List of people from Serbia


List of people from Serbia


List of people from Serbia is a list of notable people from Serbia. The list contains names of people who are associated with Serbia and its territory by their place of birth, and also by naturalization, domicile, citizenship or some other similar connection, modern or historical. List is territorially defined, and includes all people from Serbia, regardless of their ethnic, linguistic, religious or some other personal distinctions.

Royalty and nobility

Serbian monarchs

Serbian princesses

  • Jelena Vukanović, (b. after 1109 – after 1146), Queen of Hungary
  • Jelisaveta Nemanjić, (fl. 1270 – died 1331), Baness of Bosnia
  • Princess Milica of Serbia, (ca. 1335–1405)
  • Jelena Balšić (1365/1366–1443), Lady of Zeta; Grand Duchess of Hum
  • Ana-Neda, Empress of Bulgaria
  • Dragana of Serbia, Empress of Bulgaria
  • Helena Dragaš, (c. 1372 – 23 March 1450), Byzantine empress, mother of emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos
  • Olivera Lazarević, Ottoman consort
  • Mara Branković, Ottoman consort
  • Kantakuzina Katarina Branković (1418/19 – 1492), countess of County of Celje
  • Mara Branković, last Queen of Bosnia and Despoina of Serbia
  • Jelena Rareš, princess of Moldavia, regent in 1551–1553
  • Milica Despina of Wallachia, (c. 1485–1554), Princess of Wallachia, regent in Wallachia in 1521–1522
  • Ana Jakšić Glinska, mother of Elena Glinskaya and grandmother of Tsar Ivan the Terrible
  • Jelena Jakšić, titular Despotissa of Serbia, wife of Despot Jovan Branković
  • Şehsuvar Sultan, Ottoman consort
  • Ljubica Vukomanović, (September 1788 – 26 May 1843), Princess of Serbia
  • Persida Nenadović, (15 February 1813 – 29 March 1873), Princess of Serbia
  • Draga Mašin, (11 September 1864 – 11 June 1903), Queen of Serbia

Serbian nobility

Politicians and diplomats

19th and the 20th century

Modern times

Military

Medieval and Early modern period

  • Novak Grebostrek
  • Miloš Obilić, knight and hero
  • Ivan Kosančić, knight
  • Milan Toplica, knight
  • Stanislav Sočivica (1715–1777), Serbian rebel leader, active in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
  • Koča Andjelković (1755–1788), Austrian volunteer and Serbian rebel leader.

Modern

19th-century revolutionaries
Balkan Wars and World War I
World War II
Yugoslav wars

Foreign service

Russian Empire
Ottoman Empire
USA

For Serbian American military personnel, see this list

Religion

Heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Theologians
  • Justin Popović
  • Josif Rajačić
  • Nikolaj Velimirović
  • Nikodim Milaš
  • Amfilohije Radović

Artists

Visual artists

Architects

Sculptors

Painters, cartoonists, illustrators

Designers

Photographers

Literature

Medieval

Baroque

Enlightenment

Rationalism

Rationalism to Romanticism

Romanticism

Realism

Moderna

Avant-Garde

Contemporary

Performing artists

Actors

Film/TV directors and screenwriters

Models

Musicians

Singers and rappers

Music performers

Composers

Opera singers

Dancers and choreographers

Journalists and critics

Scientists and scholars

Natural science

Philosophers

Historians and archeologists

Economists and sociologysts

Editors and publishers

Linguists and philologists

Legal experts and lawyers

Business entrepreneures

Criminals

Sportspeople

Basketball

Baseball

Chess

Football

Tennis

Boxers

Ice hockey

Other sports

For Serbian-American American football players, see this list; for baseball players, see this list.

Other

  • George Fisher (Serbian: Đorđe Šagić; 1795–1873), American military and politician, fought in the Texas Revolution and First Serbian Uprising
  • Nick Vujicic, preacher and motivational speaker
  • Vesna Vulović, flight attendant. She holds the world record, according to the Guinness Book of Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres (33,330 ft).
  • Šćepan Mali (fl. 1767–1773), impostor pretender of Montenegro, by falsely representing himself as the Russian Tsar Peter III.
  • Black Mike Winage (1870–1977), Serbian-Canadian miner, pioneer, adventurer and one of the original settlers in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush who lived to be 107 years old.
  • Nedeljko Čabrinović, member of the Black Hand

Spies

  • Dušan Popov (1912–1981), code name Tricycle, MI6 double agent, inspiration for James Bond
  • Branko Vukelić (1904–1945), Soviet spy
  • Mustafa Golubić, Soviet spy

YouTubers

  • Bogdan Ilić (born 1996), Rapper, gamer, actor & entertainer.
  • Stefan Vuksanović (born 1998), Gamer & streamer.

Fictional and mythological characters

  • Petar Blagojevich, accused Serbian vampire
  • Arnold Paole, accused Serbian vampire
  • Sava Savanović, accused Serbian vampire
  • Niko Bellic, the main character of video game Grand Theft Auto IV

See also

  • List of Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • List of Serbs of Croatia
  • List of Serbs of Montenegro
  • List of Serbs of the Republic of Macedonia
  • List of Serbian Americans
  • List of Serbian Canadians
  • List of Habsburg Serbs
  • Flag of Serbia

References

Bibliography


Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: List of people from Serbia by Wikipedia (Historical)



 


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