Hristo Batandzhiev

Hristo Batandzhiev (, ; 1869 – 18 June 1913) was a Bulgarian teacher, revolutionary, and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

Life Batandzhiev was born in Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire (present-day Goumenissa, Greece). He studied in Gyumendzhe and Thessaloniki. Batandzhiev was a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate school in Thessaloniki and secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city. On 23 October 1893, he was one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Batandzhiev became a member of the Central Committee of IMRO without portfolio. After the Young Turk Revolution from 1908, he was an active member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs Party. After the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, Greek soldiers arrested him in Thessaloniki.

His son, Ivan Batandzhiev, was a Bulgarian sports figure, one of the founders of the Bulgarian Football Championship, chairman of the Bulgarian Football Union and trainer of the Bulgaria national football team. His grandson with the same name was a Bulgarian geologist.