100 Greatest Romanians

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1. Stephen the Great
2. Carol I
3. Mihai Eminescu
4. Mihai Viteazul
5. Richard Wurmbrand
6. Ion Antonescu
7. Mircea Eliade
8. Alexandru Ioan Cuza
9. Constantin Brâncuși
10. Nadia Comăneci
11. Nicolae Ceaușescu – last communist dictator of Romania
12. Vlad Țepeș – Prince of Wallachia
13. Gigi Becali – politician and businessman, football club owner
14. Henri Coandă – inventor and aerodynamics pioneer
15. Gheorghe Hagi – football player
16. Ion Luca Caragiale – playwright and short story writer
17. Nicolae Iorga – historian, writer, and politician
18. Constantin Brâncoveanu – Prince of Wallachia
19. George Enescu – composer and musician
20. Gregorian Bivolaru – founder of MISA yoga organization
21. Mirel Rădoi – football player
22. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu – founder of the Legionary Movement, the main Romanian fascist movement during the 1930s
23. Nicolae Titulescu – diplomat, president of the League of Nations
24. Ferdinand I of Romania – King of Romania during World War I, who oversaw the creation of "Greater Romania"
25. Mihai I – last King of Romania before communist period
26. Decebalus – last King of Dacia before Roman conquest
27. Traian Băsescu – politician, former President of Romania
28. Gheorghe Mureșan – NBA basketball player
29. Ion I. C. Brătianu – liberal politician, Prime Minister of Romania for five terms
30. Răzvan Lucescu football player and football club manager
31. Nicolae Paulescu – physiologist, one of the scientists who developed diabetes treatment with insulin
32. Iuliu Maniu – politician, fought for the national rights of the Romanians of Transylvania
33. Iuliu Hossu – Greek-Catholic bishop, victim of the communist regime
34. Emil Cioran – philosopher, writer, and essayist
35. Avram Iancu – leader of the 1848 Romanian revolution in Transylvania
36. Burebista – King of Dacia
37. Marie of Romania – Queen of Romania
38. Petre Țuțea – philosopher, Christian-fascist intellectual, victim of the communist regime
39. Corneliu Coposu – liberal politician, victim of the communist regime
40. Aurel Vlaicu – inventor, aviation pioneer
41. Iosif Trifa – Eastern Orthodox priest, founder of the "Oastea Domnului" Christian organisation
42. Nichita Stănescu – poet and essayist
43. Ion Creangă – writer
44. Mădalina Manole – pop singer
45. Corneliu Vadim Tudor – ultranationalist politician, writer and journalist; founder and leader of the Greater Romania Party
46. Traian Vuia – inventor, aviation pioneer
47. Lucian Blaga – poet, playwright, and philosopher
48. George Emil Palade – cell biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
49. Ana Aslan – biologist, physician and inventor, the author of essential research in gerontology
50. Adrian Mutu – football player
51. Florin Piersic – theater and film actor
52. Mihail Kogălniceanu – politician and historian, first Prime Minister of the United Principalities of Romania
53. Iancsi Korossy – jazz pianist
54. Dimitrie Cantemir – Prince of Moldavia and prolific man of letters
55. Ilie Năstase – tennis player
56. Gheorghe Zamfir – musician, pan flute player
57. Gică Petrescu – musician, folk and pop music composer and singer
58. Elisabeta Rizea – anti-communist partisan
59. Bulă – a stock character of Romanian jokes of the communist era
60. Amza Pellea – theater and film actor
61. Matei Corvin – King of Hungary
62. Mircea cel Bătrân – Prince of Wallachia
63. Titu Maiorescu – literary critic and politician
64. Toma Caragiu – theater and film actor
65. Mihai Trăistariu – pop singer
66. Andreea Marin – TV show host
67. Emil Racoviță – biologist, co-founder of biospeleology and explorer of Antarctica
68. Victor Babeș – biologist and early bacteriologist, one of the founders of microbiology
69. Nicolae Bălcescu – leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution
70. Horia-Roman Patapievici – writer and essayist
71. Ion Iliescu – first President of Romania after the 1989 revolution
72. Marin Preda – novelist
73. Eugen Ionescu – playwright, one of the initiators of the theatre of the absurd
74. Dumitru Stăniloae – Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian
75. Alexandru Todea – Greek-Catholic bishop, victim of the communist regime
76. Tudor Gheorghe – singer and theater actor
77. Ion Țiriac – tennis player and businessman
78. Ilie Cleopa – Eastern Orthodox archimandrite
79. Arsenie Boca – Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian, victim of the communist regime
80. Bănel Nicoliță – football player
81. Dumitru Cornilescu – Eastern Orthodox, then Protestant priest, translated the Bible into Romanian in 1921
82. Grigore Moisil – mathematician and computing pioneer
83. Claudiu Niculescu – football player
84. Florentin Petre – football player
85. Marius Moga – pop music composer and singer
86. Nicolae Steinhardt – writer
87. Laura Stoica – pop and rock singer, composer and actress
88. Cătălin Hâldan – football player
89. Anghel Saligny – public works, chiefly railway engineer
90. Ivan Patzaichin – flatwater canoer who won seven Olympic medals
91. Maria Tănase – traditional and popular music singer
92. Sergiu Nicolaescu – film director, actor and politician
93. Octavian Paler – essayist
94. The Unknown Soldier – the Romanian soldier in the national Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
95. Ciprian Porumbescu – composer
96. Nicolae Covaci – founder of the Phoenix rock band
97. Dumitru Prunariu – first Romanian cosmonaut
98. Iancu de Hunedoara – Voivode of Transylvania, captain-general and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary
99. Constantin Noica – philosopher and essayist
100. Badea Cârțan – ''a shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania ''

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