Born from 1940 to 1949

• Hardy (1940 – 2015), illusionist and magician
• Alexander Brzytsov (1943 – 2016), composer
• Alexander Yosifov (1940 – 2016), composer, conductor and music teacher
• Andrey Avramov (b. 1943), director and actor
• Veselin Kisev (b. 1946), guitarist
• Asen Agov (b. 1948), politician
• Biser Kirov (1942 – 2016), pop singer, musician, composer, TV presenter, director, producer and diplomat
• Borislav Gruncharov (1944 – 2017), pop singer
• Valentin Alexandrov (1946 – 2008), politician
• Violeta Nesheva (1943 – 2024), archaeologist
• Dimitar Tsenov (1941 – 1989), poet
• Doychin Vassilev (b. 1944), Bulgarian mountaineer
• Georgi Asparuhov (1943 – 1971), football player
• Emil Bassat (b. 1949), journalist and literary critic
• Miryana Basheva (1947 – 2020), poet
• Rosen Bossev (1946 – 1988), writer
• Ognyan Brankov (b. 1946), doctor, surgeon, scientist
• Petya Vasileva (b. 1940), doctor
• Borislav Velikov (b. 1946), politician
• Ivan Georgiev, Bulgarian nationalist
• Ognyan Gerdzhikov (b. 1946), politician
• Maria Gigova (b. 1947), gymnast
• Boris Gulyashki (1945 – 2007), poet
• Stefan Danailov (1942 – 2019), actor and politician
• Stefka Berova (b. 1942), pop singer and actress
• Mihail Yonchev (b. 1947), pop singer
• Vera Deyanova (b. 1946), translator
• Aksinia Djurova (b. 1942), philologist and art critic
• Lyudmila Zhivkova (1942 – 1981), politician and public figure
• Boyan Ivanov (1943 – 2012), pop singer
• Stefan Iliev (b. 1946), composer
• Bogdana Karadocheva (b. 1949), pop singer
• Venceslav Konstantinov (b. 1940), writer and translator
• Georgi Kostov (1941 – 2024), composer and politician
• Ivan Kostov (b. 1949), politician
• Evdokia Maneva (b. 1945), politician
• Kiril Marichkov (b. 1944), musician
• Yanko Miladinov (b. 1943), composer and conductor
• Milan Milanov (b. 1945), politician
• Neophyte Bulgarian (b. 1945), Bulgarian patriarch
• Yavor Milushev (b. 1948), actor
• Georgi Minchev (1943 – 2001), rock singer, musician
• Mihail Nedelchev (b. 1942), literary historian, professor
• Asparukh Nikodimov (b. 1945), football player
• Victor Paskov (1949 – 2009), writer
• Vasil Popov (1942 – 1990), mathematician, corresponding member of the BAS
• Muravey Radev (b. 1947), politician
• Viktor Samuilov (b. 1946), writer
• Emil Simeonov (b. 1945), poet
• Antoni Slavinski (b. 1946), politician
• Vasil Sotirov (b. 1947), writer
• Stanislav Stratiev (1941 – 2000), writer
• Yosif Sarchadzhiev (b. 1945), actor
• Yordanka Hristova (b. 1943), pop singer
• Pasha Hristova (1946 – 1971), pop singer
• Yulia Tsenova (1948 – 2010), pianist, composer, teacher, professor
• Chavdar Chervenkov (b. 1941), officer and diplomat
• Alexander Shurbanov (b. 1941), scientist, writer and translator, professor
• Dimitar Yakimov (b. 1941), football player
• Ognyan Nikolov (b. 1949), Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic medalist
• Filip Trifonov (1947 – 2021), actor