List of Serbs

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This is a list of prominent ethnic Serbs and people from Serbia.

Contents

[edit] Serbs

[edit] Rulers, Politicians and Knights

[edit] Historical

  • Zorsines (leader of Serbs near the Caucasus around 50 CE)[citation needed]
  • Gobazes (The King of Lazica arrives with his troops in the Balkans from the Caucasus, circa 450)[citation needed]
  • Dervan (written and pronounced 'Drvan', ruler of White Serbia, then known as Bojka, until 626)
  • Unknown Archont (knez, also translated Prince, led the Serbs to the Balkans during the reign of Byzantine emperor Heraclius, 610 - 641. He died in 680)
  • Svevlad (ruled up to 660)
  • Selimir (ruled 679 - 680)
  • Vladin (ruled until 700)
  • Ratimir (ruled until 730)
  • Archont
  • Prosigoj (son of Radoslav, 822 - 836)

[edit] Medieval

[edit] Rulers of Montenegro

[edit] Petrović-Njegoš Dynasty

[edit] Royals 19th Century

[edit] Obrenović Dynasty Members

[edit] Karađorđević Dynasty

[edit] Politicians

[edit] Politicians XX Century

[edit] Post-Communist leaders

[edit] Current political leaders in and outside Serbia

[edit] Saints

  • Avakum
  • Anastasija Srpska
  • Andrija Šiljak
  • Arsenije Sremac
  • Bogdan Lalić
  • Božidar Jović
  • Božidar Minić
  • Branko Dobrosavljevic
  • Budimir Sokolović
  • Varnava Nastić
  • Vasilije Ostroški
  • Velimir Mijatović
  • Visarion Saraj
  • Vladislav
  • Vukašin
  • Vukosav Milanović
  • Gavrilo Lesnovski
  • Gavrilo
  • Georgije Bogić
  • Grigorije
  • Episkop raski Grigorije
  • David (Dimitrije Nemanjic)
  • Damjan Štrbac
  • Saint Danilo II
  • Dimitrije Rajanović
  • Dobrosav Soković
  • Dobroslav Blažević
  • Dositej Vasić
  • Dušan Prijović
  • Đurađ Branković
  • Đorđe Kratovac
  • Jakov
  • Jevstatije Prvi
  • Jevstatije Drugi
  • Jelena Dečanska
  • Sainte Hélène d'Anjou (sveta kraljica Jelena, 1250-1314)
  • Jelisaveta Stiljanovic
  • Jefrem
  • Jefrosinija Jevgenija
  • Jeftimije Dečanski
  • Joakim Osogovski
  • Joanikije Devički
  • Joanikije I
  • Joanikije Drugi
  • Joanikije Lipovac
  • Joasaf srpski Meteorita
  • Jovan Vladimir
  • Jovan Zečević
  • Jovan Novi
  • Jovan Rapajić
  • Josif Novi
  • Kirilo
  • Laza Ćulibrk
  • Lazar of Serbia
  • Makarije
  • Sveti Maksim
  • Marko Popović
  • Mirko Stojisavljević
  • Miladin Minić
  • Milan Banjac
  • Milan Božić
  • Milan Popović
  • Milorad Vukojičić
  • Milutin (1253-1321)
  • Mihailo Jevđević
  • Mihailo Đusić
  • Momčilo Grgurević
  • Nestor Dečanski
  • Nestor Trkulja
  • Nikodim
  • Nikodim Tismanski
  • Nikolaj Velimirović
  • Sveti Nikon
  • Petar Zimonjić
  • Petar Koriški
  • Petar Cetinjski Čudotvorac
  • Platon Jovanović
  • Prohor Pčinjski
  • Ratomir Janković
  • Rafailo Banatski
  • Rafailo Momčilović
  • Relja Spahić
  • Rodoljub Samardžić
  • Saint Sava
  • Sava Drugi
  • Sava Branković
  • Sava Treći
  • Sava Trlajić
  • Savo Šiljak
  • Savo Škaljak
  • Serafim Džarić
  • Simeon Mirotočivi
  • Simon monah
  • Simo Banjac
  • Sinaiti
  • Slobodan Šiljak
  • Saint Spyridon
  • Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia
  • Stefan Lazarević
  • Stefan Piperski
  • Stefan Slepi
  • Stefan Uroš
  • Stefan Urošić Nemanjić
  • Stefan Štiljanović
  • Teodor Nestorović
  • Teodor Komogovinski
  • Teoktist
  • Trifun Maksimović

[edit] Scholars & Academics

  • Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Dr. Andrija (Zoran) Vujisić (Linguist)
  • Charles Simic
  • George Vid Tomasevic
  • Milos Mladenovic (Professor Emiritus, History Department, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
  • V. Lalich (Professor, Slavistics, University of Montreal)
  • S. Bosnitch (Professor, University of New Brunswick)
  • Michael Boro Petrovich
  • Biljana Sljivic-Simsic (Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago)

[edit] Economists

  • Branko Milanović
  • Nebojša Savić
  • Goran Pitić
  • Mihajlo Crnobrnja
  • Srdan Bogosavljević
  • Davor Savin
  • Dejan Popović
  • Miroslav Pavlović
  • Zoran Jeremić
  • Dušan Milojević
  • Radovan Kovačević
  • Olga Cvetanović
  • Boris Marović
  • Periša Ivanović
  • Snežana Popović-Avrić
  • Katerina Melić

[edit] Scientists & Inventors

Category:Serbian scientists

[edit] Writers

[edit] Poets

[edit] Guslars

  • Filip Višnjić
  • Bosko Vujacic
  • Sretan Mandic
  • Miro Roglich (of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
  • Ljubo Lopicic (of Montreal)
  • Milenko Stojanovich
  • Miodrag Dangubich
  • Novica Stanich
  • Mirko Radovich
  • Dragan Vladichich
  • Vladimir Djerich
  • Slavoljub Simich
  • Mladen Stojanovich

[edit] Actors

See also: Category:Serbian actors

[edit] Filmmakers

[edit] Painters

[edit] Performance artists

[edit] Sculptors

[edit] Architects

[edit] Cartoonists

[edit] Photographers

[edit] Models

[edit] Musicians

Main article: List of Serbian musicians

[edit] Composers

[edit] Performers

[edit] Chess

[edit] Theologians

[edit] Philosophers

[edit] Military History (Serbian Revolution 1804-1815)

[edit] Hajduks/Freedom Fighters

[edit] Balkan Wars and WWI

[edit] WWII

[edit] Yugoslav Wars

[edit] Foreign Armies

[edit] Hungary

[edit] Austria-Hungary

[edit] Ottoman Empire

The following Grand Viziers were exclusively collected through the forced levy of Christian children (Devshirmeh) by the Janissaries who indoctrinated them in the faith of Islam and the service of the Ottoman Empire:

  • Dervish Mehmed Pasha the Bosniak, Grand Vizier, 1606-1611
  • Daltaban Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1702-1703
  • Damat Rustem Pasha Opulovic, Grand Vizier, 1544-1553 and 1555-1561
  • Damat Ferid Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1919-1920
  • Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1596, 1597, and 1599-1601
  • Damat Melek Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1792-1794
  • Semiz Ali Pasha, 1561-1565
  • Hadim Ali Pasha, 1501-1503
  • Hersekli Ahmed Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1497-1498, 1505-1510, 1511, 1512-1514, and 1515-1516
  • Ishak Pasha Ishakovic, Grand Vizier, 1469-1472 and 1481-1482
  • Gazi Ekrem Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1628-1631
  • Kara Davut Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1622
  • Kara Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1683-1685
  • Sari Suleyman Pasha (1685-1687)
  • Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1580
  • Nevesinli Salih Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1645-1647
  • Omar Pasha (1806-1871), General, Mihailo Micha Latas, of Serbian origin, converted to Islam
  • Topal Recep Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1632
  • Lala Mehmed Pasha, Grand Vizier, 1604-1606
  • Osman-Pasha Skopljak, High Turkish Official, of Serbian origin, who corresponded with Petar II Petrovic Njegos on numerous issues
  • Mehmed Pasha Sokolovic, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, 1565-1579
  • Sinan Pasha (Ottoman admiral)

[edit] Moldavia
  • Starina Novak, also known as Baba Novak
  • Deli Marko
  • George Slankamenac

[edit] United States
  • Alex N. Dragnich (Office of Strategic Services, O.S.S.)
  • Nick Lalich (Office of Strategic Services)
  • Tyrus Cobb (Cobb spent three years on President Reagan's national security staff after retiring from the U.S. Army as a colonel; he is a recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal)
  • Louis Cukela (Major USMC)
  • George S. Musulin (1914-1987; U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence/CIA; Chief of 'Halyard' Mission; rescued 500 American and Allied airmen from Nazi-occupied Serbia with the help of freedom fighter General Dragoljub Mihailovich and his loyal Chetniks, in 1944)
  • Mitchell Paige (Colonel USMC)
  • Butch Verich (Commander USN)
  • Mele "Mel" Vojvodich (USAF)
  • Milo Radulovich (USAF)
  • Joe Veselinovich (Office of Strategic Services)
  • George Vujnovich (O.S.S.)
  • Lance Sijan (Captain USAF)
  • Nicholas Stepanovich (U.S. lawyer and military leader, appointed to the U.S. ambassadorial staff to the U.N. by President Eisenhower)

[edit] Russian Empire

In the service of Peter the Great:

  • Sava Lukich Vladislavich Raguzinsky (1664-1738, Diplomatist)

In the service of Imperial Russia, circa 18th Century:

  • Georgije Bogdanov, Major General
  • Ivan Bozic-Srbin, Brigadier General
  • Stefan Vitkovic, Brigadier General
  • Maksim Zoric, Lieutenant General
  • Simeon Zoric Count and Major General
  • Teodor Jankovic, Brigadier General
  • Konstantin Jankovic, Brigadier General
  • Konstantin Nikolajevic Juzbasa Brigadier General
  • Konstantin Lalos, Major general
  • Michail Andreevich Miloradovich, General, 1771-1821
  • Petar Miloradovich, Major General
  • David Neransic, Major General
  • Simeon Piscevic, Major General
  • Rodion Stefanovic Plemenac, Brigadier General
  • Baron Georgije Petrovic Podgoricanin, Major General
  • Ivan Petrovic Podgoricanin, Lieutenant General
  • Aleksej Preradovic, Brigadier General
  • Georgije Preradovic, Brigadier General
  • Ivan Rodionovic Preradovic, Major General
  • Rajko Rodion Preradovic, Lieutenant General
  • Mihajlo Ivana Stojanov, Major General
  • Antonije Stratimirovic, Brigadier General
  • Petar Tekelija, Lieutenant General, promoted to General-anshef or General-in-Chief
  • Georgije Ivanovic Horvat, Brigadier General
  • Ivan Dimitrijevic Horvat, Major General
  • Ivan Sanojlovic Horvat, Lieutenant General
  • Josif Horvat, Lieutenant General
  • Nikolaj Corba Major General
  • Fedor Arsenijev Corba, Lieutenant General
  • Fedor Cernojevic, Major General
  • Georgije Sevic, Lieutenant General
  • Ivan Djordjevic Sevic, Lieutenant General
  • Ivan Steric, Lieutenant General
  • Serdar Vukotich, General, 1757-61

In the service of Tsar Alexander I in the Patriotic War of 1812:

  • Nikolaj Ivanovich DePreradovich (1767-1843),
  • Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich (1771-1825)
  • Georgi Emmanuel
  • Count Ilya Ducca or Ilya Duka (1768-1836)
  • Ivan Shevich

In the service of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia during the Russo-Turkish War (1828-1829):

  • Jovan Riznic (1793-1861)

In the service of Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution of 1917:

  • Andrei Stepanovich Bakich (1878-1922)
  • Stevan Hadzic
  • Mihailo Zivkovic (1856-1930)
  • Milan Lukuc

[edit] Post-WWI Military Leaders

[edit] Entrepreneurs

  • Bozidar "Bozo" Dabinovich (Serb shipping tycoon, originally from Montenegro)
  • William Jovanovich The late President and Chief Executive Officer of publishing house Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
  • Richard Kovacevich of Wells Fargo, one of the highest paid excutives in the U.S.A., according to Forbes magazine.
  • Bogoljub Karić
  • Milan Mandarić current owner and chairman of FC Koper, former owner of the Portsmouth F.C. and the current owner of Leicester City F.C.
  • Milo Medin Vice President for now defunct @Home company
  • Ilija Milosavljević Kolarac
  • Kapetan Miša Anastasijević
  • Miroslav Mišković President of Delta Holding
  • Vladimir Mitić (Owner of Robne kuce Beograd)
  • Milan Nastich (President & CEO, Ontario-Hydro, 1980-1985)
  • John R. Palandech (1873-1959; Chicago publisher)
  • Milan Panić President and Chief Executive Officer, MP Global Enterprises & Associates, USA
  • Dusan Pastar Principal member, Great Lakes Telecom Services. Site developer of cell phone tower facilities and fire investigator
  • Milica Popovich (President-Chairperson of the Crest Shipping fleet, from 1945; mother of Vane Ivanovich)
  • Dejan Ristanović, founder and owner of Sezam Pro and PC PRESS
  • William Salatich (Former president of Gillette North America; retired in 1979)
  • Sava Tekelija
  • Djordje Vajfert (Czech originated Serb, owner of old Weifert brewery)
  • Diodato (real name Bozidar) Tripcovich (1862-1925; shipping tycoon, of Serbian origin, moved from Dobrota to Trieste, in 1884)
  • Rob Ukropina Founder and President of Overnite Express, regional overnight delivery company in the south western United States
  • George Yerich (Successful businessman from Niagara Falls, Canada owns the Skylon and Holiday Inn)
  • Philip Zepter (owner of Zepter formerly known as Milan Janković)
  • Milan Puskar (Owner and Originator of Mylan Laboratories)
  • Michael Bozich (Former merchandising head at Sears)
  • Alex Machaskee (Former President and Publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, currently running a PR firm)
  • Rebecca MacDonald (One of the founders and current Chair of Energy Savings Income Fund)
  • Black Mike Winage (Klondike pioneer/minefinder, born in Serbia in 1870, came to Canada in 1882, and died in 1977 at the age of 107)
  • Ljubomir Veselinovic (President and CEO of several Ontario electroplating plants, from the 1960s to 1988)
  • Oleg Vladimirovich Rodomar Vukotich (Born in Russia of Serb ancestry, 1900-1961, President of Philips Industries Canada and board member of "Friends of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia" during WW II)
  • Michael Vuchnich (Lincoln Electric Company of Canada Limited)

[edit] Assassins, Outlaws

[edit] Athletes

Category:Serbian sportspeople

[edit] Group sports

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Football (Soccer)

[edit] Other

[edit] Individual sports

[edit] Tennis

[edit] Fighting

[edit] Other


[edit] World Record Holders

[edit] Others

  • Vladimir Djordjevic (5 Times U.S. Martial Arts Hall Of Famer 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
  • Dušan Popov (A man onto whom James Bond was created)
  • Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich (First US born Serbian Orthodox priest: San Francisco 1863)
  • Alexander Mikalachki (First Canadian graduate with PhD in Business Administration from a Canadian university, 1964)
  • Ben Mulroney (Serbian mother)
  • Bill Dorich
  • Tihomir Đorđević (Ethnomusicologist)
  • Vladimir Đorđević (Ethnomusicologist)
  • George Fisher (Djordje Ribar), American adventurer, linguist, and politician (Serbian parents)
  • Adolf Hempt, founder of the Pasteur Institute in Novi Sad
  • Mila Mulroney (nee Mila Pivnicki: Wife of former Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney.)
  • Filip Višnjić (self-taught gusle player and poet)
  • Hieromonk Makarije (printed the first book in Serbian)
  • George Chanak (Fmr. State Supreme Court Judge - Minnesota)
  • Zoran Jovicic (president of the Serbian business and humanitarian society, Privrednik), which was founded in 1897 and president of Serbian World Congress - Srpski svetski kongres dijaspore )
  • William Jovanovich (President and CEO of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers)
  • Eli Zivkovich (organized the unionization of textile workers in North Carolina)
  • Robert Lagather (improved the working conditions in U.S. mines)
  • Božo Podunavac [2] (Master luthier/Guitar builder)
  • Niko Bellic [3] (protagonist and playable character in Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV video game)

[edit] Serbian language speakers, learners, etc.

[edit] Infamy


[edit] See also