The following is a list of the enlightened personalities (ecclesiastics, educators and enlighteners) who made Bulgaria a land of the spirit. They are an illustrative chronicle of the most dramatic moments in the nation's intellectual history.
- Saints Cyril and Methodius - The one was spirit, the other was action
- Saint Clement of Ohrid - The father of Cyrillic letters
- Chernorizets Hrabr - Oration of the letters: reaching out to the future
- Saint Ivan of Rila - Another elect of God
- The Priest Bogomil - The sources of doubt
- Presbyter Kozma - The royal way for the soul
- Patriarch Authimius - Sent to stand up for his people
- Paissiy of Chiliandari - We, too, are loved by God
- Sophroniy of Vratsa - The awakening of the personality
- Neophit Bozveli and Ilarion of Makariopol - The revival of the popular will
- The Miladinov Brothers - ...And liturgy in the mother tongue
- Vassil Aprilov - A rational idealist
- Dr. Petar Beron - The wings of new patriotism
- Ivan Bogorov - Racing against time
- Georgi Rakovski - His pride defied the slave mentality
- Petko Slaveykov - The voice of six million
- Lyuban Karavelov - Our freedom lies within ourselves
- Vassil Levski - The three pillars of the nation
- Hristo Botev - Truth is sacred
- Ivan Vazov - The end of the yoke
- Gotse Delchev - The last of the apostles
- Zachari Stoyanov - The vision of a Bulgaria that never came to be
- Aleko Konstantinov - Universal moral values
- Pencho Slaveykov - The knight of the moral ideal
- Exarch Iosef I - Diplomacy under the sign of the cross
- Stoyan Mihailovski and Anton Strashimirov - Trial of wrath and unforgiving love
- Dimitar Blagoev - The solitary prophet
- Geo Milev - The sublime criteria of spirit
- Assen Zlatarov - Cultivating the hearts
- Petar Dunov - Teaching "humanity"
See Also: Bulgarian History and Rulers of Bulgaria