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100 Greatest Romanians

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Stephen the Great, commemorated on some stamps from 2004, the winner of the contest

In 2006, Romanian Television (Televiziunea Română, TVR) conducted a vote to determine whom the general public considered the 100 Greatest Romanians of all time, in a version of the British TV show 100 Greatest Britons. The resulting series, Great Romanians (Romanian: Mari Români), included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate. On 21 October, TVR announced that the "greatest Romanian of all time" according to the voting was Stephen the Great.[1][2]

Top 10

Full list

  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 (1918–1989) – last communist dictator of Romania
  12. Vlad Țepeș (1431–1476) – Prince of Wallachia
  13. Gigi Becali (1958– ) – politician and businessman, football club owner
  14. Henri Coandă (1886–1972) – inventor and aerodynamics pioneer
  15. Gheorghe Hagi (1965– ) – football player
  16. Ion Luca Caragiale (1852–1912) – playwright and short story writer
  17. Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940) – historian, writer, and politician
  18. Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654–1714) – Prince of Wallachia
  19. George Enescu (1881–1955) – composer and musician
  20. Gregorian Bivolaru (1952– ) – founder of MISA yoga organization
  21. Mirel Rădoi (1980– ) – football player
  22. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) – founder of the Legionary Movement, the main Romanian fascist movement during the 1930s
  23. Nicolae Titulescu (1882–1941) – diplomat, president of the League of Nations
  24. Ferdinand I of Romania (1865–1927) – King of Romania during World War I, who oversaw the creation of "Greater Romania"
  25. Mihai I (1921–2017) – last King of Romania before communist period
  26. Decebalus (87–106) – last King of Dacia before Roman conquest
  27. Traian Băsescu (1951–) – politician, former President of Romania
  28. Gheorghe Mureșan (1971– ) – NBA basketball player
  29. Ion I. C. Brătianu (1864–1927) – liberal politician, Prime Minister of Romania for five terms
  30. Răzvan Lucescu (1969– ) football player and football club manager
  31. Nicolae Paulescu (1869–1931) – physiologist, one of the scientists who developed diabetes treatment with insulin
  32. Iuliu Maniu (1873–1953) – politician, fought for the national rights of the Romanians of Transylvania
  33. Iuliu Hossu (1885–1970) – Greek-Catholic bishop, victim of the communist regime
  34. Emil Cioran (1911–1995) – philosopher, writer, and essayist
  35. Avram Iancu (1824–1872) – leader of the 1848 Romanian revolution in Transylvania
  36. Burebista (? – 44 BC) – King of Dacia
  37. Marie of Romania (1875–1938) – Queen of Romania
  38. Petre Țuțea (1902–1991) – philosopher, Christian-fascist intellectual, victim of the communist regime
  39. Corneliu Coposu (1914–1995) – liberal politician, victim of the communist regime
  40. Aurel Vlaicu (1882–1913) – inventor, aviation pioneer
  41. Iosif Trifa (1888–1938) – Eastern Orthodox priest, founder of the "Oastea Domnului" ("Lord's Army") Christian organisation
  42. Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983) – poet and essayist
  43. Ion Creangă (1837–1889) – writer
  44. Mădalina Manole (1967–2010) – pop singer
  45. Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949–2015) – ultranationalist politician, writer and journalist; founder and leader of the Greater Romania Party
  46. Traian Vuia (1872–1950) – inventor, aviation pioneer
  47. Lucian Blaga (1895–1961) – poet, playwright, and philosopher
  48. George Emil Palade (1912–2008) – cell biologist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1974)
  49. Ana Aslan (1897–1988) – biologist, physician and inventor, the author of essential research in gerontology
  50. Adrian Mutu (1979– ) – football player
  51. Florin Piersic (1936– ) – theater and film actor
  52. Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891) – politician and historian, first Prime Minister of the United Principalities of Romania
  53. Iancsi Korossy (1926–2013) – jazz pianist
  54. Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723) – Prince of Moldavia and prolific man of letters
  55. Ilie Năstase (1946– ) – tennis player
  56. Gheorghe Zamfir (1941– ) – musician, pan flute player
  57. Gică Petrescu (1915–2006) – musician, folk and pop music composer and singer
  58. Elisabeta Rizea (1912–2003) – anti-communist partisan
  59. Bulă (fictional) – a stock character of Romanian jokes of the communist era
  60. Amza Pellea (1931–1983) – theater and film actor
  61. Matei Corvin (1443 (?) – 1490) – King of Hungary
  62. Mircea cel Bătrân (1355–1418) – Prince of Wallachia
  63. Titu Maiorescu (1840–1917) – literary critic and politician
  64. Toma Caragiu (1925–1977) – theater and film actor
  65. Mihai Trăistariu (1979– ) – pop singer
  66. Andreea Marin (1974– ) – TV show host
  67. Emil Racoviță (1868–1947) – biologist, co-founder of biospeleology and explorer of Antarctica
  68. Victor Babeș (1854–1926) – biologist and early bacteriologist, one of the founders of microbiology
  69. Nicolae Bălcescu (1819–1852) – leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution
  70. Horia-Roman Patapievici (1957– ) – writer and essayist
  71. Ion Iliescu (1930– ) – first President of Romania after the 1989 revolution
  72. Marin Preda (1922–1980) – novelist
  73. Eugen Ionescu (1909–1994) – playwright, one of the initiators of the theatre of the absurd
  74. Dumitru Stăniloae (1903–1993) – Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian
  75. Alexandru Todea (1905–2002) – Greek-Catholic bishop, victim of the communist regime
  76. Tudor Gheorghe (1945– ) – singer and theater actor
  77. Ion Țiriac (1939– ) – tennis player and businessman
  78. Ilie Cleopa (1912–1998) – Eastern Orthodox archimandrite
  79. Arsenie Boca (1910–1989) – Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian, victim of the communist regime
  80. Bănel Nicoliță (1985– ) – football player
  81. Dumitru Cornilescu (1891–1975) – Eastern Orthodox, then Protestant priest, translated the Bible into Romanian in 1921
  82. Grigore Moisil (1906–1973) – mathematician and computing pioneer
  83. Claudiu Niculescu (1976– ) – football player
  84. Florentin Petre (1976– ) – football player
  85. Marius Moga (1981– ) – pop music composer and singer
  86. Nicolae Steinhardt (1912–1989) – writer
  87. Laura Stoica (1967–2006) – pop and rock singer, composer and actress
  88. Cătălin Hâldan (1976–2000) – football player
  89. Anghel Saligny (1854–1925) – public works, chiefly railway engineer
  90. Ivan Patzaichin (1949–2021) – flatwater canoer who won seven Olympic medals
  91. Maria Tănase (1913–1963) – traditional and popular music singer
  92. Sergiu Nicolaescu (1930–2013) – film director, actor and politician
  93. Octavian Paler (1926–2007) – essayist
  94. The Unknown Soldier – the Romanian soldier in the national Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
  95. Ciprian Porumbescu (1853–1883) – composer
  96. Nicolae Covaci (1947– ) – founder of the Phoenix rock band
  97. Dumitru Prunariu (1952– ) – first Romanian cosmonaut
  98. Iancu de Hunedoara (c. 1387 – 1456) – Voivode of Transylvania, captain-general and regent of the Kingdom of Hungary
  99. Constantin Noica (1909–1987) – philosopher and essayist
  100. Badea Cârțan (1849–1911) – a shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania (then under Hungarian rule inside Austria-Hungary)

Other editions

Other countries have produced similar shows; see Greatest Britons spin-offs

References

  1. ^ "Cei mai mari Români". TVR. Archived from the original on 16 July 2006.
  2. ^ "Cei mai mari Români". TVR. Archived from the original on 17 July 2006.