List of Serbs - Definition

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

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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

Scientists

Category:Serbian scientists

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

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

Royals

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