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Theodor Aman was a Romanian painter of Armenian descent. His style is often considered to be a predecessor of Impressionism.He is buried in Bellu cemetery.-External links:...

George Bacovia was a Romanian symbolist poet. While he initially belonged to the Symbolist movement, his poetry came to be seen as a precursor of Romanian Modernism and eventually established him in critical esteem alongside Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga and Ion Barbu as one of the most important...

Ion Barbu was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet....

Dimitrie Brândză was a famous Romanian botanist. He founded the Botanical Garden of Bucharest which is now named in his honor....

Marius Bunescu was a Romanian painter, organizer of the National Museum of Art, and director of the Anastase Simu Museum.He was buried in the Romanian Orthodox Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest....

Scarlat Callimachi or Calimachi was a Romanian journalist, essayist, futurist poet, trade unionist, and communist activist, a member of the Callimachi family of boyar and Phanariote lineage...

Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...

Toma Caragiu was a Romanian actor with a rich history in theatre, television and film. He was best known for comedy roles, but also played dramatic roles....

Panait Cerna was a Romanian poet, philosopher, literary critic and translator...

Dina Cocea was a well-known Romanian stage actress and occasional movie star with a career that spanned 50 years...

Corneliu Coposu was a conservative Romanian politician.-Early life:Coposu was born in Bobota, Sălaj County to the Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu and his wife Aurelia Coposu...

George Coşbuc 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.Although his work was later coopted by Communist propagandists to embellish...

Hariclea Darclée was a celebrated Romanian operatic soprano. She possessed an agile, powerful, and beautiful voice that was wielded with a fine technique. An extremely handsome woman, Darclée's stage presence was as elegant and refined as her singing...

Anghel Demetriescu was a Romanian historian, writer and literary critic, member of the Romanian Academy in 1902.-Childhood and studies:...

Ovid Densusianu was a Romanian poet, philologist, linguist and folklorist...

Ion Dolănescu was a Romanian singer and politician.-Songs:* M-am născut printre Carpaţi* Gorjule, grădină dulce* De când sunt pe-acest pământ* Mândro, când ne iubeam noi* Să-mi trăiască nevestica...

Mihai Eminescu was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul , the official newspaper of the Conservative Party...

Evlogi Georgiev was a major Bulgarian merchant, banker and benefactor. The main building of the Sofia University was build with a large financial endowmment by him and his brother Hristo Georgiev.-Biography:...

Hristo Georgiev was a wealthy Bulgarian, and brother of Evlogi Georgiev, who lived in the 19th century. With his brother he funded the construction of Sofia University, in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. The university was one of the most important and up to date institutions of the time, with tens...

Dimitrie Gusti was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932-1933...

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history...

Iulia Hasdeu had a famous father in the person of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, a Romanian writer and philologist. Even though she died of tuberculosis at the age of 18, Iulia made many significant achievements. She wrote poems and prose, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and canto...

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 extreme right wing politics, in the years leading up to World War II.-Life:Born in Brăila, Ionescu studied Letters at the...

Iorgu Iordan was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician...

Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, university professor, literary critic, memorialist, playwright, poet, and politician...

Petre Ispirescu was a Romanian printer and publicist.-Biography:Born in Bucharest, his parents wanted him to be a priest and he was entrusted to study with a monk at the Metropolitan Church, after he studied with a priest at the Doamna Bălaşa Church.He quit in 1844 and became a worker at the...

Panait Istrati was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans...

Ştefan Octavian Iosif was a Romanian poet and translator of Aromanian origin.-Life:Born in Braşov, Transylvania , he studied in his native town and in Sibiu before completing his education in Paris. While in France, he met Dimitrie Anghel, who would became a long-time friend...

Nicolae Labiş was a Romanian poet.-Early life:...

Ştefan Luchian was a Romanian painter, famous for his landscapes and still life works.-Early life:He was born in Ştefăneşti, a village of Botoşani County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu...

Alexandru Macedonski was a Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist literary critic, known especially for having promoted French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades...

Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who competed at a record six Summer Olympics, winning three discus medals....

Ion Minulescu was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M...

Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan was a Romanian actor known for his work in Romanian film and television roles. However, Moldovan focused almost exclusively on theater and stage roles during the later years of his career....

Theodor Pallady was a Romanian painter.-Biography:Pallady was born in Iaşi, but at a young age, his family moved to Dresden, where he studied engineering at the Dresden University of Technology between 1887 and 1889. At the same time, he studied art with Erwin Oehme, who, recognising his artistic...

Nicolae Paulescu was a Romanian physiologist, professor of medicine, and the discoverer of insulin .-Early life and activities:...

Amza Pellea was one of the most important Romanian actors, being remarked both for his theatre and his film acting.Born in Băileşti, in Oltenia, he attended the Carol I High School...

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.- Life :...

Cezar Petrescu was a Romanian journalist, novelist and children's writer.He was inspired by the works of Honoré de Balzac, attempting to write a Romanian novel cycle that would mirror Balzac's La Comédie humaine...

Constantin Titel Petrescu was a Romanian politician and lawyer. He was the leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party.He was born in Craiova, the son of an employee of the National Bank in Bucharest...

Gică Petrescu was a prolific Romanian folk and pop music composer and performer.He made his debut at age 18 by joining a student band, having just graduated from the "Gheorghe Şincai" high school in Bucharest. His official debut was made by performing for radio audiences in 1937...

Florian Pittiş was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer....

Marin Preda was a Romanian novelist, often considered the best of post-WWII Romania.Preda was born in Siliştea-Gumeşti village, Teleorman county, into a family of peasants. He studied at the village school, then at Abrud and Cristur-Odorhei...

George Mihail Pruteanu was a Romanian literary critic, university professor, and politician.His father, Paul Pruteanu, was a medical doctor and a university professor who researched the history of Moldavian medicine. His mother, Sofia Pruteanu, was an office worker...

Nicolae Rădescu was a Romanian army officer and political figure. He was the last pre-communist rule Prime Minister of Romania, serving from December 7, 1944 to March 1, 1945....

Dem Rădulescu was a Romanian theatre, film and television actor and academic. He was also a professor at the Universitatea Naţională de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică – I.L. Caragiale, in Bucharest....

Constantin Rădulescu-Motru was a Romanian philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, logician, academic, dramatist, as well as centre-left nationalist politician with a noted anti-fascist discourse...

Liviu Rebreanu was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.- Life :Born in Târlişua , Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary, he was the second of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu, descendants of peasants...

Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting republican head of state under the communist regime...

Dan Spătaru was a Romanian singer.His songs include: "De vrei să ştii ce înseamnă", "Dragu mi-i de ţara mea, Drum bun", "Drumurile noastre toate", "În rândul patru'"', "Măicuţă, îţi mulţumesc", "Nimic nu e prea mult'"', "Nu vreau să plângi", "Prietene", "Să cântăm,...

Nichita Stănescu was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian language poet, beloved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.-Biography:Stănescu's father was Nicolae H. Stănescu...

Laura Stoica was a Romanian singer, composer and actress.In 1986, she graduated from the "Popular Arts School" in Târgovişte with a degree in classic canto. Afterwards, she participated at all the major new-talent contests held in Romania...

Constantin Tănase was a Romanian actor and writer for stage, a key figure in the revue style of theater in Romania.-Life:Born into a working-class family living in a peasant house in Barlad Vaslui, Romania...

Maria Tănase was a Romanian singer of traditional and popular music.-Biography:Born in the Bucharest suburb of Cărămidari, Maria Tănase studied at the primary school nr. 11 Tăbăcari making her first stage debut in Caramidarii de Jos, then on the stage of Ion Heliade Rădulescu High School...

Ionel Teodoreanu was a Romanian novelist and lawyer who lived at the time of the two World Wars. He is mostly remembered for his books on childhood and adolescence themes.-Biography:...

Grigore Vasiliu Birlic was one of the greatest Romanian actors, with a rich history in theatre, television and film. He was best known for comedy roles....

Elena Văcărescu or Hélène Vacaresco was a Romanian-French writer, twice a laureate of the Académie française.-Life:...

Artur or Arthur Văitoianu was a Romanian general who served as a Prime Minister of Romania for about three months in 1919...

Aurel Vlaicu was a Romanian engineer, inventor, airplane constructor and early pilot.-Biography:Aurel Vlaicu was born in Binţinţi , near Orăştie, Transylvania, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time...

Traian Vuia was a Romanian inventor, who designed, built and flew the first self-propelling heavier-than-air aircraft in Europe, in 1906....