List of Aromanians

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This is a list in progress of world famous or important Aromanians and people having Aromanian ancestry.

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[edit] Art

  • Camil Ressu, Romanian painter
  • Manakis brothers (Yanaki and Milton), film and photography;pioneers in the Balkans, from the Ottoman region of Macedonia;
  • Alexandru Arsinel, well known Romanian actor and comediant;
  • Sultana Maitec, Romanian sculptor;
  • Stere Gulea, Romanian film maker and Governmenet official;
  • Cristian Hadji-Culea, Romanian theatre director and former President of the State Television TVR;
  • Alexandru Boiangiu, Romanian film director and writer (Filmography on IMDb);
  • Tomislav Osmanli FYR Macedonian director and writer

[edit] Actors

  • Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor;
  • Ion Caramitru, Romanian actor, former minister of culture;
  • Tasko Nacic, Serbian actor;
  • Alexandru Arsinel, well known Romanian actor and comediant
  • Stere Gulea, Romanian film maker and Governmenet official
  • Cristian Hadji-Culea, Romanian theatre director and former President of the State Television TVR

[edit] Clergy

[edit] Commerce and business

  • Darvari family, famous philanthropists and Austrian Imperial bankers;
  • Dumba family, famous philanthropists and Austrian Imperial bankers;
  • Hagi Meitani, Austrian Imperial baron, Wallachian stateman;
  • Mocioni family, famous philanthropists and Austrian Imperial bankers;
  • Marcu Puiu, Austrian philanthropist and nobleman in the 18th century;
  • Simon Sina (1782-1856), Austrian financial magnate;
  • Sina family, famous philanthropists and Imperial bankers, also members of the Hungarian nobility;
  • Hagi Moscu, Austrian Imperial baron, Wallachian stateman;
  • Emanoil Gojdu, Romanian-Hungarian lawyer and philantropist;
  • Toma Fila, famous serbian lawyer;

[edit] Music

  • Apostolos Kaldaras, Greek composer;
  • Toše Proeski, Popular singer, Macedonian representative at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004
  • Kaliopi Bukle, Popular singer in Republic of Macedonia

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Science

  • Ion Juvara, famous Romanian surgeon, professor and head of University Department;
  • Dinischiotu family, several famous Romanian physicians and professors;
  • Târpa family, several famous Romanian physicians;
  • Jovan Karamata, Serbian mathematician (1902-1967)
  • Elie Carafoli, Romanian educated, born in Greece, aerodynamics inovatior, university teacher.
  • Mina Minovici, Romanian forensic scientist, director of the first Romanian Institute of Legal Medicine, and the founder of the modern medico-legal system.

[edit] Sports

  • Gigi Becali, owner of FC Steaua Bucureşti football club
  • Ioan Becali, former president of FC Dinamo Bucureşti football club and cousin of Gigi
  • Victor Becali, football impresario and brother of Ioan
  • Gheorghe Hagi, famous Romanian soccer player;
  • Joshko Milenkovski, manager of the Macedonian Volleyball Team, Manager of Rabotnicki Fersped, the Macedonian volleyball champion;

[edit] Writers

  • Cavaliotti family, several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
  • Daniil family, several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
  • Matyla Ghyka, famous Romanian prince, polymath, architect, mathematician and author;
  • Garabet Ibrăileanu, novelist
  • Mitrush Kuteli, Albanian poet
  • Iosipos Moisiodax, Greek author
  • Constantin Noica, Romanian philosopher
  • Branislav Nušić (Aromanian: Alkibiad Nushi), Serbian novelist and playwright
  • Pericle Papahagi, outstanding Romanian intellectual;
  • Lasgush Poradeci, Albanian poet
  • Gheorghe Constantin Roja, several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
  • Constantin Ucuţa, Moscopolitan Orthodox father, Viennese and Prussian intellectual;
  • Ucuţa family, several famous intellectuals in the 18th century;
  • Jovan Sterija Popović (serb. Јован Стерија Поповић), serbian novelist

[edit] Poets

  • Constantin Belimace, poet, author Dimândarea părintească;
  • Constantin Papanace, government minister, member of the Romanian parliament, poet, author born in Veria Mica Antologie Aromânească;
  • George Murnu, poet and professor at the University of Bucharest, translator of Iliad and Odyssey born in Veria;
  • Gellu Naum, Romanian surrealist poet
  • Pashko Vasa, Albanian poet
  • Konstantinos Krystallis, Greek bucolic poet

[edit] Philologists

  • Mihail G. Boiagi, philologist, grammarian, author, first Aromanian grammar and cultural hero;
  • Theodor Capidan, linguist, wrote studies on Aromanian and Megleno-Romanian languages
  • Tache Papahagi, linguist, and outstanding Romanian intellectual;
  • Daniel Moscopolites, Greek philologist, author of famous lexicon;
  • Matilda Caragiu Marioţeanu, linguist, poet and outstanding Romanian intellectual.

[edit] Historians

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tapping another ethnic group, in The New York Times, October 17, 1988
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