Mihai Viteazu (1558 - August 9/19, 1601), "prince of Wallachia, of Transylvania and of the entire Land of Moldavia," he succeeded in first uniting the.
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Mihai Viteazu (1558 - August 9/19, 1601), "prince of Wallachia, of Transylvania and of the entire Land of
Moldavia," he succeeded in first uniting the Romanians politically, being simultaneously prince of Wallachia (1593-
1601), Transylvania (1599-1600) and Moldavia (1600).
Carol I (1839 -1914), crowned on May 10, 1866, he first reigned as prince; starting 1881,
he was proclaimed King of Romania. He led the Romanian army to victory in the Independence War (1877); his crown was made of the steel of a cannon fired in the war the Romanians fought
Nicolae Titulescu (March 4, 1882 - March 17, 1941), one of the greatest inter-war Romanian diplomats, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1927-28 and 1932-36). Starting in 1921 he was Romania's permanent representative to the League of Nations in Geneva, being twice elected President of this organization (1930 and 1931).
Dumitru Staniloae (1903 -1993) one of the most important theologians of the 20st century, priest, memberof the Romanian Academy, university professor, dogmatist, writer and journalist. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Orthodox Institute Saint Serge of
Paris (1981). He won the honorific distinction "Cross Saint Augustin of Canterbury, for theological and Christian merits.
Teoctist (1915 - 2007), the 5th Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (from 1986 to 2007). The first Romanian Orthodox Patriarch who received the visit of Pope Jean Paul II in 1999.
Alexandru Todea (1912 - 2002), Cardinal, honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Archbishop of Alba lulia and Fagaras and Metropolitan Bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church (1986), then Cardinal
Moses Rosen (1912 - 1994), former Chief-Rabbi of the Jews in România (1848 -1994) and head of the Jewish Federation in România (1964 - 1994). He established in 1979 the History Museum of the
Jewish Community in România. In March 1979, Rabbi Rosen and Patriarch Justinian, head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, jointly sponsored a Jewish and Orthodox Christian Dialogue in Lucerne,
Nicolae Grigorescu (1838 1907), the first of the founders of the Romanian modern painting, establishing an original style in portraits, in the paintings inspired by the experience of the participation in the Independence War, in the "Ox cart" series, and in the landscapes painted in the country or during his travels abroad.
Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), Romanian sculptor, a prominent figure of the 20th century art. Student of Auguste Rodin, Brancusi exerted the greatest influence on 20th century modern sculpture. His art is a combination of ancient echoes and a modern sense of forms in space (Bird in Space, Beginning of the World, Miss Pogany).
Elvira Popescu (1894 -1993), theatre and film actress, stage director. She enjoyed great success in France. Elvira Popescu's theater career lasted for 65 years and the film career 50 years. Some of the plays in
which she performed exceeded 2,000 representations, which is an accomplishment rarely done by other actors. She received the Moliere
Award for the best actress, awarded by the association of French actors and she was awarded the Legion of Honour twice.
Hariclea Darclee (1860 -1939), well-known soprano on the main internaţional stages, especially in Italy. Giacomo Puccini composed Tosca, Pietro Mascagni Iris and Alfredo Catalani La Wally, especially for Hariclea Darclee, who interpreted the main parts in the premiere shows. At her 135th anniversary, in 1995, her natal city Brăila organized the International Canto Competition bearing her name. The contest is held every two years.
Lucia Sturdza Bulandra (1873 -1961), actress and theater manager, remarkable through her impressive stage career (68 years long). At a time when actors were still assimilated to juggiers, the descendant of the Sturdza ruler had the courage to perform the parts of Queen Margot, Anna Karenina and Mary Stuart.
Andrei Serban (1943), actor and stage director, settled in America in 1971, with a vast classic and naţional repertoire (Julius Caesar, lona). He is famous due to the original way he directed the Ancient trilogy (Medeea,
Elektra, The Trojan Women). Many of his plays were performed on Broadway. He was awarded several prizes The Obie Award and the Tony Award. He is professor of several universities worldwide.
Marcel Iureş (1951), actor, winner of several awards in România. After the Revolution of December 1989 he started the internaţional career, playing in several American movies, of which the best known are Amen, Hart's War, Mission Impossible, Interview With A Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, and The Pacifier.
Alina Cojocaru (1981), ballet dancer. She studied ballet in Kiev for seven years and then at the Royal Ballet School in London, since 1997. First soloist in Kiev and at Royal Ballet
Company in London (as of 2001), she is one of the best-known ballet dancers at internaţional level.
Emil Cioran (April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995), Romanian philosopher and writer, who settled in France in 1937. He deals with eternal subjects (God, Iove, time, death) from the vantage of a pessimistic outlook on man. His first writing in French, Precis de decomposition, was awarded the Rivarol prize in 1950. Subsequently he refused the literary awards that were offered to him.
Mircea Eliade (March 19, 1907 -April 22, 1986), writer, philosopher, one of the great historians of religions. He created the chair of the history of religions
at the University of Chicago. He laid emphasis on the concept of sacred space and time. His novels Maitreyi, St. John's Night, Wedding in Heaven, the novei
las The Snake, Isabel and the Devil's Waters, Miss Christina or With the Gypsy Girls are only a few of the reference titles for Eliade's literary work.
Petre Tutea (1902 -1991), economist, essayist, philosopher, orator and politician. He was part of the interwar generation of Romanian philosophers including Nae lonescu, Cioran, Eliade, Vulcanescu, Blaga.
Eugene lonesco ( November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994), theorist of the avant-garde of the 60s. He asserted himself as one of the greatest creators of the Theatre of the Absurd (The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, The Rhinoceros).
Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963), poet and essay writer, cofounder of the cultural movement Dadaism. Tzara's best known Dadaistic texts are: La premiere aventure celeste de Monsiuer Antipyrine
George Enescu (August 19, 1881 - May 4, 1955), composer, violinist, teacher, pianist and conductor, whom Yehudi Menuhin considered "one of the genuine wonders of the world." He gained internaţional fame mainly due to the Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 and the opera Oedip - staged for the first time in Paris on March 13, 1936. The George Enescu Festival was inaugurated three years after his death; year after year, the event brought to Bucharest the pick of contemporary music artists.
Sergiu Celibidache (b. June 28, 1912 - d. August 14, 1996), conducted on all great stages of the world and reaped appreciation for his vivid, original style of music rendering. Conductor of the Stockhoim Radio Orchestra (1962-1972), of the Stuttgart Radio
Orchestra (1972-1977) and of the Munich Philharmonic (1979-1996), he experienced fame atthe helm of the Copenhagen Royal Theatre Orchestra, of Milan's Scala Opera Theatre and of the Fenice Theatre in Venice.
Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), also known as the "genius of the Pan flute", is renowned all around the world for his mastery of the instrument. He has performed to a full house at many of the world's prestigious artistic venues and sold millions of recordings. He is the composer of the soundtracks for Once Upon a Time in America, Karate Kid, The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe.
Mariana Nicolesco (b. 1948), soprano with a briiliant internaţional career, acciaimed on the most renowned
stages of the world, beginning with Milan's Scala Opera Theatre - where she made her debut in the world first
performance of Luciano Beria's opera La Vera Storia - as well as at the New York Metropolitan Opera, in Munich,
Vienna, Paris, Chicago orTokyo. In 2005 she was awarded UNESCO "Artist for peace". At the invitation of Pope John Paul II, Mariana Nicolesco sang old Romanian Christmas
carols in the first Christmas Concert in the Vatican, broadcast by Mondovisione, that reaped 1 billion audience.
Henri Coanda (1886 -1972), aviation pioneer, he built the first jet plane, named Coanda (1910); he conceived high performance aircraft, a surveillance plane (1916) that reaped high appreciation it its time, the first jet-powered motor sleigh, the world's first aerodynamic train and other equipment
Nicolae Paulescu (November 8, 1869 - July 19, 1931), scientist. In 1921 he informed of his discovering the active anti-diabetic principie in the pancreas, which he named pancreine, that came ten months before Fr. Grant Banting and Ch. Herbert Best in Toronto announced the discovery of insulin (the new name of the active principie in the pancreas). On the 50th anniversary of the discovery of insulin the competent bodies unanimously recognized the priority of the Romanian scientist.
Ana Aslan (January 1, 1897 - May 20, 1988), specialist in gerontology. In 1952 she had vitamin H3 (Gerovital) patented,
"the product that defeated old age.“ Numerous internaţional personalities took the Gerovital treatment: Charles de Gaulle, J. F. Kennedy, Indira Ghandi, Imelda Marcos, Marlene Dietrich, Konrad
Adenauer, Charlie Chaplin, Kirk Douglas, Salvador Dali. She invented the geriatrie product Asiavital, which was patented and
lolanda Balaş (1936), Romanian athlete; corrected 14 times, over 1957-1961, the world record at high jump, from 1.75 meters to 1.91 meters. Olympic champion
(Rome, 1960 and Tokyo, 1964).
lolanda Balaş, during training session
Cristian Gatu (1945), handball player, dubbed The Magician of the Semicircle, played 212 times in the
Romanian naţional team, winning two world titles, in Paris (1970) and Berlin (1974).
Nadia Comaneci, at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow
Nadia Comaneci, at the European Gymnastics Championships in
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Nadia Comaneci (1961), winner of five Olympic gold medals, is the first gymnast to beawarded a perfect 10 score in an Olympic gymnastics event, at the Olympic
Summer Games in Montreal, 1976. She is considered one of the best sport performers and one of the best gymnasts of all time. She was the first athlete to speak
at the United Nations, to launch Year 2000, the International Year of Volunteers. Nadia still works in the gymnastics world and does charity work worldwide.
Ilie Nastase and Ion Tiriac in a tennis show at Davis Cup
Gheorghe Hagi (1965), former soccer player, currently coach at Steaua Bucharest. He had a remarkable internaţional career, playing for Steaua, Real Madrid, F.C. Barcelona and Galatasaray Istanbul. He had an outstanding technique and intelligence in the field. He was named in 1999 the best Romanian soccer player of all time, being nicknamed "Maradona of the Carpathians". He is a member in the Commission for Soccer of the International Federation.
Gheorghe Hagi, at France World Cup Soccer Championships
Gabriela Szabo (1975), is an athlete, winner of the gold medal in 5,000 m race and winner of gold medal in 2000 Summer Olympics. Szabo
is also a three-time world champion. She withdrew from the professional sport in May
Lucian Doroftei (1970), Romanian boxer, WBA world champion at the super lightweight category (61.9 Kgs.) between January 5, 2002 - October 24, 2003; as an amateur, he won the
world titie in 1995 and the European champion's titie in 1996 and 1997