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Manea Mănescu

1916 - 2009

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Manea Mănescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmane̯a məˈnesku]; 9 August 1916 – 27 February 2009) was a Romanian communist politician who served as Prime Minister for five years (27 February 1974 – 29 March 1979) during Nicolae Ceaușescu's Communist regime. His father was a Communist Party veteran from Ploiești, who in the early 1920s supported the transformation of the Socialist Party into the Romanian Communist Party (PCR). Mănescu joined the PCR in 1938, while he was a student at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. In 1944, after the 23 August coup d'état, he worked together with Nicolae Ceaușescu, his future brother-in-law, in the Union of Communist Youth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Manea Mănescu is the 7,592nd most popular politician (up from 7,739th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Romania (up from 135th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Romanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Manea Mănescu ranks 7,592 out of 19,576Before him are Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Sophia of Halshany, Philip J. Pierre, Cochise, Loretta Lynch, and Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić. After him are Bretislav II, Margaret of Nevers, Emilio Colombo, Gangjong of Goryeo, Ayub Khan, and Lupus II of Gascony.

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Among people born in 1916, Manea Mănescu ranks 84Before him are Julio César Turbay Ayala, Pierre Messmer, Pietro Rava, Stjepan Filipović, Archie Moore, and Archduke Felix of Austria. After him are Shirley Jackson, Ri Jong-ok, Ray Conniff, James Herriot, José Manuel Moreno, and Mika Špiljak. Among people deceased in 2009, Manea Mănescu ranks 95Before him are Philip José Farmer, Andrew Wyeth, Félix Malloum, Shih Kien, Alicia de Larrocha, and Pavle, Serbian Patriarch. After him are Brittany Murphy, Yves Rocher, Oleg Yankovsky, Zbigniew Religa, Stephen Toulmin, and Lino Lacedelli.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Manea Mănescu ranks 130 out of 844Before him are Lajos Zilahy (1891), Inna (1986), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Victor Brauner (1903), Stefan Hell (1962), and Tudor Vladimirescu (1780). After him are Gabriel Báthory (1589), Francis I Rákóczi (1645), Emerich Jenei (1937), Lucian Mureșan (1931), Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817), and Péter Eötvös (1944).

Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Manea Mănescu ranks 56Before him are Christopher Báthory (1530), Vlad Călugărul (1425), Armand Călinescu (1893), Aureolus (220), Basarab the Old (null), and Tudor Vladimirescu (1780). After him are Gabriel Báthory (1589), Francis I Rákóczi (1645), Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817), Hermann Kövess von Kövessháza (1854), Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674), and Rezső Kasztner (1906).