List of People's Artists of the Moldavian SSR

1949

• Shtirbu, Kirill Antonovich (1915-1997) - actor

1950

• Moiseev, Igor Alexandrovich (1906-2007) - choreographer, choreographer ^[1]

1952

• Apostolov, Methodius Maximovich (1915-2004) - actor ^[2]

1953

• Aranov, Shiko Beniaminovich (1905-1969) - conductor, composer
• Ureke, Evgeny Vasilievich (1917-2005) - actor, singer ^[3]
• Ceban, Tamara Savelievna (1914-1990) - singer, performer of Moldavian folk songs ^[4]

1955

• Mokanu, Spiridon Spiridonovich (1932-2007) - dancer ^[5]

1957

• Darienko, Domnikiya Timofeevna (1919-2010) - actress ^[6]

1960

• Kazimirova, Ekaterina Grigoryevna (1921-2012) - actress ^{[7] [8]}

1961

• Gershfeld, David Grigorievich (1911-2005) - composer, music teacher

1962

• Gruzin, Trifon Ivanovich (1912-1987) - actor ^[9]

1964

• Savitskaya, Valentina Savelyevna (born 1927) - opera singer

1966

• Andreichenko, Pavel Fedorovich (1931-2001) - theater and film actor ^[10]
• Botezat, Praskovya Andreevna (1922-2001) - opera singer
• Lunkevich, Sergey Alexandrovich (1934-1995) - composer, conductor

1967

• Alyoshina-Alexandrova, Tamara Grigoryevna (1928-1996) - opera singer ^[11]
• Baracci, Pyotr Nikolaevich (1929-2010) - actor ^[12]
• Biesu, Maria Lukyanovna (1935-2012) - Moldavian singer.
• Garshtya, Vera Alexandrovna (1927-2012) - choral conductor ^[13]
• Erofeeva, Lyudmila Vasilievna (1937-2003), opera singer ^[14]
• Kurbet, Vladimir Kozmovich (1930—2017) - choreographer ^[15]
• Sulak, Nikolai Vasilievich (1936-2003) - Moldavian singer.
• Tikhonov, Vladimir Petrovich (1935–2000) - ballet dancer

1973

• Shutova, Livia Vasilievna (born 1925) actress ^[16]

1974

• Volontir, Mihai Ermolaevich (1934—2015) - actor
• Kaftanat, Mikhail Ivanovich (1946-2014) - ballet dancer, ballet teacher, choreographer
• Kurin, Victor Nikolaevich (1934-2005) - opera singer (baritone)
• Potekhina Rozita Alekseevna - ballerina

1978

• Lazarev, Eduard Leonidovich (1935-2008) - composer ^[17]

1980

• Burkhart, Victor Samuilovich (1930-1981) - actor ^[18]
• Muntyan, Mikhail Ivanovich (born 1943) - singer ^[19]
• Raisov, Boris Isaakovich (1928-1985) - opera singer

1983

• Rotaru, Sofia Mikhailovna (born 1947) - pop singer ^[20]
• Strezeva, Svetlana Filippovna (born 1951) - opera singer

1984

• Doga, Evgeny Dmitrievich (born 1937) - composer ^[21]

1985

• Gurov, Leonid Simonovich (1910-1993) - composer, music teacher
• Milyutin, Boris Semenovich (1905-1993) - conductor

1988

• Samuel, Alexander Grigorievich (born 1950) - conductor
• Chepraga, Nadezhda Alekseevna (born 1952) - pop singer ^[22]

1989

• Apostle, Veniamin Gavrilovich (1938-2001) - director ^[23]

1990

• Surucanu, Ion Andreevich (born 1949) - singer

1991

• Verbetsky, Evgeny Nikolaevich (1936-2007) - clarinet player ^[24]
• Vode-Mokryak, Nina Georgievna (1937-2013) - Soviet and Moldavian theater and film actress
• Later, George (born 1951) - conductor and teacher

• Babkina, Martha - actress ^[25]
• Masalskaya, Nina Nikolaevna (1901-1989) - Soviet Moldavian theater actress
• Taran Igor Vasilievich - actor (b. 1947)