Aurora Gruescu

Aurora Gruescu (15 May 1914 – 25 August 2005) was the world's first female forestry engineer, as well as the first Romanian person in the Guinness Book.

She made considerable contributions to the field of forestry, such as the first national afforestation plan, set on 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres), as well as the use of chemical controls of pests in forests around Bucharest.

[1] Gruescu was born in Oituz, Romania, the sixth and youngest child of the family of teachers Chiriac and Maria Dragomir.

[3] After graduating in 1933 from the Royal Girls' Boarding School in Bucharest, Gruescu was encouraged by her parents to study medicine.

After retirement in 1996, she received the Big Silver Medal at the Romania-Israel Binational Philatelic Exhibition, as well as a nomination for the title of "Personality of the Year 1997" by the American Biographical Institute.