Nina Iliescu

Elena 'Nina' Iliescu (born 4 March 1930) is the widow of the 1st President of Romania Ion Iliescu since Romania became a democratic country after the fall of the communist regime on 25 December 1989. She was the First Lady of Romania from 1989 to 1996 and again from 2000 to 2004.

She was born as Elena Șerbănescu, in the Crângași neighborhood of Bucharest. Her father died in 1945, while her mother had difficulties raising her and her sister. She met her future husband in 1948, when they were both 18-year-old students, she at the Iulia Hasdeu National College (Bucharest), and he at the Saint Sava High School, in Bucharest.