The Most Famous
BUSINESSPEOPLE from Bulgaria
This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Businesspeople. The pantheon dataset contains 847 Businesspeople, 1 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 63rd most number of Businesspeople behind Nigeria, and Indonesia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Businesspeople of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Businesspeople is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ruja Ignatova (b. 1980)
With an HPI of 51.38, Ruja Ignatova is the most famous Bulgarian Businessperson. Her biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Ruja Plamenova Ignatova (Bulgarian: Ружа Пламенова Игнатова, romanized: Ruža Plamenova Ignatova, occasionally transliterated as "Ruga Ignatova"; born May 30, 1980 – disappeared October 25, 2017) is a Bulgarian-born German entrepreneur best known as one of the FBI’s Top Ten wanted Fugitives, and as the founder of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme known as OneCoin, which The Times described as "one of the biggest scams in history." She was the subject of the 2019 BBC podcast series The Missing Cryptoqueen and the 2022 book of the same name. Ignatova boarded a flight to Athens on October 25, 2017, and has not been seen since. Since her disappearance, Ignatova has long been presumed to be on the run from various international law enforcement agencies. The FBI has offered up to five million dollars for any information leading to her arrest. In early 2019, she was charged in absentia by U.S. authorities for wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. She was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted in June 2022. Ignatova is the subject of an Interpol warrant issued by German authorities. Reporting in 2023 and 2024 suggested that Ignatova may have been murdered in 2018 on the orders of Bulgarian organised crime figure "Taki" Hristoforos Nikos Amanatidis, who is suspected of initially sheltering her.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bulgarian businesspeople born between 1980 and 1980. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bulgarian businesspeople include Ruja Ignatova. As of April 2024, 1 new Bulgarian businesspeople have been added to Pantheon including Ruja Ignatova.
