The title of Honorary Citizen of Bucharest is the highest civic distinction, which rewards the talent and the special contributions of a person, Romanian or foreign, granted by the General Council of Bucharest.[1] The title is granted, as the case may be, at the initiative of the Mayor General or the members of the General Council of Bucharest. The first person rewarded with this distinction was soprano Mariana Nicolesco in 1991.
| Year | Name | Portrait | Comments | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Mariana Nicolesco (born 1948) | [2] | |||
| 1992 | George Emil Palade (1912–2008) | Physician and scientist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 |  Romania/ United States | ||
| Viorica Cortez (born 1935) | Mezzo-soprano | ||||
| Ileana Cotrubaș (born 1939) | Soprano | Romania | |||
| Marina Krilovici (born 1942) | Soprano | Romania | |||
| Romania | |||||
| 1994 | |||||
| Nadia Comăneci (born 1961) | Romania/ United States | ||||
| 1995 | Ion Irimescu (1903–2005) | Romania | |||
| Romania | |||||
| 1996 | Paul Călinescu (1902–2000) | Director and screenwriter | Romania | ||
| Marin Sorescu (1936–1996) | Romania | ||||
| 1997 | Pierre Mauroy (1928–2013) | Mayor of Lille (1973–2001) and Prime Minister of France (1981–1984) |  France | ||
| Ion Voicu (1923–1997) | Romania | ||||
| Dumitrașcu Lăcătușu (1891–1999) | Romania | ||||
| Holocaust survivor, cosmetic designer and commissioner of New York City Commission for the United Nations, Consular Corps and Protocol | Romania/ United States | ||||
| Bill Clinton (born 1946) | President of the United States (1993–2001) | United States | |||
| Jacques Chirac (1932 - 2019) | President of France (1995–2007) | France | |||
| Gabriela Szabo (born 1975) | Olympic athlete and Minister of Youth and Sports (2014–2015), named in 1999 the world's best athlete | Romania | |||
| Nicolae Herlea (1927–2014) | Baritone | ||||
| 1998 | Liviu Ciulei (1923–2011) | Romania | |||
| Nursultan Nazarbayev (born 1940) | President of Kazakhstan (1991–present) |  Kazakhstan | |||
| 2000 | Romania | ||||
| 2001 | Stage director | Romania | |||
| Founding member of the Ion Dacian National Theater of Operetta and Musical | Romania | ||||
| Founding member of the Ion Dacian National Theater of Operetta and Musical | Romania | ||||
| George Zaharescu (1927–2007) | Opera director, director of the Ion Dacian National Theater of Operetta and Musical | Romania | |||
| Iolanda Balaș (1936–2016) | Olympic athlete, president of the Romanian Athletics Federation (1988–2005) | Romania | |||
| Radu Beligan (1918–2016) | Romania | ||||
| Gheorghe Dinică (1934–2009) | Actor | Romania | |||
| Marin Moraru (1937–2016) | Actor | Romania | |||
| Tamara Buciuceanu (1929–2019) | Actress | / Romania | |||
| Carmen Stănescu (1925–2018) | Actress | Romania | |||
| Damian Crâșmaru (1931–2019) | Actor | Romania | |||
| Mircea Albulescu (1934–2016) | Actor, professor, publicist, poet and writer | Romania | |||
| Olga Tudorache (1929–2017) | Actress and professor | Romania | |||
| Marcela Rusu (1926–2002) | Actress | Romania | |||
| Ion Zamfirescu (1907–2001) | Theater historian and professor | Romania | |||
| Ileana Berlogea (1931–2002) | Theater historian, professor and critic | Romania | |||
| Ion Toboșaru (1930–2016) | Film critic, esthetician and theatrologist | Romania | |||
| Horea Popescu (1925–2010) | Director | Romania | |||
| Margareta Niculescu (1926–2018) | Puppetteer, professor, director and theater director | Romania | |||
| Dinu Săraru (born 1932) | Theater director, playwright, essayist, publicist, novelist and writer | Romania | |||
| Ștefan Iordache (1941–2008) | Actor | Romania | |||
| Dan Iordăchescu (1930–2015) | Baritone | Romania | |||
| Adela Mărculescu (born 1938) | Actress | Romania | |||
| Draga Olteanu Matei (1933–2020) | Actress | Romania | |||
| Ludovic Spiess (1938–2006) | Tenor, Minister of Culture (1991–1992) and director of the Romanian National Opera (2001–2005) | Romania | |||
| Florin Piersic (born 1936) | Actor | Romania | |||
| Gheorghe Zamfir (born 1941) | Musician and composer, self-described "master of the pan flute" | Romania | |||
| Veta Biriș (born 1949) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Achim Nica (1930–2012) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Maria Butaciu (1940–2018) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Sava Negrean Brudașcu (born 1947) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Floarea Calotă (born 1956) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Matilda Pascal Cojocărița (born 1958) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Liviu Dafinescu (1954–2004) | Director of Doina Gorjului Folklore Ensemble (1994–2004) | Romania | |||
| Valeria Peter Predescu (1947–2009) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Dumitru Fărcaș (1938–2018) | Tárogató player | Romania | |||
| Benone Sinulescu (1937–2021) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Viorica Flintașu (born 1939) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| TV producer | Romania | ||||
| Nicolae Furdui Iancu (born 1955) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Folk music singer | Romania | ||||
| Laura Lavric (born 1946) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Gheorghe Turda (born 1948) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Grigore Leșe (born 1954) | Folk music singer and bassoon player | Romania | |||
| Liviu Vasilică (1950–2004) | Folk music singer and pediatrician | Romania | |||
| Ion Luican (1907–1992) | Folk music singer | Romania | |||
| Sofia Vicoveanca (born 1941) | Folk music singer, poet and actress |  Ukraine/ Romania | |||
| 2005 | Stela Popescu (1935–2017) | Actress | / Romania | ||
| 2006 | Cristian Gațu (born 1945) | Olympic handball player and president of the Romanian Handball Federation (1996–2014) | Romania | ||
| Marcel Guguianu (1922–2012) | Sculptor | Romania | |||
| David Esrig (born 1935) | Professor and theater director |  Israel/ Romania | |||
| 2007 | Lucian Giurchescu (born 1930) | Director | Romania | ||
| Tudor Petrov-Popa (born 1963) | |||||
| Andrei Ivanțoc (born 1961) | |||||
| Alexandru Leșco (born 1955) | |||||
| 2008 | Rică Răducanu (born 1946) | Romania | |||
| 2009 | Horia Damian (1922–2012) | Romania/ France | |||
| 2014 | Larisa Iordache (born 1996) | Olympic gymnast | Romania | ||
| 2016 | Professor | Romania | |||
| Neagu Djuvara (1916–2018) | Historian, diplomat, philosopher, journalist and novelist | Romania | |||
| Romania | |||||
| Romania | |||||
| Members of Romania's sword team | Romania | ||||
| 2017 | Cristian Țopescu (1937–2018) | Sports commentator, journalist and politician | Romania | ||
| Dinu C. Giurescu (1927–2018) | Romania | ||||
| Herman Berkovits (born 1947) | Benjamin Netanyahu's personal physician and Viorica Dăncilă's honorary counselor | Romania/ Israel | |||
| Cardiovascular surgeon | Romania | ||||
| Cătălina Ponor (born 1987) | Olympic gymnast | Romania | |||
| Marian Drăgulescu (born 1980) | Olympic gymnast | Romania | |||
| Ileana Vulpescu (1932–2021) | Philologist, lexicographer, writer, novelist and translator | Romania | |||
| Alexandru Arșinel (born 1939) | Actor and director of Constantin Tănase Revue Theater | Romania | |||
| Ilie Ilașcu (born 1952) | / Romania | ||||
| Mircea Lucescu (born 1945) | Footballer and selector of Romania and Turkey national football teams | Romania | |||
| Cristina Neagu (born 1988) | Professional handball player, the only handball player in history to win three IHF World Player of the Year awards | Romania | |||
| Angela Gheorghiu (born 1965) | Soprano, one of the most famous opera singers in the world | Romania | |||
| Alexandra Nechita (born 1985) | Painter and muralist, dubbed "little Picasso" | Romania/ United States | |||
| Simona Halep (born 1991) | Romania | ||||
| Ion Caramitru (born 1942) | Actor, Minister of Culture (1996–2000), president of UNITER (1990–present) and director of Ion Luca Caragiale National Theater (2005–present) | Romania | |||
| Helmut Duckadam (born 1959) | Romania | ||||
| Lieutenant colonel injured in Camp Victory in 2007 and professional archer | Romania | ||||
| Daniel Porumb (born 1980) | Sergeant injured in Iraq in April 2007 | Romania | |||
| Corporal injured in Afghanistan in March 2014 |