Notable Residents
- See also: Category:People from Sofia
Notable people born in Sofia:
- Galerius (ca. 260-311), Roman emperor
- Georgi Asparuhov (1943–1971), football player
- Michael Bar-Zohar (b. 1938), historian, former Knesset member
- Irina Bokova (b. 1952), politician, current director-general of UNESCO
- Boris III (1894–1943), Tsar of Bulgaria
- Laura Chukanov (b. 1986), model, Miss Utah USA 2009, Miss USA 2009 (3rd runner-up)
- Cyril (1901–1971), Patriarch of Bulgaria
- Albena Denkova (b. 1974), ice dancer, World Championship gold, silver, bronze
- Nina Dobrev, (b. 1989), actress
- Itzhak Fintzi (b. 1933), actor
- Kristalina Georgieva (b. 1953), politician, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response in the second college of the Barroso Commission.
- Maria Gigova (b. 1947), three times rhythmic gymnastics World champion
- Assen Jordanoff (1896–1967), Bulgarian-American aviation pioneer
- Matey Kaziyski (b. 1984), volleyball player
- Ivan Kostov (b. 1953), politician, former prime minister of Bulgaria
- Ivet Lalova (b. 1983), athlete, fastest female white sprinter in the world
- Shmuel Levi (1884–1966), Israeli painter
- Borislav Mikhailov (b. 1963), football player and Bulgarian Football Union president, member of the executive committee of UEFA
- Moni Moshonov (b. 1951), Israeli actor, comedian and theater director.
- Stoyanka Mutafova (b. 1922), actress
- Valeri Petrov (b. 1920), writer
- Evgenia Radanova (b. 1977), ice skater
- Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean (b. 1960), harpist
- Simeon II (b. 1937), former King of Bulgaria and former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Antoaneta Stefanova (b. 1979), chess player and Women's World Chess Champion
- Tzvetan Todorov (b. 1939), philosopher and writer
- Alexis Weissenberg (1929–2012), pianist
- Lyudmila Zhivkova (1942–1981), art historian and politician
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