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Ghencea Cemetery
Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania
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![]() The entrance to the military section | | For the Heroes of the Wars | | Location | Bucharest, Romania |
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Ghencea Cemetery is located in Ghencea neighbourhood of Bucharest, on Ghencea Boulevard, in Sector 6. The cemetery has two sections, civilian[1] and military.[2]
Notable interments
- Ioan Ioniță, Communist general and politician who served as Minister of Defence
- Cabiria Andreian Cazacu, mathematician
- Gheorghe Argeșanu, general and statesman
- Niki Atanasiu [ro], actor
- Mihai Baicu, footballer
- Grigore Bălan, general in World War II
- Iolanda Balaș, athlete and Olympic champion
- Maria Butaciu, performer of folklore music
- Gianu Bucurescu [ro], Securitate officer
- Cornelia Catangă, singer
- Elena Ceaușescu, communist activist and wife of President Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Nicolae Ceaușescu, first President of Romania
- Nicu Ceaușescu, communist politician and third son of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu
- Mihai Chițac, general and Minister of the Interior
- Lucreția Ciobanu [ro], folk singer from Sibiu
- Mihai Constantinescu [ro], musician
- Florența Crăciunescu, Olympic athlete
- Gheorghe Cucu [ro], composer, conductor, and folklorist
- Ion Dincă, communist politician, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mayor of Bucharest
- Eugenia Greceanu [ro], architect
- Aimée Iacobescu, actress
- Alexandru Ioanițiu, general
- Mihaela Mitrache, actress
- Mariana Nicolesco, operatic soprano
- Angelo Niculescu, football player and manager
- Alexis Nour, journalist, activist, and essayist
- Alexandru Pastia, military officer
- Gheorghe Pintilie, first Director of the Securitate
- Temistocle Popa, composer, musician, and film actor
- Cristian Popescu, poet
- Tudor Postelnicu, communist politician, Director of the Securitate, Interior Minister
- Ilie Savu, footballer and coach
- Alexandru Șerbănescu, flying ace in World War II
- Iosif Sîrbu, sport shooter and Romania’s first ever Olympic champion
- Niculae Spiroiu, general and Minister of Defense
- Toni Tecuceanu, comedy actor
- Costică Toma, footballer and coach
- Nicolae Tonitza, painter and illustrator
- Cristian Țopescu [ro], journalist and politician
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater Romania Party, poet, writer, journalist, and a Member of the European Parliament
- Olimpian Ungherea [ro], writer
- Doru-Viorel Ursu, politician and lawyer
- Ștefan Vencov [ro], physicist and rector of Politehnica University
- Ilie Verdeț, Prime Minister of Romania
- Iulian Vlad [ro], last Director of the Securitate
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References
44°25′06″N 26°03′12″E / 44.41833°N 26.05333°E / 44.41833; 26.05333
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