Vasile Atanasiu (April 25, 1886 – June 6, 1964) was a Romanian general in World War II.

He was born in Târgoviște, Romania in 1886, in a Greek-Romanian family, the son of Ștefan and Paulina Atanasiu.

In this capacity he led the Corps in the military actions for the liberation of Bessarabia in the battle for the beachhead of Albița on the Prut River, and then in the advance to the Dniester at Tiraspol.

He was then in command of the corps on the front line from Karpovo to Dalnik during the Siege of Odessa.

After King Michael's Coup in August 1944, he took command of the 1st Romanian Army, taking part in the battles on the Czechoslovakian front in the Javorina, between the rivers Hron and Morava and thereafter in Bohemia, during the Bratislava–Brno Offensive.