Ghencea Cemetery
{{Short description|Cemetery in Bucharest, Romania}}
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|caption = The entrance to the military section
|commemorates = the Heroes of the Wars
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|coordinates = Bucharest, Romania
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|by_war = World War I
World War II
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Ghencea Cemetery is located in Ghencea neighbourhood of Bucharest, on Ghencea Boulevard, in Sector 6. The cemetery has two sections, civilian{{cite web|url=http://accu.ro/cimitirul-ghencea/#|title=Cimitirul Ghencea|date=25 May 2014|publisher=}} and military.{{cite web|url=https://plus.google.com/117313536969395691278/about?gl=ro&hl=ro|title=Google Maps|website=Google Maps}}
Notable interments
- Ioan Ioniță (1924–1987), Communist general and politician who served as Minister of Defence
- Cabiria Andreian Cazacu (1928–2018), mathematician
- Gheorghe Argeșanu (1883–1940), general and statesman
- {{ill|Niki Atanasiu|ro}} (1907–1967), actor
- Mihai Baicu (1975–2009), footballer
- Grigore Bălan (1896–1944), general in World War II
- Iolanda Balaș (1936–2016), athlete and Olympic champion
- Maria Butaciu (1940–2018), performer of folklore music
- {{ill|Gianu Bucurescu|ro}} (1924–2016), Securitate officer
- Cornelia Catangă (1958–2021), singer
- Elena Ceaușescu (1916–1989), communist activist and wife of President Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918–1989), 1st President of Romania
- Nicu Ceaușescu (1951–1996), communist politician and third son of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu
- Mihai Chițac (1928–2010), general and 117th Minister of the Interior
- {{ill|Lucreția Ciobanu|ro}} (1924–2015), folk singer from Sibiu
- {{ill|Mihai Constantinescu (singer)|lt=Mihai Constantinescu|ro|Mihai Constantinescu}} (1946–2019), musician
- Florența Crăciunescu (1955–2008), Olympic athlete
- {{ill|Gheorghe Cucu|ro}} (1882–1932), composer, conductor, and folklorist
- Ion Dincă (1928–2007), communist politician, Deputy Prime Minister, and Mayor of Bucharest
- {{ill|Eugenia Greceanu|ro}} (1928–2016), architect
- Aimée Iacobescu (1946–2018), actress
- Alexandru Ioanițiu (1890–1941), general
- Mihaela Mitrache (1955–2008), actress
- Mariana Nicolesco (1948–2022), operatic soprano
- Angelo Niculescu (1921–2015), football player and manager
- Alexis Nour (1877–1940), journalist, activist, and essayist
- Alexandru Pastia (1893–1942), military officer
- Gheorghe Pintilie (1902–1985), 1st Director of the Securitate
- Temistocle Popa (1921–2013), composer, musician, and film actor
- Cristian Popescu (1959–1995), poet
- Tudor Postelnicu (1931–2017), communist politician, Director of the Securitate, Interior Minister
- Ilie Savu (1920–2010), footballer and coach
- Alexandru Șerbănescu (1912–1944), flying ace in World War II
- Iosif Sîrbu (1925–1964), sport shooter and Romania’s first ever Olympic champion
- Niculae Spiroiu (1936–2022), general and 78th Minister of National Defense
- Toni Tecuceanu (1972–2010), comedy actor
- Costică Toma (1928–2008), footballer and coach
- Nicolae Tonitza (1886–1940), painter and illustrator
- {{ill|Cristian Țopescu|ro}} (1937–2018), journalist and politician
- Virgil Trofin (1926–1984), communist politician
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor (1949–2015), leader of the Greater Romania Party, poet, writer, journalist, and a Member of the European Parliament
- {{ill|Olimpian Ungherea|ro}} (1937–2012), writer
- Doru-Viorel Ursu (1953–2024), politician and lawyer
- {{ill|Ștefan Vencov|ro}} (1899–1955), physicist and rector of Politehnica University
- Ilie Verdeț (1925–2001), 51st Prime Minister of Romania
- Iulian Vlad (1931–2017), last Director of the Securitate
Gallery
File:Nicolae Ceaușescu Mormant.jpg|Former grave of Nicolae Ceaușescu
File:Ghencea Civil Poarta.jpg|Entrance to the Ghencea Civilian Cemetery
File:GhenceaMasonicgrave.JPG|Grave in Ghencea cemetery, with Masonic symbol
File:Alexandru Serbanescu, Ghencea.jpg|Grave of Alexandru Șerbănescu
File:Ceaușescu Grave.jpg|Grave of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu
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