Dimitar Dimitrov

Dimitar Dimitrov (; born 1937) is a Macedonian former governmental minister, diplomat, professor of philosophy, and writer.

Life He was born in Chrisa (Cakoni), Greece, in 1937. His family fled to the Socialist Republic of Macedonia during the Greek Civil War in 1948. He completed his studies in a gymnasium and graduated in philosophy in the Philosophical Faculty in Skopje. Dimitrov received his master's degree in Ljubljana and his doctorate in Zagreb. He worked as a professor in a gymnasium, editor in the publishing house "Kultura" (Culture) and a professor in the University of Skopje. the Ambassador (2000 – 2003) of the Republic of Macedonia to Russia. It resulted in public scandals and he was dismissed from his position. He opposed the identitarian narrative as part of the antiquization policy promoted by the Macedonian government under Nikola Gruevski.

He has a reputation for being a Bulgarophile intellectual in his country. In his 1999 book The Name and the Mind, Dimitrov claimed that there was a process of de-Bulgarization in the 20th century on the territory of North Macedonia. He is married and is the father of former Macedonian foreign minister Nikola Dimitrov.