Ion (name)
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Ion is a common Romania
Romania
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n given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 for males. It is equivalent to the English
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 name John
John (name)
John is a masculine given name in the English language. The name is derived from the Latin Ioannes, Iohannes, which is in turn a form of the Greek , Iōánnēs. This Greek name is a form of the Hebrew name , , which means "God is generous"...

 and has the same etymology
Etymology
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 as "John", tracing back to a Hebrew
Hebrew language
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 name. Ion can also be a surname
Surname
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 in Romanian.

Another variant is Ioan. A common diminutive is Ionel. Its female form is Ioana
Ioana
Ioana is a female given name. It is the equivalent of the English name Joan, and the male version John, all of which derive from the Hebrew name Yochanan, meaning "God is gracious"...

. The surname Ionescu
Ionescu
Ionescu is a Romanian surname, derived from the male given name Ion. It may refer to:*Adrian Silvan Ionescu, historian and art critic*Alexandre Sadi-Ionesco, librarian and bibliographer...

 derives from Ion.

Ion as a given name

  • Ion Andreescu
    Ion Andreescu
    -Biography:He was born in Bucharest into a merchant's family. In 1869 he entered Theodor Aman's Fine Arts School.By 1872 he was an instructor of drawing and calligraphy at the Bishop's School in Buzău. In 1873 he left the Bishop's School for the Tudor Vladimirescu Communal Secondary School, also...

  • Ion Antonescu
    Ion Antonescu
    Ion Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships...

  • Ion Brătianu
    Ion Bratianu
    Ion C. Brătianu was one of the major political figures of 19th century Romania. He was the younger brother of Dimitrie, as well as the father of Ionel, Dinu, and Vintilă Brătianu...

  • Ion I. C. Brătianu
    Ion I. C. Bratianu
    Ion I. C. Brătianu was a Romanian politician, leader of the National Liberal Party , the Prime Minister of Romania for five terms, and Foreign Minister on several occasions; he was the eldest son of statesman and PNL leader Ion Brătianu, the brother of Vintilă and Dinu Brătianu, and the father of...

  • Ion Luca Caragiale
    Ion Luca Caragiale
    Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...

  • Ion Caramitru
    Ion Caramitru
    Ion Caramitru is a Romanian stage and film actor, stage director, as well as a political figure. He was Minister of Culture between 1996 and 2000, in the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinets of Victor Ciorbea, Gavril Dejeu, Radu Vasile, Alexandru Athanasiu, and Mugur Isărescu.-Early life and...

  • Ion Creangă
    Ion Creanga
    Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes...

  • Ion Dolănescu
    Ion Dolănescu
    Ion Dolănescu was a Romanian singer of popular music and politician.-Songs:* M-am născut printre Carpaţi* Gorjule, grădină dulce* De când sunt pe-acest pământ* Mândro, când ne iubeam noi...

  • Ion Dragalina
    Ion Dragalina
    Ion Dragalina was a Romanian general, who died during the First World War in the battle of the Jiu valley. Dragalina was born in the city of Caransebeş, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire....

  • Ion G. Duca
    Ion G. Duca
    Ion Gheorghe Duca was prime minister of Romania from November 14 to December 30, 1933, when he was assassinated for his efforts to suppress the fascist Iron Guard movement.-Life and political career:...

  • Ion Farris
    Ion Farris
    Ion Lowndes Farris was an American politician and attorney from the state of Florida. He served as both a member of the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate...

  • Ion Emanuel Florescu
    Ion Emanuel Florescu
    Ion Emanuel Florescu was a Romanian army general who served as Prime Minister of Romania for a short time in a provisional government in 1876 and then in 1891 ....

  • Ion Ghica
    Ion Ghica
    Ion Ghica was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania . He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times...

  • Ion Gigurtu
    Ion Gigurtu
    Ion Gigurtu was a Romanian politician, Land Forces officer, engineer and industrialist who served a brief term as Prime Minister from July 4 to September 4, 1940, under the personal regime of King Carol II. A specialist in mining and veteran of both the Second Balkan War and World War I, he made a...

  • Ion Heliade Rădulescu
    Ion Heliade Radulescu
    Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade was a Wallachian-born Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician...

  • Ion Iliescu
    Ion Iliescu
    Ion Iliescu served as President of Romania from 1990 until 1996, and from 2000 until 2004. From 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 until his retirement in 2008, Iliescu was a Senator for the Social Democratic Party , whose honorary president he remains....

  • Ion Ionescu de la Brad
    Ion Ionescu de la Brad
    Ion Ionescu de la Brad , born Ion Isăcescu, was a Moldavian-born Romanian revolutionary, agronomist, statistician, scholar and writer....

  • Ion C. Massim
    I. C. Massim
    I.C. Massim was a Romanian linguist and a founding member of the Romanian Academy . According to Theodor Massim his great grand son, I. C. Massim as born Ion Floricel in the village of Maxineni, near the Danube port of Braila as the son of a country priest...

  • Ion Gheorghe Maurer
    Ion Gheorghe Maurer
    Ion Gheorghe Iosif Maurer was a Romanian communist politician and lawyer.-Biography:Born in Bucharest to a Saxon father and a Romanian mother of French origin, he completed studies in Law and became an attorney, defending in court members of the illegal leftist and Anti-fascist movements...

  • Ion Mincu
    Ion Mincu
    Ion Mincu was an architect, engineer, professor and politician in Romania.He promoted a Romanian style in architecture, by integrating in his works the specific style of traditional Romanian architecture...

  • Ion Moţa
    Ion Mota
    Ion I. Moţa [or Motza] was the Romanian fascist deputy leader of the Iron Guard killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War.-Biography:...

  • Ion Nistor
    Ion Nistor
    Ion Nistor was a prominent Romanian historian and politician. He was a member of the Romanian Academy after 1911, and served as administrator of its Library.-Biography:...

  • Ion Mihai Pacepa
    Ion Mihai Pacepa
    Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the former Eastern Bloc. He is now a United States citizen, a writer, and a columnist....

  • Ion Roată
    Ion Roata
    Ion Roată was a Moldavian-born Romanian peasant and political figure. Roată was representative in the Moldavian ad-hoc Divan for the peasant electoral college of Putna County...

  • Ion Sân-Giorgiu
    Ion Sân-Giorgiu
    Ion Sân-Giorgiu was a Romanian modernist poet, dramatist, essayist, literary and art critic, also known as a journalist, academic, and fascist politician. He was notably the author of works on the Sturm und Drang phenomenon and the influence of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

  • Ion Ţiriac
    Ion Tiriac
    Ion Țiriac is a Romanian former tennis player and businessman. He is also the current owner of the Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open.-Sports career:...

  • Ion Ţuculescu
    Ion Tuculescu
    Ion Ţuculescu 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...


People named Ioan

  • Ioan Andone
    Ioan Andone
    Ioan Andone is a Romanian football coach and former player.-Career:He made his Divizia A debut with Corvinul Hunedoara in 1979. He later went to Dinamo Bucureşti where he helped win the league title in 1984 and 1990 and the cup title in 1984, 1986 and 1990. In 1990 he was bought by Spanish team...

  • Ioan Cantacuzino
    Ioan Cantacuzino
    Ioan C. Cantacuzino was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist, a professor at the Romanian School of Medicine and Pharmacy and a member of the Romanian Academy...

  • Ioan Gheorghe Caragea
    Ioan Gheorghe Caragea
    John Caradja or John George Caradja was a Phanariote Prince of Wallachia, who reigned between 1812 and 1818...

  • Ioan Gruffudd
    Ioan Gruffudd
    Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...

  • Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
    Ioan Mihai Cochinescu
    Ioan Mihai Cochinescu is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer.-Study:...

  • Ioan P. Culianu
    Ioan P. Culianu
    Ioan Petru Culianu or Couliano was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, a philosopher and political essayist, and a short story writer...

  • Ioan Flueraş
    Ioan Flueras
    Ioan Flueraş was a Romanian social democratic politician and a victim of the communist regime.-Early activities:...

  • Ioan Gyuri Pascu
    Ioan Gyuri Pascu
    Ioan Gyuri Pascu is a Romanian pop music singer, producer, actor and comedian, also known for his participation in the comedy troupe Divertis and for his activity in Romanian cinema and television...

  • Ioan Lupaş
    Ioan Lupas
    Ioan Lupaş was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian historian, academic, politician, Orthodox theologian and priest. He was a member of the Romanian Academy.-Biography:...

  • Ioan Lupescu
    Ioan Lupescu
    Ioan Angelo Lupescu , widely known as Ionuţ Lupescu is a former Romanian footballer who played as a midfielder. He became a member of FIFA's Technical and Development Committee in early 2008.-Club career:...

  • Ioan T. Morar
    Ioan T. Morar
    Ioan T. Morar is a Romanian journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist, literary and art critic, and civil society activist. He is a founding member of the satirical magazine Academia Caţavencu and, since 2004, a senior editor for Cotidianul...

  • Ioan Sabău
    Ioan Sabau
    Ioan Ovidiu Sabău is a former Romanian football midfielder, who was born in Câmpia-Turzii and debuted in Divizia A with U Cluj in 1986. He is currently manager of FCM Târgu Mureş....

  • Ioan Slavici
    Ioan Slavici
    Ioan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare , with the comedy Fata de birău...

  • Ioan Silviu Suciu
    Ioan Silviu Suciu
    Ioan Silviu Suciu is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. His best event was the pommel horse. One of his closest rivals was his team mate and pommel horse Olympic champion Marius Urzică, who was defeated by Suciu in Ljubljana, 2004, when the latter won the title while Urzică took 8th place...

  • Ioan Talpeş
    Ioan Talpes
    Ioan Talpeș is a Romanian Army general, military historian and politician. He served as head of the Romanian Foreign Intelligence Service from 1992 to 1997. In 1997-8, Talpeș served as Ambassador to Bulgaria and acted as an advisor to President Ion Iliescu from 1999 to 2000...


People named Ionel

  • Ionel Augustin
    Ionel Augustin
    -Career:He was born in Bucharest and made his debut in Divizia A with Dinamo Bucureşti in 1975. He spent eleven seasons with Dinamo, winning the league title three years in a row from 1982 through 1984. Midway in the 1985/1986 season, he was transferred to Victoria Bucureşti, where he helped them...

  • Ionel Boghiţoi
  • Ionel Ganea
    Ionel Ganea
    Ioan Viorel Ganea is a Romanian former footballer who played as a striker.-Playing career:Ganea debuted in Liga I with FC Braşov in 1994. He went on to play for a number of clubs in Romanian football over the next five years...

  • Ionel Teodoreanu
    Ionel Teodoreanu
    Ionel Teodoreanu was a Romanian novelist and lawyer. He is mostly remembered for his books on the themes of childhood and adolescence.-Biography:...

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