Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Gabrovo

Ivan Kolev Vutsov was a Bulgarian football player and coach. His career included periods playing for and later managing the Bulgarian national team.

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, conocido como Christo, fue un artista búlgaro relacionado con el Land Art. Como elemento principal utilizaba las telas para envolver instalaciones creadas por los hombres y estructuras de la naturaleza. Su esposa Jeanne-Claudde y mayor colaboradora le ayudaba a llevar a cabo su arte. Sus dos fotógrafos son Harry Shunk y Wolfgang Volz.

Damyan Velchev or Velcev was a Bulgarian politician and general.

Nikola Stoykov Mushanov was a Bulgarian liberal politician who served as Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party. He later became noted for vigorous opposition to the growth of anti-Semitism in the country during the Second World War.

Vasil Evstatiev Aprilov was a Bulgarian educator. He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Braşov and then pursued a medical degree in Vienna. After 1811 he was a merchant in Odessa. He initially participated in the Greek revolutionary movement, but later devoted himself to the Bulgarian Renaissance, thanks to Yuriy Venelin, whose book "The Ancient and Present Bulgarians" (1829), aroused in Imperial Russia a special interest in them. From then on, he began to gather Bulgarian folk songs. In his will he left a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo. This was to be the first Bulgarian secular school using the Bell-Lancaster method. The emergence of this school gave a boost to Bulgarian education and soon other schools were opened all over the Bulgarian-populated regions of the Ottoman empire.