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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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 | | Czech by original nationality. Eminent architect, engineer and geodesist – the greatest constructor Plovdiv has ever had. Author of the General Regulatory Plan of Plovdiv, considered the very first contemporary town-plan of Plovdiv (1896). more > |
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 | | A man of letters and an eminent public figure from the Bulgarian Revival period. A student of Nayden Gerov. A teacher in Plovdiv, grammar expert and translator. Assistant of the Plovdiv Regional Manager (1868-70). Director of the Education Department of East Roumelia (1879-84). Author and publisher of textbooks in Grammar, History, Geography, Logics. Poet, writer and publicist, education figure. Member of the Bulgarian Literature Society, 1884 (later the BG Academy of Sciences). more > |
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 | | In 1900, he became a novice in Turkey and accepted the name of Yosafat. He studied Philosophy and theology in Belgium. In 1909 he ordained as a catholic priest. In 1948, when all foreign priests are expelled from Bulgaria, Father Yosafat was appointed a parish priest in Varna. He was arrested by the militia forces in December 1951 in accusation of conspiracy against the communist state. Father Shishkov was accused of being one of the `oldest spies`. He was shot on November 12th, 1952, in the city of Sofia, together with other catholic priests.
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 | | Poet, writer, vegetarian and supporter of healthy life and mind, community figure, Esperanto supporter, founder of the Human Rights Support League, man of law and honor, he was famous for his ardent support for people unjustly accused. He was later exiled to the communist concentration camp of Belene.
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