Hristo Batandzhiev (Bulgarian: Христо Батанджиев, Macedonian: Христо Батанџиев) (Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire, present day Goumenissa, Greece – 1913, Aegean Sea) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary,[1] one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.
After the Young Turk Revolution from 1908, he was an active member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs Party.
In July 1913, after the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, Hristo Batandzhiev was arrested by the Greek authorities.
He was about to be deported to the island of Trikeri in the Aegean Sea, together with many other Bulgarians.
His son is 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.