List of Famous people named Christo
Christo Popov
Christo Popov is a French badminton player from Fos club. He was the boys' doubles European U15 and U17 Junior Champions, also won the boys' singles silver medals at the 2018 European and 2019 World Junior Championships. He reached a career high as boys' singles World Junior number 1 in January 2020.
Christo Grozev
Christo Grozev is a Bulgarian investigative journalist, media expert and media investor, the lead Russia investigator with Bellingcat, focusing on security threats, extraterritorial clandestine operations, and the weaponization of information. His investigations into the identity of the suspects in the 2018 Novichok agent poisonings in the UK earned him and his team the European Press Prize for Investigative Journalism. Grozev is known for using open-source, social media, other available data for investigations. Based in Vienna, Austria, he authored investigations identifying, among others, two senior Russian officers linked to the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014, GRU officers involved with the 2016 Montenegrin coup plot, the three poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal suspects in 2018 and poisoning of Alexei Navalny in 2020.
Christo Proykov
Christo Proykov is the Bulgarian Greek Catholic Bishop of Sofia. He was ordained a priest on 23 May 1971, then appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Sofia and Titular Bishop of Briula on 18 December 1993. On 6 January 1994 Proykov was ordained bishop and on 5 September 1995 he became Bishop of Sofia.
Christo Jivkov
Hristo Zhivkov is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his performances as St. John in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and as Giovanni delle Bande Nere in Ermanno Olmi's 2001 The Profession of Arms.