Julia Malinova, née Jakovlevna Scheider (Bulgarian: Юлия Малинова (Яковлевна Шнайдер)) (1869-1953), was a Bulgarian suffragist and women's rights activist.

[1] Malinova was born in 1869, a Russian Jew, educated in France and Switzerland before moving to Bulgaria upon her conversion and marriage to lawyer Alexander Malinov, later prime minister of Bulgaria.

From 1899, she edited the paper Zhenski glas ("Female voice") with the teacher, socialist and writer Anna Karima, spouse of the socialist Yanko Sakazov, and in 1901, they co-founded the Bulgarian Women's Union with Karima as its first chairperson.

It was founded as a reply to the limitations of women's education and access to university studies in the 1890s, with the goal to further women's intellectual development and participation, arranged national congresses and used Zhenski glas as its organ.

During her tenure, she secured the policy of the union as a society for all classes and political convictions, and organized wives of soldiers during the war.