Nicolae Ciornei (born 1892, Toceni, Cahul County - died 20th century) was a Bessarabian politician.

[1] In 1917 at the end of March, in Odessa, Nicolae Ciornei, along with Captain Emilian Catelli, established the Progressive Party.

Ciornei received from the organizing committee of the progressive Moldovan party the task of moving to all the headquarters and institutions of Odessa to explain to the Moldovan soldiers in their mother tongue the meaning of the events that took place and he immediately took action.

At the beginning of the summer of 1917 such committees multiply and even arose a movement of the Romanian Bessarabian soldiers.

Nicolae Ciornei was named approximately in the beginning of July in an extraordinary commission for the investigation of the riots in Orhei County, following some disorders caused by the deserters.