Famous Bulgarian Jews
- Albert Aftalion (1874–1956), economist, from Ruse
- Mira Aroyo (born 1977), musician and member of Ladytron, from Sofia
- Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Nobel Prize-winning writer, from Ruse
- Itzhak Fintzi (born 1933), actor, from Sofia
- Solomon Goldstein (1884–1968/1969), communist politician, from Shumen
- Nikolay Kaufman (born 1925), musicologist and composer, from Ruse
- Milcho Leviev (born 1937), composer and musician, from Plovdiv
- Jacob L. Moreno (1889–1974), founder of psychodrama, father from Pleven
- Jules Pascin (1885–1930), modernist painter, from Vidin
- Isaac Passy (1928–2010), philosopher, from Plovdiv
- Solomon Passy (born 1956), politician and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, from Plovdiv
- Valeri Petrov (born 1920), writer, from Sofia
- Sarah-Theodora (14th century), wife of Tsar Ivan Alexander
- Angel Wagenstein (born 1922), film director, from Plovdiv
- Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012), pianist, from Plovdiv
- Sergei Stanishev (born 1966), Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2005-2009)
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Nothing that common women ponder on
If you are worth my hope! Neither Content
Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family
Some ancient famous authors misrepresent,
The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system ... has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes.... Now they’re lunch, and we’re number one on the planet.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“No doubt Jews are most obnoxious creatures. Any competent historian or psychoanalyst can bring a mass of incontrovertible evidence to prove that it would have been better for the world if the Jews had never existed. But I, as an Irishman, can, with patriotic relish, demonstrate the same of the English. Also of the Irish.... We all live in glass houses. Is it wise to throw stones at the Jews? Is it wise to throw stones at all?”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)