Famous People with Name Vasile

Vasile Voiculescu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Vasile Voiculescu: was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and physician.

Vasile Valentin Avadanei            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Vasile Valentin Avadanei: a Romanian football player, currently under contract with Ceahlaul Piatra-Neamt. He plays as a centre back.

Vasile Gergely            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Vasile Gergely: a former Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity.He played for CSM Baia Mare (1958–1962), Viitorul Bucharest (1962), Dinamo Bucharest (1963–1970) in Romania and Hertha BSC Berlin (1970–1972) in Germany.

Vasile Ghindaru            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Vasile Ghindaru: a Romanian football player, currently under contract at U Cluj.

Vasile Iordache            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Vasile Iordache: a former Romanian football goalkeeper and current assistant coach at Steaua Bucharest, being responsible with goalkeepers' training.As a goalkeeper, Iordache played for FC Politehnica Iasi (between 1968 and 1971), Steaua Bucharest (1971 - 1984) and FC Brasov (1984 - 1985) when he also was assistant coach. He won 25 caps for Romania between 1976 and 1984. After the game against England played on the 29th of April 1981, when he kept the goal safe for the whole 90 minutes of the game, he was named "The hero of the Wembley".

Cristian Vasile            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Cristian Vasile: was a Romanian, well-known tango-romance (Romanta) singer between 1928 and 1949, famous for songs like "Zaraza", "Aprinde o tigara", "Ce sa-ti mai scriu", "Pentru tine am facut nebunii", "Nunuto". Cristian Vasile was to be remembered as "the last troubadour". Although he was supposedly at odds with Zavaidoc, another famous Romanian singer of the era, there is no proof that such a rivalry existed beyond pink novels and rumors. His greatest success, the song "Zaraza", said to refer to a Gypsy woman he was in love with at that time, was in fact a plagiarized version of a Uruguayan tango written in 1929 by Benjamín Tagle Lara.[1]

Radu Vasile            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Radu Vasile: is a Romanian politician, historian and poet. Originally a member of the National Peasants' Party, Vasile served as the Prime Minister of Romania between April 17, 1998 and December 13, 1999, and was notably confronted with the last Mineriad (February 1999). Between 2000 and 2004, he was a Senator from the Democratic Party (PD). Vasile published poetry under the pen name Radu Mischiu.

Stefan Vasile            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Stefan Vasile: is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the mid 2000s. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he finished seventh in the K-4 1000 m event while being eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event.