Grigore Vieru was a Moldovan poet,writer and unionist advocate,known for his poems and books for children. His poetry is characterized by vivid natural scenery,patriotism,as well as a venerated image of the sacred mother. Vieru wrote in the Romanian language. In 1993 he was elected a correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
Pantelimon "Pan" Halippa was a Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician. One of the most important promoters of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and of this province's union with Romania,he was president of Sfatul Țării,which voted union in 1918. He then occupied ministerial posts in several governments,following which he underwent political persecution at the hands of the Communist régime and was later incarcerated in Sighet prison.
Anton Crihan was a Bessarabian politician,lawyer,author,economist,professor and journalist. He was a member of Sfatul Țării (1917),adviser to the Secretary of State for Agriculture in the General Directorate of the Republic of Moldova (1917),deputy in the Parliament of Romania,adviser to the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains (1932–1933),professor at the Polytechnic University of Iasi and at the Faculty of Agronomy in Chisinau (1934–1940).
Nicolae Dabija was a writer,literary historian,and politician from the Republic of Moldova,honorary member of the Romanian Academy and corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
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.
Ghenadie Ciobanu is a composer and politician from the Republic of Moldova,who served as the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Moldova (1997-2001) and served as a deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova in the Party faction Liberal Democrats from Moldova between 2010 and 2014. He composed symphonies,written works for chamber ensembles (instrumental),choral creations,theater and film music,etc.
Andrei Eșanu is a historian,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.
Ștefan Ciobanu was a Romanian historian and academician,author of some important works about ancient Romanian literature,Romanian culture in Basarabia under Russian occupation,Bessarabian demography,fervent advocate of the introduction of the Romanian language in the schools of Bessarabia,vice-president of the Romanian Academy between 1944 and 1948. He served as Minister of Education (1917–1918) of the short-lived Moldavian Democratic Republic.
Lidia Istrati was a writer and politician from Moldova. She was born to Nicolae and Xenia and had a PhD in biology.
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.
The Democratic Forum of the Romanians of Moldova is a civic movement,which brings together over 120 NGOs,several leading public organizations of Moldova and a whole number of academicians,writers,journalists. In 2006,the organization claimed 100,000 members.
Petru Soltan was a Moldovan mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Petru Soltan was a member of the Mathematical Society of Moldova.
Tudor Cataraga was a sculptor from the Republic 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.
Mihai Balan is a diplomat from Moldova. 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. Bălan was the Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Moldova.
Samuil Rivinovici Lehtțir,also rendered as Lehțir,Lehtțâr,Lekhttsir,Lekhtser,and Lehitser,was Moldovan poet,critic,and literary theorist. Of Bessarabian Jewish origin,he rejected Romanian nationalism as a youth,and fled to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Returning to complete his studies at Cernăuți University in the Kingdom of Romania,but was regarded as a political suspect,and again escaped to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) in 1926—soon after that polity had been created within the Soviet Union. He was employed as a book publisher and journalist,emerging as an authority on literary matters. Lehtțir adopted Proletkult ideas about the need to destroy and rebuild cultural traditions;on such grounds,he and his colleague Iosif Vainberg came to deny that there was a Bessarabian literature that was worth preserving,and that Moldavian literary tradition could be built up from proletarian identity and Soviet patriotism. This sparked a special controversy within a larger debate about Romanian and Moldavian identity.
Dumitru Caracostea was a Romanian folklorist,literary historian and critic.
Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga was a Romanian comparatist and essayist. A native of the national capital Bucharest,she was educated at its main university,going on to become a professor there. Together with a focus on interdisciplinary studies,she was noted for devoting several studies to Mihai Eminescu. Meanwhile,Dumitrescu was a dignitary of the Romanian Communist Party. Following the Romanian Revolution,after several years spent in Rome,she retired to a monastery.
Leo Butnaru is a writer from Moldova and Romania. He holds a degree in journalism and philology from the University of Moldova (1972). He has worked in publishing,as editor and editor-in-chief,at magazines such as,Moldovan Youth,Literature and Art,and Moldova. His first poetry publication was a chapbook,Wing in Light (1976). In 1977,he became a member of the Writers Union of the Soviet Union. In the same year,he is removed from the staff of Moldoval Youth. He is a member of the Romanian Writers Union (1993). He is a founding member of the Moldovan PEN Center. From 1997 to 2005,he was president of the Chisinau branch of the Romanian Writers Union. He is on the board of the Romanian Writers Union.
