Victor Viorel Bologan (born December 14, 1971) is a chess grandmaster. On the July 2007 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2650, making him number 62 in the world and Moldova's best chess player. His major accomplishment has been winning the Dortmund Sparkassen 2003, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, and Peter Leko. In 2003 he won also the Aeroflot Open, one of the largest open tournaments with 150 grandmasters participating. He won the 2005 Canadian Open Chess Championship.