The Most Famous
CELEBRITIES from Bulgaria
This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Celebrities. The pantheon dataset contains 265 Celebrities, 1 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 49th most number of Celebrities behind Chile, and Kuwait.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Celebrities of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Celebrities is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ivo Papazov (b. 1952)
With an HPI of 51.42, Ivo Papazov is the most famous Bulgarian Celebrity. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Ivo Papazov (or Papasov; Bulgarian: Иво Папазов; born 16 February, 1952), nicknamed Ibryama (Ибряма), is a Bulgarian clarinetist. He leads the "Ivo Papazov Wedding Band" in performances of jazz-infused Stambolovo music, and is one of the premier creators of the genre known as "wedding band" music in Bulgaria, along with the violinist Georgi Yanev, saxophonist Yuri Yunakov, clarinetist Neshko Neshev and accordionists Ivan Milev and Peter Ralchev. Together with Emilia they are known as Mames 2001. An orchestra that had great success in the TV show Познай кой е под масата ("Guess who is under the table"). According to Garth Cartwright, he was "the first Balkan Gypsy musician to win a wide international following with his two Joe Boyd-produced albums for Hannibal Records in the early 1990s." Papazov and his Wedding Band have toured the United States several times. Papazov and Yuri Yunakov are briefly profiled and the recording of "Kurdzhaliiska Ruchenica" from their 2005 album Together Again is analyzed in the popular textbook, Worlds of Music, 5th Edition.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bulgarian celebrities born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bulgarian celebrities include Ivo Papazov.
