List of Famous people born in Moldova

Serafima Germanovna Birman was a Russian Empire and Soviet actress, theatre director and writer. She was named People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1946.

Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. It was to Kazanskaya that the composer Aram Khachaturian dedicated the Waltz from his incidental music to Lermontov's Masquerade. By the time of her death at age 88, she was the theatre's oldest working actress. She had received the Crystal Turandot, Russia's foremost theatre award, in 2007.

Samuel Wainer was a Brazilian journalist and author. Wainer was born into a Jewish family from Bessarabia, more precisely in the Edineț District, then part of the Russian Empire. His family immigrated to Brazil in 1912, settling in São Paulo. He would later found and direct the Diretrizes magazine and the Última Hora newspaper. He was married to Danuza Leão, Brazilian journalist and model, sister of Nara Leão. They had a son, Samuel Wainer Filho, who was also a journalist. He died in 1984 in a car accident with a camera operator. Wainer also had more two children: plastic artist Débora "Pinky" Wainer and film producer Bruno Wainer.

Dorin Chirtoacă is a Moldovan politician who served as Mayor of Chișinău from 2007 to 2018. He has been leader of Liberal Party since 2018.

Petru Lucinschi, also Russified with the patronymic as Pyotr Kirillovich Luchinsky is a former Moldovan politician who was Moldova's second President (1997–2001).

Boris (Boaz) Avraamovich Trakhtenbrot, or Boaz (Boris) Trakhtenbrot was an Israeli and Russian mathematician in mathematical logic, algorithms, theory of computation, and cybernetics. Trakhtenbrot was born in Brichevo, northern Bessarabia. He worked at Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk during the 1960s and 1970s. After immigrating to Israel in 1981, he became a professor in the faculty of Exact sciences of Tel Aviv University, where he was professor emeritus until his death.

Mihai Ghimpu is a Moldovan politician who served as Speaker of Parliament and Acting President of Moldova from 2009 to 2010. He was member of Parliament of Moldova from 1990 to 1998 and from 2009 to 2019. Ghimpu held the position of leader of Liberal Party from 1998 to 2018.

Vladimir Filat, commonly referred to as Vlad Filat, is a Moldovan businessman and politician, founder of Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova. He was the Prime Minister of Moldova from 25 September 2009 to 25 April 2013. He also was appointed as the Interim President of Moldova for a brief period of time in 2010. Released from jail in December 2019

Natalia Snegur-Gherman is a Moldovan politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration and Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova from May 2013 to January 2016. Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Central Asia (UNRCCA) since 2017.