Notable people

Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer (1905–1994)

Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic

Bulgarian chess grandmaster

king of Bulgaria (1894–1943)

Harpist and composer

Bulgarian high jumper

Macedonian atomic physicist (1939–2019)

Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)

Bulgarian ruler

Bulgarian tennis player

Bulgarian ruler

Turkish weightlifter (1967–2017)

Turkish novelist and poet (1907–1948)

Bulgarian female tennis player

Tsar of Bulgaria (r. 1331 to 1371)

Bulgarian professional wrestler, rower and powerlifter

Bulgarian amateur wrestler

athletics competitor

Bulgarian tsar

Bulgarian lyric singer