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Petre Ţuţea - a great right-wing man, a philosopher in the death cell, after he was released from the communist prisons, he became a true secular Christian leader
Ion Creangă - the greatest Romanian storyteller, comparable to Rabelais and Cervantes, a naive genius, recreated the peasant language and poured it into the patterns of an original narrative
Traian Vuia - the first man to leave the earth with a device that was heavier than air
Dimitrie Cantemir - erudite ruler of encyclopedic formation, a Lorenzo de Medici, a ‘Renaissance man’, he clarified and proved the issue of the unity of the Romanian people and of our continuity on the territory of Dacia
Titu Maiorescu - founded the famous ‘Junimea school’, set the rules of the literary language, banned the barbarisms. ‘Logics’ is the first thorough manual
Victor Babeș - fascinated by Pasteur’s discoveries, in his laboratory, Babeş wrote the first bacteriology treaty in the world
Mihai Șora - established the ‘Library for All’ collection, through which Romanians had access to affordable books written by Romanian and foreign authors
Gheorghe Cojoce - the only Romanian survivor of the Battle of Kursk
Peter Culian - one of the great historians of religions, whose works are internationally recognized
Ionel Perlea - one of the greatest Romanian conductors
Basarabia Country Council
Ștefan Covaci - winner of two consecutive European Football Championship Cups
Ion Basgan - invented the drilling method that allowed the exploitation of deep-sea deposits
Alexandru Paleologu - intellectual, politician, Romania’s first ambassador to Paris after 1990
Vladimir Ghika - the monsignor who dedicated his life to the care of the poor and the sick
Corneliu Coposu - politician, he worked with
of Iuliu Maniu, he laid the foundations of the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR), which would win the elections in 1996
Sergiu Celibidache - one of the greatest Romanian conductors. Although he lived abroad, he never forgot that he was Romanian and he would say it whenever he had the opportunity
Peneș Curcanul (Constantin Țurcanu) – the one after whom a famous poem was written by Vasile Alecsandri
George ‘Gogu’ Constantinescu - one of the most prolific inventors of the last century. The automatic gearbox is his creation
Constantin Tănase - actor, the author of the famous saying: “Our folks are leaving, our folks are coming, one more time we voted like fools”
Nina Cassian - author of some of the most beautiful romantic poems in Romanian literature
Ludovic Mrazek - father of the Institute of
Geology Ion Gheorghe Duca - Romanian Prime Minister,
he was assassinated by the Legionnaires in 1933
Constantin Stere - founder of the ‘Viaţa Românească’ magazine and president of
Marin Preda - author of the novels ‘Moromeţii’ and ‘The most beloved of earthlings’
Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu - the first neurosurgeon woman in Romania
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