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Art, sculptors
[edit]- Nikola Pešić[importance?]
- Olga Jančić[importance?]
- Stevan Knežević[importance?] (1940–1995), professor
- Zoran Ivanović[importance?], author of Monument to Nikola Pašić
- Slobodan Peladić[importance?] (born 1962)
- Vessna Perunovich[importance?] (born 1960), visual artist from Zaječar based in Toronto
- Matija Vuković[importance?] (1925–1985),
- Dragiša Stanisavljević[importance?]
Art, painters, cartoonists, illustrators
[edit]- Emerik Feješ
- Nedeljko Gvozdenović (1902–1988), a Serbian painter of world renown. He is considered to be the greatest[citation needed] representative of the Belgrade School of Painting.
- Tripo Kokolja (1661–1713), Venetian Baroque painter, born in Perast to a Serbian[citation needed] Catholic family; his benefactor was Andrija Zmajević
- Dražen Kovačević[importance?] (born 1974),.
- Davor Džalto[importance?] (born 1980), artist and art historian
- Tom Carapic[importance?]
- Leonid Šejka[importance?]
Car racing
[edit]- Pete Romcevich, Indy Car racing
- Bill Vukovich, Indy Car racing
- Bill Vukovich II, Indy Car racing
- Billy Vukovich III, Indy Car racing
- Miloš Pavlović, racing driver
Uncategorized
[edit]- Alexis Brimeyer (1946–1995), false pretender who claimed the Serbian throne in the 1990s
- Trifko Grabež, nationalist, member of Black Hand
- Nikola Milošević[importance?], philosopher
- Mihailo Marković[importance?], philosopher
- Milan Damnjanović[importance?], philosopher
- Davorin Jenko
- Edmond Paris
- Jovan Cirilov
- Jevrem Jezdic
- Nenad Borovcanin (Heavyweight)
- Jovan Radonic (1873–1956) joined the ranks of the Serbian historians at a time "when the struggle between the romantic and critical schools of history was almost over," and emerged as one of the foremost Serbian historians of the critical school.
- Maria Baxa
- Duke Nikola Skobaljic who led the victorious Serbs in the Battle of Krusevac and the Battle of Leskovac.
- Dragutin Anastasijevic (Kragujevac-born Byzantologue, 18 July 1877; died at Belgrade, 20 August 1950)
- Sokollu Mehmet Pasa
- Miša Anastasijević
- Ilija M. Kolarac
- Pavle Beljanski
- Francis Mackenzie, a British citizen who lived and worked in Serbia, from the 1876 to 1895. He contributed around eight thousand square meters of his land for the construction of the Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade, currently the largest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world.
- Literary critics/historians and art-critics
- Bogdan Popović
- Jovan Skerlić
- Božidar Petranović
- Svetozar Marković
- Stojan Novaković
- Ljubomir Nedić
- Slobodan Jovanović
- Milan Rešetar
- Isidora Sekulić
- Pero Slijepčević
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch
- Vojislav Jovanović Marambo
- Ana Tasić, prolific theatre and art critic
- Miško Šuvaković is an aestheticist and professor of theory of art and theory of culture in Interdisciplinary Postgraduates Studies in the University of Arts in Belgrade.
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Academic sciences, invention
[edit]- Veljko Milković
- Atanasije Stojković (1773–1832), noted physicist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who established science on meteorites ("sky stones") and wrote the first book on them at a time when the possibility of such ("flying stones") was decisively rejected by Antoine Lavoisier and the Paris Academy.
- Dobrivoje Božić (created one of the first breaking systems for trains)
- Bogdan Maglićh
- Ivan Đaja
- Đorđe M. Stanojević
- Del Casher, a well-known musician and inventor of musical instruments
- Kosta Stojković (1867–1921), author of the first mathematical economics. In the context of science, he is important as the author of the first economic-mathematical treatise among the Serbs.
Academic sciences, philosophy
[edit]- Bogdan Šešić (1909–1999)
- Nikola Popović
- Prvos Slankamenac
- Jelisabeta Branković
- Kajica Milanov
- Miloš Đurić
- Zivoin Garašanin
- Zagorka Mičić
- Živojin Simić
- Vladan Maksimović
- Branislav Stevanović
- Dušan Stojanović
- Dušan Nedeljković
- Božidar Knežević
- Milan Kujundžić Aberdar
- Borislav Lorenc
- Sreten Marić
- Živojin Žujović
- Dionisije Novaković
- Aleksandar M. Petrović
- Vasa Stojić
- Toma Živanović
- Dušan Stošić
Historians
[edit]- Pavle Kengelac (1766–1834), Serbian arhimandrite, biologist, and historian who wrote Jestestvoslovije (The Study of Nature), published in Budapest, 1811
- Božidar Prokić (1859-1922) is the founder of Byzantine Studies at Belgrade's Grande ecole (before it became University of Belgrade in 1905).
- Ilarion Zeremski (1865-1931)
- Filaret Granić (1883-1948)
- Nikola Radojčić (1882-1964)
Military
[edit]- Jovan Kursula (1768–1813; voivode of the First Serbian Uprising)
- Petar Zambelic, Montenegrin captain who was commissioned by the Chilean Navy in 1890s and a survey ship called Condor was allocated to him for military and commercial sea route exploration. He died in 1903 in an accident. A commemorative plaque in Cyrillic was dedicated to him in his native Boka Kotorska in 1952.
- Timoleon Vasos Mavrovouniotis, Greek general of Montenegrin Serb descent, led a 1,500-men expeditionary force that landed February 3, 1897 at Kolymvari and claimed Crete for George I of Greece.
- Petar Zelalic (born 1727), the first Serbian Orthodox Christian in the 18th century to be knighted by the authorities of Malta for defending the island from the Ottoman Empire. A series of stamps called Captains of Boka Kotorska, including Petar Zelalic, Marko Ivanovic, Matija Balovic (1718–1794)and Ivan Bronza (d. 1749), were issued in 2005 by Serbia and Montenegro, honouring their maritime exploits.
Music
[edit]- Aleksandar Petrović, opera singer
Literature, baroque
[edit]- Simeon Končarević (c. 1690-1769), Serbian and Albanian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, who wrote The Chronicle of the Dalmatian (Orthodox) Bishop
- Jovan Stefanov Balević (1726–1796) was a graduate of the Serbian Orthodox Seminary at Sremski Karlovci and the University of Halle before travelling to Imperial Russia, and enlisting in the Russian army to fight the Turks. Balević's book -- A Brief and Objective Description of the Present State of Montenegro—was written in St. Petersburg in 1757, but the work never appeared in Russia and, was only finally published in Cetinje in 1884
- Pavle Julinac (1731–1785) holds an eminent place in modern Serbian historiography, being credited as the first Serb to publish a comprehensive history of the entire Serbian nation in Venice in 1765.He was greatly influenced by Slovak Jan Tomke-Saski, his college professor. (Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš, however, holds the distinction of being the first Serb to write and publish the history of the Serbian land of Montenegro in Moscow in 1754.
Literature, rationalism to romanticism
[edit]- Georgije Magarašević (1793–1830), one of the most prominent Serbian writers of his age. He translated Salomon Gessner and other German authors.
- Teodor Pavlović (1804–1854), writer and the first secretary of the Matica Srpska, founded in 1826.
- Jovan Stejić, writer
- Jovan Hadžić, writer
- Đorđe Maletić, writer
- Jovan Subotić, writer
- Danilo Medaković, writer
- Đorđe Rajković (1825–1886), Rationalism to Romanticism
Photography
[edit]- Predrag Vučković, extreme photographer[1]
Politicians
[edit]- Dimitrije Davidović (1789–1839)
- Stevica Mihailović
Science
[edit]- Petar Pavlovic (1864–1938), geologist and first Director of Museum of Serbian Lands
- Zoran Vujisić
- Vladimir Ajdačić
- Dobrivoje Bozic
Sports, boxers
[edit]- Duda Yankovich, Brazilian.
- Jelena Mrdjenovich, a Serbian-Canadian who just won the WBC/WIBF super featherweight title by defeating Franchesca Alcanter in Edmonton, Nov. 19, 2012.
Uncategorized
[edit]- Milivoje Božić (1923–1991), speed car racer, took part in many 24 Hours of Le Mans in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as in races at Monza, Montlhéry, Mille Miglia, and Nürburgring, often with a 1.5 litre Porsche 550A. He took third place at OASC Linz on July 5, 1959. Bozić was the first Yugoslav/Serb to acquire a Grand Prix license to participate in F1 (Porsche 550 Spyder).
- Andrija Vujišić, linguist
- Dijana and Agnija Radoncic, fictional twin sister characters introduced in the Hitman: Absolution video game, being members of an elite group of killers, code-named "The Saints"
- Miloš Korać, entrepreneur, President of Astra Realty, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Nena Toth, Canadian filmmaker, Director of Photography/First woman Cinematographer in Serbia
- Irena Grahovac, fashion designer
- Draginja and Stanojlo Petrović, philanthropists[citation needed][importance?]
- Denise Hale (born as Danica Radosavljević), socialite and philanthropist, Serbian-born ex-wife of Vincente Minnelli and widow of department store magnate Prentis Cobb Hale
- Richard Kovich[citation needed] is a former Central Intelligence Agency case officer whose long career suddenly stalled amid accusations of disloyalty but who eventually won financial compensation for damage to his reputation. He is a recipient of the CIA Intelligence Medal of Merit.
- Miroslav Pavlović, economist
- Jovan Muškatirović, Aleksije Vezilić, Emanuil Janković, Vićentije Rakić, Pavle Solarić, Atanasije Stojković (writers, academics)
- Milovan Vesnic (Serbian Champion in Super Turismo Class)
- Velibor Jovanovic (Serbian driver, Jensen Motorsport)
- Rudolph Rex Reeder (Overseas Commissioner of the Serbian Child Welfare Association of America in Serbia, from 1921-?)
- Nora Beloff
- Michael Lees
- Sampson Cernov (Also spelled Tchernoff. In 1912 he was sent by a Russian newspaper to photograph the Balkan Wars and the Great War)
- Drago Janusevic (World light-heavyweight champion)
- Andreas de Theresanis de Asula
- Cyprien Robert
- Countess Anna Akekseeva Orlova Chesmenskaya (1785–1848)
- Pavel Apolonovich Rovinsky
- Major St. Clair Stobart
- Frantisek Zah (1807–1892, Czech-born Zah became a General in Serbia c. 1875; principal aide-de-camp to Prince Milan)
- Gerhard Gesemann (Author of "Der Montenegrinische Mensch")
- Black Mike Winage was a Serbian-Canadian miner, pioneer, adventurer, born in 1870 in Serbia, died in Yellowknife, Canada in 1977
- Sebastian Dabovich, archimandrite, First US-born Serbian Orthodox priest (San Francisco, 1863)
- Mirjana Babunovic Dimitrijevic (Biographies of all individuals here are listed in the 'Holocaust Encyclopedia')
- Milica Popovic Kuhn
- Dejan Dusan Popovic
- Vladan Popovic
- Cedomir Milan Sorak
- Smiljka Ljoljic Visnjevac
- Ivo Popov (spy) (By an extraordinary coincidence, Dusan Popov's older brother, Ivo, also worked as a double agent in Yugoslavia, secretly assisting the Yugoslav government-in-exile in London. Ivo's codenames were 'Dreadnought' and 'Paula').
- Jelena Spadijer (Australian judo/karate champion)
- Bogdan Zerajic who in 1910 tried to assassinate Bosnian governor Marian Varesanin and failed. With the last bullet he shot himself.
- Count Vujic
- Prince Nikola Vasojevic
- Vera Gajic
- Tatiana Teja (Wife of Karim Teja)
- Mira Pavlovic
- Slobodan Pavlovic
- Jovanka Sopalovic
- Zeljko Mitrovic (Owner of RTV Pink)
- Rebecca MacDonald (real name is Ubavka Mitic, one of the founders of a major energy company in Canada)
- Vladimir Dimitrijević (Founder, publisher of Editions l'Age d'Homme in Switzerland).
- William Jovanovich (President and publisher of Harcourt Brace World, Inc., later named Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.)
- William Salatich (Past President of Gillette)
- Krsto Corko, a Serbian sea captain, born in Perast, Montenegro, was knighted by Spain for services rendered to the crown and given the title of Marquis and the governorship of the Balearic Islands in the second half of the 17th century.
- Adam Feldvarija was a Latin scholar who negotiated with Leopold I on behalf of Arsenije III Carnojevic privileges for the Serb nation living in Rascia.
- Nikola Radojcic (1882–1964) is another important historian of the critical school.
- Dragisa Vasic
- Dimitrije J. Putnikovic (1859–1910, Educator, founder of "The Museum of Pedagogy" in 1896)
- Lazo M. Kostic
- Milos Okura
- Bane Vasic (University of Arizona)
- Ivan Jugovic took over as Minister of Education after Dositej Obradovic died in 1811.
- Abraham Mrazovic was the reformer of the public school system in Backa in the late eighteenth century.
- Stevan Vujanovski was the reformer of the public school system in Slavonia in the late eighteenth century.
- Teodor Jankovic-Mirijevski was the reformer of the public school system in Banat and later in Russia in the late eighteenth century.
- Zoran Konstantinovic (1920–2007)
- Suzana Topolinska
- Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich (born in Koprivnica in 1882, professor Stanoyevich came to America where he wrote books about Serbia and Serbian literature and taught at the University of California during WW I)
- Paul R. Radosavljevich (Sombor-born Radosavljevich is best known for his two-volume work entitled "Who Are the Slavs?,"
- Veljko Lalich (1920–2008)
- Alex N. Dragnich (1915–2009)
- Dimitrije Djordjevic (1922–2009)
- George Vid Tomashevich (1927–2009)
- Vasa Mihailovich
- Zika Rad. Prvulovich
- Slavko Gavrilovic (A prolific Serbian historian and scholar who died in 2008)
- Michael Boro Petrovich (born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922; died in 1989 of cancer)
- Aleksey Jelacic
- Mihailo Valtrovic
- Stefan Prodan Steta made a name for himself during the Great Turkish War defending Kladovo when it came under Ottoman siege in the Great Turkish War. Steta was one of the principal leaders, with Count George Brankovic, Jovan Monasterlija, Patriarch Arsenije III (Carnojevic) and others, who rose against Turkish oppression, 1683-1699.
- Rade Androvic was a Serbian priest of the Pastrovici clan who became a national hero in the wars with Turkey in the eighteenth century Montenegro.
- Draga Mastilovic
- Leka Mastilovic, the brother of Draga Mastilovic, was the hero of one of the heroic songs written by Sima Milutinovic Sarajlija.
- Jaksa Avdalovic Gacanin
- Matija Juskovic
- Drago Pejovic
- Joksim Pejovic
- Vuk Lopusina
- Mihajlo Popadic
- Serdar Malisa Bucic
- Gavrilo Sibalija
- Jovan Sibalija
- Senjanin Tadija
- Senjanin Jurisa
- Senjanin Ivo
- Vasa Carapic
- Jovan Novakovic-Cardaklija
- Petar Novakovic-Cardaklija
- Dositije Novakovic fought with Milos Obrenovic.
- Captain Tomo Djurov Milinovic was born in the small fishing village of Morinj, eight kilometers from Risan, in 1770. He fought in the First Serbian Uprising with Karageorge. He died in 1846.
- Ilija Barjaktarevic
- Rajko Obradovic (of Sviljanac)
- Toma Vucic Perisic
- Cincar Janko Popovic
- Cincar Marko Kostic
- Zeka Buljubasa was a leader of a guerilla band of Serbian mercenary soldiers fighting the Turks.
- Jovan Gligorijevic was one of many heroes of the First Serbian Uprising, 1804–1813.
- Vojvoda Jakov Dakovic (refused to pay Grahovo's tribute to Ali Pasha)
- Jovan Babunski and Gligor Sokolovic were leaders of Chetnik volunteers in Prilep fighting against pro-Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and later the Turks in Ottoman-occupied Macedonia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Jovan Brkic
- Mileta Radojkovic
- Jovan Kursula (1768–1813)
- Milosav Zdravkovic Resavac
- Lazar Socica
- Nedich Brothers of "the 1809 Battle of Cokesina" fame.
- Danilo II of Serbia was an archbishop, eminent theologian, man of letters, connoisseur of the arts, monk then heguman of Hilendar. He courageously defended his monastery against the Catalans from 1307 to 1309. A giften diplomat, he carried out several missions for his friend King Milutin. He left a large library oeuvre, including six "Lives of Serbian Kings and Archbishops" of great historical value. Danilo worked out architectural plans and fresco programmes for his foundations, in particular at Pec and Jelasci. He also supervised the constructions of Banjska and Decani, two great royal foundations.
- Stevan Berislavic (1520–1535)
- Jelena Brankovic (1514–1522) In 1522 Suleiman the Magnificent captured the garrison of Belgrade defended by 700 men
- Dorde Brankovic (1486–1496)
- Knights Vitomir Vukoslavic and Crep Vukoslavic, subjects of Knez Lazar, led the victorious Serbian forces against the Turks in the Battle of Dubravnica in 1381.
- Stefan II Crnojevic (1496–1498)
- Princess Vera of Montenegro
- Princess Sofiya of Montenegro
- Princess Marica of Montenegro
- Lunjevice
- Dimitrije M. Davidovic (1789–1838) was the writer of the First Constitution, adopted by the national Assembly on February 14, 1835.
- Kosta S. Protic
- Jovan Belimarkovic (Ristic was the head of a council of Regency in 1889, which also included Protic and Belimarkovic)
- Dr. Lovro Pavlovic
- Mirko Komnenovic was a well-known politician and benefactor.
- St David, King of Georgia (1089–1130; venerated on Jan. 26)
- Simeon Stolpnik (venerted on September 14)
- Stefan (Puric) of Kosovo, Serbia, 1999
- Hariton (Lukic) of Kosovo, Serbia, 1999
- Dr. Veselin Kesich
- Dimitrije Najdanovic
- Dobrivoje Stosovic (1894–1942; graduated in economics and finance from the University of London and Cambridge in 1922)
- Hiermonk Makarije (Cetinje, c. 1493)
- Bozidar Gorazdanin (Gorazde, 1519–1523)
- Radisa Dmitrovic (Belgrade, c. 1530)
- Monk Mardarije (At a Serbian church at Mrksina, c. 1562)
- Stefan Skadranin (Scutari, 1563–1580)
- Known as Jakob from Herzegovina (Venice, 1597)
- Jerolim Zagurovic of Kotor (Venice, 1597)
- Gligorije Vozarovic (1790–1848)
- William Jovanovich (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.)
- Drenka Willen (Editor of Nobel Prize winners: Gunter Grass, Umberto Eco, Jose Saramago, Amos Oz, Wislawa Szymborska. Now back with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- John R. Palandech (of Palandech Press in Chicago)
- Vladimir Dimitrijevic (Les editions L'Age d'Homme, Switzerland)
- Andra Gavrilovic (1864–1929), a prominent Serbian historian and writer, was the founder and editor of Iskra (The Spark) and Nova Iskra (The New Spark), published in Belgrade, regularly from 1899 to 1905, irregularly until 1912.
- Bogdan Popovic, Pavle Popovic, Jovan Skerlic and others acted as editors of an exclusively literary journal called Srpski knjizevni glasnik (The Serbian Literary Herald), published at Belgrade, from 1901 to 1914, and from 1920 to 1941.
- Stefan Pastrovic
- Filip Lazarevic was the publisher of a newspaper called "Boka" in Montenegro in 1907. The two editors were Rudolf Sardelic and Dusan Vukasovic.
- Jovo Metlicic was the founder and publisher of a literary newspaper called Draskov Rabos, printed in Split, from 1883 to 1887. The editor was Vikentije Butijer.
- Geca Kon
- Vladan Djordjevic founded and edited Otazbina (The Fatherland), a journal for literature, scholarship and social life, in Belgrade in 1875. Later, the editor was M. Jovanovic.
- Nikola T. Kasikovic founded and edited Bosanska vila (The Bosnian Muse) in Sarajevo, from 1885-1914. This literary periodical was often in conflict with Turkish and later Austrian authorities.
- Pajo Markovic Adamov was the founder and editor of Brankovo Kolo (Branko's Dance), a periodical for entertainment, edification and literature. Published under Austrian rule, it had a strong Serbian stance.
- Draginja "Draga" Petrovic
- Stanojlo Petrovic (Draga Petrovic funded the construction of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker church at Novo Groblje in Belgrade in memory of her husband, Stanojlo)
- Slobodan Pavlovic
- Mira Pavlovic (Slobomir, a new town in Bosnia and Hercegovina, was founded by Slobodan Pavlovic and his wife, Mira)
- Dimitrije Atanasijevic (Founded a high school in 1791 in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia)
- Richard Willich (The chairman and CEO of MDI Holdings in Ponte Vedra, Florida)
- Misa Atanasijevic (1803–1885; famous as "Kepetan Misa")
- Stana Milanovic (1867–1891)
- Nikola Cupic (1836–1870)
- Radovan Lazic (1834–1884)
- Marija Trandafil (1811–1883)
- Nikola Spasic (1838–1916)
- Ljubomir M. Mihailovic (1874–1957)
- Vladimir Mihailo Todorovic (1849–1898)
- Milan Kujundzic-Aberdar (1842–1893)
- Luka Celovic-Trebinjac (1854–1929)
- Jovan Jovanovic (1845–1909)
- Djoka Vlajkovic (1831–1883)
- Ilija Milosavljevic Kolarac (1800–1878)
- Constantin Diaconovici Loga (Djakonovic, called "Loga", was the founder of a junior college named after him in Temisoara, Romania)
- Jovan Hristic
- Stevan Raickovic
- Branislav Petrovic
- Sava Nemanjic
- Vasilije Zivkovic (1819–1891)
- Stephen Stepanchev (Poet Laureate, Professor Emeritus of English, Purdue and Queens College)
- Vojislav Ilic (Mladji) (1877–1944)
- Milutin Bojic (1892–1917; see Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb)
- Mihaly Vitkovics (1778–1829; Hungarian and Serb poet)
- Drago Njegovan
- Milan Tutorov (See Banat of Temeswar, Banat and Pannonian Sea)
- Vladimir Stanimirovic
- Milan Curcin
- Proka Jovkic (1886–1915)
- Mirko Korolija (1886–1934)
- Milutin Jovanovic (1881–1935)
- Ljubomir Jovanovic (Ljuba Patak; 1865–1928)
- Miloslav Jelic
- Vladimir Velmar Jankovic
- Vojisla J. Ilic (1860–1894)
- Jovan Ilic (1823–1901)
- Antun Kaznacic (1784–1874)
- Maroje Kaboga (1505–1582)
- Olga Ilic (1880–1945)
- Neda Spasojevic (1941–1981)
- Milos Zutic (1939–1993)
- Vela Nigrinova (1862–1908)
- Milan Ajvaz (1897–1980)
- Slobodan Perovic (1926–1978)
- Misel Burford
- Katerina Zutic
- Dragan Maksimovic
- Aleksandar Berecek
- Branko Samarovski(German actor of Serbian origin)
- Svetozar Cvetkovic
- Jack Dimich
- Jackeline Petkovic (Brazilian television actress of Serbian ancestry)
- Cica Ilija Stanojevic was the first filmmaker in Serbia in 1911 with Karadorde (film).
- Jovan Bijelic
- John David Brcin
- Alexander Dzigurski (1911–1995)
- Pavel Đurkovic
- Slavko Gigic
- Katarina Ivanovic (1817–1882)
- Justinian Jovanovic(painted in the 1820s)
- Avram Konjovic (painted in the 1820s)
- Robert M. Markovich (Serbian-American painter)
- Josip Majzner
- Zivorad Nastasijevic
- Jakov Orfelin
- Vasa Pomorisac
- Marc Petrovic (Glass Painter in Connecticut, U.S.A.)
- Milan V. Petrovic (1893–1978; Serbian-American painter)
- Dragan Rakic
- Yovan Radenkovitch (1903–1979; worked in Paris and the U.S.A.)
- Ruth Radakovich (American painter, married to Svetozar Radakovich)
- Svetozar "Toza" Radakovich (Serbian-American painter)
- Aleksandra Stratimirovic
- Mihailo Sokolovic (d. 1776, icon painter)
- Pavle Simic
- Milos Sobajic
- Arsa Teodorovic
- Steva Todorovic
- Zoran Velimanovic
- George Vid Tomashevich
- Marko Brezanin (Author of Monument to Archibald Reiss)
- Petar Ubavkic (1852–1910; recognized as the first sculptor of modern Serbia, given the task to create a series of national monuments of which he authored many, including the black marble monument to Kosovo Warriors in Kragujevac)
- Stevan Adamovic
- Marc Sijan
- Jose Majzner
- Milovan Krstic
- Svetomir Radovic
- Svetozar Radovic
- Radeta Stankovic
- Dragomir Arambasic
- Zivojin Lazic
- Zoran Ivanovic(Author of Monument to Nikola Pasic)
- Mihajlo Paunovic
- Dragan Radenovic
- Stevan Zivadinovic (Born in Bor, Serbia, 1908; died in Oxford, England, 1993)
- Mihailo and Lazar Janic (Famed 19th century sculptors in wood, who lived and worked in Arad, now part of Romania)
- Gordana Jovanović
- Milan Kapetanovic (Kapetanovic-Ruvidic collaborated on the design of the Serbia Pavilion at the 1900 Paris World Expo)
- Milorad Ruvidic
- Nikola Tasic (of Vinca Culture fame)
- Gordana Vujovic
- Milutin Garasanin
- Đorđe Mano-Zisi
- Dragoslav Srejovic (1931–1996)
- Branislav Stojanovic
- Tošo Borković
- Nina Bunjevac
- Zoran Jovanovic
Dusan Petricic (Teaches at Oakville's Sheridan College)
- Petar Pijer Krizanic (Eary 20th century Serbian cartoonist)
- Rista Marijanovic
- Ljubisa Valic
- Prota Sukovic
- Paul von Baich (Austrian-born Canadian photographer of Serbian ancestry)
- Dragisa M. Stojadinovic
- Predrag Gojković
- Vinka Ellesin (the best known songstress in diaspora, RCA Victor's Yugoton label and Columbia's Balkan label)
- Nenad Jovanovic
- Nada Knezevic
- Martin Kapudjia (Marty Kapugi used to entertain Serbs in Florida up until the 1980s)
- Edo Ljubic
- Uros Seferovich
- Rasha Radenkovich
- Ana Sokolovic
- Michael Pepa
- Mihovil Logar
- Kosta Manojlovic
- Jovan Pacu (1847–1902; composer and pianist)
- Stanoje Rajicic
- Milan Ristic
- Jovanka Stojkovic
- Mark P. Malkovich III (Died in a car accident)
- Jovan Jovičić (classical guitarist)
- Alex Petrovich (a.k.a. Alex The Yeti Bones of The Mighty Nimbus, Georgian Skull, Gypsy Chief Goliath)
- Dragan Petrović (jazz pianist from Toronto)
- Aleksandar Antonijevic (Principal dancer of The National Ballet of Canada (Karen Kain, Artistic-Director))
- Sultana Cijukova
- Draga Spasic
- Zarko Savic (Our first, internationally-recognized opera virtuoso)
- Sofija Sedmakov (Famed for her performances in opera houses of Germany in the 1890s)
- Aleksandar Djokovic
- Countertenor Predrag Djokovic
- Tenor Radmilo Petrovic
- Mezzo-soprano Vera Zlokovic
- Aleksandar Antonijevic (One of Principal Dancers of the National Ballet of Canada)
- Tomislav Rakic
- Rajko Bogdanovic
- Dusan Rajkovic
- Slavoljub Marjanovic
- Goran Cabrilo
- Slavisa Brenjo
- [[Boban Bogosavlj
- Miodrag Mladenovic
- Vladimir Podinic
- Mihajlo Stojanovic
- Sinisa Drazic
- Zlatko Ilincic
- Aleksa Strikovic
- Dragan Barlov
- Nikola Djukic
- Bogdan Šešić (1909–1999)
- Branislav Petronijevic
- Nikola Popovic
- Prvos Slankamenac
- Jelisabeta Brankovic
- Kajica Milanov
- Milos Djuric (1892–1967)
- Zivoin Garasanin
- Zagorka Micic
- Zivoin Simic
- Vladan Maksimovic
- Branislav Stevanovic
- Dusan Stojanovic
- Dusan Nedeljkovic
- Bozidar Knezevic (1862–1905)
- Milan Kujundzic Aberdar
- Borislav Lorenc
- Sreten Maric
- Živojin Žujović
- Dionisije Novakovic
- Aleksandar M. Petrovic
- Vasa Stojic
- Toma Zivanovic
- Dusan Stosic
Montenegro
[edit]- Captain Count Jovan Mirkovic born in Herceg Novi was a distinguished Serbian sea captain.
- Captain Tomo Djurov Milinovic
- Krsto Corko, born in Perast, was a famed mariner. He was a Spanish Marquis and Governor of the Balearic Islands in the second half of the 17th century.
- Marko Martinovic, a maritime teacher, who taught 17 Russian dukes maritime skills and navigation in Perast in 1698.
- Jozo Lukovic of Prcanj was a distinguished sea captain during the end of the 18th century. Lukovic was intimate with Petar I Petrovic Njegos, who decided at that time to forestall the Great Powers by annexing the Bay of Kotor. In Montenegro itself the conditions were ripe for the establishment of a government and a state. On October 29, 1813, the Bishop had created a Central Commission, half of whom, including Lukovic, were from the Bay of Kotor and area and the other half from the Highlands, over which Peter I presided and which was to administer and to unite the territories. Lukovic acted as a deputy for Peter I, and in the Central Commission he defended the bishop's vision with great vigour. He knew it was propitiuous for the creation of a state and a foundation for the realization of more final aims.
- Petar Zelalic, born in Bijela, was a recipient of the coveted gold medal of courage and the rank of Maltese knight in the successful defence of the island of Malta against the Turks in the 1700s.
- Dobrota-born Ivanovic brothers, Marko Ivanovic and Jozo Ivanovic, became famous in battle against pirates and Turks in the Mediterranean. In 1751 a fortunate occasion had allowed Marko to take part in a big naval fight with the Turkish pirates at Patras, and in 1756, being now in command of a ship, he fought against the same enemies in Piraeus, serving with distinction on both occasions.
- Mato Mrsa is a Serb from Perast, a well-known sea captain and teacher at a nautical school.
- Antun Lukovic, descendant of an old Bokelj family from Boka Kotorska in Montenegro, was chief marine engineer in the construction of the Suez Canal, from 1859 to 1869.
- Mitar Martinovic
- Major Borko Pastrovic
- Second Lieutenant Milivoje Naumovic (served under Vojvoda Vuk's command, 17 times-wounded in combat, obtained a Law degree at the University of Paris in the early 1920s; served as vice-consul in Chicago in 1925-1926. Later, he was appointed consul in San Francisco. In 1933 he was recalled to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade and in February 1936 became the first consul general in Montreal. As Reuter's correspondent in Belgrade Naumovic was arrested by the Ozna, Tito's secret police. He was sentenced to six years for "propagating alarming news." It was alleged that he had sent false messages on the situation in Yugoslavia at the time of the forced landings of American planes.
- Slavka Tomic was a war heroine, mobilized at the age of 18, wounded many times, and promoted to sergeant.
Austrian-Hungarian
[edit]- Sebastian Prodanovich (Austrian General-Major who participated in the Second Coalition—1799-1800—of the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars)
- Major Michael Uganovich
- Obrst Vincenz Knezevich Freiherr von Saint Helena
- Major Elias von Bubanovich
- Paul von Sokolovich (Austrian Serb promoted to Hauptmann in 1788)
- Stephan Mihajlovich (Austrian Major-General)
- Lazar Mamula, (Austrian general, 1865)
- Emanuel Draganic
- Ladislaus Draganic
- Major Raul Stojsavljevic of the Austrian Air Force (1887–1930)
- General George Dragicevic (1890–1980)
- Milan Grubic, General Major
- Wladislaw Stanoilovic von Stanogora (Chief of Staff, 1909–1912)
- Theordore Bekic von Bovic (Chief of Staff, 1917–1918)
- General Major Nikolaus Karapancza von Kraina (Nikola Karapancic, 1860–1925)
- Paul Lukic (1887–1890)
- Ludwig Stankovics (1866)
- Nikolaus Istvanovic von Ivanska
- General Stephan Babic
- Johann Terkulja
- Karl Stankovics (1898)
- Theodore Gyurits von Vitesz-Sokolgrada
Imperial Russia
[edit]- Admiral Marko Ivanovic Vojnovic, originally from Bratesici (from the region called Grblja in Serbian land of Montenegro), was born in 1750 and spent most of his naval career in the service of Catherine II of Russia. He died in 1807 in Belarus.
- Captain Mihailo Miloradovich, the ancestor of Count Miloradovich.
- Captain Marko Martinovic (taught cadets from Russia naval skills)
- Rodion Myloradovych (Miloradovich)
- Captain Ivan Lukacevic (Podgorica-born, Lukacevic and Miloradovic were sent to spy on the Turks in the Balkans)
- Serdar Vukotich (Russian General, 1757–1761)
- Stevan Mihajlov Vukotic in the service of the Russian Imperial Navy he was the first Serb circumnavigator in the vessel called "Predprijatije."
- Fedor Ivanovich Iankovich de Mirievo, a Serbian pedagogue, was invited to Russia by Catherine to design a new public educational system like the one he did in his hometown of Timisoara (then part of Austria) for Serbian and Rumanian school children.
- Leontii Ivanovich De-Preradovich (General-Major, 1767–1843)
- Nikolaj Ivanovich De-Preradovich (General of Cavalry, 1766–1844)
- Georgi Arsenijevich Emmanuel (1774–1837; Major-General and Commander of Dragoon Brigade)
- Pjotr Ivanovich Ivelich (1772–1816) was a Major-General who participated in the Battle of Borodino under the command of Mikhail Kutuzov.
- Marko Ivelich (General)
- Baron Ilya Mihailovic Douka (also spelled Ducca; Commander of the Cuirassiers). Among the iron-clad warriors to enter Paris after the Battle of Paris (1814) was Major-General Ilyia Duka (1768–1830). He was awarded with the Russian Order of St. Anna, 1st class; Prussian Order of the Red Eagle; and Austrian Order of St. Leopold.
- Ivan Egorovich Shevich (Major-General, Commander of Guard Cavalry Division)
- Nikolaj Vasiljevich Vuich (1765–1836) was the Commander of the 3rd Brigade of the 24th Division in the Borodino battle.
- Aleksandar Lekso Saicic (1873–1911
- Oleg Vladimirovich Rodomar Vukotich (Subject of a biography entitled Nothing By Half)
- The formation of the 1st Serbian Volunteer Division took place in early 1916 under the command of General Stevan Hadzic, the Minister for War at Odessa. In the fall of 1916, the 2nd Serbian Volunteer Division and a Serbian Volunteer Corp were formed by General Mihailo Zivkovic. The Czechoslovak Legions were a part of the two Serbian Volunteer Divisions. Forming volunteer military units from prisoners of war (POW), mostly Slavs and Romanians from disputed territories long occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a case without precedent in international law and the Hague Convention.
United States
[edit]- Colonel Nick Stepanovich (U.S. Army, first to recommend enlistment of Serbian-American officers in the Office of Strategic Services, later known as the Central Intelligence Agency)
- Major George Vujnovich (Chief of Office of Strategic Services at Bari during Operation Halyard)
- Captain George Musulin (Office of Strategic Services, who led Operation Halyard team in Serbia)
- Captain Nick A. Lalich (Office of Strategic Services, who led Operation Halyard for the final rescue of Allied airmen, a total of more than 500)
- Second Lieutenant Joseph Veselinovich (Office of Strategic Services, Operation Halyard, 1943–1944)
- Eli Popovich (Veteran of O.S.S. operations in Burma and the Balkans.
- Tyrus W. Cobb (Reagan national security staffer; Army colonel)
- Rade Grba
- Rudy Ostovich
- Ed Radakovich
- George M. Karamarkovich
- Gary M. Batinich
- Steven Mandarich
- Dr. Rose Karlo Gantner (Director of Red Cross, Vietnam, 1960s)
- Vern Pupich (U.S. Test Pilot before World War II)
During the American Civil War, the earliest Serbian immigrants who came to Louisiana from the Old Country served in the Slavonian Rifle Company, European Brigade, and Louisiana Militia.(Source: "Yugoslavs in Louisiana" by Milos M. Vujnovich, Pelican Publishing, Louisiana, 1999)
- Ivan Bronza distinguished himself as a commander on warships, especially during the Second Morean War, as well as battles against piracy. He commanded the Venetian warship Constance Querieria. The Doge Alvis III Sebastiano Mocenigo awarded him the title of Cavalier of St. Mark in 1730.
- Frano Viskovic (1665–1720) was one of the most prominent members of this distinguished Perast family.He first became famous for his military exploits in battles at sea and land. He had the rank of a 'colonello' (colonel) in the Venetian navy. He was awarded the title of Cavalier of St. Mark by the Venetian Proveditor (doge) Alvis II Mocenigo in 1703.
- Krsto Djoka distiniguished himself during a battle against Tunisian pirates. He was the recipient of the coveted Jerusalem cross.
- Nepomuk Maidich of Trieste who commanded Napoleon's Marina Italiana, from 1796 to 1814.
Albania
[edit]- Branko Kadia real name Branko Kandic is a World War II national hero
- Jordan Misija is a World War II national hero
- Vojo Kusic was a commander of Albanian guerilla fighters
- Vasil Stanic was one of the main organizers of the Communist Party of Albania who was killed fighting the Germans.
Ottoman
[edit]- Hasan-aga Krajisnik
- Hasan-aga Besirovic Pecki
- Sari Suleyman Pasha, Grand vizier 1685-1687
Romania-Moldavia
[edit]- During a revolt headed by Prince Matei Basarab de Brankovan against the Turks in 1655, Serbs constituted a vast majority of mercenary troops known as seimeni, given that their nucleus is attested to have been formed by "Serb seimeni".