Kiro Gligorov

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President of the Republic of Macedonia (1917-2012)

PoliticiansLived 1917 to 2012 · aged 94

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Fame55.7

Momentum3.1

Languages30

Peak1990s

In century#21,813

Also inDeutsch

Photos 5

Gligorov (top right) with other members of the General Staff of the Macedonian Partisans on Kozjak, c. 1944

Gligorov in 1965

Gligorov's presidential car after the assassination attempt

Gligorov's grave at the Butel cemetery in Skopje.

Awards 11

Order of the Yugoslav Star

Order of the Republic

Order of Brotherhood and Unity

Order of Labour

Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry

Grand Cross of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria

Order "For Merit to the People" with silver star

Order 8-September

Order of the Republic of North Macedonia

Order of Merit for Macedonia

Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

In their orbit 1

ChildVladimir Gligorov

Connected to Kiro 6

George W. BushAlso won Order of the Republic of North Macedonia

Esma RedžepovaAlso won Order of Merit for Macedonia

Bronisław KomorowskiAlso won Order 8-September

Dobrica ĆosićAlso won Order of Brotherhood and Unity

Sergey SokolovAlso won Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Miguel de la MadridAlso won Order of the Yugoslav Star

About this person

Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian and Yugoslav statesman, economist, and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Štip, where he was also educated. He continued his education in Skopje and graduated in law in Belgrade. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, he worked as a lawyer and participated in the partisan resistance. By the end of the war, he was an organiser of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, the predecessor of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia as a federal Yugoslav state.