Ghencea Cemetery

Ghencea Military Cemetery
Ghencea Military Cemetery
Romania
	The entrance to the military section
	For the Heroes of the Wars
Location	Bucharest, Romania
Burials by war
	World War I; World War II

Ghencea Cemetery is located in Ghencea neighbourhood of Bucharest, on Ghencea Boulevard, in Sector 6. The cemetery has two sections, civilian^[1] and military.^[2]

Notable interments

Ioan Ioniță, Communist general and politician who served as Minister of Defence
Cabiria Andreian Cazacu, mathematician
Gheorghe Argeșanu, general and statesman
Niki Atanasiu [ro], actor
Mihai Baicu, footballer
Grigore Bălan, general in World War II
Iolanda Balaș, athlete and Olympic champion
Maria Butaciu, performer of folklore music
Gianu Bucurescu [ro], Securitate officer
Cornelia Catangă, singer
Elena Ceaușescu, communist activist and wife of President Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu, first President of Romania
Nicu Ceaușescu, communist politician and third son of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu
Mihai Chițac, general and Minister of the Interior
Lucreția Ciobanu [ro], folk singer from Sibiu
Mihai Constantinescu [ro], musician
Florența Crăciunescu, Olympic athlete
Gheorghe Cucu [ro], composer, conductor, and folklorist
Ion Dincă, communist politician, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mayor of Bucharest
Eugenia Greceanu [ro], architect
Aimée Iacobescu, actress
Alexandru Ioanițiu, general
Mihaela Mitrache, actress
Mariana Nicolesco, operatic soprano
Angelo Niculescu, football player and manager
Alexis Nour, journalist, activist, and essayist
Alexandru Pastia, military officer
Gheorghe Pintilie, first Director of the Securitate
Temistocle Popa, composer, musician, and film actor
Cristian Popescu, poet
Tudor Postelnicu, communist politician, Director of the Securitate, Interior Minister
Ilie Savu, footballer and coach
Alexandru Șerbănescu, flying ace in World War II
Iosif Sîrbu, sport shooter and Romania’s first ever Olympic champion
Niculae Spiroiu, general and Minister of Defense
Toni Tecuceanu, comedy actor
Costică Toma, footballer and coach
Nicolae Tonitza, painter and illustrator
Cristian Țopescu [ro], journalist and politician
Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the Greater Romania Party, poet, writer, journalist, and a Member of the European Parliament
Olimpian Ungherea [ro], writer
Doru-Viorel Ursu, politician and lawyer
Ștefan Vencov [ro], physicist and rector of Politehnica University
Ilie Verdeț, Prime Minister of Romania
Iulian Vlad [ro], last Director of the Securitate