The Most Famous
Chess Players from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanians Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, 5 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 25th most number of Chess Players behind Cuba and Iran.
Top 5 Romanian Chess Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanians Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Romanians Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Adolf Albin
1848 - 1920
HPI 59.6520 langsRomanian chess player (1848-1920)
- #2
Florin Gheorghiu
b. 1944
HPI 54.8716 langsRomanian chess player
- #3
Cristina Adela Foișor
1967 - 2017
HPI 49.9318 langsRomanian chess player
- #4
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
b. 1976
HPI 42.6918 langsRomanian-German chess grandmaster
- #5
Constantin Lupulescu
b. 1984
HPI 36.7015 langsRomanian chess player
