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Emil Racoviță / 15 November 1868 – 17 November 1947/ was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, explorer of Antarctica and the first biologist in the world to study the arctic life. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic, more than 100 years ago, as well as an influential professor, scholar and researcher.

Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I...

Anghel Saligny / 1854-1925 / was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time

Nicolae Iorga / January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940/ was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. A child prodigy, polymath and polyglot, Iorga produced an unusually large body of scholarly works, consecrating his international reputation as a medievalist, Byzantinist, Latinist, Slavist, art historian and philosopher of history. Holding teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, the University of Paris and several other academic…

Ce poate fi în lumea voastră, dragul meu, că te-ai gândit să pleci din ea? Şi sunt mulţi – mi se spune – care se despart de ea, chiar dacă nu intră în ordin, ca tine. V-a mâhnit peste masură lumea de azi? Aţi găsit că o puteţi sluji...

Alexandru Ioan Cuza /1820 Barlad-1873 Heidelberg / was Prince of Moldavia, Prince of Wallachia, and later Domnitor of the Romanian Principalities. He was a prominent figure of the Revolution of 1848 in Moldavia

Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.

Titu Liviu Maiorescu - 15 February 1840 – 18 June 1917) was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.

King Carol I of Romania -Carol I, born Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the ruler of Romania from 1866 to 1914. He was elected Ruling Prince of the Romanian United Principalities on 20 April 1866 after the overthrow of Alexandru Ioan Cuza by a palace coup.

Stephen III of Moldavia (also known as Stefan the Great, Romanian: Ștefan cel Mare, or "Stefan the Great and Holy"; 1433 – July 2, 1504) was Prince of Moldavia between 1457 and 1504 and the most prominent representative of the House of Mușat.