Cantacuzino aristocratic Romanian family with Greek ancestry. Andronic C. (1553–1600) helped Michael the Brave to obtain the reign; Constantin C. (?–1683) Senechal, influential boyar at the middle of the XVII century. Killed at Snagov Monastery at the order of Gr. Ghica; Constantin C. (1650–1716) High Steward, diplomat, historian and geographer, outstanding figure of Humanism in the Romanian Countries. He was an advocate of anti-Otoman policy and approached Russia and Austria. He drew up a map of Wallachia, printed in Greek at Padua (1700); author of «The History of Wallachia from the Beginnings», the book remained unfinished; in it he proved very convincingly the Romanian origin, the unity and continuity of the Romanian people on the teritory of ancient Dacia. Serban C. ruler of Wallachia (1678–1688), champion of anti-Otoman policy; he encouraged the artistic and cultural development, initiated the printing of the «Bible of Bucharest» (1688); Stefan C. ruler of Wallachia (1714–1716), killed by the Turks along with his father, Constantin C. the High Steward in 1688, date that marked the beginning of the Fanariot rulers; Mihail C. (1723–1787), chronicler, author of «The History of Wallachia», comprising the period between 1225 and 1776; Gheorghe Grigore C. (1837 Bucharest – 1913) political man, land owner, chief of the Conservative Party (1899–1907); minister, Prime Minister (1899–1900, 1904–1907); owing to his immense fortune, he was nicknamed the Nabab; Ioan C. (1837 Bucharest–1913) Romanian physician and bacteriologist, professor at the University of Bucharest; academician; he founded the Romanian microbiology and experimental medicine school; major contributions in the study of the exanthemum fever, tuberculosis, cholera, scarlet fever; he created the notion of contact imunity; founded the «Medical Sciences Revue» and «Archives Roumaines de pathologie experimentale»; during the First World War he led the campaign against the fever; George M. C. (1899 Vienna –1970), Romanian architect; he published the books «Archways, Niches, Slabs» and «Palladio»; he worked at the restoration of the MogoSoaia Palace.