Alexandru Marghiloman (4 July 1854 – 10 May 1925[2]) was a Romanian conservative statesman who served for a short time in 1918 (March–October) as Prime Minister of Romania, and had a decisive role during World War I.

A member of the Conservative Party, he supported cooperation with the German Empire and Austria-Hungary in the Triple Alliance, and, at the beginning of World War I, he favoured neutrality.

Romania remained neutral until 1916, when she entered on the Allied side and this was the reason he refused a seat in the Ion Brătianu's liberal government.

Retired from public life following the collapse of Conservative politicians in post-war Greater Romania, Marghiloman died in his native town.

[citation needed] His large estate, the Albatros Villa (named after one of his horses[3]) in Buzău, was for a long time a meeting place for Conservative politicians.