- Milorad Dodik
Milorad Dodik (born March 12, 1959, Laktaši, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is Prime Minister of Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the president of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (Савез независних социјалдемократа, "Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata") political party. Dodik graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade.
- Richard Holbrooke
Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke (born April 24, 1941) is an American diplomat, magazine editor, author, Peace Corps official, and investment banker. He is also the only person to have held the Assistant Secretary of State position for two different regions of the world (Asia and Europe). From 1993-1994, he was U.S. Ambassador to Germany. Although long well-known in diplomatic and journalistic circles, …
- Branko Crvenkovski
Branko Crvenkovski was elected president of Macedonia on 28 April 2004, in a second round of elections. Early elections were called after the death of former Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski in a plane crash on 26 February 2004. Crvenkovski was born on 12 October 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1986, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Automation from the School of Electrical Engineering at the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje.
- Emir Kusturica
Emir Kusturica (born November 24, 1954) is a Bosnian filmmaker born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then FPR Yugoslavia). With an impressive string of internationally acclaimed features, Kusturica is seen as one of the most creative directors in cinema during the 1980s and '90s. As well as being one of the few directors to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes twice (for "When Father Was Away on Business" and "Underground"), …
- Wolfgang Petritsch
Wolfgang Petritsch is an Austrian diplomat. He was born in Klagenfurt in a partially Slovenian, partially German-speaking environment. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Petritsch’s reflections on international affairs have been published extensively in the world’s leading newspapers and he is the author or co-author of several books, …
- Ratko Mladić
Ratko Mladić (born March 12, 1942) was the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Republika Srpska (VRS) (the Bosnian Serb Army) during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. Mladić was indicted on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague in connection with the 1992-1996 siege of Sarajevo and the massacre of around 8,300 Bosniak men and boys on July 11, 1995 at Srebrenica.
- Sven Alkalaj
Sven Alkalaj is a Bosnian diplomat who is the current Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Alkalaj, who is of Sephardic ethnicity, is one of the most prominent Bosnian Jews. He is a member of the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina led by Haris Silajdžić.
- Carlos Westendorp
Carlos Westendorp y Cabeza is a Spanish diplomat who held the post of High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from June 1997 to July 1999. He was previously the foreign minister of Spain from December 1995 to May 1996. Since 2003 he has been the Spanish Ambassador to the United States.
- Stjepan Mesić
Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian politician. He has been the President of the Republic of Croatia since 2000. He had previously held the posts of the Prime Minister of Croatia, the final president of Socialist Yugoslavia, and the president of the Croatian parliament. Mesić was a deputy in the Croatian Parliament in the 1960s, and was then absent from politics until 1990 when he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), …
- Alija Izetbegović
Alija Izetbegović was a Bosniak activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who, in 1990, became the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000. He was also the author of several books, most notably "Islam Between East and West" and "The Islamic Declaration".
- Goran Bregović
Goran Bregović (born March 22, 1950) is a Bosnian musician and one of the most recognizable modern composers of the Balkans. Composer and guitarist Goran Bregović has been a household name in the Balkans for over three decades. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then Yugoslavia), Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesaria Evora. He earned his fame wielding a guitar with his rock band Bijelo Dugme, …
- Zlatko Lagumdžija
Dr. Zlatko Lagumdžija is a Bosnian politician and academic, known for his leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Bosnia and Herzegovina and for having moderate and anti-nationalist political views. He is currently a member of the House of Representatives in the Bosnian Parliamentary Assembly and a professor at the University of Sarajevo.
- Dino Merlin
Edin Dervišhalidović (born 12 September 1962 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFRY), stage name Dino Merlin, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter and musician. He is one of the most famous singer/songwriters in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also popular in other countries of former Yugoslavia. He is an ethnic Bosniak.
- Sulejman Tihić
Sulejman Tihić was a member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing that nation's Bosniak community from October 2002 until November 6 2006. He was Chairman of the Presidency between February 28, 2004 and October 2004. Sulejman Tihić was born in the town of Šamac, northern Bosnia, SFR Yugoslavia. Tihić got his degree in Law from the University of Sarajevo.
- Zdravko Tolimir
Zdravko Tolimir (born November 27, 1948, Glamoč, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) was a Bosnian Serb commander during the Bosnian War. Zdravko Tolimir was Assistant Commander of Intelligence and Security for the Bosnian Serb army and reported directly to the commander, General Ratko Mladić. According to the indictment, Tolimir was aware of the program aimed at expelling Bosniaks from Srebrenica and Zepa, and he willingly participated in the project.
- Nebojša Radmanović
Nebojša Radmanović ("Небојша Радмановић"; born October 1, 1949, Gračanica, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb politician. He finished his schooling in Banja Luka, before going on to study at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. He was elected on October 1, 2006 to a four year term as the Serb member of the tripartite presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and assumed office on November 6 2006, …
- Hari Mata Hari
Hari Mata Hari is a popular music band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5,000,000 albums to date. Their songs are among the most famous and popular love ballads in the former Yugoslav era.
- Vojislav Šešelj
Vojislav Šešelj (born 11 October, 1954 in Sarajevo, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian politician of Croatian origins, and the founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party, the largest party in the Serbian parliament. He was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and is currently in The Hague awaiting trial.
- Elisabeth Rehn
Märta Elisabeth Rehn is a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first woman as the Minister of Defence in Finland. In the 1994 presidential elections she was narrowly defeated by Martti Ahtisaari. Elisabeth Rehn spent her childhood in Mäntsälä where her father worked as a Community Medical Doctor. Rehn went to a local school in Mäntsälä before entering to a boarding school in Grankulla (fi. Kauniainen).
- Edo Maajka
Edo Maajka (born as Edin Osmić on December 22, 1978 in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ex-Yugoslavia) is a rapper from Bosnia and Herzegovina Edin's stage name "Edo Maajka" means "Edo the Mother".
- Gazi Husrev-Beg
Gazi Husrev-beg was a beg in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century. He was an effective military strategist, and the greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was born in Serez, to a Bosnian father and a Turkish mother, who was the daughter of the Sultan. Thus, Gazi Husrev-Beg was Sultan Beyazid II's grandson. A brilliant strategist and politician, in 1521 he became the governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia.
- Mike Jackson
General Sir Michael "Mike" Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, (born 21 March 1944) is a British army officer, formerly Chief of the General Staff. He was formerly commander of KFor in Kosovo as well as UNPROFOR (see Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions) commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Sefer Halilović
Sefer Halilović is a former general and overall commander in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001 he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and eventually acquitted. Today he is a prominent politician in Bosnia
- Sergej Barbarez
Sergej Barbarez (born September 17, 1971 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) is a famous and popular Bosnian-Herzegovian football midfielder playing for Bayer Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga.
- Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964) is a Bosnian fiction writer living in the United States. Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to a father of Ukrainian descent and Serbian mother. Hemon's great-grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came to Bosnia from Western Ukraine prior to World War I, when both countries were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature in 1990.
- Mak Dizdar
Mehmedalija "Mak" Dizdar (born 1917 in Stolac, Austria-Hungary, died 1971 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia) was a Bosnian poet, considered one of the greatest Yugoslav poets of the second half of the twentieth century.
- Mladen Ivanić
Mladen Ivanić is a Bosnian Serb politician. From 2001 to 2003, Ivanić was Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, and his leadership is described by many as rather successful. He also served as the sixth foreign minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina since it became independence in 1992, succeeding Zlatko Lagumdžija on the post, and as such was a member of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In turn, he was succeeded on the post in 2007 by Sven Alkalaj.
- Ed Vulliamy
Ed Vulliamy is an English journalist and writer. He was born on August 1, 1954. His mother is the children's book illustrator Shirley Hughes. He was educated at University College School and Hertford College, Oxford before becoming a journalist. He was Washington correspondent for "The Observer" for six years (1997 - 2003) and Rome correspondent for "The Guardian". He has reported extensively on the mid-1990s war in Bosnia, …
- Muhamed Sacirbey
Muhamed Sacirbey (born Muhamed Šaćirbegović on July 20 1956 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian-American lawyer and businessman who served at the pleasure of the Bosnian government during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War and shortly after.
- Ivo Banac
Ivo Banac is a Croatian historian and politician. He is professor of history and director of the Council on European Studies at Yale University. Some of his most famous writings are * "The National Question in Yugoslavia: origins, history, politics" (1984) * "With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist splits in Yugoslav communism" (1988) * "Cijena Bosne" ["The price of Bosnia"] (1996) * "Raspad Jugoslavije" ["The Break-up of Yugoslavia"] (2001).
- Ante Marković
Ante Marković (born November 25, 1924 in Konjic, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) was the last prime minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a Bosnian Croat. He graduated from the Electrotechnical Department of the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1954. In 1986. he became president of the Presidency of Socialist Republic of Croatia (thus becoming 7th Croatian president) replacing Ema Derosi-Bjelajac.
- Philippe Morillon
Philippe Morillon (born October 24, 1935 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former French general and a currently a Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the Union for French Democracy ticket and sits with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. On July 23, 2004 he was elected Chair of the Committee on Fisheries. Before turning to politics he was an army General, and commanded the United Nations Forces in Bosnia (1992-1993).
- Meša Selimović
Mehmedalija "Meša" Selimović was a Serbian writer and one of the greatest 20th century novelists of Bosnian and Serbian literature. He wrote in the Serbo-Croatian language, and his written dialect greatly influenced today's Bosnian standard language. His most famous works deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina and the culture of the Muslim inhabitants of the Ottoman province of Bosnia, but he also wrote a book about Vuk Karadžić's orthographic reforms, …
- Mirza Delibašić
Mirza Delibašić was a Bosnian basketball player. Delibašić was a born in Tuzla, located in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirza Delibašić "Kindje" led his club KK Bosna Sarajevo to the Euroleague Championship in 1979. After leaving KK Bosna, Delibašić went to Spain where he along with Juan Corbalán, Wayne Brabender, Dražen Petrović, and Arvydas Sabonis, is considered to be one of the best players ever to play for the "royal club" Real Madrid.
- Selim II
Selim II was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-66) and his favourite wife Roxelana (also Hurrem or Anastasia Lisovska). After gaining the throne after palace intrigue and fraternal dispute, Selim II became the first Sultan devoid of active military interest and willing to abandon power to his ministers, provided he was left free to pursue his orgies and debauches.
- Fikret Abdić
Fikret Abdić is a Bosnian politician and businessman, mainly known for his role in the Bosnian War and his opposition to the government of Alija Izetbegović in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He founded the short-lived Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, which existed between 1993 and 1995, where he allied with Army of Republika Srpska against Izetbegović's government. In 2002 he was convicted for war crimes his forces had committed in the area of the Bihać pocket.
- Džemal Bijedić
Džemal Bijedić was a Yugoslav Communist politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina who held several positions during his lengthy career.
- Pekka Haavisto
Pekka Haavisto is a Finnish politician representing the Green League. He was re-elected to the Finnish Parliament in the Finnish parliamentary election of March 2007 after an absence of 12 years. He is also a member of the Helsinki City Council. Haavisto was a member of the Parliament of Finland in 1987-95. He was the chairperson of the Green League from 1993-1995 and the minister of environment from 1995 to 1999.
- Vladimir Prelog
Vladimir Prelog (July 23 1906 - January 7 1998) was a renowned chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Prelog lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zurich during his lifetime.
- David Leakey
Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CBE (Born 1952) is a British military commander. In 2004, he was appointed as commander of EUFOR, the European Union peacekeeping force that replaces the NATO-led SFOR in Bosnia in December 2004, having previously served in the role of Director General of Army Training and Recruiting. In July 1999 he was appointed Deputy Colonel Commandant of the Royal Tank Regiment.