| Florea Dumitrescu | |
| Office: | Governor of the National Bank of Romania |
| Term Start: | March 17, 1984 |
| Term End: | March 17, 1989 |
| Predecessor: | Vasile Răuță |
| Successor: | Decebal Urdea |
| Office3: | Ambassador of Romania to China |
| Term Start3: | July 6, 1978 |
| Term End3: | April 15, 1983 |
| Predecessor3: | Nicolae Gavrilescu |
| Office4: | Ambassador of Romania to Burma |
| Term Start4: | May 7, 1979 |
| Term End4: | Mar 9, 1987 |
| Office5: | Minister of Finance of Romania |
| Term Start5: | August 19, 1969 |
| Term End5: | March 7, 1978 |
| Predecessor5: | Virgil Pârvu |
| Successor5: | Paul Niculescu-Mizil |
| Party: | Romanian Communist Party |
| Birth Date: | 4 April 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Necșești, Teleorman County, Kingdom of Romania |
| Death Place: | Bucharest, Romania |
| Alma Mater: | Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies |
Florea Dumitrescu (April 4, 1927 – April 16, 2018) was a Romanian economist and diplomat. Dumitrescu held the positions of Minister of Finance of Romania from 1969 to 1978 and Governor of the National Bank of Romania from 1984 until 1989 under President Nicolae Ceaușescu during the country's Communist era.[1] He served as Ambassador of Romania to China from 1978 to 1983.[1]
In parallel, he also served as Ambassador of Romania to Myanmar from 1979 to 1987.[1]
Dumitrescu, the son of farmers, wanted to become an economist and financier to escape the rural poverty in which he was raised.[1] He graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in 1949.[1]
He was appointed Governor of the National Bank of Romania from 1984 until his dismissal by Ceaușescu in March 1989.[1]
Dumitrescu died at his home in Bucharest on April 16, 2018, at the age of 91.[1]