- 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.
- Gavrilo Princip
Gavrilo Princip was an ethnic Serb, but later proclaimed to be a Yugoslav Nationalist, with links to a group known as the Black Hand (Црна Рука or "Crna Ruka") and Mlada Bosna, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The event was the catalyst for the Austria-Hungarian action against the Kingdom of Serbia that led to World War I. Princip is commonly known, rightly or wrongly, …
- Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century.
- 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"), …
- Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray is a Scottish tennis player. The older brother of Andy Murray, Jamie is a doubles specialist who is currently the UK number one in the ATP doubles rankings. His nickname is 'Stretch' because of his long arms, the fact that he is always stretching for the ball and regularly stretches to make contact with seemingly unwinnable balls at the net. Along with Serb Jelena Janković, he won the mixed doubles final of Wimbledon in 2007.
- Rahim Ademi
Rahim Ademi is a Croatian Army general of Kosovo-Albanian origin. Born and raised in the village of Karač, Vučitrn, Yugoslavia, now found in the municipality of Kosovo, Serbia. Ademi finished the Yugoslav military academy in Belgrade in 1976. He was assigned to a station in Rogoznica near Šibenik in Croatia where he married and had two children. In 1986, the Military Court in Sarajevo convicted him of "counterrevolutionary acts" and "Albanian irredentism", …
- Vlade Divac
Vlade Divac (born February 3 1968, in Prijepolje, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Serbia)) is a retired Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the United States' NBA. At 7'1" he played at center and was known for his deft passing skills.
- Janko Bobetko
Janko Bobetko (1919 - 2003) was a Croatian army general and the Croatian army's Chief of the General Staff between 1992 and 1995.
- Isak Musliu
Isak Musliu was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia with a series of beatings and murders in a KLA prison camp in a family compound in Lapusnik to deal with Serbs and suspected Albanian collaborators between May and July 1998 during the Kosovo War. The most serious incident listed in the indictment is said to have occurred on July 26 that year, when the facility was abandoned in the face of a Serb offensive.
- 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, …
- Jovan Divjak
Jovan Divjak (Born March 11, 1937 in Belgrade, Serbia) was a general in the Bosnian army during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. He was the highest ranking ethnic Serb in the army and one of its most educated and experienced officers.
- Ana Ivanović
Ana Ivanović, born November 6, 1987 in Belgrade, is a Serbian women's professional tennis player. She is the fifth-ranked player in the world as of July 2007, and the second ranked Serbian player behind Jelena Janković. In June 2007, she reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open, losing to Justine Henin; this was followed by a semi-final appearance at Wimbledon.
- Svetislav Basara
Svetislav Basara (born December 21 1953 in Bajina Bašta, Yugoslavia, today Serbia) is a contemporary Serbian author. He is the author of more than twenty literary works, including novels, story collections, and essays. He has received numerous Serbian literary awards, and his novel "Fuss about Cyclists" (Fama o biciklistima) is considered by his countrymen to be one of the ten best novels of the last decade.
- Milan Babić
Milan Babić was from 1991 to 1995 the first President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a largely Serb-populated region that broke away from Croatia. He was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 2004; he was the first ever indictee to admit guilt and make a plea bargain with the prosecution, after which he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was found dead in his Den Haag prison cell on March 6, 2006, …
- 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.
- Rod Blagojevich
Gov. Rod Blagojevich 's lead attorney says he plans to resign from his criminal case. Ed Genson 's decision Friday comes one day after Blagojevich's defense team sent mixed signals over whether the governor would file a lawsuit to block his impeachment trial in the state Senate. ( Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:49:32 GMT )
- Draža Mihailović
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; Anglicised: "Drazha Mihailovich" ; also known as Чича or "Čiča") (April 27, 1893 - July 17, 1946) was a Serbian general now primarily remembered as leader of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland during World War II. After the war, he was tried by the Communist Partisans for collaboration with Fascists and crimes against civilian population, …
- Nikola Špirić
Dr. Nikola Špirić is a Bosnian Serb politician and the current Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed elementary education in Drvar, high school in Sarajevo, and his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Sarajevo. He holds a Ph.D. in economics. His doctoral thesis was in monetary and public finance. Špirić has been an economics professor at the University of Banja Luka since 1992.
- Stjepan Radić
Stjepan Radić was a Croatian politician and the founder of the Croatian Peasant Party (CPP, "Hrvatska Seljačka Stranka") in 1905. Radić is credited with galvanizing the peasantry of Croatia into a viable political force. Through his entire carear, he was opposed to the union and, later, Serb hegemony in the first Yugoslavia and became an important political figure in that country. He was assassinated by a Serb politician in the parliament, …
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language. Karadžić was born in the village of Tršić, Ottoman Empire (now Serbia) near Loznica. His first name "Vuk" means "wolf", which he was given because all his brothers and sisters died of tuberculosis, leaving him the sole survivor. It was believed at the time that witches feared wolves (as it is dangerous beast), …
- Veljko Kadijević
General Veljko Kadijević (born November 21, 1925) was the minister of defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 to 1992, which makes him de facto commander of Yugoslav People's Army during Ten-Day War and initial stages of Croatian War of Independence. He was born in the village of Glavina Donja near Imotski to a Croatian mother and a Serbian father, he always declared himself as a Yugoslav. In 1942 he joined the Yugoslav partisans and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
- 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, …
- Emperor Jovan Nenad
Emperor Jovan Nenad was a leader of Serb mercenaries in the Kingdom of Hungary who took advantage of a struggle over the Hungarian throne to create his own state and crown himself emperor (tsar). He was born in town Lipova near the Mureş River in northern Banat (today in Romania).
- 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, …
- Charles Simic
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic represents an interesting counterpoint to many North American contemporaries, so many of whom have evolved from the traditions of American 19th century writers such as Dickinson and Whitman, both of whom wrote about the details of the world surrounding them.
- Stefan Milenković
Stefan Milenković is a Serbian violinist, one of the most talented musicians to come out of Serbia in the last century. He was born in 1977 in Serbia and currently resides in New York city, New York - United States of America. His father is Serbian and his mother is Italian Considered by many a child prodigy, by the age of 12 he has played at such prestigious venues as Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow, Russia), Lincoln Center (New York city) and London Philharmonic (London, …
- Melissa Bean
Melissa Luburić Bean, American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2004, representing (map). The district includes parts of the northwest Chicago suburbs of Hoffman Estates, Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Palatine and Barrington. Bean graduated from Roosevelt University and lives in Barrington with her husband and two children. Prior to her election to Congress, she was president of a consulting firm, …
- Miloš Obilić
Miloš Obilić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Обилић was a Serbian knight who, at the Battle of Kosovo between the Serbian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, assassinated the Ottoman Sultan Murat I. He is a major figure in Serbian epic poetry, and is a legendary, as well as a historical persona. He was a founder of Order of the Dragon of St. George, an order of knights - not to be confused with the Order of the Dragon founded by Sigismund, King of Hungary.Miloš Obilić, …
- Nataša Kandić
Nataša Kandić (born 1946, Belgrade) is a Serbian human rights activist. Kandić is the executive director of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Center which she formed in 1992. She organized the Candles for Peace campaign in 1991 and the Black Ribbon March in 1992. She is a recipient of over 20 international, regional and national human rights awards. In 2000 she was a recipient of the Martin Ennals Award, a prestigious recognition for human rights defenders.
- Vasko Popa
Vasko Popa was a Serbian poet of Romanian descent. Not much is known about Vasko Popa’s private life. After finishing high school, he enrolled as a student of The Faculty of Philosophy at the Belgrade University. He continued his studies in Bucharest and in Vienna. During World War II, he was imprisoned in a German concentration camp in Bečkerek (Vojvodina, Serbia).
- Bayezid I
Bayezid I , in the Battle of Rovine, which featured a forested and swampy terrain, the Wallachians won the fierce battle and prevented Bayezid from conquering the country. In 1394 Bayezid laid siege to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire. On the urgings of the Byzantine emperor John V Palaeologus a new crusade was organized to defeat him. This proved unsuccessful: in 1396 the Christian allies, …
- Dejan Bodiroga
Dejan Bodiroga (born March 2 1973 in Zrenjanin) is a retired Serbian basketball player. Many basketball observers consider him the best player never to play for a National Basketball Association team. He is famous for his leadership, basketball IQ and all-around game. One of the smartest, if not the quickest players to come along in decades, Dejan dominated European courts and won everything there is to be won, both on club and national team levels.
- Agim Murtezi
Agim Murtezi Aka "Murizzi" is a Kosovo-Albanian soldier of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who was accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) but later released due to lack of evidence. Agim was released by the ICTY due to lack of sufficient evidence. Murtezi was one of four men named on an indictment concerning the Lapushnik prison earlier this year - they are accused of abusing and murdering Serb prisoners during the Kosovo War.
- Lazar Of Serbia
Stefan Lazar (Стефан Лазар), Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović or "Knez Lazar" (1329 – June 28 1389), also known as "Tsar Lazar", was a Serbian noble who fought and perished at the Battle of Kosovo, to which his name and life are inextricably tied. He is a heroic figure in Serbia, and a saint of the Serb Orthodox Church.
- Rade Šerbedžija
Rade Šerbedžija, born 27 July, 1946, is an actor and director. He comes from an ethnic Serbian family from Croatia, and was one of the most popular Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1980s. He is now internationally known mainly for his supporting roles in Hollywood films during the 1990s and 2000s. Recently, Šerbedžija received plenty of attention for his recurring role as former Soviet Red Army General Dmitri Gredenko in the sixth season of TV action series "24".
- Petar Kočić
Petar Kočić (1877-1916) was a Serbian poet and writer. Like Borisav Stanković who was self-made and successful poet of Slavic South, like Ivo Ćipiko who was poet of seaside - Kočić was poet of Bosnian mountains and fresh life of his area. He was born in Stričići, a village near Banja Luka. He attended primary school in Gomjenica Monastery, during which time his mother died and his father became a priest. He started his gymnasium (high-school) education in Sarajevo, …
- Saint Sava II
Saint Sava II was a Serbian saint. He was the son of King Stefan Prvovenčani of Serbia. He picked the name "Sava" after his uncle, Saint Sava. The Serbian Orthodox Church celebrate him on February 21.
- Zoran Živković
Zoran "Tuta" Živković (born May 4, 1945 in Niš, Yugoslavia, present-day Serbia) is a Serbian handball coach and former handball goalkeeper. He has played 82 times for the Yugoslav handball national team.
- Saint Danilo II
Saint Danilo II the Serb is a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was originally an archbishop during the heyday of the Serb Nemanjic state under Tsar Dusan Silni in the 14th century. He was a chronicler who wrote many hagiographies and regiographies which are considered as a part of Serb medieval literature. He is celebrated on the same day as Saint Ignatius of Antioch (Свети Игњатије Богоносац), on December 20 according to the Julian, …
- Borislav Pekić
Borislav Pekić (Born in Podgorica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, February 4 1930, died in London, United Kingdom, July 2 1992) was a Serbian and Montenegrin writer. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his immigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. He is considered one of the most important Serbian literary figures of the 20th century