page_title: Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad Province
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Gotse Delchev, Blagoevgrad Province / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Български: Росен ПлевнелиевEnglish: Rosen Plevneliev
context_page_description: Gotse Delchev, is a town in Gotse Delchev Municipality in Blagoevgrad Province of Bulgaria.
  In 1951, the town was renamed after the revolutionary hero Gotse Delchev. It had hitherto been called Nevrokop.
  Nearby are the remains of a walled city established by the Romans in the 2nd century AD. The town was a kaza in Syar sanjak of Selanik vilayet before the Balkan Wars.
context_section_description: Aleksandar Pramatarski - politician
  Anton Kitipov - scientist
  Georgi Bakalov - notable historian
  Ilko Pirgov - footballer
  Ilko Semerdzhiev - former Bulgarian minister of public health
  Mariana Karpatova - opera singer
  Nikolay Dobrev (1947–1999) - politician and former Minister of the Interior of Bulgaria
  Nikolina Chakardakova - singer
  Atanas Samandov - Bulgarian Army General, Head of the Joint Operations Command
  Bojidar Spiriev - statistician, author of the official IAAF scoring table
  Rosen Plevneliev - former president of Bulgaria
  Mariya Gabriel - Member of the European Parliament
  Cevdet Perin - Turkish author and translator
caption: Former President of Bulgaria Rosen Plevneliev was born in the town in 1964
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