# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/octav-onicescu
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:59:50.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/octav-onicescu"
name: "Octav Onicescu"
slug: "octav-onicescu"
description: "Octav Onicescu was a Romanian mathematician and a member of the Romanian Academy. Together with his student, Gheorghe Mihoc, he is considered to be the founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics."
tagline: "Romanian mathematician (1892-1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Octav_Onicescu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1892-08-20"
deathDate: "1983-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336789333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Октав Оніческу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octav_Onicescu"
    title: "Octav Onicescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octav_Onicescu"
    title: "Octav Onicescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octav_Onicescu"
    title: "Octav Onicescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octav_Onicescu"
    title: "Octav Onicescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octav_Onicescu"
    title: "Octav Onicescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%2C_%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2"
    title: "Оническу, Октав"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7076766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump