This is list of Serbs and people in some way connected to Serbs or Serbia.

Contents

1 Serbs 1.1 Artists 1.1.1 Writers 1.1.2 Poets 1.1.3 Painters 1.1.4 Film arts 1.1.5 Music 1.2 Saints 1.3 Scientists 1.4 Warriors 1.5 Entrepreneurs 1.6 Assassins, outlaws 1.7 World Record Holders 1.8 Athletes 1.9 Rulers and Politicians 1.9.1 Historical 1.9.1.1 Medieval 1.9.1.2 Communist 1.9.1.3 Mixed 1.9.2 Current 1.10 Royals 1.10.1 Obrenovic Dynasty Members 1.10.2 Karadjordjević Dynasty 1.11 Others 2 Connected to Serbs 3 Serbian language speakers, learners, etc. 4 See also

Serbs

Artists

Writers

• Ivo Andrić (Nobel Laureate)
• Miloš Crnjanski
• Đura Jakšić
• Branislav Nušić
• Dositej Obradović
• Milorad Pavić
• Goran Petrović
• Meša Selimović
• Zoran Živković (SF writer)
• Branko Copic
• Skender Kulenovic
• Petar Kocic
• Branko Radicevic

Poets

• Mika Antic
• Jovan Dučić
• Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
• Desanka Maksimović
• Miloš Đoka Nikolić
• Petar Petrović Njegoš
• Milan Rakić
• Charles Simic
• Sima Pandurović
• Vladislav Petković Dis

Painters

• Milić od Mačve
• LJubiša Marković
• Đura Jakšić
• Sava šumanović

Film arts

• Peter Bogdanovich (director)
• Milla Jovovich (Milica Nataša Jovović) (model/actress)
• Emir Kusturica (director)
• Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulović) (actor)
• Princess Catherine Oxenberg (actress of royal descent)
• Velimir Bata Živojinović (actor)
• John Malkovich (actor/drirector)
• Ljubisa Samardzic (actor/drirector)
• Bora Todorovic (actor)
• Srdjan Zika Todorovic (actor)
• Milena Dravic (actor)

Music

• Đorđe Balašević (pop singer)
• Željko Joksimović (pop singer)
• Zdravko Čolić (pop singer)
• Dragutin Gostuski (composer)
• Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (composer)
• Vasilije Mokranjac
• Josif Runjanin (composer)
• Weird Al Yankovic (Serb descent) (singer)
• LJubica Marić (composer)
• Bora Corba (pop singer)
• Vojkan Borisavljevic (composer)

Saints

• Saint Hieromartyr Lazar
• Saint Nikolai Velimirović
• Saint Peter of Cetinje
• Saint Sava
• Saint Simeon
• Saint Vasilije

Scientists

Category:Serbian scientists

• Ruđer Bošković
• Jovan Cvijić
• Vuk Stefanović Karad�ić
• Jovan Karamata
• Đuro Kurepa
• Mileva Marić
• Milutin Milanković
• Josif Pančić
• Mihailo Petrović
• Milorad B. Protić
• Mihajlo Pupin
• Nikola Tesla
• Jovan �ujović

Warriors

• General Blagoje Ad?ić
• Boško Buha
• General Peko Dapčević
• General Bo?idar Janković
• ?ikica Jovanović-?panac
• Vojvoda ?ivojin Misić
• Miloš Obilić
• Zeljko Raznatovic - Arkan
• General Veljko Kadijević
• Sava Kovačević
• Dimitrije Ljotić
• General Nikola Ljubičić
• General Draza Mihajlovic
• General Ratko Mladic
• General Kosta Nađ
• General Milan Nedić
• General Koča Popović
• General Dusan Simović
• Vojvoda Radomir Putnik
• Stevan Sinđelić
• Vojvoda Stepa Stepanović
• Simela �olaja
• Haiduk Veljko
• Serdar Janko Vukotić
• Starina Novak
• Deli Radivoje
• Stanoje Glavash
• Janis Bukuvalis
• Stojan Janković
• Duke Vuk Popović
• �arko Zrenjanin
• General Pavle Jurisic Sturm (Paulus Sturm)

Entrepreneurs

• William Jovanovich President and chief executive officer of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Bogoljub Karic
• Milan Mandaric Owner and chairman of the Portsmouth football club
• Milo Medin Vice President for now defunct @Home company
• Djordje Vajfert (Czeh origiated Serb, owner of old Weifert brewery)
• Ilija Milosavljevic Kolarac
• Kapetan Misa Anastasijevic
• Milan Panic President and Chief Executive Officer, MP Global Enterprises & Associates, USA
• Philip Zepter (owner of Zepter formerly known as Milan Janković)
• Vladimir Mitic (Owner of Robne kuce Beograd)

Assassins, outlaws

• Dragutin Dimitrijević Apis - leader of Black Hand organization
• Mijailo Mijailovic - Anna Lindh assassin; no political affiliations, mental illness
• Gavrilo Princip - Anarchist; assassin of archduke Ferdinand
• Puniša Račić - parliament assassin of Stjepan Radic and Đuro Basariček
• Jovo Stanisavljević Čaruga - outlaw
• Joco Udmanić - outlaw

World Record Holders

• Vesna Vulović
• Milorad Čavić

Athletes

Category:Serbian sportspeople

• Dejan Bodiroga (basketball)
• Drazen Dalipagic(basketball)
• Vlade Divac (basketball)
• Predrag Danilović (basketball)
• Aleksandar Đorđević (basketball)
• Jelena Dokić (tennis)
• Dragan DZajic (soccer)
• Svetozar Gligoric (chess): grandmaster, once rated the strongest European chess player outside Russia.
• Nikola Grbić (volleyball)
• Vladimir Vanja Grbić (volleyball)
• Pete Maravich (basketball)
• Savo Milošević (soccer)
• Ivan Miljković (volleyball)
• Zoran Mirković (soccer)
• Daniel Nestor (original last name was Nestorović) (tennis)
• Nataša Pavlović (flight)
• Aleksandar Šapić (waterpolo)
• Jasna Šekarić (shooting sports)
• Dragan Škrbić (handball)
• Dejan Stanković (soccer)
• Peđa Stojaković (basketball)
• Goran Vujević (volleyball)
• Nenad Zimonjić (tennis)
• Zarko Paspalj (basketball)

Rulers and Politicians

Historical

Medieval

• Vuk Branković (Medieval lord)
• Tsar Stefan Dušan Silni (tzar)
• Prince Lazar
• Vlatko Vuković (Medieval lord)

Communist

• Jovanka Broz Budisavljević (Tito's third wife)
• Milovan Đilas (Communist leader and dissident)
• Veselin Djuranović (Communist leader)
• Dragoslav Markovic - mentor and father-in-law of Slobodan Milosevic
• Mirjana Markovic
• Miloš Minić (Communist leader)
• Marko Nikezić (Communist leader)
• Latinka Perović (Communist leader)
• Moša Pijade (Communist leader of Jewish descent)
• Milentije Popović (Communist leader)
• Aleksandar Ranković - UDBA secret service
• Ivan Stambolić (Head of Serbian Communists)

Mixed

• Zoran Djindjić
• Stevan Doronjski
• Dragiša Cvetković (pre-WWII prime minister signing the treaty with Axis power on March 25 1941)
• Aleksanda-Cincar Marković (pre-WWII prime minister)
• Sekule Drljević (politician)
• Ilija Garašanin (foreign affairs advisor and minister)
• Đoko Jovanić
• Borisav Jović
• Radovan Karadžić
• Nikola Koljevic
• Svetozar Marković (Socialist)
• Milan Martic - leader of the former Republic of Serbian Krajina
• Milan Babić
• Slobodan Milošević
• Milan Panic
• Nikola Pašić (prime minister)
• Mehmed Paša Sokolović (Ottoman pasha)
• Slobodan Penezić Krcun
• Milanko Renovica
• Petar Petrović Njegoš (prince-bishop)
• Jovan Ra?ković (Serb party leader)
• Jovan Veselinov
• Veljko Vlahović
• Radovan Vlajković
• Svetozar Vukmanović - Tempo
• ?arko Zrenjanin
• Vidoje Zarković
• Zoran Živković

Current

• Rod Blagojevich
• Nenad Bogdanović
• Momir Bulatović
• Dragan Čavić
• Nebojša Čović
• Vuk Drašković
• Vojislav Koštunica
• Predrag Markovic
• Svetozar Marović
• Natasa Mićić
• Borislav Paravac
• Desnica Radivojević
• Mirko Šarović
• Goran Svilanović
• Vojislav Šešelj
• Boris Tadić
• George Voinovich

Royals

Obrenovic Dynasty Members

• Miloš Obrenović
• Milan Obrenović
• Mihailo Obrenović
• King Milan Obrenović
• King Aleksandar Obrenović
• Ljubica Obrenović
• Queen Natalija Obrenović
• Draga Masin

Karadjordjević Dynasty

• Karadjordje Petrović (or Supreme Commander Karadjordje or Djordje Petrović)
• Prince Alexander Karadjordjević,
• King Petar I Karadjordjević,
• King Alexander I Karadjordjević,
• King Petar II Karadjordjević,
• Countess Jelisaveta of Serbia and Yugoslavia
• Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia and Yugoslavia

Others

• Đuka Mandić - mother of Nikola Tesla
• Stevan Moljević

Connected to Serbs

Of course, a lot of f.e. world politicians are in some way connected to Serbs. But this list lists people intimately connected to a Serb or Serbs.

• Madeleine Albright (saved by Serbs in Second World War)
• Josip Broz (was married to Jovanka Broz Budisavljević)
• Pierre-Henri Bunel
• Luc Besson (was married to Milla Jovovich)
• Patrick Besson
• Albert Einstein (was married to Mileva Maric)
• Mira Furlan (married to Goran Gajić)
• Prentis Cobb Hale (married to Denise Minnelli Hale)
• Peter Handke
• Lottar Matthaus
• Vincente Minnelli (married to Denise Minnelli Hale)
• Archibald Reiss
• Monica Seles (tennis player; an ethnic Hungarian born in Vojvodina)
• Daniel Shifer

Serbian language speakers, learners, etc.

• Friedrich Engels
• Johann Wolfgang von Göthe
• Jakob Grimm
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Being who will study the Voyager Golden Record

See also

• List of Serbian monarchs
• Rulers of Montenegro
• List of Slavs
• List of people by nationality
• List of people