# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-kostov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:48:17.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-kostov"
name: "Ivan Kostov"
slug: "ivan-kostov"
description: "Ivan Yordanov Kostov is a Bulgarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 1997 to 2001. A member of the SDS party, which he led from 1994 to 2001, he was previously Minister of Finance from 1990 to 1992. Following his premiership, Kostov founded a new political party, the DSB, and served as Member of the National Assembly from 2001 to 2013."
tagline: "Bulgarian politician, economist, prime minister"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_Kostov_2013_05(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1949-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump