Eternitatea is the biggest

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

in Iași,

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

Notable interments

* Vasile Adamachi, philanthropist *

Petre Andrei Petre Andrei (June 29, 1891 – October 4, 1940) was a Romanian sociologist, philosopher and politician. Biography Origins and work Born in Brăila into a family of low-ranking civil servants, Andrei attended Nicolae Bălcescu High School from ...

, sociologist and politician *

Dimitrie Anghel Dimitrie Anghel (; July 16, 1872 – November 13, 1914) was a Romanian poet. Anghel was of Aromanian descent from his father. His first poem was published in ''Contemporanul'' (1890). His debut editorial ''Traduceri din Paul Verlaine'' was publi ...

, poet and writer *

Alexandru Bădărău Alexandru A. Bădărău (April 9, 1859–March 27, 1927) was a Romanian politician, academic, and journalist. Born in Bădărăi, Iași County (now in Botoșani County), his father was the local mayor. He studied at the National College in I ...

, politician, academic, and journalist * Sabin Bălașa, painter, writer and director *

Nicolae Beldiceanu Nicolae Beldiceanu (; 26 October 1844 in Preutești - 2 February 1896 in Iași) was a Romanian poet and novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. ...

, poet and writer * Vasile Burlă, philologist * George Matei Cantacuzino, architect * Eduard Caudella, composer, violinist, conductor, teacher, and music critic * Otilia Cazimir, writer, poet, translator and publicist * Mihail Cerchez, general * Constantin Climescu, mathematician and politician * Grigore Cobălcescu, geologist and paleontologist *

Mihai Codreanu Mihai Codreanu (; July 25, 1876 – October 23, 1957) was a Romanian poet, particularly noted for his sonnets. A native and lifelong resident of Iași, he published his first volume of verse in 1901, followed by another two years later that solidif ...

, poet *

Vasile Conta Vasile Conta (; hy, Վասիլե Գրիգորեիի Կոնտա (Գոնտա); November 15, 1845 – April 21, 1882) was a Romanian philosopher, poet, and politician. He was born in Ghindăoani, a village in Bălțătești commune, Neamț Coun ...

, philosopher, writer, and minister * Ion Creangă, writer * Ioan P. Culianu, religious historian, writer, and essayist *

Mircea David Mircea David (16 October 1914 – 12 October 1993) was a Romanian football player, who played as a goalkeeper. After a match between Romania and Italy, played in Rome, he was nicknamed by the Italian football fans ''Il Dio'', because of his incr ...

, footballer *

Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea ; pen name of Barbu Ștefan; April 11, 1858 in Bucharest – April 29, 1918 in Iași) was a Romanian writer and poet, considered one of the greatest figures in the National awakening of Romania. Early life and ...

, writer, orator, lawyer, and mayor of Bucharest * Nicolae Gane, writer and politician * Gheorghe Ghibănescu, historian, genealogist, and philologist * Markus Glaser, Roman Catholic bishop *

Dimitrie Gusti Dimitrie Gusti (; 13 February 1880 – 30 October 1955) 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 o ...

, sociologist, ethnologist, and historian *

Garabet Ibrăileanu Garabet Ibrăileanu (; May 23, 1871 – March 11, 1936) was a Romanian- Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, University of Iași professor (1908–1934), and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, fo ...

, literary critic and writer *

Mihail Kogălniceanu Mihail Kogălniceanu (; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863 ...

, lawyer, historian, publicist, and

Prime Minister of Romania The prime minister of Romania ( ro, Prim-ministrul României), officially the prime minister of the Government of Romania ( ro, Prim-ministrul Guvernului României, link=no), is the head of the Government of Romania. Initially, the office was ...

Radu Korne Radu may refer to: People * Radu (given name), Romanian masculine given name * Radu (surname), Romanian surname * Rulers of Wallachia, see * Prince Radu of Romania (born 1960), disputed pretender to the former Romanian throne Other uses * Radu ( ...

, general *

Lucia Mantu Lucia Mantu (pen name of Camelia Nădejde; September 22, 1888 – November 1971) was a Romanian prose writer. Born in Iași, her parents were Gheorghe Nădejde and his wife Ecaterina (''née'' Băncilă); she was a niece of Ioan and Sofia Nădej ...

, writer * Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu, jurist and mayor of Iași * Dumitru C. Moruzi, cvil servant and writer *

Gavriil Musicescu Gavriil Musicescu (March 20, 1847, Izmail, Bessarabia Governorate, now in Ukraine – December 21, 1903, Iași, Romania) was a Romanian composer, conductor and musicologist, father of the pianist and musical pedagogue Florica Musicescu. Bo ...

, composer, musicologist, and conductor * Vera Myller, mathematician and professor * Marija Obrenović, boyaress *

Alexandru A. Philippide Alexandru A. Philippide (; April 1, 1900 – February 8, 1979) was a Romanian poet. The son of linguist Alexandru Philippide, he was born in Iași. He studied law, literature, philosophy and political economy at the University of Iași, of ...

, writer and translator * Vasile Pogor, politician, publicist and poet *

Petru Poni Petru Poni (4 January 1841 – 2 April 1925) was a Moldavian (later Romanian) chemist and mineralogist. Born into a family of ''răzeși'' (free peasants) in Săcărești, Iași County, he attended primary school in Târgu Frumos. In 1852, he enr ...

, chemist, physicist, teacher, mineralogist, and politician * Ștefan Procopiu, physicist, professor and inventor * Aristizza Romanescu, actress * Constantin Simirad, politician *

George Topîrceanu George Topîrceanu (; March 20, 1886 – May 7, 1937) was a Romanian poet, short story writer, and humourist. Biography He was born in Bucharest, the son of Ion Topîrceanu, a furrier and his wife, Paraschiva (née Cosma), a carpet weaver. Th ...

, poet, writer, memoirist, and publicist * Ștefan Vârgolici, poet, critic, and translator

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