Todor Khristov Jivkov (Toдор XpиcтoвЖивков) born the September 7th 1911, deceased the August 5th 1998, was a leader of the Communist regime of Bulgaria.

Important member of the police machinery of the State after 1945, it integrates the Politburo in 1951 and becomes in 1954 the chief of the Bulgarian Communist party. He is Head of the Bulgarian State from July 7th, 1971 to November 17th, 1989, and states to want “to carry out the final unification of a Nation mainly Christian by the eradication of the Turkish/Moslem presence in the country”. He follows a policy of " bulgarisation" Moslem minorities. Shortly after the fall of the Communist regime, it is stopped and condemned to seven years of prison for embezzlement. Because of its health condition, it purges part of its sorrow in residence.