Plovdiv - Notable Citizens

Notable Citizens

  • Hafiz Ahmed Pasha – Ottoman Empire Grand Vizier
  • Nihat Anılmış – military officer in the Ottoman and Turkish Armies
  • Blagovest and Svetoslav Argirov (born 23 April 1959) – pop singers and composers
  • Nikolay Argirov – Bear Wrestler, Radio DJ, School Teacher and part-time President
  • Zlatyu Boyadzhiev – painter
  • Nikolay Buhalov – Olympic canoeing champion
  • Boris Christoff – basso
  • Hristo Danov – publisher
  • Dinko Dermendjiev – football player
  • Milen Dobrev – weightlifter
  • George Ganchev – fencer, actor, writer, politician
  • Nayden Gerov – linguist, folklorist and writer
  • Tanya Gramatikova – photographic artist
  • Georgi Ivanov – cosmonaut
  • Hristo Kidikov (born 16 October 1946) – pop singer
  • Asen Kisimov – actor
  • Stefka Kostadinova – world-record holder in the women's high jump
  • Milcho Leviev – musician and composer
  • Tzvetana Maneva – actress
  • Nonka Matova – six-time Olympian and Olympic shooting silver medalist
  • Maria Neykova {12 December 1941 – 1 August 2002) – pop singer and composer
  • Apostolos Nikolaidis (1896–1980) – athlete
  • Solomon Passy – mathematician, activist and politician
  • Isaac Passy – philosopher
  • Ognyana Petkova – Olympic canoeing bronze medalist
  • Maria Petrova – three-time World Champion in rhythmic gymnastics
  • Tsvetana Pironkova – Bulgarian number-one tennis player and world number 40
  • Veneta Rangelova (born 10 March 1957) – pop singer and music pedagogue
  • The birthplace of Silvena Rowe – British chef, food writer, television personality and restaurateur
  • Georgi Slavchev – pianist, composer
  • Toma Sprostranov – radio and television journalist
  • Hristo Stoichkov – football player, winner of the European Footballer of the Year award (1994)
  • Petar Stoyanov – former President of Bulgaria
  • Nayden Todorov – conductor
  • Irien Trendafilov – cartoonist
  • Christos Tsigiridis (1877–1947) – electrical engineer and technological pioneer
  • Anjel Vagenstein – writer
  • Zhan Videnov – former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
  • Yordan Yovchev – gymnast
  • Stoyan Zahariev – pop singer and composer

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