Vasil Nikolov Zlatarski was a Bulgarian historian-medievalist, archaeologist, and epigraphist.
Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he only ever published one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets. Because of his underground communist activity against the government of Boris III and the German troops in Bulgaria, Vaptsarov was arrested, tried, sentenced and executed the same night by a firing squad.
Dimitar Nikolov Petkov was a leading member of the Bulgarian People's Liberal Party and the country's Prime Minister from November 5, 1906 until he was assassinated in Sofia the following year.
Nikola Todorov Zhekov was the Minister of War of Bulgaria in 1915 and served as commander-in-chief from 1915 to 1918 during World War I.
Jaroslav František Julius Věšín was a Czech painter who mainly worked in Bulgaria and who was noted as a master of genre painting. The realistic depiction of battle scenes from the First Balkan War (1912) are the subject of a substantial part of his work.
Nikola Todorov Kotkov, nicknamed Koteto was a Bulgarian footballer who played as a striker.
Lyubomir Miletich was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death.
Nikola Asenov Spasov is a Bulgarian retired footballer who played as a striker and the current manager of Bulgarian Second League club Tsarsko Selo.
Emiliyan Stanev was the pseudonym of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev, a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer.
Professor Nikola Iliev Milev (1881–1925) was a Bulgarian historian, publicist, public figure, diplomat, and a participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement.
Georgi Dimitrov Fingov was a Bulgarian architect who was particularly influenced by French Art Nouveau and is regarded as the first prominent representative of the Bulgarian Secession in architecture. Fingov's works range from private houses though schools and public buildings to royal palaces and hunting lodges for the Bulgarian Royal Family.
Nikola Marinov Abadzhiev was a Bulgarian painter and teacher.
Nikola Ivanov Lazarov was a Bulgarian architect.
Nikola Kolev is a Bulgarian footballer. He currently plays for Etar Veliko Tarnovo on loan from CSKA Sofia as a midfielder.
Nikola Stoyanov Mitov was a Bulgarian scientist, economist and financier. He was in charge of the Bulgarian Government Debt Directorate for much of the interwar period and as such, he led the prolonged negotiations over the country's foreign debt. The agreements helped stabilise the country's national currency and contributed to the economic growth Bulgaria experienced prior to World War II. Between 1929 and 1944, Stoyanov was editor-in-chief of the authoritative journal of the Bulgarian Economic Society. He was also a prominent member of various organisations of Macedonian immigrants to Bulgaria and one of the founders of the Macedonian Scientific Institute, as well as its chairman between 1938 and 1945. Stoyanov was the first Bulgarian author whose scientific work on astronomy was published abroad.
Nikola Furnadzhiev was a Bulgarian poet and translator.
Nikola Tsanev was a Bulgarian footballer, who played as a forward. He played for Bulgaria in 8 matches, scoring 3 goals. He also competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Aron Sabat Aronov is a Bulgarian tenor and vocal pedagogue from a Jewish heritage.
Nikola Petrov was a Bulgarian landscape painter and graphic artist; also known for his portrait sketches and watercolors.
Events from the year 2016 in Bulgaria
