Nicolae Rainea (19 November 1933 – 1 April 2015), nicknamed "The Locomotive of the Carpathians", was a Romanian football referee. He refereed at three FIFA World Cups (1974, 1978, 1982), the UEFA Euro 1980 Final, the 1983 European Cup Final, the second leg of the 1978 European Super Cup and the second leg of the 1978 UEFA Cup Final.