World-famous people you didn't know were of Bulgarian descent/ born in Bulgaria (= b.)


John Atanasoff - the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer
Dilma Rousseff - current President of Brazil
(b.)Ivet Lalova -  fastest white woman in the world
(b.)Daniela Simidchieva - world's smartest woman (MENSA) [Bulgarian students rate second in the world in SAT scores {that's why I never got into Harvard...}]
(b.)Julia Kristeva - philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, sociologist, feminist and novelist
(b.)Tzvetan Todorov - philosopher 
(b.)Peter Deunov - spiritual master and founder of a School of Esoteric Christianity
(b.)Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov - philosopher, pedagogue, alchemist, mystic, magus and astrologer
(b.)George Papazov - the father of surrealism
(b.)Jules Pascin - the "Prince of Montparnasse"
(b.)Christo Javacheff - world-famous artist
(b.)Elias Canetti - novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
(b.)Hristo Shopov - Pontius Pilate in "The Passion of the Christ" (2004)
(b.)Kotoōshū Katsunori - first European sumo wrestler to win an Emperor's Cup
Mia Kirshner - actress and social activist
(b.)Nina Dobrev - actress and model
(b.)Samuel Finzi - actor and musician
(b.)Dasy Lang - professional female boxer
Leah LaBelle - singer, finalist in American Idol
Rita Wilson - actress
(b.)Lucy Diakovska - one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels
(b.)Raina Kabaivanska - one of the leading lyrico-spintosopranos of her generation
(b.)Milcho Leviev - Jazz pianist and composer 
(b.)Dan Koloff - wrestler from the first part of the 20th century

(b.)Viktor Krum from "Harry Potter"
(b.)Orpheus - ancient Thracian singer and musician 
(b.)Spartacus - leader of the slaves in the Third Servile War
Saints Cyril and Methodius - credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic