Aurora Gruescu

Aurora Gruescu (15 May 1914 – 25 August 2005) was the world's first female forestry engineer, as well as the first Romanian person in the Guinness Book. She worked as a forestry engineer for 25 years. She made considerable contributions to the field of forestry, such as the first national afforestation plan, set on 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres), as well as the use of chemical controls of pests in forests around Bucharest.