Ion Cămărășescu

Ion N. Cămărășescu (January 27, 1882 – March 25, 1953) was a Romanian politician.

He was born in Bucharest, the son of Nicolae Cămărășescu, who owned a estate in the Bărăgan Plain. He completed high school in his native city, and then studied at the University of Paris, taking a degree in law. After returning home, he practiced law in the Bucharest bar. Afterwards, he married Zoe, née Bengescu (1896–1987), with whom he would have two sons, Ion I. (born 1927) and Nicolae (born 1929). Cămărășescu developed a keen interest in sports, being one of the founders (together with George Valentin Bibescu) of the in 1904 He himself practiced several sports: tennis, horse riding, skiing, and bobsleigh, being in 1909 the first Romanian participant in a Winter Olympics (in the bobsled competition in Stockholm). He was the organizer of the first cycling tour of Romania in 1910, the year in which he also participated in the automobile competition on the Bucharest–Târgoviște route, which he won with an hourly average of , a European record at the time. He was named Interior Minister in Ionescu's short-lived government, which lasted from December 1921 to January 1922.

Later in 1922, Cămărășescu joined the Peasants' Party. He refused to collaborate with the National Renaissance Front royal dictatorship of King Carol II.

In March 1949, the communist regime nationalized his farm in Dâlga and assigned Cămărășescu and his family to forced residence in Curtea de Argeș. Arrested together with other former dignitaries by the Securitate in May 1950, he died at Sighet Prison three years later, and was buried in a mass grave.