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Delyo was a Bulgarian rebel leader who was active in the Rhodope Mountains in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Eve Frank or Eva Frank born Rachel Frank in Nikopol, Ottoman Empire, was a mystic cult leader, and the only woman to have been declared a Jewish messiah. She was the daughter of Jacob Frank, the claimant to the position of Jewish messiah in the 18th century, and allegedly Sophie Ascania/Catherine the Great.

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Saint Paisius of Hilendar or Paìsiy Hilendàrski (1722–1773) was a Bulgarian clergyman and a key Bulgarian National Revival figure. He is most famous for being the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history after the work of Petar Bogdan Bakshev from 1667, "History of Bulgaria". Most Bulgarians are taught that he was the forefather of the Bulgarian National Revival.

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Kiril Peychinovich or Kiril Pejčinoviḱ (Bulgarian: Кирил Пейчинович, Serbian: Кирил Пејчиновић, Macedonian: Кирил Пејчиновиќ, Church Slavonic: Күриллъ Пейчиновићь was a Bulgarian cleric, writer and enlightener, one of the first supporters of the use of modern Bulgarian in literature, and one of the early figures of the Bulgarian National Revival.

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Saint Sophronius of Vratsa (1739–1813), born Stoyko Vladislavov, was a Bulgarian cleric and one of the leading figures of the early Bulgarian National Revival.

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Hristofor Žefarović was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of early pan-South Slavism.

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Kiril Živković also spelled Kiril Zhivkovich was a writer and Orthodox bishop.