Deceased from 2010 to 2019

• Nikola Anastasov (1932 – 2016), actor and writer
• Ivan Bozhilov (1940 – 2016), historian
• Hacho Boyadzhiev (1932 – 2012), director
• Alexander Brzytsov (1943 – 2016), composer
• Mihail Bukureshtliev (1930 – 2018), composer, musician and folklorist
• Domna Ganeva (1935 – 2012), actress
• Asen Gargov (1949 – 2017), pop singer, musician and composer
• Violetta Gindeva (1946 – 2019), actress
• Borislav Gruncharov (1944 – 2017), pop singer
• Boris Gudjunov (1941 – 2015), pop singer
• Stefan Danailov (1942 – 2019), actor and politician
• Rositsa Danailova (1933 – 2018), actress
• Evtim Evtimov (1933 – 2016), poet, author of the lyrics of many songs from Bulgarian pop music
• Vasilka Ivanova (1937 – 2011), singer
• Alexander Yosifov (1940 – 2016), composer, conductor and music teacher
• Georgi Kaloyanchev (1925 – 2012), actor
• Todor Kolev (1939 – 2013), actor
• Velko Kanev (1948 – 2011), actor
• Ivan Laskin (1970 – 2019), theater and film actor
• Ibro Lolov (1932 – 2015), accordionist
• Maxim Bulgarian (1914 – 2012), Bulgarian patriarch
• Dirair Mardikian (1930 – 2010), cleric
• Leda Mileva (1920 – 2013), writer
• Romaniola Miroslavova (1953 – 2016), poet
• Stoyanka Mutafova (1922 – 2019), actress
• Anastas Naumov (1928 – 2015), composer and folklorist
• Vasil Parmakov (1961 – 2016), musician
• Valeri Petrov (1920 – 2014), poet
• Dimitar Popov (1927 – 2015), Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria
• Petko Radev (1933 – 2017), clarinetist and music teacher
• Lyubka Rondova (1936 – 2016), folk singer and translator
• Toncho Rusev (1932 – 2018), musician and composer
• Dimitar Simeonov (1932 – 2019), musician, conductor and teacher
• Traicho Sinapov (1942 – 2014), accordionist
• Krastyo Stanishev (1933 – 2019), poet and translator
• Magdalina Stancheva (1924 – 2014), archaeologist
• Manol Todorov (1925 – 2019), musician, folklorist and music teacher
• Nevena Tosheva (1922 – 2013), director
• Katya Filipova (1949 – 2012), pop singer
• Krikor Hugasyan (1928 – 2011), actor
• Kosta Tsonev (1929 – 2012), actor
• Veli Chaushev (1934 – 2018), actor
• Pavel Chernev (1969 – 2016), lawyer and politician