Famous Citizens
- György Arnold (1771–1848), Hungarian composer
- Sava Babić (born 1934), writer, translator and university professor
- József Bártfay (1812–1864), Hungarian, lawyer, writer
- Géza Csáth (1887–1919), Hungarian, a tragic physician-writer
- Gyula Cseszneky (born 1914), Hungarian, poet, voivode
- Sreten Damjanović (born 1946), wrestler
- Oliver Dulić (born 1975), politician
- Vlatko Dulić (born 1943), actor
- Dr. Kalmar Elemer (1887–1947), lawyer
- Yehuda Elkana, Jewish, born 1934. Israeli philosopher of science
- Lazar Jaramazović (born 1947), national champion in fencing
- Pierre Jovanović (born 1960), French writer and reporter
- Zoran Kalinić (born 1958), table tennis champion
- Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), Montenegrin-Jewish, possibly the most well-known Serbian writer alongside the Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić
- Juci Komlós (born 1919), Hungarian actress
- Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936), Hungarian poet and prose-writer
- Félix Lajkó (born 1974), Hungarian, a "world music" violinist and composer
- Péter Lékó (born 1979), Hungary's number one chess player
- Szilveszter Lévai (born 1945), Hungarian composer
- Aleksandar Lifka (1880–1952), a central-European cinematographer
- Bela Lugosi (1882–1956), actor
- Bruck Matija (Bruk Matjas), chemist, creator of Kosan
- Refik Memišević (born 1956), wrestle champion
- Gyula Mester, born in 1972, volleyball player
- Jovan Mikić Spartak (1914–1944), the leader of the Partisans in Subotica, and a national hero who was killed in 1944
- Dr. Arthur Munk, a doctor on RMS Carpathia, famous for saving survivors from Titanic. Doctor Munk was awarded for his helping to survivors
- Dr. Vinko Perčić (1911–1989), authority in gastroenterology and internal medicine
- Momir Petković (born 1953), wrestle champion
- Bojana Radulović (born 1973), handball player
- Eva Ras (born 1941), Hungarian, actress, painter and Serbian writer
- Magdolna Rúzsa (born 1985), Hungarian pop singer
- Ivan Sarić (1876–1966), aviation pioneer and cyclist
- Tibor Sekelj (Tibor Székely) (1912–1988), Hungarian, explorer, esperantist, writer
- Dr. Stevan Sepesi (1914–1974), Dr of law
- John Simon, Hungarian, American theatre critic
- Đuro Stantić (1878–1918), a world champion in racewalking
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