98 Notable alumni of
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
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The Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje is 661st in the world, 239th in Europe, and 1st in North Macedonia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 98 notable alumni from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Zoran Zaev
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- politicianeconomist
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Zoran Zaev is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022.
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Stevo Pendarovski
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- university teacherpolitician
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Stevo Pendarovski is a Macedonian politician who served as the 5th President of North Macedonia from 2019 to 2024.
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Nikola Gruevski
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- politicianeconomist
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Nikola Gruevski is a former Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until his resignation, which was caused by the 2016 Macedonian protests, and led the VMRO-DPMNE party from 2004 to 2017. He is the longest serving post-independence Macedonian prime minister, serving more than nine years in office.
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Miroslav Ilić
- Enrolled in the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
- Studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- singer
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Miroslav Ilić is a Serbian singer. Born in the village of Mrčajevci near Čačak, he made his recording debut whilst still in elementary school. Ilić came to prominence upon the release of his 1972 single "Voleo Sam Devojku Iz Grada".
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Gjorge Ivanov
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Gjorge Ivanov is a Macedonian politician, who served as the 4th President of (North) Macedonia from 2009 to 2019.
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Boris Trajkovski
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- politician
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Boris Trajkovski was a Macedonian politician who served as the second President of Macedonia from 1999 until his death in 2004 in a plane crash.
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Branko Crvenkovski
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- politician
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Branko Crvenkovski is a Macedonian politician who served as the 3rd President of Macedonia from 2004 to 2009. He previously served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1992 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2004.
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Dimitar Kovačevski
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- politicianeconomist
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Dimitar Kovačevski is a Macedonian politician and economist who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from January 2022 to January 2024.
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Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
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- professorpoliticianlawyer
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Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is a Macedonian university law professor and jurist serving as the 6th president of North Macedonia since May 2024. She was a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, losing to Stevo Pendarovski in the runoff. She ran again in the 2024 presidential elections and defeated Pendarovski by a landslide in a rematch election. She is North Macedonia's first female president.
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Hristijan Mickoski
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- politician
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Hristijan Mickoski is a Macedonian politician and former mechanical engineer, currently serving as Prime Minister of North Macedonia, a position he has held since June 2024. He is also a university professor and the party leader of VMRO-DPMNE. In 2016, Mickoski became the director of Power Plants of Macedonia, and in the period from 2015 to 2017, he was an energy advisor to prime ministers Nikola Gruevski and Emil Dimitriev. As the sole candidate, he was elected leader of VMRO-DPMNE at the party's 16th congress in Valandovo.
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Ljubčo Georgievski
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- politician
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Ljubčo Georgievski is a Macedonian politician and writer who served as the only Vice President of Macedonia from January to October 1991 and as the Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1998 to 2002. He advocated for the country's independence.
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Milcho Manchevski
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- directorscreenwriterwriterphotographerfilm producer
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Milcho Manchevski is a Macedonian-American film director, photographer and artist.
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Toni Mihajlovski
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Toni Mihajlovski is a Macedonian theater, motion picture and television actor, stand up comedian, presenter and showman.
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Radmila Šekerinska
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- politician
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Radmila Šekerinska Jankovska is a Macedonian politician who has been serving as the Deputy Secretary General of NATO since November 2024. Previously she served as the defense minister of North Macedonia and a former leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). Šekerinska was previously Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and National Coordinator for Foreign Assistance of North Macedonia and also was the acting Prime Minister of North Macedonia from 12 May 2004 until 12 June 2004 and from 3 November 2004 until 15 December 2004. She was elected 5 November 2006 the SDUM leader. She is the first female (acting) prime minister of North Macedonia.
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Bujar Osmani
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- politicianphysician
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Bujar Osmani is a Macedonian politician of Albanian descent who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia from 2020 until 2024 and Minister of Health from 2008 until 2011. In June 2017, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European affairs. On 30 August 2020, Osmani became Minister of Foreign Affairs. Osmani was the first Macedonian of Albanian descent to lead the top diplomatic post in North Macedonia.
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Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti
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- politicianballet dancernumismatistspy
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Zmago Jelinčič "Plemeniti" is a Slovenian politician and author. He is the head of the Slovenian National Party (Slovene: Slovenska Nacionalna Stranka, SNS).
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Nikola Ristanovski
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- actor
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Nikola "Kole" Ristanovski is a Macedonian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 1993.
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Oliver Spasovski
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- politician
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Oliver Spasovski is a Macedonian politician who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs during multiple terms: November 2015 to May 2016, September to December 2016, May 2017 to January 2020 and 30 August 2020 to 28 January 2024. He is the general secretary of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). He served as Prime Minister of North Macedonia from 3 January 2020 to 30 August 2020, following an agreement between the leaders of SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski, to hold early parliamentary elections on 12 April 2020, which was rescheduled to 15 July 2020.
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Emil Dimitriev
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- politician
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Emil Dimitriev is a Macedonian conservative politician, sociologist, and general secretary of the VMRO-DPMNE. He served as Prime Minister of Macedonia, following the resignation of Nikola Gruevski, from January 2016 to May 2017.
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Jordan Kamchev
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Jordan "Orce" Kamchev is a Macedonian businessman. According to Forbes, he was the richest person in North Macedonia in 2015, with net a worth of 228 million euros.
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Igor Džambazov
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- musiciantelevision actoractorsingerpoet
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Igor Džambazov is a Macedonian actor, showman, TV presenter, comedian, singer, songwriter, and prosaist. He was born on July 15, 1963, in Skopje to composer Aleksandar Džambazov and actress Anče Džambazova. His grandfather was the renowned Macedonian actor Petre Prličko.
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Nikola Dimitrov
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- diplomatpolitician
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Nikola Dimitrov is a Macedonian politician and diplomat, who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for North Macedonia from 31 May 2017 to 30 August 2020. He also served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2000 and Macedonian ambassador to the United States and then the Netherlands. In 2014, he turned down an appointment as Macedonia's new ambassador to Russia.
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Vasil Tupurkovski
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- politicianpolitical commissar
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Vasil Tupurkovski is a Macedonian academic, politician and the former president of the Olympic Committee of North Macedonia.
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Vidoe Podgorec
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- poetwriter
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Vidoe Podgorec was a Macedonian writer and poet. He was born in Kolešino near Strumica and lived in Skopje. He wrote for children and adults and published a great number of poems, stories and novels.
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Vlado Bučkovski
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- lawyerpolitician
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Vlado Bučkovski is a Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2004 to 2006. He previously served as Minister of Defence from May to November 2001 and from 2002 to 2004. He was president of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. After the 2006 election defeat by the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE, Radmila Šekerinska took over the party's leadership.
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Ljube Boškoski
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- politician
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Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia (now North Macedonia).
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Vlado Janevski
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- chemistsingerpainterwritercaricaturist
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Vladimir Vlado Janevski is a Macedonian singer. He was North Macedonia's first Eurovision contestant, finishing 19th in Birmingham at the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Ne Zori, Zoro".
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Dimitar Apasiev
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- academicpolitician
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Dimitar Apasiev is a Macedonian legal scholar and politician. He is the leader of the political party The Left. He is a docent of Law at the Goce Delčev University of Štip. During the 2020 Macedonian parliamentary election, his party won two seats, making him a member of the Assembly of North Macedonia.
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Stojan Andov
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- economistopinion journalistpoliticianwriterdiplomat
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Stojan Andov was a Macedonian politician, a founding member of the Liberal Party of Macedonia, and a president of Assembly.
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Zan Mitrev
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- surgeonphysician
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Dr. Zan Mitrev is a Macedonian cardiovascular surgeon and medical academic who has been serving, since 1999, as General Manager of the Filip Vtori Clinic special hospital for surgery, now renamed as "Zan Mitrev Clinic" special hospital for surgery in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.
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Vlado Jovanovski
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- actor
- Biography
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Vlado Jovanovski is a Macedonian actor. His film credits include principal roles in prominent Macedonian films such as Bal-Can-Can and Mirage.
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Mateja Matevski
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- journalistlinguistpoetliterary criticwriter
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Mateja Matevski was a Macedonian poet, literary and theater critic, essayist, and translator.
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Gjorgji Kolozov
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- actortelevision actor
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Gjorgi Kolozov was one of the best-known Macedonian actors. He became famous by playing one of the main roles in the television series Makedonski narodni prikazni (Macedonian Folk Tales), which aired in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Venko Filipče
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Venko Filipče is a Macedonian neurosurgeon, former health minister of North Macedonia from 2017 to 2022, and the president of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. He served as the health minister during the COVID-19 pandemic in North Macedonia. In addition to his work as a surgeon and health minister, Filipče has also published scientific articles in medical neurosurgical journals.
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Teuta Arifi
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- university teacherpolitician
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Teuta Arifi is a Macedonian politician of Albanian origin.
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Olivera Nikolova
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- writernovelist
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Olivera Nikolova was a Macedonian author who was considered to be one of the top novelists of her country. She was born in 1936 in Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia. Nikolova graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, and worked as a screenwriter for radio and television programs. She wrote for children and adults.
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Gordana Jankuloska
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- politician
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Gordana Jankuloska is the former 10th Interior Minister of the Government of Macedonia (now North Macedonia). She was a Minister in four cabinets of Nikola Gruevski. During the 2015 Macedonian protests, activists demanded that Gruevski and his cabinet resign. Jankuloska and two others resigned from their positions. She was replaced as the interior minister by Mitko Čavkov. Jankuloska was sentenced to 6 years for “misuse of office” by a first-instance court in 2018, but her sentence was reduced by the higher court. She was sent to jail on 28.9.2020, after the court of appeals sentenced her to 4-years for her involvement in the purchase of a luxury car for about 600 thousand euros.
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Nikola Poposki
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- politiciandiplomateconomist
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Nikola Poposki was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia until 31 May 2017. Prior to that role, in 2010–2011 he served as the country's ambassador to the European Union.
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Gane Todorovski
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- translatorpoetliterary criticuniversity teacherwriter
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Dragan "Gane" Todorovski was a Macedonian poet, translator, essayist, literary critic, and historian, publicist.
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Fatmir Besimi
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- politician
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Fatmir Besimi is a Macedonian politician and economist of Albanian ethnicity. He served as Minister of Finance in North Macedonia from 2020 to 2024. He also served twice as Minister of Economy (December 2004 – June 2006 and August 2008 – July 2011) then Minister of Defence (August 2011 – February 2013) and after that he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia in charge of European Affairs (March 2013 – March 2016). In 2010 he was selected as one of the top European Ministers in the group of Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum.
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Maxim Dimitrievsky
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- politician
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Maksim Dimitrievski is the incumbent mayor of Kumanovo Municipality. Previously he was a member of the City Council, President of the Council of Kumanovo Municipality, and a former member of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia.
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Živko Čingo
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- writerjournalistplaywright
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Živko Čingo was a Macedonian writer, born in Velgosti, near Ohrid, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
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Dimitar Dimitrov
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- politicianeducation ministerambassadorphilosopherwriter
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Dimitar Dimitrov is a Macedonian politician (minister and diplomat), scientist (professor in philosophy), writer.
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Ilinka Mitreva
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- politicianuniversity teacherphilologist
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Ilinka Mitreva was a Macedonian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2001 and from 2002 to 2006.
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Venko Andonovski
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- playwrightpoetliterary criticwriterliterary theorist
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Venko Andonovski is a Macedonian writer, essayist, critic and literary theorist.
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Ratko Janev
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- university teachernuclear physicisttheoretical physicist
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Ratko Janev was a Yugoslav and Serbian atomic physicist and Macedonian academician.
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Trajko Veljanovski
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- lawyerpolitician
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Trajko Veljanovski is a Macedonian politician who was the President of the Assembly of North Macedonia from 2008 to 2017. He was graduated from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University working as a lawyer until 1999.
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Timčo Mucunski
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- civil servantpolitician
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Timčo Mucunski is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of North Macedonia and a university professor, who currently serves as vice-president of the political party VMRO-DPMNE. He served as Deputy Minister of Information Society and Public Administration in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia between 2015 and 2017 and as a Member of Parliament between 2020 and 2021.
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Saško Kedev
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- politician
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Saško Kedev, also Sashko Kedev (born 6 July 1962) is a Macedonian politician and doctor of medical sciences. He is a member of the political party VMRO-DPMNE.
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Filip Petrovski
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- politician
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Filip Tihomir Petrovski is a Macedonian political activist and librarian.
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Zoran Jolevski
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- politiciandiplomateconomist
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Zoran Jolevski is a Macedonian diplomat and the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Defense, he served as Macedonia's Ambassador to the United States of America. In November 2008, he was appointed chief negotiator to the Macedonia naming dispute, and in 2011 he was appointed Ambassador to the United Mexican States and as Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States. He served as Secretary General of the late Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski from 2000–2004. He holds a Ph.D. in International Economy from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. He is married to Suzana Jolevska, and together they have two sons, Pero (1988) and Filip (1992).
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Taki Fiti
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- politicianeconomist
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Taki Fiti is an economist and former Minister of Finance of North Macedonia.
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Antonio Milošoski
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- politician
- Biography
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Antonio Milošoski is a Macedonian politician, former minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Macedonia from 2006 to 2011 and a member of VMRO-DPMNE.
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Elizabeta Gjorgievska
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- researcherphysician
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Elizabeta Gjorgievska is a Macedonian physician who is the wife of the fifth President Stevo Pendarovski and the former First Lady of North Macedonia.
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Igor Durlovski
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- opera singer
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Igor Durlovski, is a Macedonian bass opera singer and politician.
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Denko Maleski
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- politician
- Biography
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Denko Maleski is a Macedonian intellectual, diplomat, and professor at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje.
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Jordan Plevnes
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- politicianwriterpoetdiplomat
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Jordan Plevnes is a Macedonian writer and diplomat. From 2000 to 2005 he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia to France, Spain and Portugal. Since 2006 he has served as vice president of UNESCO's international committee for dialogue between civilizations.
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Lidija Dimkovska
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- writertranslatorpoetnovelist
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Lidija Dimkovska, born 1971, is a Macedonian poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Skopje and studied comparative literature at the University of Skopje. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught Macedonian language and literature at the University of Bucharest and world literature at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia.
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Nina Angelovska
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- minister
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Nina Angelovska was the Minister of Finance in North Macedonia. She is also an entrepreneur, UNCTAD eTrade for Women Advocate and president of the Macedonian E-commerce Association. She co-founded and led the first deal platform and e-commerce company in Macedonia, Grouper.mk. She made a successful exit when the Polish Group Asseco SEE acquired her company, Grouper.mk.
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Koce Trajanovski
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- politician
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Koce Trajanovski is a Macedonian politician. He is a member of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE. He served as the Mayor of Skopje from 2009 to 2017. Before he was the mayor of Skopje, he was a Member of Parliament and mayor of the Gazi Baba Municipality. He was born in 1956 in Skopje. He studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje and graduated in 1980. In 1981, he started work at MTZ – Hepos where he was in charge of the computer management area. After that, he opened his own private computer software firm and closed that firm after 2 years of unsuccessfully managing that business. Following that, he decided that politics are more profitable. In 1998, he was elected MP from the winning party. In 2005 he was elected mayor of Gazi Baba. And in 2009 he was elected for his first mandate as mayor of Skopje. After the 2013 local elections in March he was elected for a second mandate. After the 2017 local elections held in October he was replaced by Petre Šilegov. On July 2024, The former mayor of Skopje, Koce Trajanovski, was appointed as the new director of the Public Enterprise for State Roads.
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Timotej of Debar and Kichevo
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- Eastern Orthodox priest
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Timotej of Debar and Kichevo was the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Debar and Kichevo which is part of the Macedonian Orthodox Church. He was born in Mlado Nagorichane, Kumanovo, Republic of North Macedonia. Timotej died from heart disease in Skopje, on 25 November 2024, at the age of 73.
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Miroslav Stojanovski
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- military officer
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Miroslav Stojanovski is a Macedonian military officer who holds the rank of lieutenant general and was the longest-serving Chief of General Staff of the Army of the Republic of Macedonia (2005–2011).
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Naum (Ilievski)
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Bishop Naum of Strumica is the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Strumica, Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric.
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Lazar Elenovski
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- politician
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Lazar Elenovski is a Macedonian politician, former Minister of Defence, elected on 26 August 2006 until 26 July 2008. He was Ambassador of Macedonia to Belgium and Luxembourg from September 2012 till December 2016 and Special Representative of the Macedonian Government to NATO from March 2018 until May 2020.
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Savo Klimovski
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
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Savo Klimovski is a Macedonian lawyer and politician. He served as interim President of Macedonia from 19 November to 15 December 1999.
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Todor Petrov
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- politician
- Biography
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Todor Petrov is the president of the Macedonian diaspora organisation World Macedonian Congress (WMC). Petrov is a councillor in the electorate of Gazi Baba.
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Vasko Naumovski
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Vasko Naumovski is a Macedonian diplomat and politician of VMRO-DPMNE, having served as a Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia in Nikola Gruevski's government for the period of 2009–2011, responsible for the country's European integration.
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Zoran Stavreski
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Zoran Stavreski is a Macedonian politician and formerly Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Finance.
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Mile Markovski
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- writer
- Biography
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Mile Markovski was a Bulgarian and Macedonian writer.
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Bogomil Ǵuzel
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- writerlinguistpoet
- Biography
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Bogomil Gjuzel was a Macedonian poet, writer, playwright and translator.
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Katica Ḱulavkova
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- literary historianliterary criticpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Katica Kulavkova is a Macedonian writer and academic. She has published over forty books, including twenty collections of poetry. Kulavkova is a professor in the philology faculty at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje and a vice president of the literary organization PEN International.
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Jovan Trifunovski
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- anthropologistuniversity teachergeographer
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Jovan Trifunovski was a Serbian geographer and anthropologist.
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Vlado Goreski
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- painter
- Biography
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Vlado Goreski – Rafik is a Macedonian-Slovenian graphic artist and scenographer.
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Ivan Stoilković
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- politician
- Biography
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Ivan Stoilković is a Macedonian politician serving as deputy prime minister of North Macedonia and minister of inter-community relations since 2024. An ethnic Serb, he has been the president of the Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia (DPSM) since 2001 and a member of the Assembly of North Macedonia from 2002 to 2024.
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Andrej Žernovski
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- politician
- Biography
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Andrej Žernovski is a Macedonian politician, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the former Deputy foreign minister of his country. He served as mayor of the Centar Municipality of Skopje between 2013 and 2017.
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Vlado Misajlovski
- Years
- 1985-.. (age 40)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Vlado Misajlovski is a politician from North Macedonia. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications in the cabinet of Nikola Gruevski from 13 May 2015, until 31 May 2017.
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Žamila Kolonomos
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- writerpartisanactivist
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Žamila Andžela Kolonomos was a Sephardi Jewish partisan, writer, academic, and political activist in what is now North Macedonia.
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Georgi Konstantinovski
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- writeruniversity teacherarchitect
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Georgi Konstantinovski was a Macedonian architect, writer and educator. He graduated from the SS Cyril and Methodius University, Faculty of Architecture in Skopje in 1956 and received his Master of Architecture Degree from Yale University, under the mentorship of Paul Rudolph and Serge Chermayeff, in 1965. His early works are stylistically considered Brutalist. In New York City, he worked and collaborated with I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb Jr., and Araldo Cossutta.
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Siljan Avramovski
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- politicianpolice officer
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Siljan Avramovski is a Macedonian police official and former Minister of Internal Affairs in Macedonian Government that was in power since 2002.
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Ivan Katardžiev
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- historian
- Biography
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Ivan Katardžiev was a Macedonian historian. He was regarded as the country's most important expert on the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) and the Macedonian history under Yugoslavia as well as the early years of independence. He was also director of the Macedonian Institute for National History.
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Dimitrije Bužarovski
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- composerpianistconductormusic educator
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Dimitrije Bužarovski Ph.D. is a Macedonian composer, versatile artist and a scholar with interests in different fields: composition, musicology, computer and electronic music, performance, teaching and research.
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Božin Pavlovski
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- writer
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Božin Pavlovski is a Macedonian-Australian novelist whose works have been translated into more than twenty languages. He is a novelist–mediator between two cultures whose novels interpret the binary logic by which his characters are both “here” and in the country in which they were born or originate from.
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Elizabeta Kančeska-Milevska
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- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Elizabeta Kančeska-Milevska is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Culture in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia.
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Robert Veljanovski
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- actor
- Biography
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Robert Veljanovski is a Macedonian actor and former Director of the Drama Theatre in Skopje, Macedonia.
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Neyko Nenov
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- military personnelmilitary officer
- Biography
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Neyko N. Nenov was a Bulgarian major general.
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Paskal Sotirovski
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- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Paskal Sotirovski, was a Macedonian astrophysicist, specializing in solar physics.
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Jasna Koteska
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- opinion journalistacademicuniversity teacherwriterphilosopher
- Biography
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Jasna Koteska is a Macedonian writer, philosopher and academic.
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Georgi Efremov
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacheranatomistbiochemistacademic
- Biography
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Georgi D. Efremov was a Macedonian academic and scientist at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, Macedonia, and a professor in the Faculty of Agricultural Science and Food in Skopje. He was specialized in genetic engineering in human medicine, veterinary medicine, and animal biotechnology. He was a former Ambassador and Minister of Science in the Republic of Macedonia.
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Simeon Simev
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- writerjournalistpoet
- Biography
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Simeon or Simyon Simev is a poet, essayist and journalist in North Macedonia.
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Petar Atanasov
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- linguist
- Biography
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Petar Atanasov is a Megleno-Romanian linguist from North Macedonia. His scientific interests include lexicography and Aromanian, Megleno-Romanian and Romance linguistics. He was a professor in the Faculty of Philology at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje.
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Zharko Basheski
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- teachersculptor
- Biography
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Zharko Basheski is a Macedonian sculptor and professor in the Sculpture Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. His work falls under the hyperrealism movement, with a specific focus on the human body.
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Stefan Markovski
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- screenwriterwriterpoetediting staff
- Biography
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Stefan Markovski is a Macedonian writer, screenwriter, poet, philosopher and translator.
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Ivan Djeparoski
- Occupations
- translatorpoetwriter
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Ivan Djeparoski(born 1958 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia) is a philosopher, cultural theorist, poet and translator. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. He is an author of fourteen books in the field of aesthetics and cultural theory, five poetry books and also of two poetry anthologies, for which he was awarded the "Mlad Borec Prize" (1984), "Dimitar Mitrev Prize" (1993) and “Paradigm Prize” (2009). He works at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje as a professor of "Aesthetics", "History of Aesthetics" and "Cultural Theories". He is/was Head of the Institute of Philosophy (2004-2009; 2013-), Head of postgraduate studies of the Institute of philosophy (2010-2013) and secretary of Macedonian P.E.N. Centre. (1999-2001; 2009-2014). He also translates (William Blake, Joseph Brodsky, James Joyce, David Hume, Edmund Burke). He was granted the "Grigor Prlicev Award" (1993) for a poetic rendition as well as the „Miladinov Brothers” award Archived 2016-10-09 at the Wayback Machine(2017) for the best poetry book The Light of Mount Athos, written in Macedonian. His poetry and some of his essays are translated into several languages.
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Blaga Aleksova
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- archaeologist
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Blaga Aleksova was a Macedonian archaeologist.
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Maja Hill
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- painter
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Maja Hill is a Macedonian artist.
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Ana Stojanoska
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- theatrologistpoetediting staffuniversity teacherwriter
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Dr. Ana Stojanoska, born 22 November 1977 in Prilep, SR Macedonia is a theatre researcher and writer.
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Ivan Čapovski
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- writer
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Ivan Čapovski is a Macedonian writer, poet and novelist. Macedonian: Иван Чаповски; also Ivan Čapovski; Capovskǐ, Ivan; Čapovski, Ivan 1936-; Ivan Čapovski Macedonian writer; Чаповски Иван 1936-; Иван Чаповски.
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Sofija Trenčovska
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- writertranslatorjournalistphilologist
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Sofija Trenchovska is a writer, editor, producer, philologist and cultural activist from North Macedonia, living in Great Britain.
