List of Famous people born in Argeș County, Romania
Adrian Mutu
Adrian Mutu is a Romanian football coach and former player who is currently the coach of the Romania national under-21 team. During his playing career, he was deployed as an attacking midfielder or a forward.
Bogdan Stancu
Bogdan Sorin Stancu is a Romanian professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Gençlerbirliği. He plays as a centre-forward or in a more supporting role as a second striker or a left winger.
Ion Antonescu
Ion Antonescu was a Romanian military officer and Marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as the Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. After the war, he was executed.
Joana Cotar
Joana Cotar is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body.
Armand Călinescu
Armand Călinescu was a Romanian economist and politician, who served as 39th Prime Minister from March 1939 until his assassination six months later. He was a staunch opponent of the fascist Iron Guard and may have been the real power behind the throne during the dictatorship of King Carol II. He survived several assassination attempts but was finally killed by members of the Iron Guard with German assistance.
Ion C. Brătianu
Ion Constantin Brătianu was one of the major political figures of 19th-century Romania. He was the son of Dincă Brătianu and the younger brother of Dimitrie, as well as the father of Ionel, Dinu, and Vintilă Brătianu. He also was the grandfather of poet Ion Pillat.
Ion I. C. Brătianu
Ion I. C. Brătianu was a Romanian politician, leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Prime Minister of Romania for five terms, and Foreign Minister on several occasions; he was the eldest son of statesman and PNL leader Ion Brătianu, the brother of Vintilă and Dinu Brătianu, and the father of Gheorghe I. Brătianu. Ion I. C. Brătianu's political activities after World War I, including part of his third and fourth term, saw the unification of the Old Romanian Kingdom with Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia. In 1923, he was elected an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
Constantin Cantemir
Constantin or Constantine Cantemir (1612–1693) was a Moldavian nobleman, soldier, and statesman who served as voivode between 25 June 1685 and 27 March 1693. He established the Cantemir dynasty which—with interruptions—ruled Moldavia prior to the imposition of phanariot rule.
Dănuț Coman
Daniel Dumitru Coman is a Romanian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and the current chairman of Liga I club Hermannstadt.
Nicolae Dică
Nicolae Constantin Dică is a Romanian former footballer and currently manager.