Bulgarian Presidents and Prime Ministers
This list is comprised of Presidents and Prime Ministers of Bulgaria. The office of Prime Minister (Bulgarian Министър-председател: Ministar-predsedatel) was created in 1878 when an autonomous Bulgarian state was created within the Ottoman Empire. It became fully independent in 1908. Bulgaria became a republic in 1990, with a President (Президент: Prezident) as the head of state. The Prime Minister remains the head of government.
| Name | Years | Type | Other Names | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todor Burmov | 1879 | prime minister | (Stoyanov) |  |
| Kliment of Tarnovo | 1879-1880; 1886 | prime minister | (Vasil, Nikolov) | |
| Dragan Tsankov | 1880; 1883-1884 | prime minister | (Kiriakov) | |
| Petko Karavelov | 1880-1881; 1884-1886; 1886; 1901-1902 | prime minister | (Stoichev) | |
| John Casimir Ehrnrooth | 1881 | prime minister | (Johan, Gustavovich) | |
| Leonid Sobolev | 1882-1883 | prime minister | (Nikolayevich) | |
| Vasil Radoslavov | 1886-1887; 1913-1918 | prime minister | (Hristov) | |
| Konstantin Stoilov | 1887; 1894-1899 | prime minister | | |
| Stefan Stambolov | 1887-1894 | prime minister | (Nikolov) | |
| Dimitar Grekov | 1899 | prime minister | (Panayotov) | |
| Todor Ivanchov | 1899-1901 | prime minister | | |
| Racho Petrov | 1901; 1903-1906 | prime minister | | |
| Stoyan Danev | 1902-1903; 1913 | prime minister | (Petrov) | |
| Dimitar Petkov | 1906-1907 | prime minister | (Nikolov) | |
| Dimitar Stanchov | 1907 | prime minister | (Dimitri, Yanev) | |
| Petar Gudev | 1907-1908 | prime minister | (Todorov) | |
| Aleksandar Malinov | 1908-1911; 1918; 1931 | prime minister | (Pavlov) | |
| Ivan Evstratiev Geshov | 1911-1913 | prime minister | | |
| Teodor Teodorov | 1918-1919 | prime minister | (Ivanov) | |
| Aleksandar Stamboliyski | 1919-1923 | prime minister | | |
| Aleksander Tsankov | 1923-1926 | prime minister | (Tsolov) | |
| Andrey Lyapchev | 1926-1931 | prime minister | (Tasev) | |
| Nikola Mushanov | 1931-1934 | prime minister | (Stoykov) | |
| Kimon Georgiev | 1934-1935; 1944-1946 | prime minister | | |
| Pencho Zlatev | 1935 | prime minister | (Petko, Ivanov) | |
| Andrey Toshev | 1935 | prime minister | (Slavov) | |
| Georgi Kyoseivanov | 1935-1940 | prime minister | (Ivanov) | |
| Bogdan Filov | 1940-1943 | prime minister | (Dimitrov) | |
| Petar Gabrovski | 1943 | prime minister | (Dimitrov) | |
| Dobri Bozhilov | 1943-1944 | prime minister | | |
| Ivan Ivanov Bagryanov | 1944 | prime minister | | |
| Konstantin Muraviev | 1944 | prime minister | (Vladov) | |
| Georgi Dimitrov | 1946-1949 | prime minister | | |
| Vasil Kolarov | 1949-1950 | prime minister | (Petrov) | |
| Valko Chervenkov | 1950-1956 | prime minister | (Vulko, Velev) | |
| Anton Yugov | 1956-1962 | prime minister | (Tanev) | |
| Todor Zhivkov | 1962-1971 | prime minister | (Hristov) | |
| Stanko Todorov | 1971-1981; 1990 | prime minister; president | | |
| Grisha Filipov | 1981-1986 | prime minister | (Georgi, Stanchev) | |
| Georgi Atanasov | 1986-1990 | prime minister | (Ivanov) | |
| Andrey Lukanov | 1990 | prime minister | (Karlov) | |
| Petar Mladenov | 1990 | president | (Toshev) | |
| Nikolai Todorov | 1990 | president | | |
| Zhelyu Zhelev | 1990-1997 | president | (Mitev) | |
| Dimitar Iliev Popov | 1990-1991 | prime minister | | |
| Philip Dimitrov | 1991-1992 | prime minister | | |
| Lyuben Berov | 1992-1994 | prime minister | (Borisov) | |
| Reneta Indzhova | 1994-1995 | prime minister | (Ivanova) | |
| Zhan Videnov | 1995-1997 | prime minister | (Vasilev) | |
| Petar Stoyanov | 1997-2002 | president | (Stefanov) | |
| Stefan Sofiyanski | 1997 | prime minister | (Antonov) | |
| Ivan Kostov | 1997-2001 | prime minister | (Yordanov) | |
| Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | 2001-2005 | prime minister | (Borisov) | |
| Georgi Parvanov | 2002-2012 | president | (Sedefchov) | |
| Sergei Stanishev | 2005-2009 | prime minister | (Dmitrievich) | |
| Boyko Borisov | 2009-2013; 2014-2017; 2017-2021 | prime minister | | |
| Rosen Plevneliev | 2012-2017 | president | (Asenov) | |
| Marin Raykov | 2013 | prime minister | | |
| Plamen Oresharski | 2013-2014 | prime minister | (Vasilev) | |
| Georgi Bliznashki | 2014 | prime minister | | |
| Rumen Radev | 2017- | president | (Georgiev) | |
| Ognyan Gerdzhikov | 2017 | prime minister | (Stefanov) | |
| Kiril Petkov | 2021-2022 | prime minister | | |
| Nikolai Denkov | 2023- | prime minister | |