| Ovidiu Creangă | |
| Birth Date: | 14 February 1921 |
| Birth Place: | Vărzărești, Kingdom of Romania |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Ontario |
| Nationality: | Romanian |
| Spouse: | Laura (d. 2000) |
| Awards: | Order of Work Medal of Work |
Ovidiu Creangă (February 14, 1921 – December 4, 2017) was a Romanian activist and author.[1] He served as an official of the Ministry of Economy (Romania) and taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[2] He lived in Canada from 1982 until his death in late 2017.
Ovidiu Creangă was born on February 14, 1921, in Vărzăreşti, present-day Moldova. He attended high school in Bălți, where Eugen Coșeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Vadim Pirogan, Valentin Mândâcanu were his classmates[3] After Soviet occupation of 1940, he fled from Bessarabia and in 1944 from Cernăuți, where he attended university.[4] Then he graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Also, he taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[5] In the 1970s, Ovidiu Creangă was an official of the Ministry of Economy (Romania). In 1982, when he was 61, Ovidiu Creangă emigrated to Canada. He died in December 2017 at the age of 96.[6]
