Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She is now a professor emeritus at the University Paris Diderot. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
Lilyana Ivanova Petrova, known professionally as Lili Ivanova is a Bulgarian singer. In tribute to her contribution to the culture of the country, she is often referred to as the "Prima of Bulgarian popular music".
Mariana Popova is a Bulgarian singer. She is known for representing Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, trainer on The Voice of Bulgaria 2011 and from Vip Brother 2012 - Bulgaria
Parashkeva Hristova Stefanova, known artistically as Pasha Hristova was a Bulgarian singer, best known for performing one of Bulgaria's most popular songs "Една българска роза". Some of the other songs she was famous for are "Повей, ветре", "Този дивен свят" and "Янтра" ("Yantra"). Her brief but meteoric career took off in the late 1960s. In the short time between 1967 and 1971, she won a number of prestigious awards at Bulgarian and international music festivals. She died young in a plane crash in 1971, pregnant with her second child.
Svetlana Velmar-Janković was a Serbian novelist, essayist and chronicler of Belgrade. Her awards include the Isidora Sekulić, Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Đorđe Jovanović, Borisav Stanković and Pera Todorović prizes, as wellas the National Library of Serbia Award and the NIN Prize.
Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva is a Bulgarian and EU politician.
Stefka Evstatieva is a Bulgarian operatic soprano. Born in Ruse, she studied voice at the State Academy of Music in Sofia with Elena Kisselova. She began her career with the Ruse Opera where she made her debut as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera and sang there from 1971 to 1979. In 1974 Stefka Evstatieva won the second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.. In 1978 she won the Grand Prize of Belgian Radio & TV Belcanto Competition; in 1979 Grand Prize and Golden Ring in the Young Singers Competition in Sofia; and in 1982 the Best Performance Award at the Arena di Verona.
Elitsa Todorova is a Bulgarian folk singer and professional percussionist. Todorova formed the duo Elitsa & Stoyan and they represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, and once again represented Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö. The drums, ""The Cosmic tree","The Olympic drums of Bulgaria", "Drum-Pyramid" are among the tools with which she has left an individual impact on ethno-music.
Nevena Tsoneva is a Bulgarian singer who won the first season of the Bulgarian television series Music Idol in 2007.
Zlatina Deliradeva is a Bulgarian choral conductor.
Joo Yeon Sir, is a South Korean violinist residing in the UK.
Elena Pampulova is a retired professional tennis player from Bulgaria. She competed for Fed Cup of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). Elena's first tennis coach was her own mother, Bulgarian tennis player Lubka Radkova. Elena's father, Emilian Pampoulov, is also a tennis player.
The Sofia Boys' Choir is the first boys choir in Bulgaria, founded in 1968. The performers, aged 8–15, are selected from schools in Sofia. The founder and first conductor of the choir was Lilyana Todorova; she served from 1968 to 1989. Prof. Dr. Adriana Blagoeva has been conductor of the choir since 1989. She graduated from the National Musical Academy in Sofia as choir conductor. Nowadays, besides her active conducting work, she is professor in choral conducting at the National Musical Academy. In 1997 she founded the Youth Formation with the Sofia Boys Choir, consisting of former members of the boys choir. Today the choir is presented in three formations – boys, youth and mixed. Zornitsa Getova has been choirmaster and pianist of the choir from 1999 until 2017.
Albena Simeonova is a Bulgarian environmental activist. She is a key figure in the opposition to the Bulgarian Belene nuclear power plant.
Anita Traversi was a Swiss singer, best known for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contests of 1960 and 1964.
Dobrinka Tabakova is a British/Bulgarian composer.
Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D , is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of Orange Factory psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a German author. Among her novels are Pong (1998), Apostoloff (2009) and Blumenberg (2011). She has received several German literary awards, including the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013.
Vera Mutafchieva was a Bulgarian writer and historian.
Desislava Ivanova Doneva, known by her stage names Desi Slava or DESS, is a Bulgarian singer, songwriter and producer. She was born on 7 March 1979 in Radnevo. Her musical stage performances began at an early age, when she began winning awards at festivals for children. Shortly afterwards, she became the main solo singer of the orchestra "Radnevo". This allowed her to be noticed by one of the most famous Bulgarian folklore singers of all time - Valkana Stoyanova, who took her under her wing, studied her and declared Desislava as her only possible music heir among all of the students.
