93 Notable alumni of Moldova State University

Anatol Arapu is a Moldovan economist, who served as Minister of Finances of Moldova from 14 August 2013 to January 2016, in three consecutive cabinets: Leancă Cabinet, Gaburici Cabinet, and Streleț Cabinet. He also was Minister of Finances in the 1990s, in Ciubuc-2 Cabinet (22 May 1998 - 17 February 1999) and in Sturza Cabinet (12 March - 12 November...

Lidia Kulikovski is a Moldovan librarian and bibliographer. As head of the Hasdeu Municipal Library, she extended the library network opening nine branches in Chișinău focused mainly on Romanian literature.

Vladimir Grosu is a Moldovan jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Justice from 18 February 2015 to 30 July 2015.

Gheorghe Șalaru is a Moldovan politician. He was the Environment Minister in the First Vlad Filat Cabinet and in the Second Filat Cabinet.

Serafim Saca was a writer from Moldova. He is credited with being the author and director of several documentaries including House with Flowers (1965), Chișinău – 67 (1967), and Cross-Roads (1967). He became a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union in 1966. He was forbidden to publish between 1976 and 1987.

Gheorghe Malarciuc was a screenwriter and politician from Moldova. He served as the first head of the Ecologist Party of Moldova "Green Alliance", as well as honorary vice-president of the Ecological Movement of Romania. He graduated in 1956 from Moldova State University and worked for Moldova-Film and Literaturnaya Gazeta. While he was the head editor of the later, he supported...

Ion Ciocanu was a Moldovan literary critic.

Victor Șelin is a Moldovan businessman, politician, and former journalist, currently president of the Social Democratic Party of Moldova.

Gheorghe E. Cojocaru is a historian from the Republic of Moldova.

Ion Dumeniuc was a scientist, editor, and politician from the Republic of Moldova. He was the founder of the Limba Română magazine.

Anatol Ciobanu was a Moldovan professor and researcher. He was head of the Department of Romanian language at Moldova State University, a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

Andrei Eșanu is a historian (doctor habilitat in history), writer and researcher from the Republic of Moldova. He is a member of the Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova. He is part of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and was elected an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 2011.

Larisa Miculeț is a Moldovan lawyer and diplomat. Previously, Mrs. Miculeț held the position of Ambassador at Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration being in charge of Multilateral diplomacy, and concurrently serving as the Head of National delegation to IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance).

Victor Pușcaș was a Moldovan politician.

Iuliana Gorea-Costin is a diplomat and politician from the Republic of Moldova. She is a philologist and lawyer by education and served as the first Permanent Representative of Moldova to the Council of Europe and the first director of the "Mircea Eliade" Romanian-English High School in Chişinău. She ran as an independent candidate in Moldovan presidential election, 1996. and Chișinău...

Mihai Godea is a Moldovan politician. He became president of the Democratic Action Party on 6 November 2011.

Eugen Carpov is a diplomat and politician from Moldova. He was the Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Republic of Moldova from 14 January 2011 to 10 December 2014 (Second Vlad Filat Cabinet).

Liliana Nicolaescu-Onofrei is a Moldovan politician. She served as Minister of Education, Culture and Research from 8 June 2019 to 14 November 2019 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Maia Sandu.

Andrei Neguța is a Moldovan politician and diplomat, former Ambassador of Moldova to Russia (2008–2012, 2017–2020).

Nicolae Bulat was a Moldovan historian and director of Soroca Museum of History and Ethnography (including Soroca Fortress).

Ion Țurcanu is an author, educator, historian, memoirist, professor, former member of the Parliament (1990–1994), politician and Romanian writer from Moldova. He is one of the 277 MPs of the first parliament of the former Soviet Socialist Republic (later the Republic of Moldova), who voted for the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Moldova on 27 August 1991.

Leonid Bujor was a Moldovan politician. He was the Minister of Education in the First Vlad Filat Cabinet from 25 September 2009 to 14 January 2011.

Oleg Efrim is a Moldovan politician and jurist. He has served as the Justice Minister in Second Vlad Filat Cabinet since 6 May 2011 until 18 February 2015. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova.

Ernest Arushanov is a Soviet and Moldovan experimental physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Victor Osipov is a Moldovan politician who from 18 February 2015 until 20 January 2016, served as Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of the Republic of Moldova, being the second time in this post after the 2009–2011 mandate in the Filat Government. He was the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Moldova's territorial re-integration in the First Vlad Filat Cabinet.

Alina Zotea-Durnea is a Moldovan economist, model and politician.

Vasilii Șova is a Moldovan politician and diplomat. He has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova for Reintegration in the Sandu Cabinet and has held other political offices in since the 1990s.

Valeriu Pleșca is a Moldovan lawyer and politician. He served as Minister of Defense of Moldova between 29 December 2004 and 11 June 2007.

Octavian Calmîc is a former Moldovan politician. He served as Minister of Economy and Infrastructure from 20 January 2016 to 21 December 2017.

Anatol Codru was a writer and film director from Moldova. He was the head of the Union of Cinematographers of Moldova and a leader of the Democratic Forum of Romanians in Moldova.

Yulia Sister is a Soviet Moldavian and Israeli analytical chemist engaged in chemical research with the use of polarography and chromatography, a science historian, and a researcher of Russian Jewry in Israel, France, and other countries. She holds the position of Director General of the Research Centre for Russian Jews abroad and in Israel.

Sergiu Rădăuțanu was a Moldovan physicist. He was a vice-president of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and professor at the Technical University of Moldova.

Iurie Reniță is a Moldovan politician and diplomat serving as member of Parliament of Moldova since 2019. He was the Moldovan Ambassador to Romania from 2010 to 2015 and Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg from 2016 to 2017.

Oleg Ţulea is a Moldovan politician who served as the foreign minister of the Republic of Moldova in 2020. He previously served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (2005–2009). 1998, Oleg Tsulya joined the Democratic Party of Moldova (PDM) and was elected chairman of the DPM youth organization "Democratic Youth". On 3 February 2016, he was appointed as the...

Vitalia Pavlicenco is a Moldovan politician. She was the head of the National Liberal Party (Moldova).

Victor Bodiu is a Moldovan economist. In 2001 he began working with Raiffeisen Banking Group.

Constantin Cheianu is a writer, playwright, prose writer, publicist, actor and TV anchor and journalist from the Republic of Moldova. As a dramaturg at the National Theatre in Chişinău, he adapted multiple novels for the stage. In 1993, together with the movie director Alexandru Vasilache he became co-founder of the Pocket Theatre (Romanian: Teatrul de Buzunar). Together with Anatol Durbala...

Zurab Todua is a Moldovan historian, politician, politologue, publicist and writer, who served as deputy in the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2014.

Domnica Manole is a Moldovan judge. She has served as the President of the Constitutional Court of Moldova since April 2020.

Viorel Cibotaru is a Moldovan politician, former political analyst and journalist, who currently serves as the Moldovan Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg. He was the Minister of Defense of Moldova between 18 February 2015 and 30 July 2015.. Cibotaru has authored four books.

Gheorghe Vodă was a writer, screenwriter and film director from Moldova.

Isaac B. Bersuker is a Romanian-born Soviet-Moldovan-American theoretical physicist and quantum chemist whose principal research is in chemical physics, solid-state physics, and theoretical chemistry. Known for his "life-long years of experience in theoretical chemistry" working on the electronic structure and properties of coordination compounds, Isaac B. Bersuker is "one of the most widely recognized authorities" in the theory of the...

Nicolae Andronic is a Moldovan jurist and lawyer. He served as member of Parliament of Moldova between 1990 and 1998 and as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova in 1994. He headed the extra-parliamentary Republican Popular Party from 2005 to 2015.

Stepan Beril is the president of T. G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol, the capital of the partially recognised state of Transnistria. He has presided over the university with 14 faculties and 84 chairs, offering 54 different majors, since 1996.

Iurie Muntean is a Moldovan politician, who served as a deputy Minister of Economy and Trade (2008–2009) and member of the Parliament of Moldova (2009–2014).

Valeriu Matei is a Moldovan writer and politician. He served as a member of the Parliament of Moldova from 1990. Matei is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorific member of the Romanian Academy since 2011. He ran in the 1996 Moldovan presidential election.

Liliana Palihovici is a Moldovan politician.

Ana Guțu is a Moldovan politician, who served as Member of the Parliament of Moldova from 2009 to 2014.

Igor Corman is a Moldovan politician and diplomat, President of the Moldovan Parliament from 30 May 2013 until 29 December 2014.

Igor Munteanu is a Moldovan politician and diplomat. Between 2010 and 2015, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to the United States of America and Mexico from 2010 to 2015 and Ambassador to Canada from 2011 to 2013. From 2016 he is teaching Public Policy and Political Administrative MA Courses at the Academy of Economic Studies (ASEM)...

Anatol Țăranu is a Moldovan former politician and diplomat.

Veaceslav Untilă is a Moldovan politician.

Mihai Cimpoi is a Moldovan politician, a distinguished cultural scientist, Romanian academician, critic and literary historian, expert on Mihai Eminescu, literary editor and Bessarabian essayist. "Emeritus of the Republic of Moldova", two decades elected president of the Union of Writers of Moldova, deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1999 and 2001, Mihai Cimpoi is the author...

Valeriu Pasat is a Moldovan historian and politician. He held the office of Minister of Defense of Moldova in the Ciubuc and Sturza cabinets.

Rodica Ciorănică-Gavriliţă is a journalist and editor from Moldova. She founded VIP Magazin in 2004. Since 2007, she has had a TV show on Pro TV Chişinău and then on Prime TV. Rodica Ciorănică is the head of VIP Magazin Grup. Besides VIP Magazin, she edits two other magazines, 50 cei mai influenti Moldoveni (The 50 most influential Moldavians) and...

Viorica Dumbrăveanu is a Moldovan politician. She served as Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection from 14 November 2019 to 31 December 2020 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ion Chicu.

Vladimir Bolea is a Moldovan politician and meritocrat currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Munteanu Cabinet.

Sergiu Sîrbu is a Moldovan politician and jurist, who started serving in 2010 as Deputy in the Parliament of Moldova as member of the faction of Democratic Party of Moldova. On 11 July 2014, Sîrbu became Deputy President of the Parliament of Moldova. Sergiu Sîrbu was member of Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova until 12 December 2012,...

Alexandru Oleinic is a Moldovan politician, who was elected as a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in two consecutive legislatures between 2001 and 2009, on the lists of the Electoral Bloc Democratic Moldova. Between 2009 and 2011 he was Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Moldova in the First Vlad Filat Cabinet.

Vladimir Beșleagă was a Moldovan writer and politician.

Israel Gohberg was a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Israeli mathematician, most known for his work in operator theory and functional analysis, in particular linear operators and integral equations.

Boris Grigorevich Kolker is a language teacher, translator and advocate of the international language Esperanto. He was until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then has been a resident and citizen of the United States residing in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences...

Silvia Radu is a Moldovan politician and manager. Between 2008 and 2015 she was the director of Gas Natural Fenosa in the Republic of Moldova. In 2016, she was an independent candidate in that year's presidential election. From 6 November 2017 until April, 2018 Radu served as the ad interim of Mayor of Chișinău.

Todur Zanet is a Gagauz and Moldovan journalist, folklorist and poet, one of the most prominent contributors to Gagauz literature and theater. He is the editor-in-chef of Ana Sözü newspaper, which cultivates the Gagauz language, and has written the original anthem of Gagauzia. His activity as a journalist began under Soviet rule, and first peaked during the Perestroika years, when...

Alexandru Moșanu was a Moldovan politician, historian and professor.

Monica Babuc is a politician and historian from the Republic of Moldova, who was Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova in four consecutive cabinets (Leancă, Gaburici, Streleţ and Filip) from 2013 to 2019. During her tenure as Minister of Culture she approved the strategy "Culture-2020", laws on cinematography, public libraries, and scholarships. She also helped create the National...

Mihai Grecu was a painter from Moldova. According to Lonely Planet:

Igor Vieru was a painter from Moldova. The artist's home, in Cernoleuca has become a museum, where visitors can get acquainted with Igor Vieru's art. High School of Fine Arts "Igor Vieru" in Chişinău was named after him.

Mark Tkachuk is a Moldovan politician, historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist. He is a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova and has been active in Moldova's political and academic life.

Andrei Spînu is a Moldovan entrepreneur and politician, who was Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova in the Government of Gavrilița and served as Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Recean Cabinet.

Gheorghe Duca is a Moldovan academic and politician who is a former president of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, an honorary member of the Romanian Academy, and former Moldovan Minister of Environment, Public Works and Regional Development.

Ion Vatamanu was a chemist, writer, and politician from Moldova. He served as member of the Parliament of Moldova (1990–1994) and chairman of the Committee on Culture of the Parliament of Moldova.

Leonida Lari was a Moldovan poet, journalist, and politician who advocated for the reunion of Bessarabia with Romania. She published 24 volumes of poetry and prose and was a prolific translator of key works from world literature into Romanian.

Iurie Roșca is a Moldovan politician who has served as president of the Christian-Democratic People's Party (PPCD) since 1994.

Oleg Serebrian is a Moldovan politician, writer, diplomat and political scientist, President of the Latin Union between 2010 and 2012. He served as Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Moldova from 2022 to 2025 and is currently the Moldovan Ambassador to Turkey.

Mircea Druc is a Moldovan and Romanian politician who served as Prime Minister of Moldova between 26 May 1990 and 22 May 1991.

Nata Albot is a blogger, TV producer, journalist and a media manager from Moldova. She has had several popular shows on radio and televisions in Moldova since she was 16 years old. She graduated from the Law School of Moldova State University. Nata Albot served as the general producer of Jurnal TV from March 2010 until July 2013. She also...

Tatiana Țîbuleac is a Moldovan writer.

Natalia Gherman is a Moldovan politician who has been serving as executive director of the United Nations' Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate since 2023.

Alexander Isaakovich Gelman, original given name Shunya (Russian: Шу́ня), is a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Russian playwright, writer, and screenwriter.

Aureliu Ciocoi is a Moldovan diplomat and politician who served as Acting Prime Minister of Moldova from December 2020 to August 2021. He is currently the country's ambassador to Germany. Prior positions that Ciocoi held include being the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and former ambassador to the United States, China and Vietnam.

Dumitru Matcovschi was a writer from Moldova who was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. He was a founder of the Popular Front of Moldova.

Ion Sturza is a Moldovan politician and businessman who served as Prime Minister of Moldova from 19 February to 12 November 1999. On 21 December 2015, President Nicolae Timofti nominated Ion Sturza to occupy the position of prime minister for a second time. However, Ion Sturza gave up the mandate, after the meeting in which his cabinet should receive the...

Mihai Balan is a Moldovan diplomat. He was the ambassador of the Republic of Moldova to Israel in January–October 2012, and prior to this was ambassador of Moldova to Greece and Cyprus (2010 – 2011). Bălan was the Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Moldova (December 15, 2009 - August 2010).

Nicolae Timofti is a Moldovan jurist and politician who was President of Moldova from 23 March 2012 until 23 December 2016. He served as head of Moldova's Superior Magistrate Council and was elected President by parliament on 16 March 2012.

Alexandr Stoianoglo is a Moldovan former prosecutor and politician.

Petru Lucinschi is a former Moldovan politician who was Moldova's second President from 1997 to 2001. He currently serves as the founder and head of the Lucinschi Foundation of Strategic Studies and International Relations.

Zinaida Greceanîi is a Moldovan politician. She was the president of the Moldovan Parliament between 8 June 2019 to 26 July 2021. Greceanîi was previously also the Prime Minister of Moldova from 31 March 2008 to 14 September 2009. She led the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova (PSRM) from 2016 to 2020 and was previously a member...

Mihai Ghimpu is a Moldovan politician who served as President of the Moldovan 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 (PL) from 1998 to 2018.

Marian Lupu is a Moldovan economist and politician who was the President of the Parliament of Moldova between 2010 and 2013. From this position he served as Acting President of Moldova from 2010 until 2012. He is currently the president of the party Respect Moldova Movement (MRM).

Nicolae Dabija was a writer, literary historian, and politician from the Republic of Moldova, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (from 2003) and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (from 2012).

Natalia Gavrilița is a Moldovan economist and politician who served as prime minister of Moldova from 2021 until her resignation in February 2023 after failure to get her reform package enacted.