Pavel Potsev Shatev (Bulgarian and ; July 15, 1882 – January 30, 1951) was a socialist revolutionary from Macedonia and member of the left wing of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), later becoming a left-wing political activist. Per Anastas Vangeli, he was a self-declared Bulgarian.Anastas Vangeli, Facing the Yugoslav Communist Past in Contemporary Macedonia: Tales of Continuity, Nostalgia and Victimization; pp. 183-205 in Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Europe, with ed. Corina Dobos and Marius Stan, Volume 1; Zeta Books, 2011, , p. 201. He was jailed in post-WWII SR Macedonia as an enemy of the state, but his image was rehabilitated later. Shatev is considered a Macedonian in the Macedonian historiography and a Bulgarian in the Bulgarian historiography.
