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This section includes eminent figures of culture and arts, sports and politics, public figures and clergymen from past and present days, connected to Plovdiv – ones who were born in the city or the region, spent part of their lives here, devoted years of work to our city, or just brought fame to the city by being “Plovdivers” (a nice word to coin, isn’t it?). Some of those figures are great people of historic impact, others are more ambiguous and their contribution is still much arguable, but anyway the names of all are in one way or another has remained connected to the name of Plovdiv. Such a large gallery of the figures of Plovdiv has never been collected in a website so far. We truly hope the readers to find it useful and be interested in all the names we have gathered in that gallery. There are yet more that we have processed but have not managed to input so far.
PlovdivGuide team will be much grateful and obliged to all the readers eager to help in collecting, writing and sending articles (in BG) about other eminent figures of Plovdiv to be included in the site (a digital photo of the figure you have written about will be very helpful). So many famous and not-so-famous people have left their trace on Plovdiv’s history and deserve their names to be mentioned, aren’t they? We are looking forward to constructive and critical remarks, notes, suggestions, articles, or just any comments at the address: info@plovdivguide.com
The information included in those articles has been collected from various printed or electronic materials (mentioned at the end of articles), and by courtesy of the State Archive, Plovdiv, and the Ivan Vazov National Library, Plovdiv.
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 | | One of the greatest football players of Plovdiv and Bulgaria in the 1960s and 1970s. Played for the team of Botev - Plovdiv, and the National BG team. Later a coach of Botev, Plovdiv. more > |
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 | | He participated in the national liberation movement. Persecuted by the Turks, he moved into Plovdiv. About the year 1868, he became teacher at the St.Trinity school. He was an active participant in the activities of the local revolutionary committee founded by Vassil Levski (1869), and he was chosen as his chairman. He participated in the 1876 April Uprising. After the Liberation of 1878, he was the Chairman of the secret committee Unity in Plovdiv, and one of the leading organisers of the gymnastics societies of East Roumelia. more > |
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 | | Eminent trader, public figure, donor; participant in the national liberator movement. He funded himself the old building of the St Trinity school in Plovdiv, and later becomes its permanent donor. He was a member of the secret revolutionary committee, created by Vassil Levski back in 1869. After the brutal defeat of the 1876 April Uprising, he was imprisoned and after two years at the Tash Kapia prison in Plovdiv, he was slaughtered by the Turkish soldiers together with another 122 prisoners, just hours before the liberation of Plovdiv. more > |
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 | | Eminent Plovdiv artist. He graduated in 1959 from the academy of Arts in Sofia. He lives and works in Plovdiv. Winner of numerous art awards. His name has been connected to the so called `Plovdiv fivesome of artists`, uniting such eminent names as Yoan Leviev, Hristo Stefanov, Georgi Bozhilov and Encho Pironkov. more > |
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 | | One of the finest Bulgarian poets of all times. Growing up as an orphan, he had lots of jobs: reporter in newspapers and magazines, translator, journalist, proofwriter, editor, even stenographer. He died as a volunteer in WW1, at the age of just 29. more > |
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 | | Dimiter Zograph was brother of the famous icon-painter Zahari Zograph of the Samokov School. Born in the town of Samokov in 1796. Icon and mural painter. He worked a lot in Plovdiv. He painted all the iconostase icons and murals of the central vault of the St. Nedelya church in the Old Town of Plovdiv, with the help of his son, the eminent painter Stanislav Dospevski. more > |
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 | | Dimitar Panov Ivanov (1902-1985) is Bulgarian dramatic actor. His debut on the stage of Plovdiv Drama Theater goes back to 1955, in a play called “Checkov’s Performance”. more > |
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 | | Dimitre Dinev was born in 1968 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He started writing at the time of his secondary schooling in a German speaking 'Gymnasium' in Pazardshik. His first texts were published in 1986, both in Bulgarian and Russian. At the end of the 1980’s he took part in protests against the regime of Todor Shikov. more > |
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