Serbs of Croatia - Notable Individuals

Notable Individuals

Artists
  • Petar Bergamo (born 1930) - composer
  • Momčilo Bajagić (born 1960) - singer, songwriter, musician
  • Bogdan Diklić (born 1953) - actor
  • Sima Ćirković (1929–2009) - historian
  • Petar Kralj (1941–2011) - actor
  • Arsen Dedić (born 1938) - singer-songwriter, musician, composer and a poet
  • Vladan Desnica (1905–1967) - writer
  • Vojin Jelić (1921–2004) - poet
  • Simo Matavulj (1852–1908) - novelist
  • Dejan Medaković (1922–2008) - writer and historian, winner of the Herder Prize
  • Nikodim Milaš (1845–1915) - bishop and perhaps the greatest Serbian expert on church law
  • Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1837) - notable Baroque poet, writer and polyglot
  • Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785) - 18th-century polymath
  • Božidar Petranović (1809–1874) - author, scholar, and journalist
  • Petar Preradović (1818–1872) - poet
  • Josif Runjanin (1821–1878) - composer of the Croatian national anthem
  • Rade Šerbedžija (born 1946) - film actor
  • Slavko Štimac (born 1960) - film actor
  • Konstantin Vojnović (1832–1903) politician, university professor and rector of the University of Zagreb
  • Ivo Vojnović (1857–1929) - writer
  • Toma Rosandić (1878–1958) - prominent sculptor
  • Stana Katic (born 1978) - a Canadian film and television actress
  • Milan Mladenović (1958–1994) - musician
Scientists
  • Jovan Karamata (1902–1967) - mathematician
  • Mihailo Merćep (1864–1937) - notable cyclist and aviation pioneer
  • Milutin Milanković (1879–1958) - geophysicist and civil engineer, best known for his theory of ice ages
  • Sava Mrkalj (1783–1833) - linguist and poet
  • Josif Pančić (1814–1888) - botanist who first described the Serbian Spruce
  • Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) - inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer
  • Gajo Petrović (1927–1993) - philosopher
  • Nikola Hajdin (1923) - construction engineer and President of SANU
Sportspeople
  • Vladimir Beara (born 1928) - football player and manager
  • Jelena Dokić (born 1983) - Australian tennis player
  • Miloš Milošević (born 1972) - swimmer
  • Jasna Šekarić (born 1965) - sports shooter, five-time Olympic medalist
  • Predrag Stojaković (born 1977) - Serbian basketball player
  • Vladimir Vujasinović (born 1973) - Serbian water polo player
  • Siniša Mihajlović (born 1969) - Serbian football manager and former player
  • Ilija Petković (born 1945) - Serbian football manager, former Serbia national football team head coach and a former player
  • Arijan Komazec (born 1970) - basketball player
  • Marko Popović - basketball player
  • Dado Pršo - football player
  • Danijel Subašić - football goalkeeper
  • Nikola Kalinić - football player
  • Antonio Vranković (born 1996) - basketball player (Stojan Vranković's son)
  • Stojan Vranković - basketball player (father of serbian ethnicity), Antonio Vranković's dad.
  • Dario Šarić (born 1994) - basketball player (Predrag Šarić's son)
  • Predrag Šarić - basketball player (Dario Šarić's dad)
  • Branko Macura - basketball player (Jere Macura's dad)
  • Jere Macura (born 1980) - basketball player (Branko Macura's son)
  • Toni Prostran (born 1991) - basketball player
  • Marko Livaja - football player
  • Henrik Širko (born 1993) - basketball player (father of serbian ethnicity)
  • Vuk Lazić (born 1998) - basketball player (both parents of serbian ethnicity)
  • Srđan Brocić (born 1999) - basketball player (both parents of serbian ethnicity)
  • Veljko Petranović (born 1959) - basketball player
  • Veselinka Crvak (born 1970) - women basketball player ((Dario Šarić's mum)
Other
  • Beloš Vukanović (1110–1198) - Serbian prince, Ban of Croatia between 1142 and 1163
  • Gerasim Zelić (1752–1838)- Serbian Orthodox archimandrite, traveler, and writer
  • Svetozar Boroević (1856–1920) - Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal
  • Momčilo Đujić (1907–1999) - Commander in the WWII Chetnik movement
  • Stevan Šupljikac (1786–1848) was a voivode (military commander) and the first Duke of the Serbian Vojvodina
  • Stjepan Jovanović (1828–1885) - notable military commander of Austrian Empire
  • Rade Končar (1911–1942) - communist leader and legendary WWII resistance fighter
  • Boško Buha (1926–1943) - WWII resistance fighter
  • Mile Mrkšić (born 1947) - army colonel of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) involved in the 1991 Battle of Vukovar
  • Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (1914–2009) (born Gojko Stojčević) - former Patriarch of Serbia
  • Svetozar Pribićević (1875–1936) - early 20th-century politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  • Jovan Rašković (1929–1992) - politician who first called for a Serbian autonomy within Croatia in the 1990s
  • Slavko Ćuruvija (1949–1999) - a journalist and newspaper publisher
  • Josif Rajačić (1785–1861) - metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci, Serbian patriarch, administrator of Serbian Vojvodina and baron
  • Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga (1897–1925) - legendary outlaw in early 20th-century Slavonia
  • Janko Veselinović (born 1965) - member of the National Assembly of Serbia
  • Zdravko Ponoš (born 1962) a former chief of the general staff of the military of Serbia
  • Mirko Marjanović (1937–2006) - a former Prime Minister of Serbia and a high-ranking official in Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS)
  • Nada Dimić (1923-1942) - a Yugoslav communist and People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

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