Frequent persons on Macedonia's street signs

Josip Broz Tito

17 Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War...

Gotse Delchev

9 Georgi Nikolov Delchev, known as Gotse Delchev or Goce Delčev, was an important Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary (komitadji), active in the Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Adrianople regions at the...

Yane Sandanski

8 Yane Sandanski was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary. He is recognized as a national hero in both Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

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 from the region of Macedonia and member of the left wing of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement. As with many other IMRO members of the time, historians...

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 Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was its...

Nikola Karev

6 Nikola Yanakiev Karev was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary. He was born in Kruševo and died in the village of Rajčani both today in North Macedonia. Karev was a local leader of what later became...

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 Yugoslavia, after...

Alexander the Great

5 Alexander III of Macedon, most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a 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...

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 Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary and insurgent leader in the Ottoman regions of Macedonia and Thrace. He was one of the six founders of the Internal Macedonian...

Nikola Tesla

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

Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš

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

Boris Trajkovski

4 Boris Trajkovski (GCMG) was a Macedonian politician who served as the second President of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004 in a plane crash.

Miladinov brothers

4 The Miladinov brothers, Dimitar Miladinov (1810–1862) and Konstantin Miladinov (1830–1862), were Bulgarian poets, folklorists, and activists of the Bulgarian national movement in Ottoman Macedonia....

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 Bulgarian leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Ivo Lola Ribar

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

Vladimir Lenin

3 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative...

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 (815–885) 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 was a Bulgarian writer, teacher and translator. He was born on January 18, 1830, in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire and died in the same town on January 25, 1893. Although he thought...

Theodosius of Skopje

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

Ivan Hadzhinikolov

2 Ivan Hadzhinikolov was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Adrianople vilayet. He was among the founders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople...

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 MC, better known as Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, at the age...

Nikola Vaptsarov

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

Видое Смилевски - Бато

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

France Prešeren

2 France Prešeren was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into many languages.

Clement of Ohrid

2 Clement or Kliment 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 textbook writer and lexicographer. He is considered one of the most prominent ethnic Macedonians in history and one of the most important actors of the start of...

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 socialism proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success...

Бајрам Шабани

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was...

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 НОВ, 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 Yugoslav and 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...

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 the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty, founders of the ancient kingdom, and the...

Strašo Pindžur

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

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 human 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. For his collection and preservation of...

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 Žinzifov,, born Ksenofont Dzindzifi was a Bulgarian National Revival poet and translator from Veles in today's North Macedonia, who spent most of his life in...

Dositej II, Archbishop 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 Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia as the 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 ― бил 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 physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist based in the United States.

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 more prominent members of the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslav Communist Party from 1935 which established...