Pilgrim by Gheorghe Tattarescu

* Gheorghe Tattarescu

In 1884, it was repainted by a team of painters including Gheorghe Tattarescu and his uncle Nicolae Teodorescu.

Schools began to be set up, as in 1831 the Bishopric opened a school for muralists and icon painters, led by Nicolae Teodorescu and attended by Gheorghe Tattarescu.

The modern Romanian collection features sculptures by Constantin Brâncuşi and Dimitrie Paciurea, as well as paintings by Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Theodor Pallady, Gheorghe Petraşcu, and Gheorghe Tattarescu.

: For the artist, see Gheorghe Tattarescu.

Michael the Brave and his troops are pictured in a 19th-century painting by Gheorghe Tattarescu

Sfântu Gheorghe is one of the centres for the Székely people in the region known to them as Székelyföld in Hungarian-which means " Székely Land ", and is home to the Székely National Museum.

* Székely National Museum ( Székely Nemzeti Múzeum ), Sfântu Gheorghe / Sepsiszentgyörgy

The book " Meetings with Solomon Marcus " ( Spandugino Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2010, 1500 pages ), edited by Lavinia Spandonide and Gheorghe Păun for Marcus 85th Birthday, includes recollections by several hundred people, from a large variety of scientific and cultural fields and 25 countries ; it contains also a longer autobiography.

* 1941 – Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician

Between July 1898 and 1901 the Romanian professor Gheorghe Marinescu made several science films in his neurology clinic in Bucharest: The walking troubles of organic hemiplegy ( 1898 ), The walking troubles of organic paraplegies ( 1899 ), A case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis ( 1899 ), The walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy ( 1900 ) and Illnesses of the muscles ( 1901 ).

* 1967 – Gheorghe Popescu, Romanian footballer

* 1971 – Gheorghe Muresan, Romanian basketball player

* 1965 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer

Gheorghe Hagi (; born 5 February 1965 in Săcele ) is a former Romanian footballer of Aromanian descent.

* Gheorghe Manu, Romanian general and politician

The curved-style pan flute was popularized by the Romanian musician Gheorghe Zamfir, who toured extensively and recorded many albums of pan flute music in the 1970s, and by several other artists who began recording at the same time.

The leader of Romania from 1948 to his death in 1965 was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the First Secretary of the Romanian Workers ' Party, who first sowed the seeds of greater independence from the Soviet Union by persuading Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev to withdraw troops from Romania in April 1958.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, three of the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgar, Gheorghe Ghimpu and Valeriu Graur, as well as a fourth person, Alexandru Soltoianu, the leader of a similar clandestine movement in northern Bukovina ( Bucovina ), were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Born in Bucharest, he was the son of Romanian Land Forces officer Gheorghe Eliade ( whose original surname was Ieremia ) and Jeana née Vasilescu.

In the last days of his President mandate, he awarded the National Order Steaua României ( rank of ceremonial knighthood ) to the ultra-nationalist controversial politician Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a gesture which drew criticism in the press and prompted Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, fifteen Radio Free Europe journalists, Timișoara mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu, song writer Alexandru Andrieș, and historian Randolph Braham to return their Romanian honours in protest.

Greek schools appeared in the principalities and in 1818 the first Romanian School was founded in Bucharest by Gheorghe Lazăr and Ion Heliade Rădulescu.

One of them, Gheorghe Zamfir, is famous throughout the world today, and helped popularize a traditional Romanian folk instrument, the panpipes.

In 1936, after Romanian Prime Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu removed Nicolae Titulescu as Foreign Minister and recalled nearly all Romania's diplomats, Prince Bibesco had the unenviable responsibility of reassuring England and France that Romania was not slipping into the grip of fascism.

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej speaking at a workers ' rally in Piața Unirii | Nation Square, Bucharest after the Romanian general election, 1946 | 1946 elections.

However, the next generation of Romanian writers headed toward European Illuminism for inspiration, among them Gheorghe Asachi, Ion Budai Deleanu and Dinicu Golescu.

His own monographs on Romanian art and folklore, admired in their time by art historian Gheorghe Oprescu, were later rated by ethologist Romulus Vulcănescu a sample of microhistory, rather than a groundbreaking new research.

On 7 September 1959, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Secretary-General of the Romanian Workers Party, and the Prime Minister Chivu Stoica visited the city.

In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, three of the leaders of the National Patriotic Front, Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Gheorghe Ghimpu and Valeriu Graur, as well as a fourth person, Alexandru Şoltoianu, the leader of a similar clandestine movement in northern Bukovina, were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms.

Gheorghe Dumitru Mureșan, (; born February 14, 1971 ), also known as Ghiţă () or George, is a retired Romanian professional basketball player.

Together with such figures as Vasile Goldiş, Gheorghe Pop de Băseşti, the Romanian Orthodox cleric Miron Cristea, and Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, he engaged in an intensive unionist campaign, leading to the Alba Iulia gathering on December 1, 1918 ( during which Romanians demanded separation from Austria-Hungary ).

Kogălniceanu later noted with pride that he had been the first of Ranke's Romanian students, and claimed that, in conversations with Humboldt, he was the first person to use the modern equivalents French-language of the words " Romanian " and " Romania " ( roumain and Roumanie )— replacing the references to " Moldavia ( n )" and " Wallachia ( n )", as well as the antiquated versions used before him by the intellectual Gheorghe Asachi ; historian Nicolae Iorga also noted the part Kogălniceanu played in popularizing these references as the standard ones.

His poem Deșteaptă-te, române !, sang to a popular tune chosen by him and Gheorghe Ucenescu, became the hymn of the revolutionaries.

His articles of the time, published in Iron Guard papers such as Sfarmă Piatră and Buna Vestire, contain ample praises of the movement's leaders ( Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Ion Moţa, Vasile Marin, and Gheorghe Cantacuzino-Grănicerul ).

In sports, Romanians have excelled in a variety of fields, such as football ( Gheorghe Hagi ), gymnastics ( Nadia Comăneci, Lavinia Miloşovici etc.

Starting with the 1960s, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceauşescu began a policy of distancing from the Soviet Union, but the debate over Bessarabia was discussed only in scholarship fields such as historiography and linguistics, not at a political level.

Being an academic center, home of six government universities ( Babeş-Bolyai University, Academia de Arte Vizuale " Ion Andreescu ", Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agronomice şi Medicină Veterinară, Universitatea Tehnică, Universitatea de Medicină si Farmacie, Academia de Muzică " Gheorghe Dima ") and several private ones as well ( Universitatea Bogdan Vodă, Universitatea Creştină Dimitrie Cantemir ), Cluj-Napoca also features several modern university buildings such as the Department of Political Science at UBB, the Department of Management at UBV, and the Law Department of UCDC.

He entered American mainstream pop culture consciousness due to a series of television commercials for record compilations of artists who were obscure in the United States, yet had large international followings, such as Slim Whitman and Gheorghe Zamfir.

Caragiale's short stories and novellas have inspired authors such as Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Gheorghe Brăescu, Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voineşti, Dumitru D. Pătrăşcanu, I. Peltz, and, in later decades, Radu Cosaşu, Ioan Lăcustă, Horia Gârbea and Dumitru Radu Popa.

Ceauşescu removed rivals such as Stoica, Alexandru Drăghici, and Gheorghe Apostol from the government, and ultimately from the party leadership, and began accumulating posts for himself.

In November 1947, the non-Communist Foreign Minister Gheorghe Tătărescu was ousted and replaced by Pauker, making her the first woman in the modern world to hold such a post.

Gheorghe Borcean, head of the Romanian medical profession's ethics committee commented: " A case of such prominence should require academic debates and not just one single television report.

World class players such as Pierre van Hooijdonk, Mário Jardel, Nicolas Anelka, John Carew, Milan Baroš, Radomir Antić, Óscar Córdoba, Lincoln, Mateja Kežman, Kleberson, Roberto Carlos, Zoran Simović, Frank de Boer, Giovani dos Santos, Franck Ribéry, Harry Kewell, Dani Güiza, Guti, Quaresma, Gheorghe Hagi, Jô, Abdul Kader Keita, Shabani Nonda, Lucas Neill, Lorik Cana, Giga Popescu, Jérôme Rothen and many more have played at some point or continue to play in Turkey.

Celebrity players such as the New England Patriots ' Adalius Thomas and former Washington Bullet Gheorghe Muresan suited up for the Nighthawks and played as the " 11th man ", a unique rule in the ABA that allows celebrities to play in a game for an ABA team.

He was the teacher of a whole generation of famous Romanian pan pipe performers, such as Damian Luca, Damian Carlanaru, Constantin Dobre, Radu Constantin, Radu Simion ( his son in law ), Nicolae Pîrvu and Gheorghe Zamfir.