List of Famous people born in Bulgaria

Madelaine Böhme is a German palaeontologist and professor of palaeoclimatology at the University of Tübingen.

Ivet Goranova is a Bulgarian karateka. She won the gold medal in the women's 55 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the gold medal in the women's kumite 55 kg event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus.

Mecnur Çolak was a Turkish professional footballer who played as a forward.

Spas Borislavov Delev is a Bulgarian professional footballer who currently plays as a winger for Arda Kardzhali and the Bulgarian national team.

Martin Petyov Petrov is a Bulgarian former footballer who played as a winger.

Borislav Biserov Mihaylov is a former Bulgarian professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper, and former President of the Bulgarian Football Union. He is also a former member of the executive committee of UEFA.

Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emeritus at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.

Irina Georgieva Bokova is a Bulgarian politician and the former Director-General of UNESCO (2009–2017). During her political and diplomatic career in Bulgaria, she served, among others, two terms as a member of the National parliament, and deputy minister of foreign affairs and minister of foreign affairs ad interim under Prime Minister Zhan Videnov. She also served as Bulgaria's ambassador to France and to Monaco, and was Bulgaria's Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Bokova was also the personal representative of Bulgaria's President to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (2005–2009).

Aoiyama Kōsuke is a Bulgarian professional sumo wrestler or rikishi from Elhovo. He made his debut in 2009, reaching the top division two years later, debuting in the November 2011 tournament. He has won three Fighting Spirit awards, one Technique award and one kinboshi for defeating a yokozuna. His highest rank has been sekiwake. He is one of the heaviest competitors in sumo, weighing around 200 kg for most tournaments.

Dimitar Rangelov is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Slavia Sofia.