Petar Zdravkovski – Penko (November 4, 1912, Prilep, Ottoman Empire – July 26, 1967 Beirut, Lebanon) was a Yugoslav educator, statesman, diplomat.

[2] He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) and after the occupation of then Vardar Banovina he took part in the preparations for the armed resistance in Prilep.

In the spring of 1943 he returned to Vardar Macedonia, and in the autumn of the same year he joined the armed partisan forces in Debarca.

After the Second World War he was appointed to various political functions: teacher at the Party High School in Skopje, Chief of the Press Department of the Government of the People’s Republic of Macedonia (PRM); head of Radio Skopje (1947-1949); Secretary General of the PRM Government (1949-1950), member of the Executive Council of PRM;[3] Minister of the Council of Education (1957-1962); Minister of the Council for Science; member of the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia Central Committee.

[4] He was appointed chief of staff of the Department for Foreign Affairs in Belgrade (1953-1954) and consul general of Yugoslavia to Marseilles, France (1954-1957).