Nedelya Petkova was the first female teacher in the Macedonian region. She was teaching in an all-girls school and just in her first year had over 200 girls in her class.
Stefan Verkovic was one of the first foreign researchers who were sent to the Macedonian region to collect information about the Bulgarian people living there and their ethnographic identity.
Dimitar Biserov was a teacher in the first school in Gorna Dhumaya, today Blagoevgrad. He was strongly influenced by Neofit Rilski and a follower of his ideas from the school in Gabrovo. He was the teacher of Georgi Izmirliev who was a popular revolutionary from Blagoevgrad.
