Alecu Russo (b. March 17, 1819 near Chisinau, Bessarabia, now in Moldova - d. 5 February 1859, Iasi), was a Moldavian Romanian Freemason, writer, literary critic and publicist.
Russo is credited with having discovered one of the most elaborate forms of the Romanian national folk ballad Miorita. He was also a contributor to the Iasi periodical Zimbrul, in which he published one of his best-known works, Studie Moldovana ("Moldovan Studies"), in 1851-1852.
Alexandru G. Golescu (1819-15 August 1881), Freemason, was a Romanian politician who served as a Prime Minister of Romania in 1870 (between 14 February and 1 May).
Together with Nicolae Balcescu, Ion Ghica and Christian Tell, Golescu was a founding member of the Fratia ("Brotherhood") freemason and radical secret society in 1843, meant as opposition to Wallachian Prince Gheorghe Bibescu. He returned to Paris in 1845 to be a member of a revolutionary society of the Romanian students.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza (20 March 1820 - 15 May 1873), Freemason, was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia between 1859 and 1866.
Cuza achieved a de facto union of Romanian principalites in 1859. The union was formally declared three years later, on 5 February 1862, (24 January Julian), the new country bearing the name of Romania, with Bucharest as its capital city.
Assisted by his councilor Mihail Kogalniceanu, an intellectual leader of the 1848 revolution and Freemason, Cuza initiated a series of reforms that contributed to the modernization of Romanian society and of state structures.
Alexandru Paleologu (March 14, 1919 - September 2, 2005), Mason, was a Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat and politician. He is the father of historian Toader Paleologu.
Paleologu was born in Bucharest, into an ancient Romanian boyar family that claimed its origins in the last dynasty (Palaiologos) that ruled the Byzantine Empire. They had moved from Lesbos Island to the Danubian Principalities at the beginning of the 18th century. Paleologu was also, through various marriages, a descendant of the Wallachian Prince Constantin Brancoveanu. Alexandru Paleologu's father, Mihail Paleologu was a lawyer and National Liberal Member of Parliament, later general secretary in the Ministries of Justice and of Finance, who was known for his association with Grigore Iunian.
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod (February 27, 1872-March 19, 1950), Freemason, was a Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the union of Transylvania (before 1918 a part of Austria-Hungary) with the Romanian Old Kingdom; he later served three terms as a Prime Minister of Greater Romania.
He was born to a Greek-Catholic family in the Transylvanian village of Bobalna (known at the time as Olpret). Initially, Voevod was supportive of a plan to federalize the domains of the Habsburgs along the lines of a United States of Greater Austria, and was close to Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
His Majesty Carol II, King of Romania, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (15 October/16 October 1893 - 4 April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria. He was the first of the Romanian royal family who was baptized in the Orthodox rite.
Constantin Alexandru Rosetti (C.A. Rosetti) (2 June 1816-8 April 1885), was a Romanian Freemason, literary and political leader, born in Bucharest into a Phanariot Greek family.
In 1845, Rosetti went to Paris, where he met Alphonse de Lamartine, the patron of the Society of Romanian Students in Paris. In 1847, he married Mary Grant, the sister of the English consul to Bucharest, Effingham Grant. The consul was married to Zoia Racovita, the daughter of Alexandru Racovita; the Grant Bridge (Podul Grant) near Gara de Nord in Bucharest is named after him.
He is initiated as Freemason in a French Lodge, in 1845.
Carol Davila (Charles Davilla) (1828 - 24 August 1884) Mason, was a prestigious Romanian physician of Italian ancestry.
He started from humble beginnings, most probably as an abandoned child, and the surname Davila was bestowed on him by his adoptive family.
Davila studied medicine at the University of Paris, graduating in February 1853. In March 1853, he arrived in Romania. He was the organizer of the military medical service for the Romanian Army and of the country's public health system. Davila, together with Nicolae Kretzulescu, inaugurated medical training in Romania in 1857, by founding the National School of Medicine and Pharmacy. It was he who had determined government authorities to issue the first official instructions concerning the health care of factory workers and the organisation of medical districts in the country.
Cezar Bolliac or Boliac, Boliak (March 23, 1813 - February 25, 1881) was a Wallachian and Romanian radical political figure, amateur archaeologist, journalist and Romantic poet.
Born in Bucharest as the son of Anton Bogliako (Bogliacco or Bolliac), a Greek-Italian physician, and his wife Zinca Peret, who remarried the stolnic Petrache Peret; his adoptive father took care of Cezar's education. After being taught reading and writing at home, Bolliac studied at the Saint Sava Academy, under Ion Heliade Radulescu - Radulescu was to become one of his most important collaborators.
Christian Tell (1808-24 February 1884) was a Transylvanian-born Wallachian Romanian politician and Mason.
Born in Brasov, Tell studied at Gheorghe Lazar's school, and then at the Saint Sava Academy in Bucharest, and became close to Ion Heliade Radulescu's version of Radicalism. He entered the Military forces of the Ottoman Empire and fought in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829, earning the rank of Captain; in 1830, he entered service in the newly-founded Wallachian Army, and, as a nationalist and Freemason, began his participation in the subsersive secret society Fratia ("Brotherhood").