List of Famous people born in Alba County, Romania

Florence Baker

First Name Florence
Last Name Baker
Born on August 6, 1841
Died on March 11, 1916 (aged 74)
Born in Romania, Alba County

Florence, Lady Baker or Florica Maria Sas; Barbara Szász; Maria Freiin von Sass; Barbara Szasz; Barbara Maria Szász; Barbara Maria Szasz was a Hungarian-born British explorer. Born in Transylvania, she became an orphan when her parents and brother were murdered by the Romanian marauders led by Ioan Axente Sever and Simion Prodan who killed approximately 1000 predominantly Hungarian civilians in Nagyenyed on 8–9 January, 1849. She fled with the remains of the Hungarian army to the Ottoman Empire, to Vidin. Here she disappeared as child only to be seen in 1859 by Samuel Baker who rescued her. While Baker was visiting the Duke of Atholl on his shooting estate in Scotland, he befriended Maharaja Duleep Singh and in 1858–1859, the two partnered an extensive hunting trip in central Europe and the Balkans, via Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest. On the last part of the voyage, Baker and the Maharajah hired a wooden boat in Budapest, which was eventually abandoned on the frozen Danube. The two continued into Vidin where, to amuse the Maharajah, Baker went to the Vidin slave market. There, Baker fell in love with a white slave girl, Florence, destined for the Ottoman Pasha of Vidin. He was outbid by the Pasha but bribed the girl's attendants and they ran away in a carriage together and eventually she became his lover and wife and accompanied him everywhere he journeyed. They are reported to have married, most probably in Bucharest, before going to Dubrushka, but Sir Samuel certainly promised that they would go through another ceremony on their return to England – where they had a family wedding in 1865.

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Valerian Trifa

First Name Valerian
Last Name Trifa
Born on June 28, 1914
Died on January 28, 1987 (aged 72)
Born in Romania, Alba County

Valerian Trifa was a Romanian Orthodox cleric and former Nazi, who served as archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America and Canada. For part of his life, he was a naturalized citizen of the United States, until he was stripped of his American citizenship for lying about his involvement in the murder of hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust and World War 2.

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Francis I Rákóczi

First Name Francis
Last Name Rákóczi
Born on February 24, 1645
Died on July 8, 1676 (aged 31)
Born in Romania, Alba County

Francis I Rákóczi was a Hungarian aristocrat, elected prince of Transylvania and father of Hungarian national hero Francis Rákóczi II.

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Károly Szász

First Name Károly
Last Name Szász
Born on June 15, 1829
Died on October 15, 1905 (aged 76)
Born in Romania, Alba County
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Béla Szász

First Name Béla
Last Name Szász
Born on April 23, 1840
Died on July 7, 1898 (aged 58)
Born in Romania, Alba County
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Lucian Blaga

First Name Lucian
Born on May 9, 1895
Died on May 6, 1961 (aged 65)
Born in Romania, Alba County

Lucian Blaga was a Romanian philosopher, poet, playwright, poetry translator and novelist.

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Domokos Szász

First Name Domokos
Born on May 25, 1838
Died on January 8, 1899 (aged 60)
Born in Romania, Alba County
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Michael II Apafi

First Name Michael
Last Name Apafi
Died on February 1, 1713
Born in Romania, Alba County

Michael Apafi was the son of the Hungarian Michael I Apafi and Anna Bornemisza. Following his father, he was Prince of Transylvania from 10 June 1690 to 1699.

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Ioan Andone

First Name Ioan
Born on March 15, 1960 (age 64)
Born in Romania, Alba County
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Ioan Andone is a Romanian football coach and former player. He last managed Dinamo Bucharest.

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Gyula Xantus

First Name Gyula
Born on December 28, 1919
Died on December 29, 1993 (aged 74)
Born in Romania, Alba County
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