In 2006, the Romanian Television (Televiziunea Română, TVR) conducted a vote to determine whom the general public considers the 100 greatest Romanians of all time, in a version of the British TV show 100 greatest Britons. The resulting series, "Great Romanians" ("Mari Români"), included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further opportunities to vote after each programme. It concluded with a debate. On 21 October, TVR announced that the "greatest Romanian of all time" according to the voting was: Ştefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great).
Due to a lack of coherent classification rules and because the selection was based only on the votes of interested viewers the final list resulted in a series of strong reactions and stands. Below is the list cleaned of the arguable results (people that had high media coverage shortly before the votes but no real merits).
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