Eugenia Reuss-Ianculescu (1865/1866-1938)
Feminist, writer. She founded ‘Liga drepturilor si datoriilor femeilor’ in Iasi in 1911. Member of the Central committee of the International Women Suffrage Alliance.
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Olga Bancic (1912-1944)
Romanian communist militant, lived in France and fought in the France resistance during the Second World War.
Ecaterina Arbore (1873-1937)
Socialist militant, studied medicine in Bucharest (graduated in 1896). Member of the Executive Committee of the Romanian Social-Democrat Party. Left Romania for URSS in 1918. Died during the Stalinist purges.
Elena Văcărescu (1864-1947)
Writer, translator. She studied in Paris where she published her first volum of poetry, Chants d’Aurore. Exiled for being romantically involved with the crown prince Ferdinand, she lived in Paris. She was member of the Romanian delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919.
Lia Manoliu (1932-1998)
She was born in Chisinau on April 25, 1932. At the age of 16, she began to deal with sports, namely throwing the disc. In 1952 she participates in her first Olympics – the one in Helsinki. Neither at this Olympics nor at Melbourne (1956)