Ivan Alev () was a Bulgarian medical doctor and a worker of the Bulgarian national liberation movement in Macedonia.Танчев, Иван. Македонският компонент при формирането на българската интелигенция с европейско образование (1878-1912). // Македонски преглед XXIV (3). 2001. с. 48.
He was born in about 1851 in the small south Macedonian town of Gumendzhe, in the Ottoman Empire, now Goumenissa, Kilkis regional unit, Greece. He finished medicine in Athens and then returned to his native town, where he started to work as a doctor. He was one of the first doctors who worked in Bulgarian Exarchate School system in Ottoman Macedonia.Илия Галчев (2009) Здравно-социалната дейност на Българската екзархия в Македония и Тракия, 1870-1913, , стр. 141. Later he moved to Kukush (Kilkis). Alev was a trusted man of Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) and had the responsibility to treat the sick and wounded members of the Organization. During the wars for Bulgarian national unification, Alev was a military division doctor in the Bulgarian army. After the First World War he settled in Nevrokop as a regional doctor.Цокова, Полина. Дейността на Неврокопската митрополия в периода на войните 1912 - 1919 година. // Исторически преглед 65 (1-2). София, Институт по история при БАН, 2009. с. 90. He died in 1919.Пелтеков, Александър Г. Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско. Второ допълнено издание. София, Орбел, 2014. , с. 12.
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