Deceased from 2000 to 2009

• Valkana Stoyanova (1922 – 2009), folk singer
• Georgi Cordov (1934 – 2006), pop singer, composer and teacher
• Jacques Moshe Avdala (1927 – 2000), scenographer and painter
• Yordanka Ilieva (1922 – 2003), folk singer
• Lachezar Avramov (1922 – 2003), politician
• Maurice Alajem (1932 – 2004), musician and composer
• Venceslav Andreychev (1941 – 2001), physicist
• Kiril Vazharov (1988 – 2009), hockey player
• Margarita Gargova (1923 – 2004), screenwriter
• Nikola Ganchev (1919 – 2001), carpenter
• Nikolay Genchev (1931 – 2000), historian
• Nikolay Binev (1934 – 2003), actor
• Rangel Gerovsky (1959 – 2004), wrestler
• Stefan Gechev (1912 – 2000), poet
• Hristo Danov (1922 – 2003), lawyer
• Krum Dermendzhiev (1916 – 2005), sculptor
• Dobri Djurov (1916 – 2002), politician
• Emil Dimitrov (1940 – 2005), pop singer and composer
• Blaga Dimitrova (1922 – 2003), writer
• Svetozar Rusinov (1933 – 2000), composer and music teacher
• Stefan Kozhuharov (1934 – 2000), philologist
• Nevena Kokanova (1938 – 2000), actress
• Emil Külev (1957 – 2005), banker
• Boyan Lechev (1926 – 2004), violinist
• Pavel Matev (1924 – 2006), poet and public figure
• Dimitar Manchev (1934 – 2009), actor
• Georgi Minchev (1943 – 2001), musician and singer
• Dimitar Mishev (1933 – 2003), engineer
• Zhana Nikolova-Galabova (1908 – 2009), scholar philologist, essayist, lexicographer
• Yosif Petrov (1909 – 2004), poet, doyen of the Supreme Council
• Ivan Prmov (1921 – 2005), Bulgarian partisan and politician from the BKP
• Valo Radev (1923 – 2001), film director
• Yordan Radichkov (1929 – 2004), writer
• Ruslan Raichev (1919 – 2006), conductor
• Radoj Ralin (1923 – 2004), writer
• Gencho Stoev (1925 – 2002), writer
• Todor Tsonev (1934 – 2004), cartoonist artist
• Georgi Chankov (1909 – 2004), partisan and politician from the BKP
• Kirkor Azarian (1934 – 2009), actor, director and educator