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Vasil Vasilev-Zueka was born on 30 April 1965 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He is an actor, known for Magna Aura (2009), Sled kraja na sveta (1998) and Suburban cops (2018). He is married to Nina. They have one child.

Ivan Krystev was born on 27 June 1940 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Time of Violence (1988), Stepni hora (1986) and Kmete, kmete (1990). He died on 7 June 2005 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The actress and drama teacher Assoc. Prof. Violeta Gindeva was born on June 14, 1946 in Sliven, Bulgaria. Violeta Gindeva has played a series of unforgettable roles both on stage and on the screen. Her first motion picture was Deviation and after that she took roles in A Film-shooting Day (character: Girl), The Altarpiece, in which she portrays Katerina Glaousheva, The Prince, The Weddings of King Ioan Assen, The Daughters of The Chief, (character: Kita), Memory, in which she portrays Mila, The Black Angels (Iskra), A Play With the Fire, in which she portrays Mother, A Daughter-in-law, (character: Sevda). On the stage she has played parts in the plays At the Foot of the Vitosha Mountain, King Lear, Vampire, The Crucifixion. Violeta Gindeva has been a Deputy Mayor of Pazardjik town for two years now. Her last participation is in Illia Kostov's film Time of Women.

Vasil Dimov Gendov (Vasil Dimov Hadzhigendov) is a Bulgarian director , actor and playwright . He is the author of the first Bulgarian film " Bulgarian is gallant " (screened on January 13, 1915 old style), a comedy in the style of Max Linder. Vasil Gendov was born on November 24, 1891 in Sliven, Bulgaria. In the period 1905 - 1907 he is a student-intern at Theatre " Tears and Laughter " and the National Theatre . His debut was in the role of Robert Pfeiffer in the play "Educators" by O. Ernst. He graduated Theater School "Otto" in Vienna , specialized in Berlin , in the movie house "AIKO". In the period 1910 - 1912 he was an actor in the troupe of Rose Popova . In 1921, he with his wife Zhana Gendova created Sofia Itinerant Theater, where he was the chief manager, director and actor. He was a founder of Bulgarian Film Arts, creator of the first Bulgarian film production cooperative "Yantra film." Gendov initiated the establishment of the first Union of Actors in Bulgaria (1919 - 1920), the Union of Filmmakers in Bulgaria ( 1931), and the Museum of Bulgarian Cinematography (1948). He is the creator of the first Bulgarian feature film "Bulgarian is gallant ," as a screenwriter , director and actor. Vasil Gendov was at center of cinematographic life in the twenties. This tireless and ambitious film maker seemed to be the most persistent in endeavoring to build a national cinema. Vasil Gendov made films in which he played leading parts, contributed regularly to the press, fought for the cause of the handful of pioneers of the Bulgarian cinema and tried to organize them professionally. His inexhaustible spirit radiated something of the enchantment of the first years of Bulgarian cinema. He created and produced "The Revolt of the Slaves" - the first Bulgarian sound film. This is the first film about national hero Vasil Levski. The production was shot in 1932 in Karlovo. Gendov is the author of the memoirs "Thorny Path of a Bulgarian film". He died on September 3, 1970 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Nikolai Dimitrov Binev is a Bulgarian theater and cinema actor. He was born on July 5, 1934 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaraia in the class of Professor Krusty Mirsky. He was very famous for his numerous films and theatrical incarnations, as well as the work in the Youth Theatre, named in 2006 to his name. In the last years of his career, he participated in productions by foreign directors and starred with popular foreign actors such as Catherine Deneuve (in the film "East - West"). Nikolai Binev was invited to the troupe of a lot of Bulgarian theaters, but remains faithful to the Youth Theatre and for their entire life plays only at its scene. He participated in a number of adaptations and audio dramatizations of children's stories. In 2004, the Youth Theatre and the wife of actor - Domna Ganeva , issued CD "Nikolai Binev singing". The album includes arias from operas by Verdi and Cimarosa , songs from the musical "Yesterday" by Lyubomir Denev and children's songs "Dr. Doolittle", " To put it mildly ", " Knob sleep ", "A Tale of Boy Star", "Dwarf-Long Nose," "New Clothes of the King" by Valeri Petrov and Georgi Genkov , and other performances of the Youth Theatre. Nikolai Binev has been awarded twice with the Prize " Asker " - for leading actor in 1995 and for lifetime achievement in 2000. He is a winner of the Awards "Golden Rose", "Golden Pen", "Golden Muse", Union of the Bulgarian actors and the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers' Awards; Best Actor Award for the movie " Night with the White Horses " - 1985. He died on December 8, 2003 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Zhivko Zhelyazkov was born on 16 February 1973 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He is known for The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), The Fourth Kind (2009) and The Expendables 3 (2014).

Ducho Mundrov has graduated in cinema directing in Moscow (VGIK), Soviet Union (now - Russia). In 1952, being a student in Moscow, Mundrov collaborated with Nikola Korabov to make a documentary on the poet Nikola Vaptzarov. Upon his return home, Mundrov, once again with Korabov, filmed a classical social-realist story, "People of Dimitrovgrad" (1956) and followed that in 1957 with an independent film "The Commander of the Detachment" (1959), a tale of the partisan. The best film made from one of Emil Manov's scripts was "Captive Flock" (1962), which was also the best film of Ducho Mundrov. In "Captive Flock", Mundrov relinquished the schematic line and the conventional forms he had employed at the start of his career and rather than concentrating his attention on the plot, snowed more concern for the psychological atmosphere of a cell where a group of political prisoners was spending the last days before their execution. Ducho Mundrov (as Doutcho Mundrov) has a nomination for Golden Palm at 1962 Cannes Film Festival for the film "Captive Flock" (1962). He has worked as director in Boyana Film Studio, Sofia since 1954 to 1988. He is known also for "The End of the Summer "(1967). He was one of the initiators of the establishing of the "Club for Support of Publicity and Reconstruction in Bulgaria" in 1988, which was one of the first opposition societies against the communist regime in Bulgaria.

Venelin Pekhlivanov was born in 1936 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for The Young Picasso: 1881-1906 (1993), Prokurorat (1988) and Tarnovskata tzaritza (1981). He died on 16 August 2005 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Nikolay Marinov Doychev is Bulgarian actor . He was born in the town of Sliven, Bulgaria on July 27, 1903. He did not complete their secondary education. He has worked on the stages of Sliven Drama Theater, Samokov Theater, Burgas Drama Theater , Pleven Drama Theater , Dobrich Drama Theater and Varna Drama Theater . He took participation in many Bulgarian movies, playing mostly episodic roles. He was awarded the title of Honored Artist in 1985. He died on June 19, 1983 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Radoy Ralin (his real name was Dimitar Stefanov Stoyanov ) is a Bulgarian writer , poet, satirist and dissident, inspired generations of Bulgarians for the values of freedom. During the totalitarian system in Bulgaria, the poet Boris Hristov said of him: "He is the only one so different from the same people." Radoy Ralin was born in Sliven, Bulgaria on April 23, 1922. His father was a bookseller and printer, owner of the bookstore "Modern Art". His mother Kina Stoyanova was an extremely pious woman. Radoy Ralin graduated from high school in his hometown in 1941, and then studied right in the Sofia University . At that time the police following him code-named "philosopher" and registered his exclusion from school for reading of the left-wing poems. Later, the Communist State Security will haunt him under the alias "Malice" and "Goat." In July and September 1941 with Ducho Mundrov and Z. Skubarev he wrote and edited a illegal anti-fascist newsletter "The truth of the anti-Soviet war." In 1942, he was arrested. In 1944, he went as a volunteer at the front and participated in World War II (1944-45). He was an editor (1945-46) in the journal "Slavs". In the 50th, when in Bulgaria jazz is considered heretical art, Radoy Ralin was one of its ardent supporters; with Milcho Leviev he created (1965) formation "Jazz Focus ." He was one of the founders of Satire Theater ( 1953 ). In 1946-49, he was editor in newspaper " Literary Front "; in 1952-61 - in the newspaper " The Gadfly "; in 1961-63 - in the newspaper "Literary News"; in 1961-63 - in Boyana Film Studios; in 1964-66 - in Documentary Studios, where he created a series of satire documentaries "Focus". He was an editor in publishing house "Bulgarian writer" (1967-68); in Bulgarian cinematography (1976-87); in the newspaper "Literary Front" (1987-90). Since 1992, together with Boris Dimovski and his son Kin Stoyanov had issued briefly newspaper "Lucky." Radoy Ralin died on 21 July 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. His name is called the square, where there is his monument. Satirical works by Ralin are extremely popular. Radoy Ralin revived for non-traditional Bulgarian short satire genre forms - apostrophes , aphorism , satirical parable. He is translated in 27 languages (including Chinese). In 2003, was awarded with the National Literature Prize for humor and satire "Rayko Alexiev" for complete literary work and contribution in the field of humor and satire.

Ivan Raev was born on 16 March 1935 in Zheravna, Sliven Province, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Neprimirimite (1964), Shibil (1968) and Selo kray zavod (1969). He died on 28 August 1978 in Shumen, Shumen province, Bulgaria.

Stoyan Bachvarov was born on 25 July 1878 in Medven, Sliven, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Bulgari ot staro vreme (1945), Boyka (1947) and Nastradin Hodzha i Hitar Petar (1939). He died on 6 January 1949 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Bancho Banov was born on 16 June 1925 in Sliven, Bulgaria. Bancho was a writer, known for Sluchaen kontzert (1960), Badi shtastliva, Ani! (1961) and Knyazat (1970). Bancho died on 11 December 1993 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Iliya Kostov was born in Sliven in 1954. He graduated in Bulgarian Studies from the St. St. Cyril and Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo in 1978. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as assistant director and second unit director at Boyana Feature Film Studio, and from 1987 to 1991 he was editor at the TV Feature Films Department of the Bulgarian National Television. In 1991 he set up his own production company. He has worked on various TV and radio shows. He is the author of the novels Madame Bovary from Sliven (1990) and Time for Women (2009). Iliya Kostov has written and directed several documentary films, TV fiction novels and feature films, including TapTap (1996), The Assistant (2002) and Time for Women (2007).

Petar Dimitrov Neznakomov a Bulgarian writer and novelist . He was born in Sliven, Bulgaria on October 12, 1920. In 1942, he graduated from military school. During World War II he was a commander of a platoon in Sofia and an antiaircraft battery in Pernik. He graduated in law from Sofia University. He had worked as an editor in publishing house "Bulgarian Writer", as a member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Hornet", as an editor in the newspaper "Literary Forum", as a screenwriter in Animated Film Studios, and as a editor in the magazine "Fatherland". Among the works of Peter Neznakomov are collections of humorous stories "Iron People" and "Mysterious Ship", novel "Miracle at Vaobrazhaevo" and others. Neznakomov has written collections of short stories for children and scripts for feature films. His works have been translated into many languages. He died in Sofia on October 30, 1997.

Alexander Aleksandrov was born on 20 July 1926 in Tvarditza, Sliven, Bulgaria. He was an actor, known for Lavina (1982), Chicho Krastnik (1988) and Samo ti, sartze (1987). He died in 2009.

Zhana Gendova was born on 22 December 1899 in Sliven, Bulgaria. She was an actress, known for Burya na mladostta (1930), Buntat na robite (1933) and Chovekat, koyto zabravi boga (1927). She was married to Vassil Gendov. She died on 14 February 1976 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu was born in 1796 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He was a composer, known for Aferim! (2015). He was married to Catinca, Zamfira Azgurean and Anica. He died on 2 November 1854 in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania.

Norair Nurikjan was born on 26 July 1948 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He was married to Merry. He died on 11 March 2025.

Atanas Slavov was born on 25 July 1930 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He was a writer, known for Gerlovska istoriya (1971), Kitara i klakson (1962) and Parad (1960). He died on 4 December 2010 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Georgi Penchev was born on 27 April 1924 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He was a production designer, known for Pesen za choveka (1954). He died in 2014.

Zhezko Davidov was born on 8 August 1949 in Sliven, Bulgaria. Zhezko is a director and writer, known for Akropolat (1983) and Botev: In the Shadow of the Monument (2016).

Nikolay Todorov-Tod was born on 2 August 1943 in Sliven, Bulgaria. He is a cinematographer, known for Nashiyat Shoshkanini (1982), Nadvecher (1976) and Trudni detza (1982).