WTsola Nincheva Dragoycheva, also known under the pseudonym Sonya, was a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). A member of the illegal armed wing of the party in the 1920s, she spent years in prison and as an émigré in the Soviet Union. After World War II, she held a number of high posts and was part of the nomenklatura. From 1946 until 1990, she was continuously a member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria. On 11 December 1947 she became the first female member of a cabinet in the history of the country.
WKrastyo Hadzhiivanov was a Bulgarian poet and resistance fighter.
WElena Lagadinova was a Bulgarian agronomist, genetic engineer, and politician.
WMetodi Tasev Shatorov - Sharlo was a Bulgarian Communist Party activist and also temporary leader of the Regional Committee of Communists in Macedonia in 1940-1941. As most left-wing politicians from Macedonia, during the 1930s he adopted the Balkan Communist Federation's concept for an autonomous Macedonia. However, Macedonian communist functionaries, originating from the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (United) never lost their strong pro-Bulgarian (Bulgarophile) sentiments.
WVasil Konstantionov Tanev (1897–1941) was a Bulgarian Communist, one of the three Bulgarian Comintern operatives arrested and tried for complicity in the Reichstag fire in 1933.
WKrum Vassilev Nachev was a Bulgarian politician, author, journalist and leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
WVioleta Yakova or Violeta Jakova was a partisan and member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Yakova, whose nom de guerre was "Ivanka", participated in the killings of several German and Bulgarian military officers operational, including the murder of the chief of the Bulgarian Police, Atanas Pantev and Lieutenant general Hristo Lukov. She was arrested by the police of the Bulgarian government, and in June 1944, after being injured during clashes with police in the city of Radomir, she was put to death for treason by the Bulgarian government
WTodor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history.