WNicolae N. Alexandri was a Bessarabian politician.
WAlla Nikolayevna Bayanova was a Russian Romance singer sometimes compared with Édith Piaf for her simple yet dramatic style of performance.
WSerafima Germanovna Birman was a Russian and Soviet actress, theatre director and writer. She was named People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1946.
WDimitrie Bogos was a Romanian politician, officer, jurist and publicist.
WPetru Cazacu was a doctor of medicine, historian, journalist and politician from Bessarabia.
WMaria Cebotari was a celebrated Bessarabian-born Romanian and Austrian soprano and actress, one of Germany's greatest opera and singing stars in the 1930s and 1940s.
WMarck Chirik, also known as Marc Laverne or simply MC, was a communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the International Communist Current.
WToma Ciorbă was a Bessarabian-born Romanian physician and hospital director.
WMiron Constantinescu was a Romanian communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party, as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist. Initially close to Communist Romania's leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, he became increasingly critical of the latter's Stalinist policies during the 1950s, and was sidelined together with Iosif Chișinevschi. Reinstated under Nicolae Ceauşescu, he became a member of the Romanian Academy.
WYitzhak Coren was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and the Alignment.
WNicolai Costenco was a writer from Moldova. He was managing editor of Viaţa Basarabiei (1934–1940) and was deported to Siberia în 1941.
WIon T. Costin was a Moldovan politician.
WWilliam 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.
WIzso G. Glickstein was a naturalized American cantor (hazzan). Glickstein was born on September 20, 1889 in Chișinău, Moldova and died on April 17, 1947 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was a fourth-generation, world-class chazzan and one of the "leading Jewish singers in America ranking with Cantor Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt and others of equal prominence." He served as Chief Cantor at multiple synagogues including Europe's largest and Leonard Bernstein's childhood synagogue in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He hosted a weekly radio program on Boston's WORL and was heard often on WNAC to popularize Hebrew music. Izso performed hundreds of concerts, was the President of the New England's Cantor's Association, and made multiple recordings of cantorial music.
WRudolph Hennig was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 to 1935 as a member of the United Farmers of Alberta.
WYevhen Holitsynsky was a Ukrainian diplomat. In 1918 he attempted to implement his idea of an independent Ukraine and went to Washington to obtain the US government's recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
WJulius Isserlis was a Russian pianist and composer.
WIra Jan is the pseudonym of the painter and writer Esther Yoselevitch Slepyan, although primarily known as Haim Nahman Bialik's mistress, she was also a member of the commune at Bezalel and among the founders of Gymnasia Rehavia.
WJoseph Joanovici was a French Jewish merchant of scrap metal who supplied both Nazi Germany and the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II.
WDavid Kessler was a prominent actor in the first great era of Yiddish theater. As a star Yiddish dramatic performer in New York City, he was the first leading man in Yiddish theater to dispense with incidental music.
WGrigory Ivanovich Kotovsky was an adventurist, Soviet military and political figure, and participant in the Russian Civil War. He made a career from being a gangster and bank robber to eventually becoming a Red Army commander and member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union.
WGrégoire Michonze (1902–1982) was a Russian-French painter, born in 1902 in Kishinev (Bessarabia), Russian Empire.
WLewis Milestone was a Russian-American film director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page, The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960), and received the directing credit for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production.
WVladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich was a right-wing politician in Imperial Russia, noted for his monarchist, ultra-nationalist, antisemitic and anticommunist views. Because of his restless behaviour, he was regarded as a loose cannon. At the end of 1916, he participated in the killing of Grigori Rasputin.
WZev Vilnay was an Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.
WIona Emmanuilovich Yakir was a Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II. He was an early and major military victim of the Great Purge, alongside Mikhail Tukhachevsky.