List of Serbs

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

Serbs

Artists

Writers

Poets

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

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

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

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 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

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