The Order of the Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Ordinul Steaua Republicii Socialiste România), from 1948 to 1965 the Order of the Star of the Romanian People's Republic ( ro, Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române), was the second-highest honor bestowed by the
Socialist Republic of Romania
The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian Peop ...
(known as the
Romanian People's Republic
The Socialist Republic of Romania ( ro, Republica Socialistă România, RSR) was a Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian Peopl ...
from 1947 to 1965). Established on 12 January 1948, during the regime's first month, it came in five classes:
Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra
Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra (25 August 1873 – 19 September 1961) was a Romanian actress and acting teacher. She is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Romanian theater.
In addition to her acting career, she played ...
(1953),
Emil Bodnăraș
Emil Bodnăraș (10 February 1904 – 24 January 1976) was a Romanian communist politician, an army officer, and a Soviet agent, who had considerable influence in the Romanian People's Republic.''Final Report'', p. 646
Early life
Bodnăraș was ...
,
Justinian Marina
Justinian Marina (; born Ioan Marina ) (February 2, 1901, in Suiești, Vâlcea County – March 26, 1977, in Bucharest) was a Romanian Orthodox prelate. He was the third patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, serving between 1948 and 1977.
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,
Gala Galaction
Gala Galaction (; the pen name of Grigore or Grigorie Pisculescu, (the quarter "Pantelimon" is presumed to preserve his memory) ; April 16, 1879—March 8, 1961) was a Romanian Orthodox clergyman and theologian, writer, journalist, left-wing a ...
Simion Stoilow
Simion Stoilow or Stoilov ( – 4 April 1961) was a Romanian mathematician, creator of the Romanian school of complex analysis, and author of over 100 publications.
Biography
He was born in Bucharest, and grew up in Craiova. His father, Colonel ...
Petre Antonescu
Petre Antonescu (June 29, 1873 - April 22, 1965) was a Romanian architect. Over the course of a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century, he established himself as a leader in the field within his country, helping define a national ...
Károly Kós
Károly Kós (, born Károly Kosch; 16 December 1883 – 25 August 1977) was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania.
Biography
Born as Károly Kosch in Temesvár, Austria-Hung ...
(1959),
Tudor Arghezi
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Erasmus Julius Nyárády
Erasmus Julius Nyárády (7 April 1881 - 10 June 1966) was a Romanian botanist of Hungarian ethnicity. In the Hungarian style his name appears as Nyárády Erazmus Gyula. He was born in Transylvania, in a town then called in hu, Nyárádtő, in ...
George Oprescu
George Oprescu (27 November 1881 – 13 August 1969) was a Romanian historian, art critic and collector. Born into a poor family, he developed a taste for the fine arts early in life, as well as for the French language, which he taught into his fo ...
,
Mihail Jora
Mihail Jora (; 2 August 1891, Roman, Romania - 10 May 1971, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian composer, pianist, and conductor.
Jora studied in Leipzig with Robert Teichmüller. From 1929 to 1962 he was a professor at the Bucharest Conservatoir ...
Ion Agârbiceanu
Ion Agârbiceanu (first name also Ioan, last name also Agărbiceanu and Agîrbiceanu; September 12, 1882 – May 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, politician, theologian and Greek-Catholic priest. Born among the ...
Ion Jalea
Ion Jalea (; 19 May 1887 – 7 November 1983) was a Romanian sculptor, medallist, titular member of the Romanian Academy.
Biography Artistic studies
Jalea was born on 19 May 1887 in the little town of Casimcea, Tulcea County. His family ...
,
Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow
Patriarch Alexy I (Alexius I, russian: Патриарх Алексий I, secular name Sergey Vladimirovich Simansky, russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Сима́нский; – 17 April 1970) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow ...
Leontin Sălăjan
Leontin Sălăjan ( hu, Szilágyi Ignác; 19 June 1913 – 28 August 1966) was a Romanian communist military and political leader.
Born in Santău Commune, Satu Mare County (then in Szilágy County, Austria-Hungary),Dobre ''et al.'', p. 529
Nikita Khrushchev
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(1964),Cristian Vasile, ''Politicile culturale comuniste in timpul regimului Gheorghiu-Dej'', p.81-2. Editura Humanitas, Bucharest, 2013, Nicolae Giosan (1971 and 1981)Dobre ''et al.'', p. 298
Soeharto
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(1982) and
Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...
(1982).
Recipients of its second class included
Corneliu Baba
Corneliu Baba (; 18 November 1906, Craiova – 28 December 1997) was a Romanian painter, primarily a portraitist, but also known as a genre painter and an illustrator of books.
Early life
Having first studied under his father, the academic pain ...
,
Alexandru Bârlădeanu
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,Dobre ''et al.'', p. 93
Mihai Beniuc
Mihai Beniuc (; 20 November 1907 – 24 June 1988) was a Romanian socialist realist poet, dramatist, and novelist.
He was born in 1907 in Sebiș, Arad County (at the time in Austria-Hungary), and attended the Moise Nicoară High School in Arad ...
George Călinescu
George Călinescu (; 19 June 1899, Bucharest – 12 March 1965, Otopeni) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. He is currently considered one of the mos ...
,
Alexandru Ciucurencu
Alexandru Ciucurencu (; 27 September 1903 – 27 December 1977) was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter, and a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
Born in Tulcea, he studied from 1921 to 1926 at the National School of Fine Arts in Bu ...
George Georgescu
George Georgescu (September 12, 1887 – September 1, 1964) was a Romanian conductor. The moving force behind the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra for decades beginning shortly after World War I, a protégé of Artur Nikisch and a close associ ...
, Athanase Joja, Barbu Lăzăreanu, and Gheorghe Mihoc.Decretul nr. 138 din 20 aprilie 1971 al Consiliului de Stat al Republicii Socialiste România privind conferirea unor ordine ale Republicii Socialiste România, art. 5.
Dumitru Coliu
Dumitru Coliu (born Dimitar Kolev, ro, Dimităr Colev, bg, Димитър Колев; November 7, 1907 – 1985) was a Romanian Communism, communist activist and politician.
An Bulgarians, ethnic Bulgarian, he was born in Preselentsi, Vasil ...
received both classes, in 1948 and 1957, respectively.Dobre ''et al.'', p. 168