List of Famous people named Vasile
Vasile Belous
Vasilii Belous was a Moldovan boxer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's welterweight, but was defeated in the second round.
Vasile Milea
Vasile Milea was Nicolae Ceaușescu's minister of defense during the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and was involved in the reprisal phase of the revolution that caused the deaths of 162 people.
Vasile Lupu
Lupu Coci, known as Vasile Lupu, was the Voivode of Moldavia between 1634 and 1653. Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years. Vasile was a capable administrator and a brilliant financier and was soon almost the richest man in the Christian East. His gifts to Ottoman leaders kept him on good terms with the Ottoman authorities.
Vasile Ursu
Vasile Ursu is an engineer and is a Moldovan politician, the MP at the first Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in 1990-1994, acting interim general mayor of Chișinău in 2005-2007 and minister of transport and road management for 2007-2008. In 2008-2009 he held the position of Deputy Minister of Construction and Territory Development.
Vasile Bizău
Vasile Bizău is a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. He was born in Dragomireşti, Maramureș County into a Greek-Catholic family that continued in the faith while the church was banned under the communist regime. He graduated from high school in Baia Mare in 1988 and studied theology there from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 to 2000 he studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome through the master's degree level, pursuing doctoral studies in the same city from 2001 to 2002. Ordained deacon in Giuleşti Commune in 1996, he became a priest the following year in Baia Mare. With his return to Romania in 2000, he became parish priest at two churches in Baia Mare, and started teaching at the Northern University. Elected bishop in 2007, he was proclaimed titular bishop of Appiaria by Pope Benedict XVI and consecrated at the Blaj Cathedral. In 2011, Archbishop Lucian Mureşan transferred Bizău to Baia Mare, where he became Bishop of Maramureş.
Vasile Pavăl
Vasile Blaga
Vasile Blaga is a Romanian politician who was Speaker of the Upper Chamber of the Romanian Parliament, the Senate, from 2011 to 2012. He also served as Minister of Regional Development and Housing and twice as Minister of Administration and Internal Affairs.
Vasile Hossu
Vasile Hossu was a Romanian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of Oradea Mare from 1990 to 1997.
Vasile Miriuță
Vasile Miriuță is a Romanian-born naturalized Hungarian football manager and former footballer. From December 2020, he is the head coach of Liga III side Minaur Baia Mare.
Vasile Suciu
Vasile Suciu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic Metropolitan bishop of the Archdiocese of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia, considered to be the most important theologian of the Greek-Catholic Church in Transylvania.