Scornicești (Romanian pronunciation: [skorniˈtʃeʃtʲ]) is a town in Olt County, Romania, with a population of 10,795.

The town administers 13 villages (Bălțați, Bircii, Chițeasca, Constantinești, Jitaru, Mărgineni-Slobozia, Mihăilești-Popești, Mogoșești, Negreni, Piscani, Rusciori, Șuica, and Teiuș) and has a total area of 170 km2 (66 sq mi), being the locality with the largest area in the county of Olt, surpassing even its capital, Slatina.

Scornicești was the birthplace of communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, who lived there until the age of 11, when he left for Bucharest to become a shoemaker.

During his dictatorship, Ceaușescu wanted to make Scornicești a "model town" to house the newly created "Socialist Man".

Consequently, in 1988, he began his plan by demolishing the traditional village houses and replacing them with apartment buildings, and changed the town's status from "village" to "city" (however, the bulldozers did not destroy Ceaușescu's birth home, which is now one of the local attractions - see on WikiMapia).