100 Greatest Romanians

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'' ( ro, 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.

Top 10

Full list

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

External links

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