List of Famous people born in Sofia City Province, Bulgaria

Valentin Ivaylov Antov is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays for Serie A club Bologna, on loan from CSKA Sofia. Primarily a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a centre-back.

Oda Jaune is a Bulgarian painter.

Mina Andreeva is a Bulgarian-German political scientist and lawyer. She is the chief spokesperson for the European Commission.

Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria ; German: Prinzessin Nadeshda von Bulgarien; 30 January 1899 – 15 February 1958) was a member of the Bulgarian Royal Family.

Princess Maria Louise of Bulgaria is the daughter of Tsar Boris III and Tsaritsa Ioanna and the older sister of Simeon II of Bulgaria. Her baptism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church caused controversy at the time.

Ivet Miroslavova Lalova-Collio is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the 13th-fastest woman in the history of the 100 metres. She finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career was interrupted for two years between June 2005 and May 2007 due to a leg injury. In June 2012 she won gold at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in the Women's 100 metres. In July 2016 she won two silver medals at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in both the Women's 100 and 200 metres. She has participated at four editions of the Olympic Games.

Mirela Demireva is a Bulgarian high jumper.

Hristo Naumov Shopov is a Bulgarian actor. Shopov's father, Naum Shopov, was a famous Bulgarian actor as well.

Émile Naoumoff is a Bulgarian pianist and composer. He revealed himself a musical prodigy at age five, taking up study of the piano and adding composition to his studies a year later. At the age of eight, after a fateful meeting in Paris, he became the last disciple of Nadia Boulanger, who referred to him as "the gift of my old age". He studied with her until her death in late 1979. Boulanger gave him the opportunity to work with Clifford Curzon, Igor Markevitch, Robert and Gaby Casadesus, Nikita Magaloff, Jean Françaix, Leonard Bernstein, Soulima Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturian and Yehudi Menuhin. Lord Menuhin conducted the premiere of Naoumoff's first Piano Concerto, with the composer as a soloist when he was ten years old. He pursued studies at the Paris Conservatory with Lélia Gousseau, Pierre Sancan, Geneviève Joy-Dutilleux, as well as at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Pierre Dervaux (conducting).

Klára Dobrev is a Hungarian politician and is the Vice President of the European Parliament. She is married to former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány. She was born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a Hungarian mother, Piroska Apró, and a Bulgarian father, Petar Dobrev. Her maternal grandfather, Antal Apró, a communist politician, was Hungary's Minister of Industry in the 1950s–60s.