The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Romania
This page contains a list of the greatest Romanian Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 840 Social Activists, 1 of which were born in Romania. This makes Romania the birth place of the 75th most number of Social Activists behind Kazakhstan, and Croatia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Romanian Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Romanian Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Serge Klarsfeld (b. 1935)
With an HPI of 58.00, Serge Klarsfeld is the most famous Romanian Social Activist. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, he has made notable efforts to commemorate the Jewish victims of German-occupied France and has been a supporter of Israel.
2. Doina Cornea (1929 - 2018)
With an HPI of 46.65, Doina Cornea is the 2nd most famous Romanian Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Doina Cornea (Romanian: [ˈdojna ˈkorne̯a]; 30 May 1929 – 3 May 2018) was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was a dissident during the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She was co-founder of the Democratic Anti-totalitarian Forum of Romania (Forumul Democrat Antitotalitar din România), as the first attempt to unify the democratic opposition to the post-communist government. This organization later transformed into the Romanian Democratic Convention (Convenția Democrată Română, CDR), which brought Emil Constantinescu to power.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Romanian social activists born between 1929 and 1935. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Romanian social activists include Serge Klarsfeld. The most famous deceased Romanian social activists include Doina Cornea. As of April 2024, 1 new Romanian social activists have been added to Pantheon including Doina Cornea.
