Notable natives include politician Petar Gudev (1862–1932), officer Radko Dimitriev (1859–1918) and Shibil, a 19th-century Turkish Roma brigand who served as Yordan Yovkov's prototype for a hajduk character, as well as possibly the noted socialist Christian Rakovsky (1873–1941).
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On 11 September 1941 (three months after the German invasion of the USSR), Spiridonova and over 150 other political prisoners (among them Christian Rakovsky and Olga Kameneva), were executed in Medvedev Forest outside Oryol.