Notable People born in Tiraspol

• Efim Bershin - poet, essayist , novelist

• Alfred Gershfeld — Moldovan and American conductor, music teacher and composer

• Lev Goldenveyzer— a playwright, theater director , the head of the literary section of the USSR State Committee for Cinematography (1927-1937)

• Leonid Dekhtyar - Moldavian Soviet scientist and mechanical engineer , Doctor of Technical Sciences (1973 ) , Professor ( 1990) .

• Dmitriy (Samuil) Zeyliger   — the Soviet mathematician and engineer , professor of engineering at Kazan University

• Boris Kolker— ovetsky esperantolog , member of the Academy of Esperanto

• Aleksander Nemirovskiy- Russian historian specializing in ancient Rome and the Etruscan culture, educator, poet, novelist and translator 

• Mikhail Pavlotskiy— a Hero of the Soviet Union

• Mordkhe (Mote) Stolyar (Matias Stoliar)— Argentine Jewish journalist and editor ( in Yiddish )

• Efim Uchitel   — Soviet Russian operator and director of documentary films

• David Chapkis— St. Petersburg writer, broadcaster and scientist in the field of shipbuilding