The Universitatea Națională de Educație Fizică și Sport (UNEFS), is one of the highest-profile state public higher education institution in Romania, and was founded on 1 December 1922, in Bucharest. It was the tenth institution of its kind in the world and the fifth in Europe.
UNEFS is one of the major physical education and sport institutions in Eastern Europe, and the degrees are awarded by the Ministry of National Education, and are recognised by other countries with whom bilateral agreements have been signed.
Elisabeta Lipă – most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, president of the Romanian Rowing Federation, and former president of CS Dinamo București and politician
Ion Draica – Greco-Roman wrestler, businessperson, and former politician, president of Romanian Federation of Wrestling and SSC Farul Constanța president