People on Macedonia's street signs

Josip Broz Tito

17 Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980. He...

Gotse Delchev

9 Georgi Nikolov Delchev, known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev, was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji) and one of the most important leaders of what is commonly known as the...

Yane Sandanski

8 Yane Ivanov Sandanski was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO).

Jordan Nikolov Orce

7 Jordan Nikolov was a Macedonian communist and partisan from Macedonia. His life and work are connected with the organizing and firming of the syndicalist movement in Yugoslavia. Under his leadership...

Dimitar Vlahov

6 Dimitar Vlahov was a politician, communist activist and member of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) from the region of Macedonia. Vlahov was a member of the...

Pitu Guli

6 Pitu Guli was an Aromanian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia, a local leader of what is commonly referred to as the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Gyorche Petrov

6 Gyorche Petrov Nikolov, born Georgi Petrov Nikolov, was a Macedonian Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary, and one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). In his...

Nikola Karev

6 Nikola Yanakiev Karev was a Macedonian Bulgarian socialist revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was also a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate school system...

Mirče Acev

5 Mirče Acev was a Macedonian organizer of the Yugoslav communist resistance in Vardar Macedonia during World War II. He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in Kingdom of...

Alexander the Great

5 Alexander III of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and...

Kočo Racin

5 Kosta Apostolov Solev, primarily known by his pen name Kočo Racin, was a Macedonian poet, writer and communist who is considered a founder of modern Macedonian literature. He is also regarded as a...

Dame Gruev

4 Damyan Yovanov Gruev was а Macedonian Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) in the Ottoman regions of Macedonia and Thrace. He was...

Nikola Tesla

4 Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer, futurist, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš

4 Hristijan Todorovski - Karpoš was a Macedonian communist partisan during the Second World War.     

Boris Trajkovski

4 Boris Trajkovski was a Macedonian politician who served as the president of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004 in a plane crash.

Miladinov brothers

4 The Miladinov brothers, Dimitar Miladinov and Konstantin Miladinov, were Bulgarian poets, folklorists, educators, and activists of the Bulgarian national movement in Ottoman Macedonia. They are best...

Цветан Димов

3 Цветан Димов, познат меѓу народот како Целе Чаирчанец, — македонски комунист, синдикалец, и учесник во НОБ. Заедно со Орце Николов бил еден од најистакнатите организатори на работничкото и...

Petar Chaulev

3 Petar Chaulev was a Bulgarian revolutionary in Ottoman Macedonia. He was a local leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Ivo Lola Ribar

3 Ivan Ribar, known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav Croat communist politician and military leader. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the...

Vladimir Lenin

3 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death...

Sava Kovačević

3 Sava Kovačević was a Yugoslav Partisan divisional commander during World War II, and one of the heroes of the communist Partisan movement.

Vera Jocić

3 Vera Jocić was a Yugoslav partisan and People's Hero of Yugoslavia.                                 

Cyril and Methodius

3 Cyril and Methodius were brothers, Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries. For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".

Pere Toshev

3 Petar (Pere) Naumov Toshev was a Bulgarian teacher and an activist of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In the historiography in North Macedonia he is considered an...

Stefan Naumov

3 Stefan Naumov was a Macedonian Yugoslav Partisan and one of the organizers of the communist-led resistance in the Bitola area during World War II, and was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

Krste Misirkov

3 Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the region of Macedonia.

Grigor Parlichev

3 Grigor Stavrev Parlichev, also known as Grigorios Stavridis, was a Bulgarian writer, teacher and translator. He received acclaim as a "second Homer" in Greece for his poem O Armatolos. Afterwards, he...

Theodosius of Skopje

2 Theodosius of Skopje was a Bulgarian religious figure, scholar and translator of the Bulgarian language from Macedonia. He was initially involved in the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian Church...

Ivan Hadzhinikolov

2 Ivan Atanasov Hadzhinikolov was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, teacher and bookseller. He was among the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) on October 23,...

Борка Талески

2 Борка Талески или познат под прекарите „Црниот“ или „Модерното“ — македонски комунист, револуционер, партизан, борец во НОБ и народен херој на Југославија од Македонија. Тој е непосреден организатор...

Mother Teresa

2 Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part...

Nikola Vaptsarov

2 Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov was a Bulgarian poet and Bulgarian Communist Party activist. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he only ever...

Видое Смилевски - Бато

2 Видое Смилевски - Бато — македонски комунист, народен херој и политичар.                           

France Prešeren

2 France Prešeren was a Slovene poet whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Slovene literature. His poems have been translated into many languages.

Clement of Ohrid

2 Saint Clement of Ohrid was one of the first medieval Bulgarian saints, scholar, writer, and apostle to the Slavs. He was one of the most prominent disciples of Cyril and Methodius and is often...

Владимир Полежиноски

2 Владимир (Владо) Полежиноски - Полежина — македонски комунист, учесник во НОБ и член на АСНОМ. По Резолуцијата на Информбирото бил репресиран и испратен на Голи Оток.

Dimitrija Čupovski

2 Dimitrija Čupovski was a Macedonian poet, writer, journalist and lexicographer. He is considered а prominent organizer and affirmer of Macedonian national thought.

Ivan Cankar

2 Ivan Cankar was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in...

Maxim Gorky

2 Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his...

Бајрам Шабани

2 Бајрам Шабани — учесник во НОВ во Македонија, првоборец и народен херој.                           

Franklin D. Roosevelt

2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Васил Георгов

2 Васил Георгов е югославски политик и министър на горите и държавното стопанство в Социалистическа република Македония.

Наум Наумовски

2 Наум Наумовски - Борче — македонски комунист, учесник во НОБ, народен херој. Станал член на КПЈ во 1940 година. Учествувал на Првото заседание на АСНОМ. По ослободувањето врши повеќе високи функции....

Miroslav Krleža

2 Miroslav Krleža was a Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry, theater,...

Amyntas III of Macedon

2 Amyntas III was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia from 393/2 to 388/7 BC and again from 387/6 to 370 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty through his father Arrhidaeus, a son of...

Samuel of Bulgaria

2 Samuel was the Tsar (Emperor) of the First Bulgarian Empire from 997 to 6 October 1014. From 977 to 997, he was a general under Roman I of Bulgaria, the second surviving son of Emperor Peter I of...

Philip II of Macedon

2 Philip II of Macedon was the king (basileus) of Macedon from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. The rise of Macedon, from a kingdom initially at the periphery of classical Greek affairs, to a power...

Strašo Pindžur

2 Strahil Pindžurov, better known by his Partisan name Strašo Pindžur was a Yugoslav Communist and Macedonian Partisan, active during World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, who was later proclaimed a...

Никола Парапунов

2 Никола Парапунов — македонски комунист и партизан од Пиринска Македонија.                           

Yuri Gagarin

2 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...

Lazar Ličenoski

2 Lazar Ličenoski was one of the first Macedonian expressionist painters and one of the most authentic painters of landscape, in which he imported folk elements as well. He painted still nature,...

Vuk Karadžić

2 Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian philologist, anthropologist and linguist. He was one of the most important reformers of the modern Serbian language. Vuk Karadžić was a versatile scholar and the...

Roger Joseph Boscovich

2 Roger Joseph Boscovich was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. He studied and lived in Italy...

Стале Попов

2 Стале Попов — македонски раскажувач и романописец.                                                 

Васко Карангелевски

2 Васко Карангелевски — македонски комунист, првоборец и генерал-полковник на ЈНА. Прогласен е за народен херој на Југославија.

Rayko Zhinzifov

2 Rayko Ivanov (Yoanov) Zhinzifov or Rajko Ivanov (Jovanov) Žinzifov,, born Ksenofont Dzindzifi, was a Bulgarian National Revival poet and translator from Veles in today's North Macedonia, who spent...

Dositej II of Ohrid and Macedonia

2 Dositej II was the Metropolitan of Skopje, under the canonical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1959 to 1967, and uncanonically Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia (primate) of the...

Мирка Гинова

2 Мирка Гинова — борец од времето на Втората светска војна и Граѓанската војна во Грција. Заедно со илјадници македонски и грчки патриоти, се борела против фашистичките окупатори на Грција, а подоцна и...

Vasil Glavinov

2 Vasil Kostov Glavinov was a Bulgarian left-wing politician from Ottoman Macedonia, and an activist of the Bulgarian workers' movement.

Gjorgi Abadžiev

2 Gjorgi Abadžiev was a Macedonian prosaist and publicist.                                           

Kosta Abrašević

2 Kosta Abrašević or Kosta Abraš was a Serbian poet, progenitor of proletarian poetry in Serbian literature.

Бранко Заревски

2 Бранко Заревски ― македонски поет, критичар и публицист.                                           

Đuro Đaković

2 Đuro Đaković was a Yugoslav metal worker, communist and revolutionary. Đaković was the organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, from April 1928 to April...

Mihajlo Pupin

2 Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, also known as Michael Pupin, was a Serbian-American electrical engineer, physicist and inventor.

Edvard Kardelj

2 Edvard Kardelj, also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans, and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War...

Veljko Vlahović

2 Veljko Vlahović was a Montenegrin politician and career army officer. He was one of the prominent members of the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935 which established the SFR...