List of Bulgarians - Gallery

Gallery

• Khan Asparukh (640-701), founder of the First Bulgarian Empire

• Saint Knyaz Boris I (?–907), christianizator of Bulgarian people and linguistic unifier by making the old Bulgarian language official

• Saint Clement of Ohrid (840–916), often associated as the creator of the Cyrillic script

• Saint John of Rila (876–946), the patron saint of the Bulgarian people

• Tsar John Asen II (?-1241), led the Second Bulgarian Empire to its largest territorial extent

• Saint John Kukuzel (1280–1360), composer, singer and reformer of the Orthodox Church music, known as the "Angel-voiced"

• Paisius of Hilendar (1733–1773), key figure in Bulgarian National Revival from Macedonia (18th century)

• Panayot Hitov (1830–1918), revolutionary, hajduk and voivode, national hero of Bulgaria

• Stefan Karadzha (1840–1868), revolutionary, voivode, national hero of Bulgaria

• Vasil Levski (1837–1873), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria

• Hristo Botev (1848–1876), revolutionary and poet, national hero of Bulgaria

• Georgi Benkovski (1843–1876), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria

• Panayot Volov (1850–1876), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria

• Todor Kableshkov (1851–1876), revolutionary and national hero of Bulgaria

• Aleko Konstantinov (1863–1897), writer created one of the most popular Bulgarian works

• Metropolitan Nathanael Ohridski (1820–1906), revolutionary and organizer of the Kresna-Razlog Uprising

• Gotse Delchev (1872–1903), revolutionary and leader of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees.

• Ivan Vazov (1850–1921), considered as the best Bulgarian author of all time

• Todor Aleksandrov (1881–1924), revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, national hero of Bulgaria

• Vladimir Vazov (1868–1945), general and war hero

• Elin Pelin (1877–1949), considered as the best Bulgarian narrator

• John Atanasoff (1903–1995), Bulgarian-American physicist, inventor of the computer

• Christo (left), wrapper of the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris, the artwork called Running Fence in Sonoma and Marin counties in California and The Gates in New York City's Central Park

• Kaloyan Mahlyanov, the only European sumo wrestler who is winner of the Emperor's Cup

• Hristo Stoichkov, football player, 1994 FIFA World Cup top scorer and winner of the Golden Shoe and the Golden Ball

• Veselin Topalov, 2005–2006 World Chess Champion

• Dimitar Berbatov, football player

• Ivet Lalova, the fastest white woman at 100 metres

• Dilma Rousseff, Bulgarian-Brazilian politician and current President of Brazil