List of Famous people born in Moldova

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was an avant-garde Russian painter who worked with radical exhibitors and pioneered the first approach to abstract Russian art.

I. A. L. Diamond was a Moldovan-born American writer of comedy and drama in Hollywood from the 1940s through the 1980s. As Billy Wilder's second writing partner, after Charles Brackett, he wrote twelve screenplays with Wilder.

William Frederick Friedman was a US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. In 1940, subordinates of his led by Frank Rowlett broke Japan's PURPLE cipher, thus disclosing Japanese diplomatic secrets before America's entrance into World War II.

Oleg Serebrian is a Moldovan politician, writer, diplomat and political scientist (geopolitician), President of the Latin Union between 2010 and 2012.

Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University known for his research on the geometric Langlands program.

Ivan Petrovici Calin ; was an agronomist-scholar, political scientist, diplomat and politician from the Republic of Moldova.