The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 33rd most number of Astronauts behind Azerbaijan and Costa Rica.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Romanian Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dumitru Prunariu (1952 - )
With an HPI of 49.12, Dumitru Prunariu is the most famous Romanian Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu (Romanian pronunciation: [duˈmitru doˈrin pruˈnarju] ; born 27 September 1952) is a Romanian cosmonaut. He flew in space aboard Soyuz 40 spacecraft and Salyut 6 space laboratory. He teamed with the Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov. The backup crew was made of Romanian candidate cosmonaut Dumitru Dediu and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased astronauts include Dumitru Prunariu.
