List of Famous people born in Vidin Province, Bulgaria

Dimitar Iliev Popov

First Name Dimitar
Died on December 5, 2015 (aged 45)

Dimitar Iliev Popov (Pokriva) was a leading Bulgarian judge and the first Prime Minister of the country not to be a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party since 1946.

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Dorothea of Bulgaria

First Name Dorothea
Born on November 30, 1354
Died on November 30, 1389 (aged 35)

Dorothea of Bulgaria, also called Doroslava (Дорослава), was the first Queen of Bosnia. Daughter of the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Sratsimir, Dorothea was held hostage by King Louis I of Hungary, who married her off to Ban Tvrtko I of Bosnia in 1374. She became queen in 1377 and may have been the mother of King Tvrtko II.

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Constantine II of Bulgaria

First Name Constantine
Last Name Bulgaria
Born on November 30, 1368
Died on September 17, 1422 (aged 53)

Constantine II, allegedly ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria from 1397 to 1422. He was born in the early 1370s, and died in exile at the Serbian court on 17 September 1422. Constantine II claimed the title Emperor of Bulgaria and was accepted as such by foreign governments, but he is often omitted from listings of rulers of Bulgaria.

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Petar Mladenov

First Name Petar
Born on August 22, 1936
Died on May 31, 2000 (aged 63)

Petar Toshev Mladenov was a Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician. He was the last leader of the Bulgarian People's Republic from 1989 to 1990, and briefly the first President of the Bulgarian Republic in 1990.

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Aleksandar Lilov

First Name Aleksandar
Born on August 31, 1933
Died on July 20, 2013 (aged 79)

Aleksandër Vasilev Lilov was a Bulgarian politician and philosopher.

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Macit Flordun

First Name Macit
Born on March 13, 1939
Died on November 12, 1996 (aged 57)
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Jules Pascin

First Name Jules
Last Name Pascin
Born on March 31, 1885
Died on June 5, 1930 (aged 45)

Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, Jules Pascin, or the "Prince of Montparnasse", was a Bulgarian artist known for his paintings and drawings. He later became an American citizen. His most frequent subject was women, depicted in casual poses, usually nude or partly dressed.

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Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha

First Name Hüseyin
Born on November 30, 1831
Died on June 16, 1901 (aged 69)

Hüseyin Tevfik Pasha was a military adjutant representing Turkey in the purchase of foreign rifles. He is remembered for his Linear Algebra which outlined some vector algebra including a "special perpendicular" and properties of curves. The book title was precocious since the early vector algebra was generalized in vector space, and this concept later produced linear algebra. He is known as Tawfiq Pasha of Vidin or as Vidinli Huseyin, Tawfiq Pasha in Turkish literature. He served as Envoy of the Ottoman Empire to the United States.

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