Paul Gore (27 July 1875, in Chişinău – 8 December 1927) was a Bessarabian politician and historian, he wrote prose and publicist materials, he was the honorary member (1919) of the Romanian Academy, he was the president of the National Moldavian Party.

In 1905 he became a peace judge in Orgeyevsky Uyezd and in the same year he became the chairman of the editorial board of the Moldovan Society.

And being at this posture, in 1912, Paul Gore have asked publicly from the floor the introduction of the Romanian language in schools.

I do not insist that our national flag composed of three blue, yellow and red colored stripes to have these strips arranged vertically.

"To this extent, the heraldist Silviu Andrieș-Tabac considers Gore the moral author of the coat of arms and flag of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, mainly due to the fact that "Paul Gore had the real opportunity to influence the opinion of the revolutionary and public elite.

[...] Only a professional heraldist of his waist could find a formula to expresses in heraldic language the liberation of the Moldovan province [...] under the domination of Romanov emperors and, at the same time, he knew (was familiar) how the old coat of arms of the Principality of Moldova was looked like.

[7] Sever Zotta considered him a "noble without truffles, a proud but righteous noble, a wise and modest scholar, a good and merciful man, a sincere and faithful friend, a devout Christian and a mystical monarchist, a rare manifestation of the genius of our race and the last knight of Bessarabia"[8]