Dimitar Rizov

Dimitar Hristov Rizov or Rizoff (, ; 1862 – 1918) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, publicist, politician, journalist and diplomat.

Life Rizov was born in 1860 in Manastır, Ottoman Empire (today Bitola, North Macedonia). At first he studied in his native town and then he continued study in Plovdiv (Filibe). In 1881 he opened a book store in Manastır, and a year later he was an Exarchist's school inspector of the Bulgarian schools in Macedonia.

In 1884 he began to participate in the Bulgarian politics; became an editor of the Liberal Party newspaper Tarnovo Constitution. Rizov was a part of the immigrant wave in the Eastern Rumelian capital Plovdiv, where he actively participated in the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee and in the preparations for the Bulgarian unification. He was a member of the temporary revolutionary government in Plovdiv on September 6–9, 1885. For his opposition to Kniaz Ferdinand, Rizov was sent to prison; later, however, Rizov accepted the Kniaz's regime and political aims. With respect to the Bulgarian national question, and, in particular, to the Macedonian Question, Rizov is unwavering in defending the rights of Bulgarians living outside of the Bulgarian borders.