Ivan Stefanov Tsonchev was a Bulgarian Army General and revolutionary (komitadji).

[1] Ivan Tsonchev was born on 19 August 1859 in Dryanovo, then in the Ottoman Empire.

After the establishment of the Bulgarian Principality he became an officer and participated in the Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885.

There were many Bulgarian officers who fought at the time of the revolutionary struggles in Macedonia, but among them there was only one general and this was Ivan Tsonchev.

He did so in spite of the arrests, internships and repressions organized by the government, he had been periodically a subject.