Until 1878
• Mehmet Sadetin (Hoxha Sadeddin) (1536 – 1599): Capture of Sofia by the Ottomans. (Magazine Serdika, bg 1 – 2, 1942 p. 90, translation from Tacüttervarih, 1, 1862/63, 102 p.). Describes the capture of Sofia by the Ottomans through the treachery of a close associate of the ruler of Sofia, who is hunted down and kidnapped in Plovdiv by the head of the Ottoman army, Balaban Bey.
• Anton Branchic – describes Sofia in an essay (around 1553 – 1567). (German and Austrian travelogues about the Balkans. XV-XVI century, Science and Art, 1979, p. 185)
• Haji Kalfa (Mustafa ben Abdallah) – Ottoman traveler. Describes the Bulgarian settlements incl. Sofia (approximately between 1629 – 1658). First translation Rumeli und Bosna geographisch beschrieben (1812, Vienna).
• Christian von Walsdorf: describes Sofia in his travelogues from 1661 (City of Sofia in the XVII century, Tsarska pridvorna pechatnitsa, Sofia 1912, p. 82)
• Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798 – 1854): Describes his experiences in Sofia in Sofia in 1841. (Travel around Bulgaria in 1841)
Until 1913
• Alexander I Battenberg (1857 – 1893), the first prince of Bulgaria after the Liberation, who participated in the Unification
• Maria von Battenberg (1852 – 1923), German princess, sister of Prince Alexander I Battenberg. Describes Sofia in his essay On a visit to my brother Alexander, prince of Bulgaria (My trip to Bulgaria in 1884. Darmstadt, 1886, pp. 89-95, 106-108).
• Pyotr Alabin (1824 – 1896), Russian public figure, governor of the city in 1878 – 1879
• Konstantin Batolov (1878 – 1938), politician, lived in the city since 1899.
• Friedrich Grünanger (1856 – 1929), Austrian architect, worked in the city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Dimcho Debelyanov (1887 – 1916), poet, lived in the city in 1904 – 1912
• Todor Ivanchov (1858 – 1905), politician, lived in the city since 1883.
• Pavel Milyukov (1859 – 1943), Russian politician, taught cultural history in 1897 – 1898
• Racho Petrov (1861 – 1942), officer and politician, lived in the city after 1878.
• Pencho Slaveykov (1866 – 1912), poet, lived in the city in 1879 – 1881 and after 1884.
• Arthur Smith (journalist) (1887 – 1945), American journalist, defender of the revolutionary struggle of the Bulgarians in Macedonia and Odra. Describes Sofia in an essay in “Memories from Macedonia” published in 1908.
• Porfiry Stamatov (1840 – 1925), lawyer, lived in the city in 1880 – 1886
• Zahari Stoyanov (1850 – 1889), writer, lived in the city after 1886.
Until 1945
• Ferdinand (1861 – 1948), prince and king of the Bulgarians, won Bulgarian independence
• Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans (1817 – 1907), mother of King Ferdinand I
• Eleonora von Reuss-Köstritz (1860 – 1917), Bulgarian queen, second wife of King Ferdinand I
• Maria Louisa of Bulgaria (1933), Bulgarian princess, daughter of Tsar Boris III and Queen Joanna of Bulgaria
• Ivan Bagryanov (1881 – 1945), politician, lived in the city since the beginning of the 20th century
• Dobri Bozhilov (1884 – 1945), politician, lived in the city since 1902.
• Dimitar Vlahov (1878 – 1953), Macedonian politician, graduated in chemistry in 1903.
• Alexander Vutimski (1919 – 1943), poet, lived in the city in 1929 – 1939
• Ivan Valkov (1875 – 1962), officer and politician, graduated from the Military School in 1896.
• Vladimir Balan (1895 – 1944), aviator and aeronautical engineer
• Petar Gabrovski (1898 – 1945), politician, lived in the city after 1918.
• Dimitar Dimov (1909 – 1966), writer, lived in the city since 1919.
• Emanuil Ivanov (1857 – 1925), mathematician, lived in the city in 1885 – 1923
• John XXIII (1885 – 1963), Pope, ambassador of the Vatican in 1925 – 1935
• Yordan Yovkov (1880 – 1937), writer, lived in the city in 1895 – 1904 and 1927 – 1937
• Nikodim Kondakov (1844 – 1925), Russian Byzantineist, taught medieval art 1920 – 1922
• Nikolay Köstner (1889 – 1959), Estonian politician and economist, worked in the city in 1932 – 1940
• André Mott (1887 – ?), Belgian diplomat, worked in the city in 1909 – 1913, 1918 – 1920, 1936 – 1941, 1946 – 1947
• Ivan Mrkvichka (1856 – 1938), painter, lived in the city after 1889.
• Krastyo Pastukhov (1874 – 1949), politician, lived in the city in 1923 – 1946
• Teodor Teodorov (1859 – 1924), politician, lived in the city from the end of the 19th century
• Bogdan Filov (1883 – 1945), archaeologist and politician, lived in the city after 1906.
• Chudomir (1890 – 1967), writer, graduated in painting in 1913.
• Ivan Shishmanov (1862 – 1928), philologist, lived in the city after 1888.
• Hristo Yasenov (1889 – 1925), poet, lived in the city after 1907.
Until 2007
• Simeon II (1937), Prince of Turnovski, son of Tsar Boris III and Tsarina Joanna of Bulgaria
• Hristo Borina (1882 – 1967), Bulgarian poet and public figure, studied and worked as chief librarian in Sofia
• Dora Vinarova (b. 1926), director, has lived in the city since the 1950s
• Radoslav Gaydarski (b. 1937), politician, graduated in Medicine in 1962.
• Stefan Gevgalov (1882 – 1956), an enlightened activist, lived in the city since 1940.
• Slavenka Drakulic (b. 1949-), living in Sweden, writing in Croatian. Describes Sofia during his visit in the early 1990s in his book: “Cafe Europa: Life After Communism” Abacus, London (1996)
• Reneta Injova (b. 1953), politician, has lived in the city since the 1970s
• Nedyalko Yordanov (b. 1940), writer, graduated in Bulgarian philology in 1962.
• Milko Kovachev (b. 1957), politician, graduated in energy engineering in the 1970s and lived in the city after 1986.
• Konstantin Konstantinov (1903 – 1955), musicologist, professor, lived in the city since 1939.
• Ivan Marazov (b. 1942), culturologist, lived in the city after 1967.
• Miho Mihov (b. 1949), officer, graduated from the Military Academy in 1980.
• Asen Peykov (1908 – 1973), sculptor, graduated from the Art Academy in the 1930s
• Lyubomir Pipkov (1904 – 1974), composer, lived in the city in 1919 – 1926 and after 1932.
• Nikolay Svinarov (b. 1958), politician, graduated in law in 1982 and lived in the city after 1985.
• Georgi Slavkov (b. 1958), football player, worked in the city from 1982 – 1986
• Teofan Sokerov (b. 1943), painter, graduated in painting in 1969 and lived in the city since the 1970s
• Slobodan Sotirov (b. 1926), painter, studied fine art in 1942 – 1946
• Emilian Stanev (1907 – 1979), writer, lived in the city after 1928.
• Hristo Stoichkov (b. 1966), football player, worked in the city in 1985 – 1990
• Dragan Tenev (1919 – 1999), novelist and art critic
• Angelika Schrobsdorff (b. 1927), German-Israeli writer.
• Ivan Todorov (b. 1953), journalist and writer.
After 2007
• Elena Baramova, singer, graduated in opera singing in 1994.
• Margarita Veleva, poet, graduated in dentistry
• Georgi Pirinski (b. 1948), politician, has lived in the city since the 1950s
• Svetlana Rasheva (b. 1966), writer, has lived in the city since 1990.
• Anton Stankov (b. 1966), politician, graduated in law in 1988 and lived in the city since 1994.
• Kalin Terziyski (b. 1970), writer
