Ovidiu Creangă was born on February 14, 1921 in Vărzăreşti, present-day Moldova. He attended in Bălţi, where Eugen Coşeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Vadim Pirogan, Valentin Mândâcanu were his classmates After Soviet occupation of 1940, he fled from Bessarabia and in 1944 from Cernăuţi, where he attended university. Then he graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Also, he taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. In the 1970s, Ovidiu Creangă was an official of the Ministry of Economy (Romania). In 1982, when he was 64, Ovidiu Creangă emigrated to Canada. He died in December 2017 at the age of 96.