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 and sculptors 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 Other 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)
• Svetislav Basara
• Miloš Crnjanski
• Branko Ćopić
• Predrag R. Dragić Kijuk
• Đura Jakšić
• Skender Kulenović
• Petar Kočić
• Nikola Moravčević
• Branislav Nušić
• Dositej Obradović
• Milorad Pavić
• Goran Petrović
• Branko Radičević
• Meša Selimović
• Zoran Živković (SF writer)

Poets

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

Painters and sculptors

• Dušan DŽamonja
• Đura Jakšić
• Milić od Mačve
• LJubiša Marković
• 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 Samardzić (actor/drirector)
• Bora Todorović (actor)
• Srdjan Žika Todorović (actor)
• Milena Dravić (actor)
• Danilo Bata Stojković (actor)
• Steve Tesich (Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright)

Music

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

Saints

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

Scientists

Category:Serbian scientists

• Ruđer Bošković
• Milan Budimir
• Ljiljana Crepajac
• Jovan Cvijić
• Petar Djurkovic
• Slobodan Jovanović
• Pavle Ivic
• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
• Jovan Karamata
• Zoran Knezevic
• Đuro Kurepa
• Mileva Marić
• Milutin Milanković
• Josif Pančić
• Mihailo Petrović
• Milorad B. Protić
• Mihajlo Pupin
• Stevan Dedijer
• Aleksandar Solovjev (Александр Соловьёв) Russian origin
• Nikola Tesla
• Jovan Žujović

Warriors

• General Blagoje Adžić
• Boško Buha
• General Peko Dapčević
• General Božidar Janković
• Žikica Jovanović-Španac
• Vojvoda Živojin Mišić
• Miloš Obilić
• Željko Ražnatović - Arkan
• General Veljko Kadijević
• Sava Kovačević
• Dimitrije Ljotić
• General Nikola Ljubičić
• General Draža Mihailović
• General Ratko Mladić
• General Kosta Nađ
• General Milan Nedić
• General Koča Popović
• General Dušan Simović
• Vojvoda Radomir Putnik
• Stevan Sinđelić
• Vojvoda Stepa Stepanović
• Simela Šolaja
• Haiduk Veljko
• Serdar Janko Vukotić
• Starina Novak
• Deli Radivoje
• Stanoje Glavaš
• Janis Bukuvalis
• Stojan Janković
• Vojvoda (Duke) Vuk Popović
• Žarko Zrenjanin
• General Pavle Jurišić Šturm (Paulus Sturm)
• Milorad Ulemek Legija

Entrepreneurs

• William Jovanovich President and chief executive officer of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Bogoljub Karić
• 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 Milosavljević Kolarac
• Kapetan Miša Anastasijević
• Milan Panić President and Chief Executive Officer, MP Global Enterprises & Associates, USA
• Philip Zepter (owner of Zepter formerly known as Milan Janković)
• Vladimir Mitić (Owner of Robne kuce Beograd)

Assassins, outlaws

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

World Record Holders

• Vesna Vulović
• Milorad Čavić

Athletes

Category:Serbian sportspeople

• Dejan Bodiroga (basketball)
• Milorad Cavic ([Swimming)]
• Dražen Dalipagić (basketball)
• Vlade Divac (basketball)
• Predrag Danilović (basketball)
• Aleksandar Đorđević (basketball)
• Jelena Dokić (tennis)
• Dragan Džajić (soccer)
• Svetozar Gligorić (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)
• Žarko Paspalj (basketball)
• Nataša Pavlović (flight)
• Aleksandar Šapić (waterpolo)
• Jasna Šekarić (shooting sports)
• Dragan Škrbić (handball)
• Dejan Stanković (soccer)
• Dragan Piksi Stojković (soccer)
• Peđa Stojaković (basketball)
• Goran Vujević (volleyball)
• Nenad Zimonjić (tennis)

Rulers and Politicians

Historical

Medieval

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

Communist

• Jovanka Broz Budisavljević (Tito's third wife)
• Milovan Đilas (Communist leader and dissident)
• Veselin Djuranović (Communist leader)
• Dragoslav (Draža) Marković - mentor of Slobodan Milosevic
• Moma Marković 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)

Other

• Zoran Djindjić
• Stevan Doronjski
• Dragiša Cvetković (pre-WWII prime minister)
• Aleksandar Cincar-Marković (pre-WWII prime minister)
• Sekule Drljević (politician)
• Ilija Garašanin (foreign affairs advisor and minister)
• Đoko Jovanić
• Borisav Jović (former president of Yugoslavia)
• Radovan Karadžić
• Nikola Koljevic
• Svetozar Marković (Socialist)
• Milan Martic - leader of the former Republic of Serbian Krajina
• Milan Babić
• Slobodan Milošević
• Milan Panić
• Nikola Pašić (prime minister)
• Mehmed Paša Sokolović (Ottoman pasha)
• Slobodan Penezić Krcun
• Milanko Renovica
• Petar Petrović Njegoš (prince-bishop)
• Jovan Rašković (Serb party leader)
• Jovan Veselinov
• Veljko Vlahović
• Radovan Vlajković
• Svetozar Vukmanović - Tempo
• Žarko Zrenjanin
• Vidoje Zarković
• Zoran Živković

Current

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

Royals

Obrenovic Dynasty Members

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

Karadjordjević Dynasty

• Karadjordje Petrović (or Supreme Commander Karadjordje or Djordje Petrović)
• Prince Alexander Karadjordjević,
• HM King Petar I Karadjordjević,
• HM King Alexander I Karadjordjević,
• Princess Maria of Romania and Hohenzollern HM Queen Mother Maria,
• HRH Tomislav Karadjordjević
• HM King Petar II Karadjordjević,
• Prince Pavle Karađorđević
• Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark
• HRH Princess Jelisaveta of Serbia and Yugoslavia
• HM 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 publicist, a professor, famous criminologist
• Monica Seles (tennis player; an ethnic Hungarian born in Vojvodina)
• Daniel Shifer
• Sir John Tavener Composed: The Epistile of Love and The Veil of the Temple on Serbian Medieval Poetry

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
• Rulers of Vojvodina
• List of Slavs
• List of people by nationality
• List of people