Gheorghe Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu
Ghimpu in 1992
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office
10 March 1990 – 29 March 1994
Parliamentary groupPopular Front
ConstituencyCriuleni
Personal details
Born(1937-07-26)26 July 1937
Colonița, Kingdom of Romania (now Moldova)
Died13 November 2000(2000-11-13) (aged 63)
Chișinău, Moldova
Resting placeChișinău
Citizenship Moldova
 Romania
Political partyNew Historical Option (then known as Romanian National Party)
Other political
affiliations
Popular Front of Moldova
National Patriotic Front
SpouseZina Ghimpu
Children2
RelativesMihai Ghimpu (brother)
Dorin Chirtoacă (nephew)
Alma materT. G. Shevchenko University
Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
ProfessionProfessor
Physicist
ParentsIrina Ursu
Toader Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu (26 July 1937 – 13 November 2000) was a Moldovan politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union and then in Moldova.