List of Bulgarian Americans

This is a list of notable Bulgarian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
Afghan African American Albanian Arab Argentine Armenian Australian Austrian Azerbaijani
Bahamian Bangladeshi Barbadian Belgian Bosnian Brazilian Bulgarian
Cambodian Chinese Hokkien/Hoklo/Minnan Colombian Coptic Croatian Cuban Czech
Danish Dominican Dutch
Egyptian English Estonian Ethiopian
Filipino Finnish French Cajun
German Greek Guyanese
Haitian Hakka Hispanic/Latino Hmong Honduran Hungarian
Indian Indonesian Iranian Iraqi Irish Israeli Italian
Jamaican Japanese Jewish
Kazakh Korean
Laotian Lebanese Louisiana Creole
Macedonian Mexican
Native American Native Hawaiian Nicaraguan Nigerian Norwegian
Pakistani Palestinian Panamanian Polish Portuguese Puerto Ricans Stateside
Romanian Russian Rusyn
Salvadoran Scotch-Irish Scottish Serbian Sicilian Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish Hispanos Sri Lankan Swedish Swiss
Taiwanese Trinidadian and Tobagonian Turkish
Ukrainian Uruguayan
Venezuelan Vietnamese
Welsh

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List

John Atanasoff - inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer
Christo - world-famous artist, known for projects such as The Gates and The Wrapped Reichstag
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev - writer, art historian and curator
Miroslav Barnyashev - wrestler who goes by the name "Alexander Rusev", currently the defending champion in World Wrestling Entertainment
Laura Chukanov - Miss USA 2009 competitor
Bill Danoff - songwriter, singer
Carl Djerassi - chemist, developed the first oral contraceptive pill, nominated as one of the greatest medical discoveries in the last 166 years^[1]
Nina Dobrev - actress, famous for playing the lead role in CW's "The Vampire Diaries"
Stephane Groueff - writer, journalist, wrote the book Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
Dan Koloff - early 20th century wrestler
Ted Kotcheff - film and TV director and producer, First Blood, Weekend at Bernie's
Leah LaBelle - singer, finalist in American Idol
Milcho Leviev - jazz pianist and composer
Alex Maleev - comic book illustrator, artist best known for Marvel Comics' series Daredevil (vol. 2), collaborating with writer Brian Michael Bendis
Angela Nikodinov - figure skater
Victor Ninov - nuclear physicist
Peter Petroff - inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer
Maria Popova - writer, critic and blogger; in 2012, she was named among the "100 Most Creative People in Business" by Fast Company magazine
Svetla Protich - classical pianist
Andre Roussimoff - professional wrestler, known as André the Giant.
Dimitar Sasselov - astronomer and professor at Harvard University
Kyril Vassilev (1908–1987) - portrait painter of royalty and American society during the mid-20th century
Rita Wilson - actress, wife of American actor Tom Hanks
Asen Yordanov - aviation constructor with a global recognition^[2]

References

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