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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