Mihai Timofti (19 September 1948 – 10 November 2023) was a Moldovan theatre and film director, actor, multi-instrumentalist musician, professor, screenwriter, writer and composer.

At the Moscow Festival of the Popular Theatres in 1967 Mihai Timofti was awarded two gold medals for the leading part in the comedy "The Dreams and Troubles" and for the music written to this play.

In 1985, he took an external degree of the N. Rimsky – Korsakov Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State Conservatoire, the faculty of Director of Opera.

On 1 November he underwent surgery at Chișinău's Timofei Moșneaga Republican Clinical Hospital but experienced diffuse bleeding and fell into a coma.

[1] His death certificate listed various causes as toxic-septic shock, urogenic and pulmonary sepsis, left-sided pyonephrosis, and urolithiasis.