Simion Stolnicu (pen name of Alexandru I. Botez; November 6, 1905–November 29, 1966) was a Romanian poet. Born in Puchenii-Moșneni, Prahova County, his parents were Al. Botez, a Căile Ferate Române clerk, and his wife Ecaterina (née Ionescu). He attended primary school in his native village from 1914 to 1918, under the name Alexandrescu I. Alexandru. He then went to Saint Sava National College in Bucharest from 1918 to 1925, taking the final years of high school privately at Câmpina. He studied at the University of Bucharest from 1932 to 1938, graduating from the literature faculty, with a specialty in French and Italian. He taught high school in Bucharest, Ploiești, Câmpina and, from 1949, Comarnic.