- Stephen II of Bosnia II of Bosnia
Stjepan or Stepan II Kotromanić, nicknamed the "Devil's Student" was a "Bosnian Ban" or "Herzog of Bosnia" from 1314, but in reality from 1322 to 1353 together with his brother, Prince Vladislav in 1326-1353. He was the son of Bosnian Ban Stephen I Kotroman and the Serbian Princess Jelisaveta, sister of king Stefan Vladislav II of Syrmia.
- Tvrtko I of Bosnia I of Bosnia
Stephen Tvrtko I (Stefan, sometimes translated as "Stjepan", "Stevan",...) (1338–1391) was a ruler of medieval Bosnia. He ruled in 1353-1366 and again in 1367-1377 as Ban and in 1377-1391 as the first Bosnian King. He also took the Serbian crown. Tvrtko was a member of the House of Kotromanić. Tvrtko I was an able ruler and his state included most of Bosnia as well as the neighbouring territories.
- Stephen I of Bosnia I of Bosnia
Kotroman was a Bosnian Ban from 1287 to 1290 jointly with Ban Prijezda II and 1290-1314 alone as a vassal of the Kingdom of Hungary. Internally, he was a vassal of the Banate of Croatia, but was in reality under the Serb King Stefan Dragutin of Srem. The Bosnian ruling dynasty House of Kotroman is named after him, with his patronymic. He is also sometimes referred to as "Stephen Kotroman" or "Stephen I Kotroman", …
- Elisabeth Of Bosnia
Elisabeth of Bosnia was a Queen consort of the Kingdom of Hungary and Poland, and regent of Hungary. She was the second wife of Louis I of Hungary and Poland. Elisabeth's father was Stephen II of Bosnia and Syrmia, the head of Kotromanic dynasty and clamant of the kingdom of Serbia. She descended from the Nemanjic dynasty too. Her mother was Elisabeth of Kujavia, a grandniece of Władysław I the Elbow-high.
- 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, …
- 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, …
- 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.
- Scott O'Grady
Scott F. O'Grady is a former United States Air Force captain who gained prominence after ejecting over Bosnia when his F-16C 89-2032/AV was shot down by a Bosnian Serb SA-6 on June 2, 1995 while patrolling the no-fly zone. The incident occurred near Mrkonjić Grad in Serb kept territory. He survived for six days eating little, avoiding Serb patrols and trying to contact Magic, the NATO organization. He evaded capture and was rescued six days later, on 8 June, …
- 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.
- Jesse Eisenberg
Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American film and television actor. Eisenberg was born in New York City, New York to Amy and Barry Eisenberg, who ran a hospital and later became a college professor. He was raised in a Jewish family in Queens and New Jersey. His sister, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, is also an actress. Eisenberg made his acting debut on the 1999 television series, "Get Real", which was cancelled in 2000.
- 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.
- Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić was a novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature from Yugoslavia. His novels "The Bridge on the Drina" and "Chronicles of Travnik / The Days of the Consuls" dealt with life in Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire.
- Enaam Arnaout
Enaam Arnaout is an American of Syrian descent, who pleaded guilty to using charitable donations to support fighters in Bosnia without apprising the donors of this, during his tenure as a director of the terrorist charity Benevolence International Foundation (which is now banned worldwide by the United Nations).
- 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.
- Erik Prince
Erik Prince (born June 6, 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is the founder and owner of the military support contractor Blackwater USA. A millionaire and former US Navy SEAL, after high school he briefly attended the United States Naval Academy before attending and graduating from Hillsdale College. After college, he earned a commission in the United States Navy after joining in 1992, and served as a Navy SEAL officer on deployments to Haiti, the Middle East and the Mediterranean, …
- John Pomfret
John Pomfret is an American journalist and writer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Stanford University, receiving B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Studies. In 1980, he was one of the first American students to go to China and study at Nanjing University. Between 1983 and 1984 he attended Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar, researching the Cambodian conflict.
- 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).
- Jack Keane
John (Jack) Keane (born 1945) is a retired four-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, and a defense analyst. Keane attended Fordham University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1966. He then attended Western Kentucky University, graduating with a master's degree in philosophy. He then attended Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. Keane served in the Vietnam War as a paratrooper.
- 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.
- Matt Frei
Matthias Frei (born 26 November, 1963 in Essen, Germany) is the BBC's Washington, D. C. correspondent. Since appointment to that position he has become one of BBC News' best-known faces. He went to Westminster School, then read History and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, before graduating in 1986. He joined the BBC shortly after graduation. After a year in the German Section of the World Service, he moved to English Language Current Affairs, …
- 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, …
- William L. Nash
William L. Nash is a retired US Army Major General who commanded the 1st Armored Division of the United States Army when it went to Bosnia in 1995 for a year as a peacekeeping operation. A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov, was part of that effort. An account of the interactions of the Americans and Russians in Bosnia in 1996 may be found in James Nelson’s Bosnia Journal.
- Patch Adams
Hunter Campbell "Patch" Adams (born May 28 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia) founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1972. In 1998 his life was portrayed as a movie. Patch Adams is a social activist, citizen diplomat, professional clown, performer, and author. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to Russia as clowns, to bring hope and joy to orphans, patients, and the people.
- Gilles Peress
Gilles Peress (born 1946) is an internationally renowned photojournalist. Peress began working as a photographer in 1970, embarking on an intimate portrayal of life in a French coal mining village as it emerged from the ashes of a debilitating labor dispute. He then joined Magnum Photos, the prestigious photography agency founded by Robert Capa. Peress soon traveled to Northern Ireland to begin an ongoing 20-year project about the Irish civil rights struggle.
- Swanee Hunt
Swanee Hunt (born May 1, 1950) is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, director of its Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP), and former United States Ambassador to Austria. A daughter of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, she grew up in Dallas, Texas and then lived in Denver, Colorado for many years, where she was active in many community and philanthropic activities. She was appointed as ambassador to Austria in 1993, …
- Rory Peck
Rory Peck was a freelance war cameraman of Anglo-Irish origin, who was killed while covering the events of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993. He was shot dead by members of the "Vitez" special forces unit of the Russian Interior Ministry while filming the storming by opposition supporters of the Ostankino TV Centre in Moscow. Rory Peck also covered the first Gulf War; the wars in Bosnia and Afghanistan, …
- Mirko Hrgović
Mirko Hrgović is a Croatian-born Bosnian football player. Currently, Hrgović has 19 caps for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team. On the club level, Mirko Hrgović plays for Hajduk Split since 2006. Prior to this, Hrgović has played for NK Široki Brijeg in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gamba Osaka in J-League and VfL Wolfsburg in German Bundesliga.
- Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson (born 1952, in Munich) is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes. Atkinson was born in Munich. His father was an Army officer and he grew up at military posts. He earned his bachelor degree from East Carolina University in 1974 and a master of art degree from the University of Chicago in 1976. His first reporting job was at the The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas He started working at the Kansas City Times in 1977.
- Kemal Monteno
Kemal Monteno (born September 17, 1948 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a popular Bosnian singer-songwriter. He recorded his first song "Lidija" in 1967 and has enjoyed a prosperous career in the former Yugoslavia. He has also written many songs for Toma Zdravkovic, including the testament "Pesme moje". One of his most popular songs is "Sarajevo Love of Mine" ("Sarajevo ljubavi moja").
- Mike Kelly
Colonel Mike Kelly(ret.), Australian politician, is a former Australian military lawyer turned politician, contesting the marginal seat of Eden-Monaro in the 2007 Australian Federal election for the Australian Labor Party. Kelly served in Somalia, East Timor, Bosnia and was senior Australian military personal in the Iraq War. He is married to wife Shelly.
- Patrick Mercer
Patrick John Mercer OBE (born 26 June 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Newark.
- Nic Robertson
Nic Robertson (born Dominic Robertson on 8 June 1962) is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN. He began his career at the network in 1989, starting as a satellite engineer. He first came to public attention when he stayed in Baghdad with Peter Arnett at the start of the Allied invasion of Iraq in 1991. Later that year, he was moved to Chicago, where he became a producer in CNN's Chicago Bureau.
- Clea Koff
Clea Koff is an American forensic anthropologist who worked several years for the United Nations "International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda" (ICTR; 2 missions) and the "International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia" (5 missions) in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and in 2000 in Kosovo.
- Ivan Merz
Ivan Merz was a Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John-Paul II on Sunday, June 22, 2003 at the time of a visit of Banja Luka (Bosnia). Ivan Merz was the promoter of the liturgical movement in Croatia. He was also a pioneer of Catholic action, creating a movement for the young people “the Croatian union of the Eagles”, …
- 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.
- Elvir Bolić
Elvir Bolić is a Bosnian football (soccer) forward, the all-time leading scorer and appearance leader for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. He is currently playing for the Croatian side of Rijeka. Elvir Bolić is somewhat of a legend in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Loved by the fans and respected by his teammates, Bolić was always admired for his hard work on the pitch and great footballing skills.
- Abdulah Sidran
Abdulah Sidran, often referred to by his nickname Avdo, is a Bosnian writer and poet who is renowned for his screenplays and dramas. His major works include "Šahbaza", "Bone and meat", "The Sarajevo tomb" ("Sarajevski tabut"), "Why is Venice sinking" ("Zašto tone Venecija"), several books of poetry, and screenplays for award-winning movies from the Former Yugoslavia, …
- Pauline Neville-Jones
Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG (born November 2, 1939) is a former BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee. Dame Pauline was educated at Leeds Girls' High School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Modern History). Pauline Neville-Jones was a career member of the UK Diplomatic Service from 1963 to 1996, during which time she served in British Missions in Rhodesia, Singapore, Washington, DC and Bonn.
- Steve Scott
Steve Scott is a British journalist, presenting the "ITV Evening News" on a Friday, and occasionally filling in on the "ITV Weekend News". During the major stories of the last 18 months - when the Tsunami disaster unfolded, when London was awarded the 2012 Olympics and then 24 hours later during the terror attacks on the capital - Steve was at the forefront of ITV1's extended live programming.
- Mustafa Ait Idir
Mustafa Ait Idir an individual detained in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Idir was born in Algeria, but moved to Bosnia, married a Bosnian woman, and became a Bosnian citizen. Idir was arrested in October 18 2001 on suspicion of participating in a conspiracy to bomb the United States Embassy. After their release following their acquittal, the six men were captured, on January 17 2002, by American forces, who transferred them to Guantanamo Bay.