Famous People with Name Ion

Ion Pillat            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Ion Pillat: was a distinguished Romanian poet. He is best known for his volume Pe Arges în sus (Upstream on the Arges) and Poeme într-un vers (One-line poems).

Ion Ratiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Ion Ratiu: was a Romanian politician and the presidential candidate of the National Peasants' Party (PNT) in the 1990 elections.

Ion Tiriac            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Ion Tiriac: is a Romanian former tennis player and businessman. He is now one of the wealthiest men in Romania according to the 2005 issue of Capital Top 300 wealthiest men in Romania where he occupies the top spot.

Ion Tuculescu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Ion Tuculescu: was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter, although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously, when, in the spring of 1965, a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II European modern artists.

Ion Vianu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Ion Vianu: a Romanian writer and psychiatrist, who was exiled to Switzerland in 1977. He is the son of literary critic Tudor Vianu and his wife Elena.Ion Vianu became recognised as a radio personality for Radio Free Europe discussing attempts to use psychiatry as a political weapon. After the 1989 Revolution, he became actively involved in the reform of the system of psychiatric treatment in Romania to bring it up to world standards. Vianu, together with his friend Matei Calinescu published an autobiographical volume, Amintiri in dialog ("Remembrances in Dialogue").