• Source: 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 (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.




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 (1947–2024 ) – 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)




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




References

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