress, painter and singer who was born in Bucharest. As an actress, she was best known for her role in Tony Gatlif's film Gadjo dilo. Hartner focused on her music career, specializing in Gypsy music. After a battle with lung and brain cancer, she died in Toulon on 23 November 2023, at the age of 50. She had lived in France for over two decades at the time of her death.
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Marin Preda
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- translatorwritereditorpublisher
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Marin Preda was a Romanian novelist, post-war writer and director of Cartea Românească publishing house. He is considered by some to be the most important novelist in post-World War II Romanian literature. However, he has also garnered an ambivalent perception in post-socialist Romania: Preda's final novel, Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni ("The Most Beloved of Earthlings"), published just a couple of months before his death, is considered a daring critique of the beginnings of communism in Romania; in contrast, Preda was well-regarded by party leaders and received high distinctions in socialist Romania, and did not position himself as an open opponent of the regime. At the time of his death, Marin Preda was a member of the Great National Assembly.
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Gabriela Firea
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- journalistpoliticiannews presenter
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Gabriela Firea is a Romanian journalist and politician who served as mayor of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, between 2016 and 2020.
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George Emil Palade
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- cell biologistuniversity teacherchemistphysicianphysicist
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George Emil Palade was a Romanian-American cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine along with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology, the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955.
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George Călinescu
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- historianplaywrightwriterbiographerliterary critic
- Biography
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George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century.
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Camil Petrescu
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- novelistpoettheatre criticplaywrightphilosopher
- Biography
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Camil 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 in Romania.
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Mihai Șora
- Occupations
- philosopheressayist
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Mihai Șora was a Romanian philosopher and essayist.
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Ana Aslan
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1915-1922
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherphysicianinventorgerontologist
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Ana Aslan was a Romanian biologist and physician of partial Armenian descent, born Anna Aslanyan, specialist in gerontology, academician from 1974 and the director of the National Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology (1958–1988).
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Mihaela Buzărnescu
- Occupations
- tennis player
- Biography
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Mihaela Buzărnescu is an inactive Romanian tennis player.
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Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
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- engineeradjunct professorpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 29 December 2004 to 22 December 2008. He was also president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the vice-president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), two positions he assumed in 2004.
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Ion Barbu
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1920
- Occupations
- mathematicianwriterpoet
- Biography
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Ion Barbu was a Romanian mathematician and poet. His name is associated with the Mathematics Subject Classification number 51C05, which is a major posthumous recognition reserved only to pioneers of investigations in an area of mathematical inquiry. As a poet, he is known for his volume Joc secund ("Mirrored Play"), in which he sought to fulfill his vision of a poetry which adhered to the same virtues that he found in mathematics.
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Nicușor Dan
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- mathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacheractivist
- Biography
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Nicușor Dan is a Romanian activist, mathematician, former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Romania as well as founder and former leader of the Romanian political party Save Romania Union (USR). He is currently serving as the Mayor of Bucharest following the 2020 Romanian local elections as independent politician.
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George Simion
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- activistpolitician
- Biography
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George Nicolae Simion is a Romanian right-wing politician and civic activist. He is the president of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), a Romanian political party that gained prominence after its unexpectedly strong showing in the 2020 Romanian legislative election.
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Dan Barna
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerformateur
- Biography
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Dan Barna is a Romanian politician and lawyer. He served as the president of the Save Romania Union (USR), and as co-president of USR-PLUS until 1 October 2021. He was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 2016.
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Adrian Păunescu
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- writerpoliticianliterary criticpoetjournalist
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Adrian Păunescu was a Romanian writer, publisher, cultural promoter, translator, and politician. A profoundly charismatic personality, a controversial and complex figure, the artist and the man are almost impossible to separate. On the one hand he stands accused of collaboration with the Communist regime, but on the other hand he was persecuted and ostracised by the regime when he started to confront its failures, and when his influence started to be considered dangerous.
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Ion Gheorghe Maurer
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Ion Gheorghe Iosif Maurer was a Romanian communist politician and lawyer, and the 49th Prime Minister of Romania. He is the longest serving Prime Minister in the history of Romania (having served for 12 years and 343 days).
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Adrian Năstase
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- university teacherjuristbloggerwriterpolitician
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Adrian Năstase is a Romanian jurist, academic/professor, blogger, and former politician who served as the prime minister of Romania from December 2000 to December 2004.
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Albert-László Barabási
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1986-1989
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his discoveries in network science and network medicine.
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Paula Seling
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- songwriterdisc jockeymusiciansinger
- Biography
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Paula Seling is a Romanian singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. Raised in Baia Mare, she attended Gheorghe Șincai National College and later moved to Bucharest to pursue her musical career.
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Dhimitër Pasko
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- poeteconomistlinguisttranslatorliterary critic
- Biography
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Dhimitër Pasko was a well-known Albanian writer, literary critic and translator. Along with Ernest Koliqi he is considered as the founder of modern Albanian prose; in Albanian literature his pen name for which he gained fame was Mitrush Kuteli.
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Constantin Noica
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- translatorwriterpoetjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Constantin Noica was a Romanian philosopher, essayist and poet. His preoccupations were throughout all philosophy, from epistemology, philosophy of culture, axiology and philosophic anthropology to ontology and logics, from the history of philosophy to systematic philosophy, from ancient to contemporary philosophy, from translating and interpretation to criticism and creation. In 2006 he was included to the list of the 100 Greatest Romanians of all time by a nationwide poll.
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Vazgen I
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- philosopherpriest
- Biography
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Vazgen I also Vazken I of Bucharest,, born Levon Garabed Baljian (Լևոն Կարապետ Աբրահամի Պալճյան; September 20, 1908 – August 18, 1994) was the Catholicos of All Armenians between 1955 and 1994, for a total of 39 years, the 4th longest reign in the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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Vasko Popa
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- writerpoet
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Vasile "Vasko" Popa was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet.
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Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu
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- economisthistorianphilosopherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he was a professor at the University of Bucharest. Pătrășcanu rose to a government position before the end of World War II and, after having disagreed with Stalinist tenets on several occasions, eventually came into conflict with the Romanian Communist government of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He became a political prisoner and was ultimately executed. Fourteen years after Pătrășcanu's death, Romania's new communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, endorsed his rehabilitation as part of a change in policy.
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Crin Antonescu
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- politicianhistorian
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George Crin Laurențiu Antonescu is a Romanian politician, who was President of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from 2009 to 2014. He also served as the country's Acting President after the impeachment of Traian Băsescu and as the President of the Senate.
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Lia Olguța Vasilescu
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- politicianmayor of Craiova
- Biography
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Lia Olguţa Vasilescu is a Romanian politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). She served as mayor of Craiova from 2012 to 2017, when she resigned to become Minister of Labor. She was reelected as Mayor of Craiova in 2020 and since then she has been serving as the mayor of Craiova.
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Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea
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- writerlawyerpoliticianpoetjournalist
- Biography
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Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea; pen name of Barbu Ștefan; April 11, 1858 – April 29, 1918) was a Romanian writer and poet, considered one of the greatest figures in the National awakening of Romania.
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Nae Ionescu
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- logicianphilosopherprofessormathematicianjournalist
- Biography
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Nae Ionescu was a Romanian philosopher, logician, mathematician, professor, and journalist. Near the end of his career, he became known for his antisemitism and devotion to far right politics, in the years leading up to World War II.
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Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu
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- novelistEastern Orthodox priestwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour, first published by Plon in France.
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Vasile Voiculescu
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- novelistphysician writerpoet
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Vasile Voiculescu was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.
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Spiru Haret
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1864
- Occupations
- sociologistwriterastronomerphysicistpolitician
- Biography
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Spiru C. Haret was a Romanian mathematician, astronomer, and politician. He made a fundamental contribution to the n-body problem in celestial mechanics by proving that using a third degree approximation for the disturbing forces implies instability of the major axes of the orbits, and by introducing the concept of secular perturbations in relation to this.
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Matei Vișniec
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- writernovelistpoetplaywrightjournalist
- Biography
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Matei Vișniec is a Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist living in Paris.
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Miron Cristea
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- priestjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Miron Cristea was a Romanian cleric and politician.
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Teodor Meleșcanu
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Teodor Viorel Meleșcanu is a Romanian politician, diplomat, and jurist. He served as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Romania (SIE) between 2012 and 2014. He was a three times senator on behalf of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Minister of Defense between 2007 and 2008, and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1992 and 1996, in November 2014 and since January 2017 to July 2019. On 27 February 2012, upon his appointment as head of the SIE, he suspended himself from PNL and was later expelled from the party. On 10 September 2019, he was elected President of the Senate. He resigned from office on 3 February 2020.
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Gabriel Oprea
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- politicianlawyermilitary officer
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Gabriel Oprea is a Romanian politician and a general in the army reserves. The former president of the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and a former member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) who is now an independent, he was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Ilfov County from 2004 to 2012 and was a Senator for Bucharest from 2012 to 2016.
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Teoctist Arăpașu
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- priest
- Biography
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Teoctist was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.
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Aleksander Stavre Drenova
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- journalistpoetwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, commonly known by the pen name Asdreni, was an Albanian poet, rilindas, translator, writer and the author of the poem which later became the national anthem of Albania. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century and composed most of his Albanian Renaissance-inspired known works during that period.
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Constantin Ion Parhon
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- endocrinologistphysicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Constantin Ion Parhon was a Romanian neuropsychiatrist, endocrinologist and politician. He was the first head of state of the Romanian People's Republic from 1947 to 1952. Parhon was President of the Physicians and Naturalists Society in Iași, director of medical institutes, professor, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Ana Birchall
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ana Birchall is a Romanian lawyer and politician. Since 2012, Birchall has served Chamber of Deputies for Vaslui County representing the Social Democratic Party. In the Victor Ponta and Sorin Grindeanu Cabinets, Brichall served as the Prime Minister's representative for European affairs and the partnership with the United States. After the resignation of Florin Iordache following anti-corruption protests, Birchall served as Minister of Justice, first on an interim basis and later permanently in the Cabinet of Viorica Dăncilă. Between 2019-2019 Ana Birchall was Deputy Prime Minister in charge with the Strategic Partnerships of Romania.
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Gabriel Liiceanu
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- philosopher
- Biography
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Gabriel Liiceanu is a Romanian philosopher.
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Tataee
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- composerrecord producersingerrapper
- Biography
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Vlad Irimia, primarily known by his stage name Tata Vlad, formerly Tataee ([taˈta.(j)e]), is a Romanian record producer, rapper, record executive, and music manager. He is one of the founders of the influential Romanian hip hop trio B.U.G. Mafia, also having produced albums and overseeing the careers of many acclaimed Romanian hip hop artists, such as La Familia, XXL & 10 Grei, Mahsat and JerryCo. As a music producer, he is frequently credited as one of the pioneers and key figures in the architecture of the Romanian version of gangsta rap, a style of music that closely resembles its American counterpart but also includes various local influences derived from balkan music or, more recently, electronica.
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Nina Cassian
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- linguistcomposerchildren's writerwritertranslator
- Biography
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Nina Cassian was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. She spent the first sixty years of her life in Romania until she moved to the United States in 1985 for a teaching job. A few years later Cassian was granted permanent asylum and New York City became her home for the rest of her life. Much of her work was published both in Romanian and in English.
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Grigore Moisil
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1923-1929
- Occupations
- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Grigore Constantin Moisil was a Romanian mathematician, computer pioneer, and titular member of the Romanian Academy. His research was mainly in the fields of mathematical logic (Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebra), algebraic logic, MV-algebra, and differential equations. He is viewed as the father of computer science in Romania.
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Corneliu Baba
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- painteruniversity teacherillustrator
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Corneliu Baba was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.
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Cristian Diaconescu
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- juristpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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Cristian Diaconescu is a Romanian jurist and politician. He previously belonged to the National Union for the Progress of Romania (UNPR) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), as well as to the People's Movement Party (PMP), which he led from 2021 to 2022. He sat in the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2012, representing Constanța County from 2004 until 2008, and subsequently Bucharest. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet, he was Minister of Justice from March to December 2004; in the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2008 and 2009. He returned to the position in 2012, also under Boc, and continued in this capacity under Boc's successor, Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu.
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Teodosie Petrescu
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- archbishop
- Biography
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Teodosie Petrescu is a Romanian cleric who has been the Archbishop of Tomis since 2001.
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Emil Bobu
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- politician
- Biography
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Emil Bobu was a Romanian Communist activist and politician, who served as Interior Minister from 1973 to 1975 and as Labor Minister from 1979 to 1981. He was an influential figure in the later years of the Communist regime until his downfall during the 1989 Revolution.
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Adrian Cioroianu
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- journalisthistorianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Adrian Mihai Cioroianu is a Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist. A lecturer for the History Department at the University of Bucharest, he is the author of several books dealing with Romanian history (and specifically with the history of Communist Romania). He is also noted for his contribution as co-author of a high school textbook.
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Nicolae Manolescu
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- diplomatpoliticianliterary criticliterary historianjournalist
- Biography
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Nicolae Manolescu is a Romanian literary critic. As an editor of România Literară literary magazine, he has reached a record in reviewing books for almost 30 years. Elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1997, he was upgraded to titular member in 2013.
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Cătălin Predoiu
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Cătălin Marian Predoiu is a Romanian lawyer who served as the ad interim Prime Minister of Romania from 12 June to 15 June 2023, following the resignation of Nicolae Ciucă, having previously served from 6 February to 9 February 2012, following the resignation of Emil Boc. He had previously been the Minister of Justice of Romania since 29 February 2008.
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Lucian Boia
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- historian
- Biography
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Lucian Boia is a Romanian historian. He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history from the deformations due to ideological propaganda. I.e. as a fighter against pseudohistory.
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Elisabeta Polihroniade
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- chess playerjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Elisabeta Polihroniade was a Romanian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and an International Arbiter (1986). She was born in Bucharest.
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Monica Macovei
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- politicianlawyerhuman rights activist
- Biography
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Monica Luisa Macovei is a Romanian politician, lawyer and former prosecutor, and former Member of the European Parliament from the European Conservatives and Reformists and formerly a member of the Romanian Democratic Liberal Party (PDL). She was the Minister of Justice of Romania in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu. In this position she was credited with implementing the justice reforms required for Romania to become a member state of the European Union. Macovei was also an independent candidate in Romania's 2014 presidential elections.
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Bogdan Aurescu
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- university teacherinternational forum participantlawyerjuristdiplomat
- Biography
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Bogdan Lucian Aurescu is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his swearing-in on 6 February 2024, Aurescu was a diplomat, law professor and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between 4 November 2019 and 15 June 2023 under prime ministers: Ludovic Orban, Florin Cîțu and Nicolae Ciucă. He also held that position between 24 November 2014 and 17 November 2015 under prime minister Victor Ponta.
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Justinian Marina
- Occupations
- Patriarch of All Romaniapriest
- Biography
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Justinian Marina was a Romanian Orthodox prelate. He was the third patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, serving between 1948 and 1977.
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Carol-Eduard Novak
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- speed skatersport cyclistpolitician
- Biography
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Carol-Eduard Novak is a Romanian road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Team Novak.
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Valeriu Sterian
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- songwritertelevision presentersingermusicianaudio engineer
- Biography
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Valeriu Sterian ( Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈlerju steriˈan]; 21 September 1952, in Știubei, Buzău County – 16 September 2000, in Bucharest) was a Romanian folk and rock musician.
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Radu Vasile
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherpoeteconomist
- Biography
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Radu Vasile was a Romanian politician, historian, academic/professor, and poet.
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Ioan Cantacuzino
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- biologistphysicianentomologist
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Ioan I. Cantacuzino was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist, a professor at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Bucharest, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. He established the fields of microbiology and experimental medicine in Romania, and founded the Ioan Cantacuzino Institute.
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Dorin Chirtoacă
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- politicianjurist
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Dorin Chirtoacă is a Moldovan politician who served as Mayor of Chișinău from 2007 to 2018. He has been leader of Liberal Party (PL) since 2018.
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Nikolai Sudzilovsky
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1877
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- revolutionaryagronomistscientistmilitary personnelchemist
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky was a revolutionary and scientist. He was from the Russian Empire and later emigrated to the United States.
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Horia-Roman Patapievici
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- physicistopinion journalistphilosopher
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Horia-Roman Patapievici is a Romanian physicist and essayist who served as the head of the Romanian Cultural Institute from 2005 until August 2012. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a member of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, supporting more openness regarding the files of the Securitate.
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Tudor Vianu
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- aestheticiantranslatorlinguistdiplomatliterary historian
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Tudor Vianu was a Romanian literary critic, art critic, poet, philosopher, academic, and translator. He had a major role on the reception and development of Modernism in Romanian literature and art. He was married to Elena Vianu, herself a literary critic, and was the father of Ion Vianu, a psychiatrist, writer and essayist.
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Zaharia Stancu
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- writernovelistpoetphilosopherjournalist
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Zaharia Stancu was a Romanian prose writer, novelist, poet, and philosopher. He was also the director of the National Theatre Bucharest, the President of the Writers' Union of Romania, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Adina-Ioana Vălean
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- politician
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Adina-Ioana Vălean is a Romanian politician who has been serving as European Commissioner for Transport under the leadership of President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2007 until 2019, where she chaired of the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy in 2019.
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Solomon Marcus
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- computer scientistwritermathematicianphilosopher
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Solomon Marcus was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member from 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics.
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Ioana Pârvulescu
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- literary criticliterary scholartranslatorwriter
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Ioana Pârvulescu is a Romanian writer. She was born in Brașov and studied at the University of Bucharest. She graduated in 1983, and went on to complete a PhD in literature in 1999. She teaches modern literature at the same university.
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Radu Câmpeanu
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- politician
- Biography
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Radu-Anton Câmpeanu was a Romanian politician who was also jurist and economist by profession, after graduating from the University of Bucharest (UB) in November 1945, specializing in constitutional right. During the interwar period and up until 1945, he was the leader of the National Liberal students' association at nationwide level (the equivalent of today's National Liberal Youth Wing or TNL for short).
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Renate Weber
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- lawyerhuman rights activistpolitical adviserpolitician
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Renate Weber is a Romanian lawyer and human rights activist who, in November 2007, was elected as Member of the European Parliament. She is the first Romanian appointed as Chief of an EU Election Observation Mission. Between 2004–2005 she was Advisor on constitutional and legislative matters to then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu. She previously served as the Romanian Ombudsman as well from June 2019 until mid June 2021.
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Alexandra Bellow
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- university teachermathematician
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Alexandra Bellow is a Romanian-American mathematician, who has made contributions to the fields of ergodic theory, probability and analysis.
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Monica Lovinescu
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- translatorliterary criticlinguistautobiographerjournalist
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Monica 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 literary figure Eugen Lovinescu. She was married to the literary critic Virgil Ierunca.
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Grigore Gafencu
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Grigore Gafencu was a Romanian politician, diplomat and journalist.
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Varujan Vosganian
- Enrolled in the University of Bucharest
- Studied in 1991
- Occupations
- writerpoeteconomistpoliticianmathematician
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Varujan Vosganian is a Romanian politician, economist, essayist and poet of Armenian origin. Vosganian was Romania's Minister of Economy and Commerce (2006–2008) in the Tăriceanu cabinet and Minister of Economy in the Ponta cabinet (2012–2013). He is the President of The Union of Armenians in Romania (UAR, 1990–present) and the Prime-vice president of the Union of Writers in Romania (2005–present). His books have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Urmuz
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- writerlawyerjudgepoetmagistrate
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Urmuz was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations. Urmuz's Bizarre (or Weird) Pages were largely independent of European modernism, even though some may have been triggered by Futurism; their valorization of nonsense verse, black comedy, nihilistic tendencies and exploration into the unconscious mind have repeatedly been cited as influential for the development of Dadaism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Individual pieces such as "The Funnel and Stamate", "Ismaïl and Turnavitu", "Algazy & Grummer" or "The Fuchsiad" are parody fragments, dealing with monstrous and shapeshifting creatures in mundane settings, and announcing techniques later taken up by Surrealism.
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Oskar Pastior
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- journalistpoettranslatorwriter
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Oskar Pastior was a Romanian-born German poet and translator. He was the only German member of Oulipo.
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Duiliu Zamfirescu
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- lawyerpoetdiplomatjournalistjudge
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Duiliu Zamfirescu was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania. Zamfirescu is best remembered for his Comăneștenilor literary cycle, comprising his novels Viața la țară, Tănase Scatiu, În război, Îndreptări, and Anna.
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Dan Șova
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- politicianhistorian
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Dan-Coman Șova is a Romanian lawyer and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has sat in the Romanian Senate from 2008 to 2015, representing Olt County.
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Corneliu Mănescu
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Corneliu Mănescu was a Romanian diplomat born in Ploiești. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania from 1961 to 1972 and as President of the United Nations General Assembly from 19 September 1967 to 23 September 1968.
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Dumitru Mazilu
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- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teachermilitary officerjurist
- Biography
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Dumitru Mazilu is a Romanian politician. He had a key role in the events of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and in exposing the human rights abuses of the Ceaușescu regime.
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Titus Corlățean
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Titus Corlățean is a Romanian politician and diplomat, former Minister of Justice and of Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), part of the Party of European Socialists, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Brașov County in the 2004 elections.
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Răzvan Theodorescu
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherart historian
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Emil Răzvan Theodorescu was a Romanian historian and politician. He researched and wrote extensively on art history in particular. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he was a member of the Romanian Senate for Iași County from 2000 to 2004, and for Botoșani County from 2004 to 2008. In the Adrian Năstase cabinet, he was Minister of Culture and Religious Affairs from 2000 to 2004.
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Vasile Pârvan
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- archaeologisthistorianuniversity teacheressayistanthropologist
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Vasile Pârvan was a Romanian historian and archaeologist.
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Eugen Tomac
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- historianjournalistpolitician
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Eugen Tomac is a Romanian politician, historian and journalist currently serving as MEP in the European Parliament for Romania since 2019. He is also the President of the People's Movement Party (PMP).
