Top Celebrity Names Starting With Ion

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   Ion Iliescu

   Age 82 Male
   

   Senator, Engineer, Communist

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   Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party (PSD), whose honorary president he remains. He joined the Communist Party in 1953 and became a member of its Central Committee in 1965, however beginning with 1971 he was gradually marginalized by Nicolae Ceauşescu.… read more

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   Ion Antonescu

   1882 - 1946 Male
   

   Prime Minister and Conducător of Romania During World War Ii

   
   

   Ion Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships.… read more

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   Ion Luca Caragiale

   1852 - 1912 Male
   

   Romanian Playwright, Writer and Poet

   
   

   Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. He is considered one of the greatest Romanian playwrights and writers, a leading representative of local humor, and a main representative of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he parted during the second half of his life.… read more

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   Ion Creangă

   1889 Male
   

   Romanian Writer

   
   

   Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes.… read more

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   Ion Negoiţescu

   1921 - 1993 Male
   

   Historian, Poet, Novelist

   
   

   Ion Negoiţescu was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist, one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle. A rebellious and eccentric figure, Negoiţescu began his career while still an adolescent, and made himself known as a literary ideologue of the 1940s generation.… read more

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   Ion Călugăru

   1902 - 1956 Male
   

   Novelist, Writer, Dramatist

   
   

   Ion Călugăru was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and critic. As a figure on Romania's modernist scene throughout the early interwar period, he was noted for combining a picturesque perspective on the rural Jewish-Romanian community, to which he belonged, with traditionalist and avant-garde elements.… read more

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   Ion Heliade Rădulescu

   1802 - 1872 Male
   

   Academic, Romantic and Classicist Poet, Essayist, Memoirist, Short Story Writer, Newspaper Editor and Politician

   
   

   Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade was a Wallachian-born Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician. A prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian, he was also the author of books on linguistics and history. For much of his life, Heliade Rădulescu was a teacher at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, which he helped reopen.… read more

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   Ion Theodorescu-Sion

   1882 - 1939 Male
   

   Painter, Draftsman, Academic

   
   

   Ion Theodorescu-Sion was a Romanian painter and draftsman, known for his contributions to modern art and especially for his traditionalist, primitivist, handicraft-inspired and Christian painting. Trained in academic art, initially an Impressionist, he dabbled in various modern styles in the years before World War I.… read more

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   Ion Croitoru

   Age 46 Male
   

   Wrestler

   
   

   Ion William Croitoru (born December 7, 1965) is a Canadian former professional wrestler of Romanian descent. He was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. To wrestling fans, Croitoru is better known by his ring names, Johnny K-9 and Bruiser Bedlam. He competed in several Canadian wrestling promotions, including Stampede Wrestling, and later wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling, Smoky Mountain Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).… read more

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    Ion Sancho

    Age 61 Male
    

    Politician, Supervisor

    
    

    Ion Voltaire Sancho is an elected public official serving Leon County, Florida, USA as Supervisor of Elections. His family first moved to Louisiana and then to Columbus, Ohio. As the eldest child, he cared for his younger siblings. He moved to Florida after high school. Sancho resides in northeastern Leon County 2 miles west of Lake Miccosukee.… read more

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    Ion Caramitru

    Age 70 Male
    

    20th Century Romanian Political and Cultural Personality

    
    

    Ion Caramitru is a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, as well as a political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR) cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu.… read more

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    Ion Keith-Falconer

    1856 - 1887 Male
    

    Scottish Missionary, Arabic Scholar and Cyclist

    
    
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    Ion Minulescu

    1881 - 1944 Male
    

    Poet, Politician, Writer

    
    

    Ion Minulescu was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, short story writer, journalist, literary critic, and playwright. Often publishing his works under the pseudonyms I. M. Nirvan and Koh-i-Noor (the latter being derived from the famous diamond), he journeyed to Paris, where he was heavily influenced by the growing Symbolist movement and Parisian Bohemianism.… read more