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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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 | | The poet Alexander Banderov has long worked as a journalist (he has been awarded the Gold Pen Award of the Bulgarian Journalists Union), and later was an editor for the Hristo G.Danov Publishing House. more > |
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 | | Knjaz. Man of law. Statesman. Studied in Constantinople and in France. He got his higher education in State Law in Germany. He had high-ranking positions as a statesman and a diplomat in the Ottoman Empire. The first General Governor of East Roumelia(1879-84).
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 | | An eminent military figure. He was the comander of a cavalry squadron of dragoons, that in the night of January 4th, 1878, passed through the icy waters of the Maritsa River and was the first to enter Plovdiv as a liberator. more > |
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 | | Alexander Hristov is a boxing legend. He is a two-times European and World Champion, Boxing World Cup winner, Seoul Olympics silver medalist.From 380 boxing matches in his career he has lost only 15. He is the only high-rank BG boxer who has never had his nose broken. At the Seoul Olympics he was boxing with a serious tumor in his biceps, and managed to become the silver medalist. more > |
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 | | Ŕnton Bezenshek - Slovenian pedagogue, stenographer, publicist; an eminent public figure. He came to Bulgaria after the Liberation (1878). He was the creator of Bulgarian stenography (shothand writing).
While living in Plovdiv, he published textbooks, books, booklets and postcards; he also was the publisher of the first high-school textbook of Ethics. He was also the first Chairman of the newly-founded Choral Society in Plovdiv (1896).
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| | ASEN HRISTOFOROV – an economist and writer, one of the most eminent translators of English literature into Bulgarian. Repressed by the Communists, he spent two years in a concentration camp and was banned from reading lectures to university students because he graduated from the London Institute of Economy, and was a proponent of capitalistic economy knowledge... more > |
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 | | Assen Zlatev - gold medalist weightlifter. His amazing sports career has placed him among the greatest sportsmen Bulgaria ever had. Weight Classes Assen Zlatev competed in: Middleweight (75KG), Light Heavyweight (82.5KG). more > |
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 | | Born in Plovdiv in 1915 in Plovdiv. He graduated from the State Academy of Music in Sofia in 1940. He was among the creators of an Academy of Music and Dances in Plovdiv (1964). He was its long-term Dean, and taught until 2002. Honorary Citizen of Plovdiv. more > |
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 | | He played more than 120 characters in theater plays and more than 35 ones in the cinema. For almost 40 years in row he spent each Saturday behind the microphone in the Conversation with the Audience radio show at the Hristo Botev channel, which could have successfully won him a Guinness record for hosting the longest surviving radio show. All of his professional life has been dedicated to children. Ever since 1962 he had been telling fairy tale stories on TV. A large number of the films he played characters in were also focused on kids` world.
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 | | A trader and a public figure. He was the first Mayor of Plovdiv after the Liberation (1878). Atanas Samokovliev settled in Plovdiv and opened a textile shop there. He was elected a member of the Turkish Mejlis (parliament, national assembly). He became a member of the temporary BG government after the proclamation of the Ubnification of Bulgaria. A member of the National Assembly.
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