Ivan Hadzhinikolov

Ivan Hadzhinikolov (Bulgarian: Иван Атанасов Хаджиниколов, Macedonian: Иван Атанасов Хаџи Николов; December 24, 1861 – July 9, 1934) was a Macedonian Bulgarian[1][2][3] revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Adrianople vilayet.

He was among the founders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (IMARO) in October 1893 (the organization was renamed several times afterwards).

From 1888 to 1892 he taught arithmetic and accounting at the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki.

[6] In July 1892, he met with Kosta Shahov and Gotse Delchev in Sofia and discussed with them his idea of founding a revolutionary organization in Ottoman Macedonia.

After supposing to be arrested in 1901, he handed over the IMARO archives to Ivan Garvanov, who later became the new leader of the Organization.