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Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Bulgarian monarchs

  • Kubrat
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....

  • Batbayan
  • Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparukh of Bulgaria
    Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

  • Tervel of Bulgaria
    Tervel of Bulgaria
    Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

  • Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy of Bulgaria
    Kormesiy was a ruler of Danubian Bulgaria in the first half of the 8th century. Western chronicles name Kormesiy "the third ruler over the Bulgarians", and he is sometimes considered the direct successor of Tervel....

  • Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar of Bulgaria
    Sevar was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans, which states that he belonged to the royal Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reigned 721–737...

  • Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh of Bulgaria
    Kormisosh was a ruler of Bulgaria during the 8th century.The Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers states that he belonged to the Ukil clan and ruled for 17 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Kormisosh would have reigned from 737 to 754...

  • Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh of Bulgaria
    Vinekh was ruler of Bulgaria in the mid-8th century.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Vinekh reigned for 7 years and was a member of the Uokil clan . According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Vinekh would have reigned 754–762...

  • Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets of Bulgaria
    Telets was the ruler of Bulgaria from 762 to 765.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Telets reigned for 3 years "instead of another", and he was a member of the Ugain clan. This is corroborated by the Byzantine sources, which indicate that Telets replaced the legitimate rulers of...

  • Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin of Bulgaria
    Sabin was the ruler of Bulgaria from 765 to 766.Some scholars think that Sabin was omitted from the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers because he was a Slav, but his name could indicate Latin or even Iranian origins. He was related by marriage to Kormisosh, who was either a father-in-law or a...

  • Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor of Bulgaria
    Umor was the ruler of Bulgaria in 766.According to the Namelist of Bulgarian Rulers, Umor reigned for only 40 days in 766 and belonged to the Ukil clan, which makes him a relative of the former rulers Vinekh and possibly Kormisosh. The Byzantine sources indicate that his predecessor Sabin...

  • Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu of Bulgaria
    Toktu was the ruler of Bulgaria 766–767.The Byzantine chronicler Patriarch Nikephoros records that Toktu was "a Bulgarian, and a brother of Bayan". Although this suggests that Bayan was a man of some importance, nothing more is definitely known about Toktu's basis of support...

  • Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan of Bulgaria
    Pagan was the ruler of Bulgaria 767–768.Pagan has been identified as a member of that faction of the Bulgarian aristocracy, which sought to establish peaceful relations with the Byzantine Empire...

  • Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig of Bulgaria
    Telerig was the ruler of Bulgaria 768–777.Although Telerig is first mentioned in the Byzantine sources in 774, he is considered the immediate successor of Pagan, who was murdered in 768...

  • Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam of Bulgaria
    Kardam was the ruler of Bulgaria .The name of Kardam is first encountered in the Byzantine sources in 791, when Emperor Constantine VI embarked on an expedition against Bulgaria, in retaliation for Bulgarian incursions in the Struma valley since 789. Kardam pre-empted the Byzantine invasion and...

  • Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum of Bulgaria
    Krum the Horrible was Khan of Bulgaria, from after 796, but before 803, to 814 AD. During his reign the Bulgarian territory doubled in size, spreading from the middle Danube to the Dnieper and from Odrin to the Tatra Mountains. His able and energetic rule brought law and order to Bulgaria and...

  • Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag of Bulgaria
    Omurtag was a Great Khan of Bulgaria from 814 to 831. He is known as "the Builder".In the very beginning of his reign he signed a 30-year peace treaty with the neighboring Eastern Roman Empire which remained in force to the end of his life...

  • Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir of Bulgaria
    Malamir was the ruler of Bulgaria 831–836.Malamir was a son of Omurtag and a grandson of Krum. His name may be of Slavic origin, and is claimed to be the first Bulgar khan to possess a Slavic name; however another theory is that it was an Iranian name, as there is an Iranian city named Malamir...

  • Presian of Bulgaria
  • Boris I Michael
  • Simeon the Great
  • Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I of Bulgaria
    Peter I was emperor of Bulgaria from 27 May 927 to 969.-Early reign:Peter I was the son of Simeon I of Bulgaria by his second marriage to Maria Sursuvul, the sister of George Sursuvul. Peter had been born early in the 10th century, but it appears that his maternal uncle was very influential at...

  • Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II of Bulgaria
    Boris II was emperor of Bulgaria from 969 to 977 .-Reign:Boris II was the eldest surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria and Maria Lakapena, a granddaughter of Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos of Byzantium...

  • Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman of Bulgaria
    Roman was emperor of Bulgaria from 977 to 997 .-Reign:Roman was the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria by his marriage with Maria Lakapene, the granddaughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos I Lakapenos...

  • Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuil of Bulgaria
    Samuel was the Emperor of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 980 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of Bulgaria, and co-ruled with him, as Roman bestowed upon him the command of the army and the effective royal...

  • Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria
    Gavril Radomir , normally rendered as Gabriel Radomir in English and Gavriil Romanos in Greek, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuel of Bulgaria. During his father's reign, his cousin Ivan Vladislav and Ivan's entire...

  • Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
    Ivan Vladislav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from August or September 1015 to February 1018. The year of his birth is unknown, but he was born at least a decade before 987, but probably not much earlier than that....

  • Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II of Bulgaria
    Presian II was emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1018. The year of his birth may have been 996/997; he may have died in exile in 1060/1061...

  • Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
  • Constantin Bodin (Peter (III))
  • Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1189–1196. The year of his birth is unknown.-Life:...

  • Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV of Bulgaria
    Peter IV ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1185–1197. Together with his brother Asen he managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire after nearly 170 years of Byzantine domination.-Name:...

  • Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan of Bulgaria
    Kaloyan the Romanslayer , Ivan II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1197-1207. He is the third and youngest brother of Peter IV and Ivan Asen I who managed to restore the Bulgarian Empire...

  • Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril of Bulgaria
    Boril reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1207 to 1218. He was the son of an unnamed sister of his predecessor Kaloyan.-Biography:It is unclear whether Boril was party to the murder of Kaloyan in front of the walls of Thessalonica in 1207, but Kaloyan's intended heirs, his nephews Ivan Asen and...

  • Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
    -Early rule:He was a son of Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Elena . Elena, who survived until after 1235, is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between various descendants...

  • Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman I of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen I , reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. Kaliman Asen I was the son of Ivan Asen II and Anna Maria of Hungary. His maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania....

  • Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen I of Bulgaria
    Michael II Asen of Bulgaria , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1246 to 1256. He was the son of Ivan Asen II and his third wife Irene Komnene of Epirus , daughter of Theodore I Ducas of the Despotate of Epirus...

  • Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman II of Bulgaria
    Kaliman Asen II , or commonly, but less accurately Koloman Asen II, ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for a short time in 1256. The year of his birth is unknown....

  • Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    Mitso Asen of Bulgaria
    -Reign:Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to Maria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus. The dates of his birth and death are unknown...

  • Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
    Constantine I , which includes the shortened form of the name of his father as a patronymic), ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1257 to 1277....

  • Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II of Bulgaria
    Michael Asen II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1277 to 1279. Michael Asen II was the only known son of...

  • Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo of Bulgaria
    Ivaylo, also spelled Ivailo, , nicknamed Bardokva or Lakhanas in Greek, was a rebel leader and emperor of Bulgaria. In 1277, he spearheaded a peasant uprising, and forced the nobles to accept him as emperor...

  • Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria
    Ivan Asen III , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...

  • George I of Bulgaria
    George I of Bulgaria
    George Terter I ruled as emperor of Bulgaria 1280-1292. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.The reign of George Terter I represents a continuation of Bulgaria's precipitous decline during the second half of the 13th century...

  • Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets of Bulgaria
    Smilets reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1292 to 1298. The date of his birth is unknown.Although Smilec is credited with being descended "from the noblest family of the Bulgarians", his antecedents are completely unknown...

  • Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka of Bulgaria
    Chaka reigned as emperor of Bulgaria from 1299 to 1300. The date of his birth is unknown.Chaka was the son of the Mongol leader Nogai Khan by a wife named Alaka. Sometime after 1285 Chaka married an unnamed daughter of George Terter I of Bulgaria...

  • Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav of Bulgaria
    Theodore Svetoslav ruled as emperor of Bulgaria from 1300 to 1322. The date of his birth is unknown. He was a wise and capable ruler who brought stability and relative prosperity to the Bulgarian Empire after two decades of constant Mongol intervention in the internal issues of the Empire...

  • George II of Bulgaria
    George II of Bulgaria
    George Terter II reigned as emperor of Bulgaria 1321–1322. The date of his birth is unknown, but he was born not long before 1307.George Terter II was the son of Theodore Svetoslav and Euphrosyne, and was named after his paternal grandfather George Terter I. It is possible that he was associated...

  • Michael III Shishman of Bulgaria
  • Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
    Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman...

  • Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
    Ivan Alexander , also known as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, during the Second Bulgarian Empire. The date of his birth is unknown. He died on February 17, 1371. The long reign of Ivan Alexander is considered a transitional period in Bulgarian medieval history...

  • Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
    Ivan Shishman ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 July 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. His indecisive and inconsistent policy did little to prevent the fall of his country under Ottoman rule. In 1393 the Ottoman...

  • Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria
    Ivan Sratsimir or Ivan Stratsimir was emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1356 to 1396. He was born in 1324 or 1325, and he died in or after 1397. Despite being the eldest surviving son of Ivan Alexander, Ivan Sratsimir was disinherited in favour of his half-brother Ivan Shishman and proclaimed...

  • Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II of Bulgaria
    Constantine II , ruled as emperor of Bulgaria in Vidin from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422...

  • Alexander I of Bulgaria
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
    Ferdinand , born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar...

  • Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III of Bulgaria
    Boris III the Unifier, Tsar of Bulgaria , originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver , son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following the defeat of the Kingdom of Bulgaria during World War I...

  • Simeon II of Bulgaria

Directors

  • Christo Christov
    Christo Christov
    Christo Christov was a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 19 films between 1969 and 1997. His 1976 film Cyclops was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival. Five years later, his film The Truck was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film...

  • Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Dudow
    Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany....

  • Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov
    Tonislav Hristov was born on 18 December 1978 in Vratza, Bulgaria. He moved to Finland at 2001. Five years ago he started first courses in film making and began making his own movies...

  • Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov
    Lyudmil Kirkov was a Bulgarian film director and actor.He directed some 15 films between 1961 and 1987, including Orkestar bez ime in 1981, for which he was named Best Director by the Union of Bulgarian Film Artists; and Ravnovesie, winner of the Silver Prize at the 1983 Moscow International Film...

  • Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov
    Nikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...

  • Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Kovachev
    Nikola Dimitrov Kovachev was a Bulgarian football player and manager.Kovachev played for Bulgaria at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.- References :...

  • Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev
    Vulo Radev was a Bulgarian film director.Radev was born in Lesidren. His famous works include Osadeni Dushi , Kradetzat Na Praskovi , and Chernite Angeli ....

  • Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev
    Petar Vasilev is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for FC Sportist Svoge as a defender.- External links :*...

  • Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova
    Binka Zhelyazkova , was a Bulgarian film director who made films between the late 1950s and the 1990s. She was the first Bulgarian woman to direct a feature film and one of the few women worldwide to direct feature films in the 1950s.Zhelyazkova graduated from the Sofia Theatre Institute in 1956...


Actors and actresses

See also List of Bulgarian actors and actresses

  • Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Karamitev
    Apostol Milev Karamitev was a Bulgarian actor, popular throughout the 1960s. He finished acting under the guidance of B. Danovski. Later he specialized in Moscow, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw. His debut was in the movie "Utro nad rodinata" in 1951...

  • Moni Moshonov
    Moni Moshonov
    -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...

     (born 1951), Bulgarian-born Israeli actor and comedian
  • Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Rahal
    Bashar Mounzer Rahal is a Bulgarian actor well known for his role in the TV show "It Can't Be" equivalent of "'Saturday Night Live'"...

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo
    Georgi Georgiev-Gogo is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his voice-over roles in famous television series like JAG, Ally McBeal, That '70s Show, Farscape, Sliders, Dharma & Greg and CSI: NY....

  • George Baker
    George Baker (actor)
    George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...

  • Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Georgiev-Getz
    Georgi Ivanov Georgiev, best known as Georgi Georgiev-Getz , was a Bulgarian actor. He was born on 4 October 1926 in the village of Razpopovtsi, now a district of the town of Elena. Plays in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre all the time since 1953 up to his death...

  • Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Kaloyanchev
    Georgi Todorov Kaloyanchev is a Bulgarian actor. He was born in the city of Burgas on January 13 1925. He studied in the former theatrical school in Sofia. Immediately after graduating he started playing in the Ivan Vazov National Theatre...

  • Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Partsalev
    Georgi Ivanov Partsalev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor mainly known for his roles in comedies.Born in Levski, Pleven Province in 1925, Partsalev finished high school in Pleven and studied medicine from Sofia University. In 1956, he was employed by the Satirical Theatre in Sofia. His first...

  • Gloria Ivanova
  • Grigor Vachkov
  • Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Shopov
    Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, is a famous Bulgarian actor as well.He is most noted for his portrayal of Pontius Pilate in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. He has become one of Bulgaria's most successful actors, making his debut in 1981 with...

  • Itzhak Fintzi
  • Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov
    Kamen Vodenicharov is a famous Bulgarian actor, showman, singer, and businessman. He hosted Survivor BG.Vodenicharov graduated from NATFIZ specializing in Puppetry.- References :*...

  • Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva
    Katya Paskaleva was a Bulgarian actress, most famous for her role in Koziyat rog .Katya Paskaleva was born in Petrich. In 1967 she graduated from VITIS "Krastyo Sarafov", where Metodi Andonov taught her acting. She is often considered the epitome of Bulgarian cinematography.Paskaleva died from...

  • Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Gospodinov
    Kiril Ivanov Gospodinov was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. His acting created one of the eminent characters in the Bulgarian film art.-Biography and Career:Gospodinov was born on 24 May 1934 in Grozdyovo village, Varna Province...

  • Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev
    Kosta Tsonev, is a Bulgarian actor of Greek heritage starring in theatre, TV and cinema. He was born on 10 June 1929 in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. He studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. He has been married three times: twice to Anahid Tacheva and then to his present wife...

  • Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov
    Lyubomir Neikov is a famous Bulgarian comedian and actor born on the 7th of February 1972 in Cherven Briag. He is well known for his work on television and in the theatre. He graduated from the Technical School of...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova
    Nevena Kokanova was a Bulgarian film actress. She was known as the "first lady of Bulgarian cinema." Her mother was from a well-known Austrian aristocratic family, and her father was a political prisoner....

  • Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev
    Nikolay Binev was a Bulgarian theater and film actor. During most of his career he was the soul and history of the Mladezhki Theater, Sofia and remained devoted to it until the end of his life.In 2006, in his honor, the theater was named after him....

  • Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev
    Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...

  • Petar Slabakov
  • Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski
    Stanislav Ianevski is a Bulgarian actor, known for playing Viktor Krum in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Ianevski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria and has lived in England and Israel. While attending Mill Hill School in the United Kingdom, Ianevski had no particular acting...

  • Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Danailov
    Stefan Lambov Danailov is a Bulgarian actor and former Minister of Culture of Bulgaria .The first film Danailov has taken part was "The Traces Remain" being a child. At that time he did not want to be an actor. However, later in 1966 he graduated VITIZ...

  • Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Mutafova
    Stoyanka Konstantinova Mutafova is a Bulgarian actress. She read philology at the University of Sofia "Kliment Ohridski". Later she studied acting in Bulgaria and the Prague. From 1949 until 1956, she acted in multiple plays in the national "Ivan Vazov" theatre...

  • Todor Kolev
  • Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva
    Victoria Koleva is a leading contemporary Bulgarian actress. She has over 80 roles in major theatre productions. In 2004 she was awarded Icarus for Best Leading Actress for the role of Kostanda in Mother-in-Law by Anton Strashimirov...


Authors

  • Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov
    Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

  • Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova
    Alexenia Dimitrova is a Bulgarian journalist and author with more than 21 years of experience. She works in the second largest daily in Bulgaria [24 Hours ]. Her favorite topics are secret archives of the Cold War era, shadow affairs and corruption, money laundering, suspicious ownership and...

  • Angel Karaliychev
  • Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov
    Anton Strashimirov was a Bulgarian author....

  • Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev
    Assen Bossev was a prominent Bulgarian author of children's literature, as well as a translator from Russian....

  • Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Dalchev
    Atanas Hristov Dalchev was a Bulgarian poet, critic and translator. He is an author of poetry that brightly touches some philosophical problems. He translates poetry and fiction from French, Spanish, English, German and Russian authors...

  • Chernorizetz Hrabar
  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Clement of Ohrid
    Clement of Ohrid
    Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

  • Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav
    Constantine of Preslav was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have...

  • Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov
    Dimcho Debelyanov was a Bulgarian poet and author whose death in the First World War cut off his promising literary career. Born to a prosperous family in Koprivshtitsa, Bulgaria, he experienced hardship upon the death of his father in 1896, which necessitated the family moving to Plovdiv, and...

  • Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Dimov
    Dimitar Todorov Dimov was a Bulgarian dramatist, novelist, and veterinary surgeon.Born in Lovech, he is best known for his best-selling novel Tobacco , which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco, directed by Nikola Korabov...

  • Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev
    Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...

  • Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Chintulov
    Dobri Petrov Chintulov was a Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer of the Bulgarian National Revival period.Born in the town of Sliven in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the Greek school in his hometown...

  • Dobri Voinikov
  • Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe
    Dora Gabe was а Bulgarian poetess. She published poetry for adults and children as well as travel books, short stories and essays.Gabe was born in the village of Dabovik near Dobrich to the family of Peter Gabe, a Russian immigrant. She studied natural science at the University of Sofia, French...

  • Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev
    Edvin Sugarev is a Bulgarian poet and politician. He was born in 1953 in Sofia and graduated from Sofia University in 1979. He was one of the founders of the first democratic movement in Bulgaria, "Ecoglasnost" and later appointed ambassador to India and Mongolia.Edvin Sugarev was elected to the...

  • Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin
    Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

  • Elisaveta Bagryana
  • Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev
    Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev , a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer....

  • Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Parlichev
    Grigor Stavrev Parlichev was a Bulgarian writer and translator. He was born January 18, 1830 in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town January 25, 1893...

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

  • Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski
    Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...

  • Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov
    Ivailo Petrov was a Bulgarian writer, who authored a number of short stories. He is one of the greatest writers in Bulgarian literature...

  • Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Vazov
    Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

  • John Exarch
    John Exarch
    John Exarch was a medieval Bulgarian scholar, writer and translator, one of the most important men of letters working at the Preslav Literary School at the end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century. Evidence about his life is scarce but his literary legacy suggests an excellent...

  • Julian Popov
    Julian Popov
    Julian Popov is a Bulgarian-British writer and journalist. He is the author of the book "English Bulgaria or Switzerland in the Balkans" and the novel "Island of Mists" and of many articles on European integration, low carbon economy and international relations for the Bulgarian, British ,...

  • Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Shapkarev
    Kuzman Anastasov Shapkarev, , was a Bulgarian folklorist, ethnographer and scientist from Macedonia, author of textbooks and ethnographic studies and a significant figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.- Biography :Kuzman...

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Miladinov Brothers
    Miladinov Brothers
    The Miladinov Brothers , Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov , were Bulgarian poets and folklorists from Macedonia, authors of an important collection of folk songs, Bulgarian Folk Songs...

  • Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov
    Nedyalko Yordanov is a famous Bulgarian poet, playwright, and publicist.-External links:...

  • Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Vaptsarov
    Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he ever published only one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets...

  • Nikolai Haitov
  • Paisiy Hilendarski
  • Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov
    Pavel Vezhinov , born Nikola Delchev Gugov , was a Bulgarian science fiction writer.He was one of the very first Bulgarian science fiction authors, writing many books, articles and movie scripts. Vezhinov is perhaps best known for his 1977 novel Barierata , written after the death of his first wife...

  • Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Slaveykov
    Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....

  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

  • Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Slaveykov
    Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...

  • Petya Dubarova
    Petya Dubarova
    Petya Stoykova Dubarova was a Bulgarian poet. She was born and lived in the seaside town of Burgas. Dubarova published poems in youth newspapers and magazines such as: Septemvriyche, Rodna Rech, and Mladezh .Dubarova's poems have a style of certain frivolity, full of pastel colours and romanticism...

  • Peyo Yavorov
  • Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin
    Radoy Ralin , born Dimitar Stoyanov , was a famous Bulgarian dissident, poet, and satirist.After the downfall of the Communist regime, he was urged to run for Parliament, but adamantly refused....

  • Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek
    Ran Bosilek , born Gencho Stanchev Negentsov , was a famous Bulgarian author of children's books. Three years before his death, in 1955, he translated Astrid Lindgren's children's book "Karlsson-on-the-Roof" into Bulgarian.-References:*...

  • Sofronii Vrachanski
  • Stanislav Stratiev
    Stanislav Stratiev
    -Biography:Stanislav Stratiev was a Bulgarian playwright, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as a journalist while studying for an MA in Literature at Sofia University...

  • Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov
    Stefan Kisyov is a novelist, journalist, playwright and short story writer. Kisyov was born in Stara Zagora in 1963. He studied at Sofia and Plovdiv universities, and also at the Sorbonne in Paris...

  • Stefan Tzanev
  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov
    Valeri Petrov , pseudonym of Valeri Nisim Mevorah is a popular Bulgarian poet, screenplay writer, playwright and translator of paternal Jewish origin....

  • Vasil Drumev
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov
    Yordan Radichkov was a famous Bulgarian writer and playwright. Some literary critics state that he is the most significant figure in Bulgarian literature in the last third of the 20th century...

  • Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov
    Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

  • Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov
    Zahari Stoyanov , born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev , was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian. A participant in the April Uprising of 1876, he became its first historiographer with his book Memoirs of the Bulgarian Uprisings...


Composers

See also List of Bulgarian composers

  • Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska
    Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska is a composer, pianist and musical pedagogue.In 2007 she received the prestigious commission of the Cultural Year 2007 in Luxembourg and the Greater Region for the composition of "Gladius" for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble.The Cultural Commission and Madam...

  • Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol
    Alexandra Fol in Sofia, Bulgaria is a Bulgarian-Canadian composer who resides in Montreal, Canada.Fol has composed more than 40 works in different mediums, which have been performed by ensembles such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, Ossia New Music, the New Fromm players,...

  • Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean
    Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean is a Bulgarian harpist and composer.-Biography:Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean was born in Sofia. She studied with the Italian Professor and Harpist Liana Pasquali and continued her education in the USA with the pre-eminent Harpist and Professor Susann McDonald, at Indiana...

  • Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov
    Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...

  • Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov
    Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

  • Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova
    Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.-Life:Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old...

  • Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov
    Emanuil Manolov was a Bulgarian composer.Born at Gabrovo, Manolov is thought to be one of the founders of the Bulgarian professional musical culture. He composed the first Bulgarian opera "Siromahkinia" based on the work of Ivan Vazov with the same title, consisting of two parts...

  • Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev
    Filip Kutev was a Bulgarian composer and founder of the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir. He is widely considered "the father of Bulgarian choir and folk music". Kutev also created and conducted the Bulgarian National Ensemble & Choir in 1951.He was born in Aitos, Burgas Province....

  • Georgi Minchev
    Georgi Minchev
    -Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...

  • Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev
    Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...

  • Ivo Papasov
  • John Kukuzelis
    John Kukuzelis
    Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

  • Marin Goleminov
    Marin Goleminov
    Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...

  • Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov
    Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

  • Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev
    Milcho Leviev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist.Milcho Leviev graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov...

  • Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov
    Nikola Atanasov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a politician from the eastern part of Macedonia.-Biography:Nikola Atanasov was born to a poor family in the village of Fotovishta, today known as Ognyanovo in Garmen Municipality, then part of the Ottoman Empire. He won a scholarship and finished...

  • Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev
    Nikolo Kotzev is a Bulgarian guitarist, violinist, song writer and producer, perhaps most famous for his 2001 rock opera Nostradamus and his band Brazen Abbot.- Biography :...

  • Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Vladigerov
    Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....

  • Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov
    Petar Krumov is a composer, arranger and conductor born on 6 August 1934 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.He studied choral conducting with Professor Georgi Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music , from which he graduated in 1957...

  • Petko Stainov
  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov
    Stefan Popov is a cellist who holds both Bulgarian and British nationality. He started to learn the cello at the age of 12 and, having won a scholarship, continued his training at the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Sviatoslav Knushevitsky and Mstislav Rostropovich from 1961 to 1966...

  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...


Singers and musicians

See also List of Bulgarian musicians and singers

  • Alexis Weissenberg
    Alexis Weissenberg
    -Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

  • Andrea
    Andrea
    Andrea is a given name common in many parts of the world:* In Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, Scandinavian languages and Spanish, Andrea is used as a woman's name, as the feminine form of Andrew, Andreas, András, Andrés or Andre.* In Italy and Albania, Andrea is quite...

  • Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva
    Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.-Biography:-Ph.D:-As a...

  • Azis
    Azis
    Azis is a Bulgarian Romani chalga singer known for, among other things, his atypical gender expression and his flamboyant persona....

  • Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff
    Boris Christoff was a Bulgarian opera singer...

  • Desi Slava
    Desi Slava
    Desislava Ivanova Doneva , better known as Desi Slava is a Bulgarian singer of pop-folk and pop music. Desi Slava is considered to be one of the greatest voices of contemporary Bulgarian music, being able to perform in different styles, from jazz to rock and pop-folk.Slava had a son in 2000, who...

  • Elena Nicolai
    Elena Nicolai
    Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...

  • Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov
    Emil Dimitrov was a popular Bulgarian singer. He made his debut in 1960 and recorded about 30 albums altogether. In the 60s Lili Ivanova and Emil Dimitrov were the most popular singers of modern songs...

  • Gena Dimitrova
  • Ivo Papasov
  • Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov
    Kiril Marichkov in Sofia is a Bulgarian rock musician.Marichkov was born in Sofia and played piano, clarinet, bass-guitar and guitar since young age...

  • Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova
    Lili Ivanova is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian singer.-Discography:Lili Ivanova has released 65 albums Lili Ivanova (born April 24, 1939 in Kubrat) is a popular Bulgarian...

  • Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch
    Ljuba Welitsch was a celebrated Bulgarian, later Austrian, operatic soprano.She studied singing at Sofia Conservatory with professor Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin. After specializing in Vienna, she first appeared in Sofia in 1936...

  • Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla Diakovska
    Ludmilla "Lucy" Diakovska is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, music producer, dancer, stage actress and television personality, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

  • Marius Kurkinski
    Marius Kurkinski
    Ivaylo Stoyanov , better known as Marius Kurkinski , is a Bulgarian actor, director, film writer and pop singer...

  • Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo
    Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....

  • Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov
    Nayden Todorov is a Bulgarian conductor.- Positions :*Plovdiv Youth Orchestra *Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra *Sofia Festival Orchestra...

  • Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva
    Neva Krysteva , born on August 2, 1946 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is the most notable Bulgarian organist and also professor of music, pedagogue and composer. She was graduated in Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, majoring in organ and musicology. She also studied in Prague and Zürich with Prof....

  • Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov
    Nicolai Ghiaurov was a Bulgarian opera singer and one of the most famous bass singers of the postwar period. He was admired for his powerful, sumptuous voice, and was particularly associated with roles of Verdi.Ghiaurov married the Italian soprano Mirella Freni in 1978...

  • Nikola Giuzelev
  • Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska
    Raina Kabaivanska is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lyrico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles....

  • Ralitsa Tcholakova
    Ralitsa Tcholakova
    -Early life:Tcholakova obtained a Master's degree from the State Academy of Music in Bulgaria, and a Diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. She has been a Long Term Artist in Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts...

  • Slavi Trifonov
  • Spens
  • Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev
    Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian singer, composer, theatre and cinema actor.- Biography :Stefan Valdobrev was born in Stara Zagora. In 1993 he graduated Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in the acting class of professor Krikor Azaryan and Todor Kolev...

  • Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich
    Svetla Protich , born on July 24, 1939 in Sofia, is a notable Bulgarian classical pianist and professor of music.-Biography:Svetla Protich started taking piano lessons at the age of 5 under prof. Dimitar Nenov, and performed her first solo-recital when she was only 8 years old...

  • Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev
    Svilen Noev is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, best known for being the bandleader of Ostava. His eclectic, deeply personal work shows the influence of various types of rock'n'roll music - the British indie rock scene, the Seattle grunge scene, the American rockabilly of the 50s, to name a few...

  • Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov
    Theodosii Spassov is a Bulgarian jazz musician who plays kaval.*birth date:4 March 1961*musical training:The Music School in Kotel andThe Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv.*Awards:The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, 1994...

  • Valya Balkanska
    Valya Balkanska
    Valya Mladenova Balkanska is a Bulgarian folk music singer from the Rhodope Mountains known locally for her wide repertoire of Balkan folksong, but in the West mainly for singing the song "Izlel e Delyu Haydutin", part of the Voyager Golden Record selection of music included in the two Voyager...

  • Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naidenov
    Vassil Naydenov is a Bulgarian singer-songwriter, who was popular in his native country as well within the Eastern bloc during the late 1970s and 1980s. To date, he remains one of the most popular Bulgarian performers....

  • Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova
    Vesselina Kasarova is a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano opera singer.- Early life and education :Vesselina Kasarova was born in the central Bulgarian town of Stara Zagora. Under the communist regime she studied Russian as a second language and had an early start in music education...

  • Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yildiz Ibrahimova
    Yıldız İbrahimova is a Bulgarian singer of Turkish ancestry. She is one of the most popular jazz singers in Europe. Besides jazz she has also recorded Bulgarian, Turkish, Gypsy and Russian folk songs. Yildiz Ibrahimova has participated in tours in over 40 countries in Europe, North America, Asia,...

  • Yoan Kukuzel

Painters

  • Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Obreshkov
    Bencho Yordanov Obreshkov was a renowned Bulgarian painter.He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 -...

  • Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev
    Boris Georgiev is an amateur boxer from Bulgaria who won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the Light Welterweight class.- Career :...

  • Christo Yavashev - Christo
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

  • Chudomir
    Chudomir
    Chudomir , born Dimitar Hristov Chorbadjiev , was a Bulgarian writer and painter.He is famous for his short stories, such as "I'm not One of Them" and "Locals" , satirizing the human weaknesses and political vices of his time.-Biography:He was born in village Turia on March 25, 1890 and died...

  • Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov
    Dechko Uzunov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87....

  • Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Mehandjiysky
    Dimitre Manassiev Mehandjiysky , is a Bulgarian painter and designer. He is considered one of the pillars of the 20th century Bulgarian environmental design...

  • Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova
    Ekaterina Savova-Nenova was a Bulgarian painter, married to Ivan Nenov, and an art teacher at the Institute for Teachers of Children in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was born November 13, 1901, in Sofia...

  • George Papazov
    George Papazov
    George Papazov was a Bulgarian painter and writer. He became prominent in Paris, worked and died in France...

  • Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich
    Hristofor Zhefarovich was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of Pan-Slavism.- Biography :Born at the end of the 17th century,...

  • Iliya Beshkov
  • Ivan Markvichka
  • Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov
    Ivan Nenov is a Bulgarian painter born in Kyustendil . Husband of Ekaterina Savova-Nenova.He was member of the Bulgarian Academy of Fine Arts....

  • Jules Pascin
  • Keratza Vissulceva
    Keratza Vissulceva
    Keraca Visulčeva was a Macedonian and Bulgarian artist.-Makedonia denes 05/06 2003:According to UNESCO commissioner, exhibition curator and art critic Sonja Abadzieva, Keratza is “the first academic lady in the modern Macedonian painting, who rhythmically followed the Macedonian painting doyens,...

  • Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Shtarkelov
    Konstantin Georgiev Shtarkelov was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Sofia and died in Sofia.Revealed the poetics of Bulgarian mountains: Mt Rila, Mt Vitosha, the Rhodope Mountains....

  • Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Avramov
    Nikola Vasilev Avramov was a Bulgarian painter.He was born on May 21 1897 in Yambol and died on June 15 1945 in Sofia....

  • Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov
    Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.Marinov was born in the town of Targovishte in 1879. His interest in painting began in the high school. After that he continued his education in Academy of Arts in Turin, Italy where some of his teachers were Andrea Tavernier and...

  • Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev
    Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of naïve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....

  • Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova
    Silvia Dimitrova in Pleven) is an icon painter. She won a place at the prestigious School of Applied Arts at Troyan at the age of 13. She graduated in 1989...

  • Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov - Maistora
    Vladimir Dimitrov — Maystora , was a Bulgarian painter, draughtsman and teacher. He is considered one of the most talented 20th century Bulgarian painters and probably the most remarkable stylist in Bulgarian painting in the post-Russo-Turkish War era...

  • Yaroslav Veshin
  • Zahariy Zograf
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
    Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian painter. He is known for his portraits and landscapes, depicting mainly the Old Town of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....


Architects

  • Andrey Damyanov
  • Kolyu Ficheto
    Kolyu Ficheto
    Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

  • Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Fingov
    Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture...

  • Naum Torbov
    Naum Torbov
    -Biography:Torbov was born on 18 November 1880 in Gopesh village near Bitola in the Ottoman region of Macedonia. His family emigrated to the Principality of Bulgaria and settled in the town of Oryahovo. Naum enrolled in architecture at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Romania, and he...


Politicians

  • Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Atanasov
    Georgi Ivanov Atanasov was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party who served as Prime Minister from 1986-1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council, joining Petar Mladenov in leading the opposition...

  • Prince Alexander of Battenberg
  • Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Bonev
    Bogomil Angelov Bonev is a Bulgarian politician, Minister of Interior of Bulgaria between 1997-1999.- Early years and police career:...

  • Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Borisov
    Boyko Metodiev Borisov is a Bulgarian politician who has been Prime Minister of Bulgaria since July 2009. Previously he was Mayor of Sofia from 8 November 2005 until his election as Prime Minister....

  • Todor Burmov
    Todor Burmov
    Todor Stoyanov Burmov was a leading Bulgarian Conservative Party politician and the first Prime Minister of an independent Bulgaria....

  • Vulko Chervenkov
    Vulko Chervenkov
    -Biography:Chervenkov was born in Zlatitsa, Bulgaria. He became a member of the Communist Party in 1919 and participated in communist youth group activities and newspaper editing. He took part in the failed 1923 September Uprising and was sentenced to death, but was allowed to emigrate to the...

  • Filip Dimitrov
    Filip Dimitrov
    Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria for the short period 1991-1992, MP in the 36th , 37th and the 40th National Assembly, and MEP from January 2007 to May 2007....

  • Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov
    Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

  • Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Dimitrov
    Konstantin Stefanov Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and a Member of the European Parliament until 2007. Dimitrov is a member of the Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria party, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria...

  • Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Dimitrova-Moser
    Anastasia Georgieva Dimitrova-Moser is a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.Dimitrova was born on 30 June 1937 in Sofia as the daughter of agrarian politician G. M. Dimitrov...

  • Kimon Georgiev
    Kimon Georgiev
    Colonel General Kimon Georgiev Stoyanov was a Bulgarian general and prime minister.Born at Pazardzhik, Kimon Georgiev graduated from the Sofia military academy in 1902. He participated in the Balkan Wars as a company commander and in the First World War as a commander of a battalion. In 1916 he...

  • Lyubcho Georgievski
  • Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Indzhova
    Reneta Ivanova Indzhova is Bulgarian politician and manager. Between October 1994 and January 1995 she served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, the first woman in Bulgaria and still the only one to date to hold this office.- Biography :...

  • Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Kolarov
    Vasil Petrov Kolarov was a Bulgarian communist political leader and leading functionary in the Communist International.-Early years:Kolarov was born in Shumen, Bulgaria on 16 July 1877, the son of a shoemaker...

  • Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Kostov
    Ivan Yordanov Kostov was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from May 1997 to July 2001 and leader of the Union of Democratic Forces between December 1994 and July 2001....

  • Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Lukanov
    Andrey Karlov Lukanov was a Bulgarian political figure.-Biography:Lukanov was born in Moscow, USSR, in the family of Karlo Lukanov, , a Bulgarian communist emigre....

  • Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Mihailova
    Nadezhda Nejnski, better known as Nadezhda Nikolova Michailova is Bulgarian politician, Minister of Foreign affairs , head of Union of Democratic Forces , Member of Parliament , European MP since 2009.-External links:*...

  • Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Parvanov
    Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

  • Solomon Pasi
  • Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov
    Vasil Radoslavov was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician who twice served as Prime Minister. He was Premier of the country throughout most of World War I....

  • Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
    Simeon Borisov of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Tsar Simeon II or Simeon II of Bulgaria is an important political and royal figure in Bulgaria...

  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

  • Volen Siderov
    Volen Siderov
    Volen Nikolov Siderov is a Bulgarian politician and chairman of the nationalist party Attack. He is famous for his hard-line attitude towards minorities in Bulgaria, especially Roma and Turks.-Early life:...

  • Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Sofiyanski
    Stefan Antonov Sofiyanski has been a leading member of the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. He served as interim Prime Minister in 1997 and was a three term Mayor of Sofia....

  • Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski
    Aleksandar Stamboliyski was the prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923. Stamboliyski was a member of the Agrarian Union, an agrarian peasant movement which was not allied to the monarchy, and edited their newspaper...

  • Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Stambolov
    Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian politician, who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria", and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Bismarck".- Early years :Stambolov was born in Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Sergey Stanishev
    Sergey Stanishev
    Sergei Dmitrievich Stanishev is a Bulgarian politician who was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2005 to 2009; currently he is Chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and Interim President of the Party of European Socialists...

  • Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev
    Stoyan Stavrev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for Lokomotiv Plovdiv. His first club was PFC Haskovo.-Career:...

  • Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stoyanov
    Petar Stefanov Stoyanov is a former President of Bulgaria from 1997 until 2002. He was elected as a candidate of the Union of Democratic Forces...

  • Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Tarlev
    Vasile Petru Tarlev is a Moldovan politician, and was Prime Minister of Moldova from 2001 until 2008.- Biography :He studied engineering and became a member of assorted economic councils...

  • Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov
    Borislav Tsekov is a Bulgarian lawyer, public figure and policymaker. In 2001–2005, he served as Member of Parliament representing the NMSS and since 2004 the New Times Party...

  • Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Videnov
    Zhan Vasilev Videnov was prime minister of Bulgaria from 25 January 1995 until 13 February 1997, a term remembered for the most severe economic and financial crisis in recent Bulgarian history. He was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party from 1991 to 1996.-Education:Zhan Videnov graduated...

  • Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Zhelev
    Zhelyu Mitev Zhelev is a Bulgarian politician and former dissident who was the first democratically elected President of Bulgaria, he is elected for his first mandate by the Parliament for the period 1990 to 1992, in January 1992 general elections are held when he is reelected for his second...

  • Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Zhivkov
    Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....


Revolutionaries

  • Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov
    Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski
    Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

  • Dame Gruev
    Dame Gruev
    Damyan Yovanov Gruev or Damjan Jovanov Gruev, often known by his short name Dame Gruev, was an insurgent leader in Ottoman Macedonia and Thrace...

  • Gotse Delchev
    Gotse Delchev
    Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

  • Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Dyustabanov
    Tsanko Hristov Dyustabanov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and participant in the April uprising of 1876.Dyustabanov was born in Gabrovo in today's Bulgaria, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire...

  • Hadzhi Dimitar
    Hadzhi Dimitar
    Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

  • Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Hitov
    Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

  • Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov
    Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

  • Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha
    Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

  • Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Karavelov
    Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov was a Bulgarian writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival....

  • Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski
    Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

  • Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Obretenov
    Georgi Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, best known for his participation in the April Uprising of 1876.- Biography :Georgi Obretenov, the youngest son of Tonka Obretenova, was born after 1849. He studied in the class school in Rousse, and afterwards helped his father with his...

  • Nikola Karev
    Nikola Karev
    Nikola Janakiev Karev was a revolutionary in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia. He was born 23 November 1877 in Kruševo and died 27 April 1905 in the village of Rajčani, both today in the Republic of Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became known as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

  • Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Obretenov
    Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising...

  • Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova
    Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven. She married Tiho Obretenov — a famous tailor and tradesman in Rousse...

  • Gjorche Petrov
    Gjorche Petrov
    Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...

  • Yane Sandanski
    Yane Sandanski
    Yane Ivanov Sandanski or Jane Ivanov Sandanski, was a revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization in the Serres region and head of the extreme leftist wing of the organization...

  • Boris Sarafov
    Boris Sarafov
    Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...

  • Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Sava Rakovski
    Georgi Stoykov Rakovski , known also Georgi Sava Rakovski , born Sabi Stoykov Popovich , was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.- Early life:Born in Kotel to a wealthy and patriotic...

  • Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev
    Hristo Tatarchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and first leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace . He wrote the memoirs The First Central Committee of the IMRO . He authored several political journalism works between the First and Second World Wars...

  • Filip Totyu
    Filip Totyu
    Todor Todorov Topalov , better known under the pseudonym Filip Totyu , was a Bulgarian revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival period and the voivode of an armed band of volunteers....

  • Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov
    Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

  • Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov
    Stoyan Zaimov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, apostle of the April Uprising, enlightener, public figure and writer. A native of Chirpan, he died in Pleven....

  • Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev
    Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

     - revolutionary
    Revolutionary
    A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

    , poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

  • Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva
    Mara Buneva was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. She is famous for the assassination of a Serbian official Velimir Prelić after which she committed suicide...


Voivodes

  • Angel
    Angel Voyvoda
    Angel Stoyanov Kariotov , also known as Angel Vojvoda , was one of the biggest voivods in Bulgarian history, who led the well-organized band in the regions of Plovdiv and Haskovo around 1832 and 1862. He was born in the Rodоpean village Dragoynovo in the Municipality Parvomay. The Angel peak in...

  • Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov
    Apostol Petkov or the Sun of Enije Vardar was a Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in Aegean Macedonia...

  • Chakar
  • Chavdar
    Chavdar
    Chavdar was a 16th-century semi-legendary Bulgarian hajduk voivode, a leader of a band of outlaws and a protector of the people against Ottoman injustice. Hajduks would usually take to the woods and wage guerrilla warfare on the ruling Turks. One of the greatest hajduk figures in Bulgarian...

  • Ilyo
    Ilyo Voyvoda
    Iliya Markov Popgeorgiev, better known as Ilyo Voyvoda or Dedo Iljo Maleshevski, was a Bulgarian revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, who is considered a national hero in both Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia...

  • Indzhe
  • Karposh
    Karposh
    -People:*Karposh, rebel leader killed by Ottomans in 1689 after leading an uprising.*Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš, a Macedonian partisan who participated in the National Liberation War of Macedonia.-Product identification:...

  • Manush
    Manush Georgiev
    Manush Georgiev, better known as Manush Voivoda was a revolutionary from Ottoman Macedonia and a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. He is considered an ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia and a Bulgarian in Bulgaria....


Scientists

  • Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen Hadjiolov
    Asen A. Hadjiolov was one of the most distinguished scientists in Bulgaria, and was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.-Vita in brief:...

    , biologist
  • George Chaldakov
    George Chaldakov
    George Nikov Chaldakov born February 23, 1940, in Burgas, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian vascular biologist well-known for his contributions in the study of secretory function of vascular smooth muscle cells, and the role of neurotrophins and perivascular adipose tissue in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis...

    , vascular biologist
  • Stephan Angeloff
    Stephan Angeloff
    - References :*...

    , microbiologist
  • Anastas Ishirkov
    Anastas Ishirkov
    Academic professor Anastas Todorov Ishirkov was Bulgarian scientist, geographer and ethnographer. He was the founder of geographical science in Bulgaria and was a member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences....

    , human geographer
  • John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff
    John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...

    , inventor of the digital electronic computer
    Computer
    A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...

  • Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Atanassov
    Krassimir Todorov Atanassov is a Bulgarian mathematician. He is best known for launching the concepts of Generalized nets and Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, which are extensions of the concepts of Petri nets and Fuzzy sets, respectively...

    , mathematician
  • Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski
    Angel Balevski is a famous Bulgarian inventor and engineer.He graduated from a technical school in Brno in 1934. He started his professional career as a metallurgical engineer, and later a professor at numerous universities across Europe. Balevski was the founder of the Bulgarian academic school...

    , inventor
  • Petar Beron
    Petar Beron
    Dr. Petar Beron was a famous Bulgarian educator. He created the first modern Bulgarian primer, erroneously called the Fish Primer because of the dolphin drawn in the end of the book .-Biography:Petar Beron was born around 1800, probably in 1799, in the town of Kotel in a rich family...

    , educator
  • Veselin Beshevliev, classicist
  • Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakoff
    Georgi Bliznakov was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy.-Biography:Bliznakov was born in 1920 in...

    , chemist
  • Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Bratanov
    Kiril Tsochev Bratanov was a prominent Bulgarian biologist and pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction.He was born on March 5, 1911, in the town of Lukovit, Bulgaria, and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Sofia. After receiving his doctoral degree in 1935, he spent two...

    , biologist
  • Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff
    Ljubomir Chakaloff is a Bulgarian mathematician. He was born in 1886 and died in 1963 at the age of 77. He was unmarried at the time of his death....

    , mathematician
  • Kiril Chukanov, scientist
  • Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov
    Stamen Grigorov was a prominent Bulgarian physician and microbilogist.Stamen Grigorov was born in the village of Studen Izvor , Tran Region, Bulgaria. He completed his secondary education in natural sciences in Montpellier, France and medical science in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1905, at the age of...

    , physician
  • Assen Jordanoff
    Assen Jordanoff
    Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

    , airplane
    Fixed-wing aircraft
    A fixed-wing aircraft is an aircraft capable of flight using wings that generate lift due to the vehicle's forward airspeed. Fixed-wing aircraft are distinct from rotary-wing aircraft in which wings rotate about a fixed mast and ornithopters in which lift is generated by flapping wings.A powered...

     constructor
  • Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov
    Georgi Kitov was a Bulgarian archaeologist and thracologist with controversial methods. He specialized in Thracian archaeology.-Finding the Thracian tomb:...

    , archaeologist
  • Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova
    Stefka Petrova , is a prominent Bulgarian nutritionist and the director of the National Center of Public Health Protection , Sofia, Bulgaria. She is also the national consultant on nutrition at the Bulgarian Ministry of Health...

    , nutritionist
  • Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov
    Georgi Lozanov is a Bulgarian educator and psychiatrist who developed suggestopedia/suggestopaedia, a learning/teaching theory based on his early-1960s study of suggestion which is called as "suggestology". His suggestopedia theory and practice were examined by UNESCO in the late 1970s and proved...

    , psychologist
  • Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev
    Georgi Manev was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University and education minister of Bulgaria . His work mostly known as Manev field is used today in Aerospace science....

    , physicist
  • Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov
    Stefan Marinov was a Bulgarian physicist, researcher, writer and lecturer who promoted anti-relativistic theoretical viewpoints, and later in his life defended the ideas of perpetual motion and free energy...

    , dissident physicist
  • Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov
    Georgi Nadjakov is a famous Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences...

    , physicist, discovered the external photoeffect
  • Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Obreshkov
    Nikola Dimitrov Obreshkov was a prominent Bulgarian mathematician, working in complex analysis.-External links:* , page 28....

    , prominent mathematician
  • Dimiter Orahovats
    Dimiter Orahovats
    - References :...

    , prominent physiologist
  • Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov
    Dimitar Paskov is a bulgarian chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of common snowdrop....

    , pharmacist and chemist
  • Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev
    Angel Penchev is a Bulgarian neurologist who worked in the Sofia Faculty of Medicine. He fled Bulgaria after the Soviet Union invaded in 1944.-References:...

    , neurologist
  • Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff
    Peter Petroff New York Times: ) was a Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer. He was instrumental in the evolution of the NASA space program, and was one of the most prolific inventors of the second half the 20th century...

    , enormously prolific inventor
  • Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar Sasselov
    Dimitar D. Sasselov is a Bulgarian astronomer based in the United States. He is a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. In 2002, Sasselov led a team that discovered the most distant planet in the Milky Way known at the time.Sasselov...

    , astrophysicist
  • Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Sendov
    Blagovest Hristov Sendov is a Bulgarian diplomat, mathematician and politician.-Academic:Sendov was the rector of Sofia University, located in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Deputy Chairman of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, also located in Sofia.-National Assembly of Bulgaria:From 1995 to 1997, he was...

    , mathematician
  • Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova
    Elka Todorova is a researcher in the fields of sociology, psychology, and social work, working in the Institute of Sociology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a Senior Research Associate...

    , social psychologist
  • Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov
    Asen Zlatarov was a famous Bulgarian chemist....

    , chemist
  • Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Zlatarski
    Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.- Life :Vasil Zlatarski was born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1866, the youngest child of the teacher Nikola Zlatarcheto who was a prominent activist in the educational movement and the religious and national...

    , historian
  • Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov
    Ivan Atanassov Petrov, is a noted Bulgarian neurologist and head of the Clinic of Neurology at the Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria, and holds a MD, and PhD....

    , neurologist
  • Georgi Yordanov Georgiev, physicist

Economists

  • Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov
    Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the...

  • Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov
    Lyuben Berov was a Bulgarian economist. He served as prime minister of Bulgaria from 1992 to 1994....

  • Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov
    Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:...

  • Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov
    Ivan Iskrov is the Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank since October 2003. His work was recognized with Commander of the Order of Leopold by the Belgian government.- Biography :...

  • Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky
    Nikolay Nenovsky is a Bulgarian economist, and Professor of economics and finance.He graduated from the Moscow State University, Russia , received his Ph.D in economics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . Actually he taught Monetary theory and International Finance at the University of...


Philosophers

  • Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva
    Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a Professor at the University Paris Diderot...

  • Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy
    Isaac Passy was a Bulgarian philosopher specializing in aesthetics. He was a professor at Sofia University from 1952 until 1993. He was the most prolific philosopher in the history of Bulgaria. He published over 40 monographs and over 80 volumes of the philosophical classics...

  • Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov
    Tzvetan Todorov is a Franco-Bulgarian philosopher. He has lived in France since 1963 with his wife Nancy Huston and their two children, writing books and essays about literary theory, thought history and culture theory....

  • Petar Deunov
  • Maria Todorova
    Maria Todorova
    Maria N. Todorova is a Bulgarian historian and philosopher who is best known for her application of Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans. She is the daughter of former Bulgarian President Nikolai Todorov.-Career:...


Athletics

  • Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova
    Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 2 World Titles High Jump
    High jump
    The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

     (1987, 1995)
  • Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova
    Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...

     - World Record
    World records in athletics
    World records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations. Athletics records comprise the best performances in the sports of track and field, road running and racewalking....

     holder and 1 World Title Hurdling
    Hurdling
    Hurdling is a type of track and field race.- Distances :There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 meters for men and 100 meters for women. The standard long hurdle race is 400 meters for both men and women...

     (1988)
  • Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Marinova
    Tereza Moncheva Marinova is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best...

  • Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva
    Petya Pendareva is a Bulgarian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...

     - sprinter
  • Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva
    Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...

  • Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov
    Rostislav Dimitrov is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49...

     - triple jumper

Boxing

  • Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov
    Georgi Kostadinov is a former boxer from Bulgaria.-Amateur career:Kostadinov won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games for Bulgaria
  • Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov
    Ivailo Marinov is a Bulgarian boxer of Turkish ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics-Name:Throughout his career, he competed under several different...

     - boxer, won the Olympic Flyweight gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, among others
  • Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Rusinov
    Svilen Aldinov Rusinov is a Bulgarian boxer, who twice competed at the Summer Olympics for his native country. He won a bronze medal in the super heavyweight division at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.- Olympic results :1988...

     - boxer

Chess

  • Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Topalov
    Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

     - World Chess Champion (men, 2005)
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - World Chess Champion (women, 2004)
  • Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov
    Ivan Cheparinov is a Bulgarian chess player, who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 2005.-Topalov's second:Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov...

     - chess player
  • Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov
    Silvio Danailov is a Bulgarian International Master chessplayer and the manager of two former FIDE world chess champions, Veselin Topalov and Ruslan Ponomariov....

     - manager
  • Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova
    Antoaneta Stefanova is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster, and a former Women's World Chess Champion. She became the twelfth holder of that title in 2004 in a 64-player knockout tournament held in Elista, Kalmykia under the auspices of FIDE....

     - former World Chess Champion (women, 2004)

Volleyball

  • Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev
    Lyubomir Ganev , a.k.a. Lyubo Ganev or Lupo, is a former Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born in Rousse, where he started his career. He played with CSKA for seven years and was five times a champion with the team. Since 1991 Lupo has been playing with Italian teams. He participated in...

  • Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Konstantinov
    Plamen Georgiev Konstantinov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and captain of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team,coach.Konstantinov was born in Sofia; both his parents, Georgi and Eva née Doycheva, are former volleyball internationals and his older brother Julian Konstantinov is an...

  • Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoev
    Martin Stoyanov Stoev is a Bulgarian volleyball coach and former player. He is the current head coach of the Romanian team CVM Tomis Constanţa.He played volleyball from 1984 until 2005, with over 200 caps with the Bulgarian national team...

  • Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov
    Hristo Tsvetanov is a Bulgarian male volleyball player who is a member of the Bulgarian team of the 2006 world championship. Tsvetanov started his career in Lokomotiv. He is a 5 time Bulgarian champion with Levski-Sicconco. In Japan he was a regular player.-External links:*...

  • Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski
    Matey Kaziyski is a Bulgarian volleyball player.With Dynamo Moscow he won the bronze medal at the Men's CEV Champions League 2006–07 and was awarded Final Four' "Best Server"....

  • Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov
    Vladimir Nikolov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, current captain of the his country's national team. He plays as a wing-spiker and has been part of the Bulgarian national team in all recent championships...

  • Evgeni Ivanov
  • Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov
    Boyan Yordanov is a Bulgarian volleyball player, member of the Bulgaria men's national volleyball team. Born on March 12, 1983 Boyan started his career in Levski Siconco and is currently playing for Panathinaikos VC in Greece. Boyan made his first cap for Bulgaria in a match against France on the...

  • Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev
    Ivan Zarev is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He is the current reserve setter of the Bulgarian national team. Zarev made his club debut for Slavia Sofia and is now playing for CSKA Sofia.-References:...

  • Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov
    Andrey Zhekov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on March 12, 1980 and entered the national team in 1998 at the age of 18. 190 cm tall and weighing 82 kg Zhekov is the current setter of the Bulgarian national team. Club Champion of Bulgaria with the teams of Levski Siconco and...

  • Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov
    Dimitar Zlatanov is a former Bulgarian volleyball player, who won the Silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. The only Bulgarian member of the volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, MA , Number 1 striker in the world for 1970....

  • Nikolai Nikolov
  • Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov
    Teodor Salparov is a Bulgarian volleyball player. He was born on August 16, 1982 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. He wears the No. 13 shirt in the Bulgarian national team which he has driven to major success in a number of competitions....

  • Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova
    Antonina Zetova is an international volleyball player from Bulgaria.As a left handed outside hitter 1.89m tall Zetova lead the Bulgarian team to several successes, including a bronze medal at the European Championship in 2001, where she was awarded best scorer.In the Italian league, where she...

  • Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva
    Eva Yaneva is a Bulgarian volleyball player. She currently plays for RC Cannes in France.-Career:She started playing volleyball in 1996 at the age of 11 with CSKA Sofia....

  • Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova
    Strashimira Filipova is Bulgarian volleyball player. She represented the Bulgaria national team at the 2005 Women’s European Volleyball Championship, which marked her debut for the national side....


Football

See also List of Bulgarian footballers

  • Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Asparuhov
    Georgi Rangelov Asparuhov , nicknamed Gundi was a Bulgarian football player. He is considered to be among the top Bulgarian footballers of all time....

  • Krassimir Balakov
    Krassimir Balakov
    Krasimir Genchev Balakov is a former Bulgarian footballer and a current manager of Croatian club Hajduk Split. He was a key member of the Bulgarian national team that finished fourth in the 1994 FIFA World Cup...

  • Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

  • Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Bonev
    Hristo Atanasov Bonev-Zuma is a retired Bulgarian footballer, the second all-time leading scorer for the Bulgarian national team behind Dimitar Berbatov, who surpassed his record on November 18, 2009. Currently he manages PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in the Bulgarian A PFG.Between 1967 and 1979, Bonev...

  • Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Dermendzhiev
    Dinko Tsvetkov Dermendzhiev is a former Bulgarian football player in a midfielder role, and later manager....

  • Petar Houbchev
    Petar Houbchev
    Petar Hubchev is a Bulgarian former football player, and currently manager of Botev Plovdiv. He was part of the Bulgarian national team that reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup and also played at Euro 96.-As a player:...

  • Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Ivanov
    Trifon Marinov Ivanov is a former Bulgarian international football player.Sometimes known by his nickname "The Bulgarian Wolf" due to his unshaven appearance and mullet hairstyle, Ivanov started his career with the team Etar of Veliko Tarnovo...

  • Ivan Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev
    Ivan Petkov Kolev is a former Bulgarian football player and coach.He represented Bulgaria at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966, He also played for...

  • Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Kostadinov
    Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov is a former Bulgarian football striker, former member of the Bulgaria national team for which he played in two World Cups. He shares his birthdate with another legendary Bulgarian footballer Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov...

  • Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Kotkov
    Nikola Todorov Kotkov , nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker....

  • Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov
    Yordan Letchkov is a former Bulgarian footballer and the current mayor of Sliven. He is generally regarded as one of the best players to come out of Bulgaria and was a key member of the squad which reached the semi-finals of the 1994 World Cup Finals...

  • Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Mikhailov
    Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian football goalkeeper and currently President of Bulgarian Football Union, member of the executive committee of UEFA....

  • Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev
    Dimitar Penev is a Bulgarian football coach and former player and central defender of CSKA Sofia. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national football team and scored 2 goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he...

  • Luboslav Penev
  • Martin Petrov
    Martin Petrov
    Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer, currently playing for Bolton Wanderers in the Premier League.-Club career:Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa...

  • Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Petrov
    Stiliyan Alyoshev Petrov is a Bulgarian footballer who captains Aston Villa in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award in 2003 when he was playing for Celtic...

  • Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Shalamanov
    Aleksandar Stefanov Shalamanov is a former football player and professional alpine skier and is known as the only Bulgarian who has participated in the Winter Olympics and in the FIFA World Cup...

  • Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Sirakov
    Nasko Petkov Sirakov is a retired Bulgarian footballer who played mainly as a striker.Part of the Bulgarian team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup as it finished fourth, he was one of the most important footballers in the country in the 80's/90's, being a legend at Levski Sofia, a club he represented in...

  • Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov
    Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

     - World Cup 1994 Top Scorer, European Footballer of the Year
    European Footballer of the Year
    The "", literally translated as "the golden ball" and often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award, was an annual association football award. It was presented to the player who had been considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year...

     (1994)
  • Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Yakimov
    Dimitar Nikolov Yakimov , is one of the players of the Bulgarian football team CSKA Sofia, sometimes called "the poet of football" for his dribbling skills. Yakimov played a decisive role in probably the most important victories of the Bulgarian national team in the 1960s...

  • Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov
    Zlatko Yankov is a retired Bulgarian football midfielder.He was capped 80 times and scored 4 goals for the Bulgarian national team between 1989 and 1999. He played eight games at the World Cups in 1994 and 1998, and he was also in the Bulgarian Euro 1996 squad...

  • Petar Zhekov
    Petar Zhekov
    Petar Petrov Zhekov is a former Bulgarian football player, who won the silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics.Zhekov was born in Knizhovnik, Haskovo Province, and began his career in F.C. Dimitrovgrad. Later he moved to Beroe Stara Zagora, where he twice became Bulgaria's top goalscorer. Between...


Tennis

  • Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Maleeva
    Manuela Georgieva Maleeva-Fragniere is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. She played on the Women's Tennis Association tour between 1982 and 1994...

     - tennis player
  • Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva
    Katerina Maleeva is a Bulgarian tennis player. She played in the WTA tour, competing in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1984 and 1997. Her best position in the WTA rank list was number 6 in 1990.-Biography:...

  • Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva
    Magdalena Maleeva is a Bulgarian former tennis player. She played on the WTA tour competing in singles and doubles, from April 1989 to June 2007. Her best position in the WTA Tour was no. 4 between January 29 to February 4, 1996....

  • Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov
    Grigor Dimitrov is a tennis player from Bulgaria. He achieved a career high ranking of World No. 52 on August 22, 2011. Dimitrov also enjoyed a very successful junior career, in which he held the World No...

     - tennis player
  • Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Pironkova
    Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a female Bulgarian tennis player. She was born and lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Pironkova is right-handed and plays with a two-handed backhand....


Other sports

  • Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova
    Maria Gigova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She was the first gymnast to become a triple world champion in rhythmic gymnastics with her titles in 1969, 1971, and 1973...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1969, 1971, 1973), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Maria Petrova
    Maria Petrova (rhythmic gymnast)
    Maria Petrova is a Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She shares the world record for the most individual world all-around rhythmic gymnastics titles of all time and has never placed lower than seventh in any competition in her entire career.-Career:Petrova began her training at the age of five at...

     - 3 Rhythmic Gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

     World Titles (1993, 1994, 1995), Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

  • Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova
    Albena Denkova is a Bulgarian ice dancer. With partner and fiance Maxim Staviski, she is the 2006 & 2007 World Champion, the 2003 & 2004 European silver medalist, and the 2006 Grand Prix Final champion...

     - World Figure Skating
    World Figure Skating Championships
    The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which elite figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion...

     Champion Ice dancing
    Ice dancing
    Ice dancing is a form of figure skating which draws from the world of ballroom dancing. It was first competed at the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, but did not become a Winter Olympic Games medal sport until 1976....

     (pairs) (2006, 2007)
  • Valentin Yordanov - 2 Olympic, 7 World and 7 European Titles Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...

  • Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Bukhalov
    Nikolay Petkov Bukhalov is Bulgaria's most successful ever sprint canoer. He competed mostly in the Canadian canoe C-1 event though he did win world championship medals in the C-4 events....

     - 2 Olympic and 5 World Titles Canoeing
    Canoeing
    Canoeing is an outdoor activity that involves a special kind of canoe.Open canoes may be 'poled' , sailed, 'lined and tracked' or even 'gunnel-bobbed'....

  • Georgi Georgiev
    Georgi Georgiev (judoka)
    Georgi Georgiev is a Bulgarian judoka.-Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...

     - 2 World Titles Sambo
    Sambo (martial art)
    Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

     (2003, 2006)
  • Mariya Grozdeva - sport shooter
  • Ivan Ivanov - Olympic weightlifter
  • Yordan Yovchev - world champion and five-time Olympic gymnast
  • Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov
    Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Olympic gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion.- External links :*...

  • Dan Kolov
    Dan Kolov
    Dan Koloff , born Doncho Kolеv Danev , was a famous Bulgarian wrestler and a national hero of Bulgaria.-Early years:A very brave man...

     - a famous Bulgarian wrestler
  • Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov
    Hristo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest but died on the descent....

     - mountaineer
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

  • Evgeniya Radanova
  • Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva
    Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnast and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973. She took part in four World...

  • Kaloyan Mahlyanov (Kotooshu) - Sumo
    Sumo
    is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

     Wrestler

Theology

  • Antim I
    Antim I
    Antim I , born Atanas Mihaylov Chalakov , was a Bulgarian education figure and clergyman, and a participant in the Bulgarian liberation and church-independence movement. He was the first head of the Bulgarian Exarchate, a post he held from 1872 to 1877...

  • Evtimiy of Tarnovo
  • Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian
    Vladislav the Grammarian was a fifteenth-century Bulgarian monk, writer, historian and theologian.He worked in both medieval Bulgaria and Serbia and is regarded as both Serbian and Bulgarian author...

  • Peter Deunov
    Peter Deunov
    Peter Konstantinov Deunov was a spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity. He is called Master Beinsa Douno by his followers.-Biography:Born on 11 July 1864 in Hadarcha , Bulgaria, around 60 km from Varna...

     (Master Beinsa Douno) - Founder of the Universal White Brotherhood
    Great White Brotherhood
    The Great White Brotherhood, in belief systems akin to Theosophical and New Age, are said to be supernatural beings of great power who spread spiritual teachings through selected humans. The members of the Brotherhood may be known as the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom or the Ascended Masters...


Gallery



Image:KhanAsparuh.jpg|Khan
Khan
Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...

 Asparukh
Asparukh of Bulgaria
Asparuh was ruler of a Bulgar tribe in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 680/681...

 (640-701), founder of the First Bulgarian Empire
First Bulgarian Empire
The First Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state founded in the north-eastern Balkans in c. 680 by the Bulgars, uniting with seven South Slavic tribes...


Image:Tervel.jpg|Khan Tervel
Tervel of Bulgaria
Khan Tervel also called Tarvel, or Terval, or Terbelis in some Byzantine sources, was the Emperor of the Bulgarians at the beginning of the 8th century. In 705 he received the title Caesar which was a precedent in history. He was probably a Christian like his grandfather Khan Kubrat...

 (675-721), the "Saviour of Europe", for which is known because of a crushing he infected on the Arabs in the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople and barricading the way of the Arab invasion to Europe
Image:Boris I of Bulgaria.jpg|Saint Knyaz
Knyaz
Kniaz, knyaz or knez is a Slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a royal nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....

 Boris I
Boris I of Bulgaria
Boris I, also known as Boris-Mihail and Bogoris was the Knyaz of First Bulgarian Empire in 852–889. At the time of his baptism in 864, Boris was named Michael after his godfather, Emperor Michael III...

 (?–907), christianizator of Bulgarian people
Christianization of Bulgaria
The Christianization of Bulgaria was the process by which 9th-century medieval Bulgaria converted to Christianity. It was influenced by the khan's shifting political alliances with the kingdom of the East Franks and the Byzantine Empire, as well as his reception by the Pope of the Roman Catholic...

 and linguistic unifier by making the current Bulgarian language
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...

 (this from the Slavic linguistic familly) official language for the population of the Bulgarian Empire
Image:Seal of Simeon The Great (Anonymous).png|Tsar
Tsar
Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...

 Simeon the Great
Simeon I of Bulgaria
Simeon I the Great ruled over Bulgaria from 893 to 927, during the First Bulgarian Empire. Simeon's successful campaigns against the Byzantines, Magyars and Serbs led Bulgaria to its greatest territorial expansion ever, making it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe...

 (864/865-927), led the First Bulgarian Empire to its largest territorial extent
Image:Saint Clement of Ohrid (icon, 13th-14th century).jpg|Saint Clement of Ohrid
Clement of Ohrid
Saint Clement of Ohrid was a medieval Bulgarian saint, scholar, writer and enlightener of the Slavs. He was the most prominent disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius and is often associated with the creation of the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, especially their popularisation among...

 (840–916), often associated as the creator of the Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...


Image:Ivan Rilski - fresco from church in rila monastery-bulgaria.JPG|Saint John of Rila
John of Rila
Saint John of Rila was the first Bulgarian hermit. He was revered as a saint while he was still alive. The legend surrounding him tells of wild animals that freely came up to him and birds that landed in his hands. His followers founded many churches in his honor, including the famous Rila...

 (876–946), the patron saint of the Bulgarian people
Image:Ivan-asen-II-zograf-portrait.jpg|Tsar John Asen II (?-1241), led the Second Bulgarian Empire
Second Bulgarian Empire
The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state which existed between 1185 and 1396 . A successor of the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th-early 15th century...

 to its largest territorial extent
Image:Ioannis Koukouzelis.jpg|Saint John Kukuzel
John Kukuzelis
Saint John Kukuzelis or Kukuzel was a medieval Orthodox Christian composer, singer and reformer of Orthodox Church music....

 (1280–1360), composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, singer and reformer of the Orthodox Church music, known as the "Angel-voiced"
image:St. Paisiy of Hilendar.JPG|Paisius of Hilendar
Paisius of Hilendar
Saint Paisius of Hilendar or Paisiy Hilendarski was a Bulgarian clergyman and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. He is most famous for being the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history after the work of Petar Bogdan Bakshev from 1667, “History of Bulgaria”...

 (1733-1773), a key figure in Bulgarian National Revival
Bulgarian National Revival
The Bulgarian National Revival , sometimes called the Bulgarian Renaissance, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule...

 from Macedonia (18th century)
Image:Panayot-Hitov.jpg|Panayot Hitov
Panayot Hitov
Panayot Ivanov Hitov was a Bulgarian hajduk, national revolutionary and band leader .Born in 1830 in Sliven, he became a hajduk in Georgi Trankin's band in 1858. Two years later, after the death of Trankin, Hitov succeeded him as voivode of the band, which became one of the most active in...

 (1830–1918), revolutionary, hajduk and voivode, national hero of Bulgaria
Image:HadjiDimitar150.jpg|Hadzhi Dimitar
Hadzhi Dimitar
Dimitar Nikolov Asenov , better known as Hadzhi Dimitar , was one of the most prominent Bulgarian voivods and revolutionaries working for the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.-Early life:...

 (1840–1968), revolutionary, voivode, national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Stefan Karadja.jpg|Stefan Karadzha
Stefan Karadzha
Stefan Karadzha , was a Bulgarian national hero, a revolutionary from the national liberation movement and a prominent leader of rebellion against the Ottoman Empire....

 (1840–1968), revolutionary, voivode, national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Vasil Levski.jpg|Vasil Levski
Vasil Levski
Vasil Levski, born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, , is a Bulgarian revolutionary and a national hero of Bulgaria. Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom, Levski ideologised and strategised a revolutionary movement to liberate Bulgaria from Ottoman rule...

 (1837-1873), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria
Image:hristo botev.gif|Hristo Botev
Hristo Botev
Hristo Botev , born Hristo Botyov Petkov , was a Bulgarian poet and national revolutionary. Botev is widely considered by Bulgarians to be a symbolic historical figure and national hero.-Early years:...

 (1848–1876), revolutionary and poet, national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Georgi Benkovski.jpg|Georgi Benkovski
Georgi Benkovski
Georgi Benkovski was the pseudonym of Gavril Gruev Hlatev , a Bulgarian revolutionary and leading figure in the organization and direction of the Bulgarian anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876 and apostle of its 4th Revolutionary District.Born around 1843 to the family of the small-time merchant...

 (1843-1876), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Panajot Volov.jpg|Panayot Volov
Panayot Volov
Panayot Volov was the pseudonym of Petar Vankov , the organizer and leader of the Gyurgevo Revolutionary Committee of the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire in 1876....

 (1850–1876), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Todor Kableshkov2.jpg|Todor Kableshkov
Todor Kableshkov
Todor Kableshkov was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary and one of the leaders of the April Uprising....

 (1851-1876), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Aleko konstantinov.jpg|Aleko Konstantinov
Aleko Konstantinov
Aleko Konstantinov was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction....

 (1863–1897), writer created one of the most popular Bulgarian works
Image:Natanail-Ohridski-Plovdivski.jpg| Metropolitan Nathanael Ohridski
Nathanael Ohridski
Nathanael of Ohrid , Nathanael of Plovdiv or Nathanael Zografski, born Nesho Stanov Boykikev; was a Bulgarian cleric, writer and revolutionary from Macedonia, one of the first supporters of literature in modern Bulgarian and one of the early...

 (1820-1906), revolutionary and organizer of the Kresna-Razlog Uprising
Kresna-Razlog Uprising
The Kresna-Razlog Uprising was a Bulgarian uprising against the Ottoman rule, predominantly in the areas of Kresna and Razlog in the region of Pirin Macedonia in late 1878 and early 1879...


Image:G Delchev.jpg|Gotse Delchev
Gotse Delchev
Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...

 (1872-1903), revolutionary and leader of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees.
Image:RetratoDeIvanVazov--bulgariaherpeopl00monr.png|Ivan Vazov
Ivan Vazov
Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria ....

 (1850–1921), considered as the best Bulgarian author of all time
Image:Alexandrov.jpg|Todor Aleksandrov
Todor Aleksandrov
Todor Aleksandrov Poporushov also transliterated as Todor Alexandrov also spelt Alexandroff, was a Bulgarian freedom fighter and member of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees since 1897 and later of the Central Committee of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary...

 (1881-1924), revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, national hero of Bulgaria
Image:Vladimir Vazov.jpg|Vladimir Vazov
Vladimir Vazov
Vladimir Minchev Vazov was a Bulgarian officer. He led the Bulgarian forces during the successful defensive operation at Dojran during the First World War.-Biography:...

 (1868-1945), general and war hero
Image:Elin Pelin monument.jpg|Elin Pelin
Elin Pelin
Elin Pelin , born Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov is arguably considered Bulgaria’s best narrator of country life.Born into a large family in the village of Baylovo near Sofia, he loved writing and reading from an early age...

 (1877-1949), considered as the best Bulgarian narrator
Image:John.atanasoff.jpeg|John Atanasoff (1903 – 1995), Bulgarian-American physicist, inventor of the computer
Image:Christo und Jeanne-Claude.jpg|Christo
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art...

 (left), wrapper of the Reichstag
Reichstag (building)
The Reichstag building is a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Reichstag, parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire. During the Nazi era, the few meetings of members of the...

 in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris, the artwork called Running Fence
Running Fence
Running Fence was an installation art piece by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, which was completed on September 10, 1976. The builders removed it 14 days later, leaving no visible trace....

 in Sonoma and Marin counties in California and The Gates
The Gates
The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 vinyl "gates" along 23 miles of pathways in Central Park in New York City. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric...

 in New York City's Central Park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...


Image:Kotooshu winning Emperor's Cup 2008 May.jpg|Kaloyan Mahlyanov
Kotooshu Katsunori
Kotoōshū Katsunori is a professional sumo wrestler or rikishi. He made his debut in 2002, reaching the top division just two years later...

, the only European sumo
Sumo
is a competitive full-contact sport where a wrestler attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring or to touch the ground with anything other than the soles of the feet. The sport originated in Japan, the only country where it is practiced professionally...

 wrestler who is winner of the Emperor's Cup
Image:Hristo stoichkov-2010.jpg|Hristo Stoichkov
Hristo Stoichkov
Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov , sometimes Stoitchkov; born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a retired Bulgarian footballer. He is regarded as one of the best footballers of his generation and the greatest Bulgarian footballer of all time. Nicknamed The Dagger , The Dog , The Modern Left...

, football player
Player (game)
A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....

, 1994 FIFA World Cup
1994 FIFA World Cup
The 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 15th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in nine cities across the United States from June 17 to July 17, 1994. The United States was chosen as the host by FIFA on July 4, 1988...

 top scorer and winner of the Golden Shoe and the Golden Ball
Golden Ball
Golden Ball may refer to:In sport:*Ballon d'Or , award given to the best football player of the year by France Football magazine*Golden Ball Award, award given to the best player of the FIFA World Cup...


Image:Veselin Topalov Sofia Airport 24.10.2005.pic-01.jpg|Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Aleksandrov Topalov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He currently has the sixth highest rating in the world, and was the challenger facing world champion Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010, losing the match 6½–5½....

, 2005-2006 World Chess Champion
Image:Berbatov.jpg|Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Berbatov
Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a forward for Manchester United. He captained the Bulgarian national team from 2006 to 2010, and is its all-time leading goalscorer and has also won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year a record seven times, surpassing the number of...

, football player
Player (game)
A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....


Image:Ivet Lalova Berlin 2009 cropped.JPG|Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova
Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...

, the fastest white woman at 100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...


Image:Dilma-shash.JPG|Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff is the 36th and current President of Brazil. She is the first woman to hold the office. Prior to that, in 2005, she was also the first woman to become Chief of Staff of Brazil, appointed by then President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....

, Bulgarian-Brazilian politician and current President of Brazil
President of Brazil
The president of Brazil is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the Brazilian Armed Forces...



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