List of Bosnians and Herzegovinians
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This is a list of people from Bosnia and Herzegovina
(including Bosniaks
, Croats
, Serbs
, and others of Bosnian parentage):
Queens:
Presidents of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
(including Bosniaks
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks or Bosniacs are a South Slavic ethnic group, living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a smaller minority also present in other lands of the Balkan Peninsula especially in Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia...
, Croats
Croats
Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...
, Serbs
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...
, and others of Bosnian parentage):
Literature and poetry
- Bisera AlikadićBisera AlikadicBisera Alikadić is a contemporary Bosnian poetess born in Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is best known best for her work Larva and Krug. She mostly writes romance novels as well as the children books. She was one of the first Bosnian women to publish romance novels...
- Ivo AndrićIvo AndricIvan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...
- Safvet-beg Bašagić
- Musa Ćazim ĆatićMusa Cazim CaticMusa Ćazim Ćatić was a Bosnian Muslim poet of Croat orientation. He is currently featured on the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 50 km note ....
- Enver ČolakovićEnver ColakovicEnver Čolaković was a Bosniak prose writer and poet, probably known best for his work Legenda o Ali-paši ....
- Branko ĆopićBranko CopicBranko Ćopić was Yugoslav writer. He was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Hašani near Bosanska Krupa. He attended schools in Bihać, Banja Luka, Sarajevo and Karlovac before moving to Belgrade to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade until his graduation in 1940.Upon the uprising in...
- Umihana ČuvidinaUmihana Cuvidina-External links:*...
- Vlado DijakVlado DijakVlado Dijak was known a former Yugoslav poet and songwriter.-Biography:...
- Osman Đikić
- Mehmedalija DizdarMak DizdarMehmedalija "Mak" Dizdar was one of the greatest Bosnian and Yugoslav poets of the second half of the 20th century.-Biography:...
- Zija DizdarevićZija DizdarevicZija Dizdarević was a Bosnian prose writer.-Biography:He was born in Vitina, Ljubuški municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from where he moved in 1920 to Fojnica. There he spent most of his youth and always came back regardless of all the other places he went to...
- Jovan DučićJovan DucicJovan Dučić was a Serbian poet born in Herzegovina, writer and diplomat.-Biography:...
- Zulfikar DžumhurZuko DžumhurZulfikar "Zuko" Džumhur was a Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist. Džumhur's bohemian nature, versatility of a polymath and extremely creative personality have made him a unique figure of the Yugoslav culture in the second half of the 20th century.Džumhur was born in Konjic, northern...
- Hamid Šahinović Ekrem
- Aleksandar HemonAleksandar HemonAleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American fiction writer. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written four acclaimed books: Love and Obstacles: Stories , The Lazarus Project: A Novel , which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle...
- Abdulvehab IlhamijaAbdulvehhab IlhamijaAbdulvehhab Ilhamija was an 18th century Bosnian Dervish and prose writer....
- Miljenko JergovićMiljenko JergovicMiljenko Jergović is a Bosnian prose writer. Jergović currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia, having moved there in 1993....
- Nasiha Kapidžić-HadžićNasiha Kapidzic-HadzicNasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić was a Bosnian writer and poet of great renown. Nasiha was born in Banja Luka. She finished elementary and high school in Banja Luka and University of Philosophy in Belgrade....
- Petar KočićPetar KocicPetar Kočić was a Serb prose writer and politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was active in the Serbian National Organization with ties to the Mlada Bosna revolutionaries, after which he seceded with his closest supporters leading a wing under his leadership.Like both Borisav Stanković, who...
- Skender KulenovićSkender KulenovicSkender Kulenović was a Bosnian poet, novelist and dramatist.-Background:Skender Kulenović was born in 1910 in the Bosnian town of Bosanski Petrovac, when Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Kulenović family was a Muslim land-owning family, though Skender’s parents ran...
- Vitomir LukićVitomir LukicVitomir Lukić , was a Bosnian-Croat prose writer and pedagogue, considered to be one of the greatest writers to emerge from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 20th century.-Works:...
- Avdo Međedović
- Semezdin MehmedinovićSemezdin MehmedinovicSemezdin Mehmedinović is a Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor.After studying Librarianship and Comparative Literature in Sarajevo, he worked as an editor of "Lica" and "Valter" magazines, which served as a voice of opposition to the ruling Communist regime...
- Velimir MiloševićVelimir Milosevic-External links:*...
- Ahmed MuradbegovićAhmed MuradbegovicAhmed Muradbegović was a Bosniak writer, dramatist and novelist.-Works:*Haremska lirika, Zagreb, 1921*Haremske novele, Zagreb, 1924*Nojemova ladja, Zagreb, 1924...
- Andrej NikolaidisAndrej NikolaidisAndrej Nikolaidis is a Montenegrin-Bosnian writer, columnist, and current adviser to Ranko Krivokapić, speaker of the Montenegrin Parliament.-Biography:...
- Safet PlakaloSafet PlakaloSafet Plakalo is arguably the most prominent living Bosniak playwright and one of the few South Slavic writers of poetic dramatic orientation...
- Izet SarajlićIzet SarajlicIzet Sarajlić was a Bosnian historian of philosophy, essayist, translator and poet. Sarajlić was Bosnia and Herzegovina's best-known poet after World War II, and the former Yugoslavia's most widely translated poet....
- Meša SelimovićMeša SelimovicMehmed "Meša" Selimović was a Yugoslav writer. His novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-war Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are relations between individual and authority, life and death, and other existential problems...
- Aleksa ŠantićAleksa ŠanticAleksa Šantić was a Serb poet from Herzegovina.He was born and lived most his life in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a province that was occupied by Austria-Hungary in 1878 and annexed by them in 1908...
- Abdulah SidranAbdulah SidranAbdulah Sidran , often referred to by his nickname Avdo, is a Bosnian writer and poet who is renowned for his screenplays and dramas.-Works:...
- Antun Branko ŠimićAntun Branko ŠimicAntun Branko Šimić was a Herzegovinian Croat expressionist poet.-Life:He was born in Drinovci near Grude on November 18, 1898, in the family of Vida and Martin Šimić. He attended primary school in his native village, and then the first three forms of the Franciscan classical grammar school in...
- Derviš SušićDerviš SušicDerviš Sušić was a Bosniak writer, known best for his first work I, Danilo. He was born in Vlasenica, Bosnia....
- Nenad VeličkovićNenad VelickovicNenad Veličković is a prose writer and playwright from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He lives in Sarajevo.-External links:**...
Fine arts
- Mersad BerberMersad Berber-Early life:Berber was born in Bosanski Petrovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljublijana where he graduated with a BA and MA. In 1978, Berber received a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo.-Art:...
– painter - Braco DimitrijevićBraco DimitrijevicSlobodan Dimitrijević , known as Braco Dimitrijević is a Paris-based Yugoslavian artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it....
– conceptual artist - Zuko DžumhurZuko DžumhurZulfikar "Zuko" Džumhur was a Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist. Džumhur's bohemian nature, versatility of a polymath and extremely creative personality have made him a unique figure of the Yugoslav culture in the second half of the 20th century.Džumhur was born in Konjic, northern...
– cartoonist - Adi GranovAdi GranovAdi Granov is a Bosnian-British comic book artist and conceptual designer.-Career:Granov teamed with comic book writer Warren Ellis for the post-Avengers Disassembled relaunch of Iron Man...
– comic book artist - Gabrijel JurkićGabrijel JurkicGabrijel Jurkić was a Bosnian Croat artist, born in Livno, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, and died at a Franciscan monastery near there in 1974....
– painter - Nesim TahirovićNesim TahirovicNesim Tahirović was born on October 23 1941 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied art in Belgrade under professor Kosta Hakman.Along with painting he also works in the area of scenic design and other applied arts...
– painter - Endi E. PoskovicEndi E. PoskovicEndi Poskovic is a Bosnian-American artist and printmaker whose graphic work merges visual representation with text, often shifting the reading of the imagery through continuous representation and re-contextualization...
– printmaker and artist
Composition
- Bego-Šimunić Anđelka
- Goran BregovićGoran BregovicGoran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
- Dado DžihanDado DžihanJadranko "Dado" Džihan is a composer, music producer and sound master from Bosnia and Herzegovina. A member of New Primitives, Top lista nadrealista an art movement of Sarajevo of the early 1980s. From 1991, based in London...
- Vlado DzihanDZihan & KamiendZihan & Kamien are a downtempo house and acid jazz music duo based in Vienna, Austria. Their sound has been described as having "jazzy texture, trip-hop rhythms and Eastern ambience." Their first production single, Der Bauch, released in 1996 under the name MC Sultan, was popular in European...
- Edo MulahalilovićEdo MulahalilovicEdo Mulahalilović was a Bosnian songwriter and producer.His first solo concert was at the age of 13 in Hvar, on a classical guitar.*1983...
, songwriter.
Theatre and performing arts
- Zoran BečićZoran BecicZoran Bečić was one of the most prominent artists of the Bosnian theatrical community in the 20th century.One of the founding actors of Sarajevo War Theatre , he studied acting under the famous Belgrade Academy of Dramatic Arts' Professor Mate Milošević, graduating with the 1966 class...
– actor and director - Enis BešlagićEnis BešlagicEnis Bešlagić is an actor and TV personality from Bosnia and Herzegovina.- External links :...
– actor - Oskar DanonOskar DanonOskar Danon was a Bosnian Jewish composer and conductor.-Early life and education:Oskar Danon was born in 1913 in Sarajevo, then in the Austria-Hungarian Empire but now in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He studied music in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he obtained his Ph.D...
– composer and conductor - Davor DujmovićDavor DujmovicDavor Dujmović was a Yugoslav actor best known for his memorable roles in Emir Kusturica's movies as Mirza in When Father Was Away on Business, Perhan in Time of the Gypsies and Bata in Underground.-Career:Born into a poor working class family, Dujmović's acting...
– actor - Branko Đurić – actor, director, original member of the cult comedy Top Lista NadrealistaTop lista nadrealistaTop lista nadrealista also known as Nadrealisti was a comedy radio broadcast on Radio Sarajevo during early 1980s and later a sketch comedy and variety show on TV Sarajevo in three separate installments from 1984 until 1991.'Top lista nadrealista' started as a segment on Boro Kontić's programme...
line-up - Mustafa NadarevićMustafa NadarevicMustafa Nadarević is a Bosnian actor and comedian. He has studied at the Academy of Drama and Arts in Zagreb....
– actor - Haris PašovićHaris PašovicHaris Pašović is a Bosnian theatre and film director. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a playwright, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for his productions of Wedekind’s “Spring Awakening” and numerous collaborations with other artists,...
– director - Josip PejakovićJosip PejakovicJosip Pejaković is a Bosnian Croat actor and writer born in Travnik, Yugoslavia. At one time he was the lead singer for the Travnik based rock group Veziri. He was also an antiwar activist at the start of the Bosnian war. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the left-wing magazine Novi Plamen...
– actor - Zijah SokolovićZijah SokolovicZijah Sokolović is a Bosnian actor, writer and director who lives, acts and directs in Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria...
– actor, director - Vladimir ValjarevićVladimir ValjarevicVladimir Valjarević , is a Bosnian/American pianist.Valjarević came to New York City on a scholarship from the Mannes College of Music, where he earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees as a recipient of the Marian Marcus Wahl Performance Award. His principal teachers were Pavlina Dokovska and...
– pianist
Science and technology
- Mahmut BajraktarevićMahmut BajraktarevicMahmut Bajraktarević was a Bosnian mathematician and academician. He graduated from the University of Belgrade in 1933 and received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1953 with the dissertation Sur certaines suites itérées...
– mathematician - Vladimir PrelogVladimir PrelogVladimir Prelog FRS was a Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Prelog lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich during his lifetime.-Biography:...
– chemist, Nobel Laureate - Irfan Škiljan – creator of freeware image viewer IrfanViewIrfanViewIrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...
Film, radio and television
- Danis TanovićDanis TanovicDanis Tanović is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.Tanović is best known for having directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man's Land which won an Academy Award. He was a member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Biography:Danis Tanović was born in the...
– film director, Oscar winner - Emir KusturicaEmir KusturicaEmir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
– film director - Karl MaldenKarl MaldenKarl Malden was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he performed in such classic films as A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks...
– Born Mladen Đorđe Sekulović, film actor, Oscar winner, and the former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...
. His family originates from BilećaBilecaBileća is a town and municipality in the southeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the entity of Republika Srpska. It is in eastern Herzegovina near the border with Montenegro, north of Trebinje and south of Gacko...
. - Ivana MiličevićIvana Milicevic-Early life:Miličević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Croatian family, the daughter of Tonka, a homemaker, and Damir Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Michigan...
– actress, appearances in SeinfeldSeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
, Felicity, among others - Jasmin DizdarJasmin DizdarJasmin Dizdar is a Bosnian-British screenwriter, film director and author on cinema. He is known for his film Beautiful People which won an award for the best film in Un Certain Regard category at the Cannes Film Festival.- Biography :As a child Jasmin Dizdar was an award winning short story writer...
– film director - Nenad DizdarevićNenad DizdarevicNenad Dizdarević is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and teacher of cinema from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His most notable film, Magarece godine , was the Bosnian submission to the Academy Awards in 1995...
– film director - Tarik FilipovićTarik FilipovicTarik Filipović is a Bosnian actor who lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.Tarik Filipović has appeared in over 800 theatre plays with his debut being in 1985....
– actor - Vehid GunićVehid GunicVehid Gunić Vehid Gunić Vehid Gunić (born on 9 February 1941 in Kozarac. He worked for many years as a journalist, presenter and editor for Radio Television Sarajevo, later Radio Television Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has so far published some twenty books of historical studies, travel...
– TV presenter - Duško TrifunovićDuško TrifunovicDuško Trifunović was a Serbian poet and writer....
– writer, author - Srđan Vuletić – filmmaker
- Pjer ŽalicaPjer ŽalicaPjer Žalica is a Bosnian film director.He has directed several short films as well as two feature films, Gori vatra , and Kod amidže Idriza , which have been nominated for and awarded several prizes at European film festivals.On May 18 he was the director of the new video of Dino Merlin and Hari...
– film director - Jasmila ŽbanićJasmila ŽbanicJasmila Žbanić is a film director from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, department for theater and film directing. She also worked as a puppeteer in the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater and as a clown in a Lee De Long workshop. She is noted for the...
– film director, the 2006 Golden Bear winner - Ajla HodzicAjla Hodzic-Biography :Hodžić appeared in a variety of film and television projects in her home country. Currently working and residing in Los Angeles, she is a graduate of Wellesly College...
- actor
Pop, rock and alternative music
- Fuad Backović – a.k.a Deen (singer)Deen (singer)Deen is a popular singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. His stage name is Deen.-Music career:...
, former leader of the boyband Seven Up, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest - Željko BebekŽeljko BebekŽelimir "Željko" Bebek is a popular Bosnian Croat singer most notable for being the lead vocalist of Bijelo dugme from 1974 to 1984....
– musician and singer - Nikša BratošNikša BratošNikša Bratoš is a Bosnian musician who gained fame in former Yugoslavia. He is known for having played in bands Valentino and Crvena jabuka. He has worked on songs for a variety of Croatian pop artists.-Biography:...
– composer, producer, one-time member of Rezonansa and Valentino, member of Crvena jabukaCrvena jabukaCrvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory.... - Goran BregovićGoran BregovicGoran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
– musician and composer, founder of Bijelo dugmeBijelo dugmeBijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock... - Aljoša BuhaAljoša BuhaAljoša Buha was a Bosnian musician best known for having played in two bands: Kongress, and Crvena jabuka.In 1979 Buha formed Kongres as bassist/lead singer. He stayed with them until about 1983 when he took a break.Aljoša Buha was recruited in Crvena Jabuka in 1986 as bass player...
– member of the original line-up of Crvena jabukaCrvena jabukaCrvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory....
, killed in a car accident - Alma Čardžić – pop singer
- Zdravko ČolićZdravko ColicZdravko Čolić , is a pop singer popular across the entire area of former Yugoslavia. Originally from Sarajevo, since 1992 , his home is in Belgrade, Serbia...
– pop singer - Dado DžihanDado DžihanJadranko "Dado" Džihan is a composer, music producer and sound master from Bosnia and Herzegovina. A member of New Primitives, Top lista nadrealista an art movement of Sarajevo of the early 1980s. From 1991, based in London...
– composer, producer, one-time member of Zabranjeno pušenjeZabranjeno pušenjeZabranjeno Pušenje is a Yugoslavian garage rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista Nadrealista...
and Top lista nadrealistaTop lista nadrealistaTop lista nadrealista also known as Nadrealisti was a comedy radio broadcast on Radio Sarajevo during early 1980s and later a sketch comedy and variety show on TV Sarajevo in three separate installments from 1984 until 1991.'Top lista nadrealista' started as a segment on Boro Kontić's programme... - Edin Dervišhalidović a.k.a. Dino MerlinDino MerlinEdin Dervišhalidović , stage name Dino Merlin, , is a prominent Bosnian singer-songwriter and musician. He is a popular singer/songwriter in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is also popular in the other countries of the former Yugoslavia such as Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia and...
– pop singer and songwriter, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest - Amila GlamočakAmila GlamocakAmila Glamočak is a popular Bosnian singer. She participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 with "Za Našu Ljubav" for Bosnia & Herzegovina, finishing 21st out of 23. She appeared in the Bosnian national final on two other occasions but failed to qualify.- External links :*...
– pop singer, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest - Alen IslamovićAlen IslamovicAlen Islamović is a well-known and popular Bosnian singer in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other former Yugoslav republics...
– musician, one-time frontman of Divlje jagodeDivlje jagodeDivlje Jagode is a Yugoslav and Bosnian hard rock and heavy metal band.-1970s:Divlje Jagode were formed in 1977 in Bihać by guitarist Zele Lipovača...
i Bijelo dugmeBijelo dugmeBijelo dugme was a highly influential former Yugoslav rock band, based in Sarajevo. Active between 1974 and 1989, it is widely considered to have been the most popular band ever to exist in former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav rock... - Nenad Janković – musician, original frontman of Zabranjeno pušenjeZabranjeno pušenjeZabranjeno Pušenje is a Yugoslavian garage rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista Nadrealista...
, original member of the Top lista nadrealistaTop lista nadrealistaTop lista nadrealista also known as Nadrealisti was a comedy radio broadcast on Radio Sarajevo during early 1980s and later a sketch comedy and variety show on TV Sarajevo in three separate installments from 1984 until 1991.'Top lista nadrealista' started as a segment on Boro Kontić's programme...
line-up - Kornelije KovačKornelije KovacKornelije "Bata" Kovač is a famous Serbian composer. He is a father of Aleksandra Kovač and Kristina Kovač, both successful Serbian singers.-Early life:...
– composer, musician, member of the original line-up of IndexiIndexiIndexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died...
, founder of Korni grupaKorni GrupaKorni Grupa was a former Yugoslav rock band from Belgrade. Korni Grupa was one of the first former Yugoslav rock bands to achieve major mainstream popularity. The band's first releases were commercial pop-oriented songs. Korni Grupa later turned towards progressive rock, continuing, however, to... - Brano LikićBrano LikicBrano Likić is a composer, producer, and performer.He founded the band Rezonansa. Likić's studio, BLAP, was where most of the music from Sarajevo in the 1980s and 1990s was recorded.-External links:* *...
– composer and founder of Rezonansa - Saša LošićSaša LošicSaša Lošić - Loša is one of the most recognizable composers of the Balkans and the leader of the band Plavi Orkestar, which was one of the most popular acts of the former Yugoslav Pop and Rock scene.He is a composer of often folk-inspired pop, as well as theatre scores Saša Lošić - Loša (born July...
– singer, composer and founder of the Plavi orkestarPlavi orkestarPlavi orkestar is one of the most popular bands from former Yugoslavia. The band was founded in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1983.The band has remained popular to the present day with 8 albums and more than 3500 concerts worldwide...
band - Kemal MontenoKemal MontenoKemal Monteno is a popular Bosnian singer-songwriter. He was born to an Italian father and a Bosniak mother. He recorded his first song Lidija in 1967 and has enjoyed a prosperous career in the former Yugoslavia...
– singer, musician, and songwriter - Boris NovkovićBoris NovkovicBoris Novković is a Croatian pop singer. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in the former Yugoslavia, his interest in a musical career was cultivated by his family background, with a mother who taught music, and a father, Đorđe Novković, who was a leading Croatian songwriter and music manager...
– singer and songwriter - Edin Osmić a.k.a. Edo MaajkaEdo MaajkaEdin Osmić , better known by his stage name Edo Maajka, is a Bosnian rapper. His stage name literally means "Edo the Mother".-Early life:...
– rapper, leader of rap group Disciplinska komisijaDisciplinska komisijaDisciplinska Komisija is a Bosnian rap group and its most prominent member is Edo Maajka; The other members are Frenkie, HZA and Moonja and their DJ/producer DJ Soul. The group has been called the Bosnian and Herzegovina hip hop supercrew or Tuzla hip hop crew.- Formation :Disciplinska Komisija... - Vesna PisarovićVesna PisarovicVesna Pisarović is a Croatian pop singer.Pisarović was born in Brčko, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Yugoslavia and grew up in Požega, Croatia, a part of the same country until she was 13...
– pop singer - Davorin PopovićDavorin PopovicDavorin Popović was a Bosnian musician, well known throughout the former Yugoslavia. He was the lead singer and frontman of the progressive and pop rock band Indexi throughout most of their career. He was a popularly associated with a bohemian lifestyle. In his youth, he was a successful...
a.k.a. Pimpek – singer and frontman of IndexiIndexiIndexi was a Bosnian rock band popular in the former Yugoslavia. It formed in 1962 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and disbanded in 2001 when singer Davorin Popović died... - Dražen RičlDražen RiclDražen Ričl was a Yugoslav rock musician, best known as the first lead vocalist of the extremely popular Sarajevo based rock band Crvena jabuka.Ričl was born and raised in the Koševo neighborhood of Sarajevo, where he was best known by the nicknames Para...
a.k.a Zijo – original frontman of Crvena JabukaCrvena jabukaCrvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory....
, killed in a car accident - Sejo SexonSejo SexonSejo Sexon is the stage name of Davor Sučić, Bosnian Croat rock and roll musician, composer, actor and television director....
, real name Davor Sučić – founder of Zabranjeno pušenjeZabranjeno pušenjeZabranjeno Pušenje is a Yugoslavian garage rock band from Sarajevo, closely associated with the New primitivism cultural movement and the radio and television satire show Top Lista Nadrealista...
and current frontman of the Zagreb-based post-war line-up - Jadranka StojakovićJadranka StojakovicJadranka Stojaković is a Bosnian singer-songwriter popular in the former Yugoslavia, known for her unique, beautiful voice...
– pop singer - Hajrudin Varešanović – a.k.a Hari Mata HariHari Mata HariHari Mata Hari is a popular music band from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5,000,000...
pop singer and songwriter, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest - Mladen Vojičić a.k.a. TifaTifa (musician)Mladen Vojičić, widely known by the nickname/stagename Tifa is a Bosnian rock vocalist...
– singer and musician - Igor VukojevićIgor VukojevicIgor Vukojević is a Bosnian Serb singer, musician and songwriter.He sings in the Ijekavski dialect of Bosnian....
– singer - Dražen ŽerićDražen ŽericDražen Žerić Žera is a Bosnian singer and one of the founders and the leading vocal of a famous Bosnian band, Crvena jabuka ....
a.k.a Žera – original member of Crvena jabukaCrvena jabukaCrvena jabuka is a Sarajevo-based pop band that originated in 1985, and since then has remained very popular. They were also a part of the so called New Primitives movement that occurred in the 1980s in the Former Yugoslavia territory....
and its current frontman - Sead LipovačaSead LipovacaZele Lipovača , is the lead guitarist and founder of the popular former Yugoslav hard rock band Divlje Jagode....
a.k.a. ZELE -original member of Divlje JagodeDivlje jagodeDivlje Jagode is a Yugoslav and Bosnian hard rock and heavy metal band.-1970s:Divlje Jagode were formed in 1977 in Bihać by guitarist Zele Lipovača...
Heavy Metal band from Bosnia and ex Yugoslavia.
Ethno and folk music
- Selma BajramiSelma BajramiSelma Bajrami is a popular Bosnian pop-folk singer who gained enormous popularity after her hit single "Kakvo tijelo Selma ima" ....
– folk singer - Zilha Bajraktarević a.k.a. Silvana ArmenulićSilvana ArmenulicSilvana Armenulić was one of the most prominent commercial folk music and traditional sevdalinka singers in former Yugoslavia...
– folk and sevdalinkaSevdalinkaSevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sevdalinka is popular across the ex-Yugoslavia region, especially in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The actual composers of many sevdalinkas are unknown....
singer - Halid BešlićHalid BešlićHalid Bešlić is a prominent Bosnian folk and sevdah musician and singer who has been performing since 1979. Halid's singing career was one of the most successful in Ex Yugoslavia, and continues today throughout the entire Balkan region....
– folk singer - Haris DžinovićHaris DžinovicHaris Džinović is a popular Bosnian folk singer. He is also a composer, a musician and songwriter for his songs.-Career:He began his music career in 1975 in his hometown Sarajevo, as a singer and composer of folk music when pop and evergreen music were more dominant in the Balkans area, so he...
– folk singer - Nihad Fetić aka HakalaHakalaNihad Fetić Hakala is a popular Bosnian singer.-Discography:*Skitnica velegradskih ulica *Ja sam te volio *Kako mi je tako mi je *I da krenem iz početka ...
– folk singer - Osman HadžićOsman Hadžic-Early life:Osman Hadžić was born in Cazin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia, to Bosniak parents. He was the first-born child of seven.-Music:...
– folk singer - Zaim ImamovićZaim Imamovic (musician)Zaim Imamović was a popular sevdalinka performer....
– sevdalinkaSevdalinkaSevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sevdalinka is popular across the ex-Yugoslavia region, especially in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The actual composers of many sevdalinkas are unknown....
singer - Safet IsovićSafet IsovicSafet Isović was a prominent and popular sevdah performer from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Throughout his career, which started in 1956, Isović performed at music festivals and won many of them which has contributed to the prevalence and popularity of the sevdalinka...
– sevdalinkaSevdalinkaSevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sevdalinka is popular across the ex-Yugoslavia region, especially in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The actual composers of many sevdalinkas are unknown....
singer - Fahreta Jahić a.k.a. Lepa BrenaLepa BrenaFahreta Jahić Živojinović is Yugoslavian pop-folk singer, better known as Lepa Brena , . Born in Tuzla and raised in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina , she moved to Novi Sad in 1980 to pursue her career in singing. In 1982...
– folk singer - Šerif KonjevićŠerif KonjevicŠerif Konjević is a Bosnian folk singer. Konjević was born to Bosniak parents in Sanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He is part of the "new wave" of Bosnian folk singers.-Discography:*Vrati se pod stari krov *Bijela vjenčanica...
– folk singer - Nada MamulaNada MamulaNada Mamula was a Serbian singer, born during the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.. She started her career on Radio Beograd, where she passed an audition in 1946 . In 1946 she delivered her first ever professional performances as Nada Vukicevic along with Danica Obrenic and accordionist Voja...
– sevdalinkaSevdalinkaSevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sevdalinka is popular across the ex-Yugoslavia region, especially in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The actual composers of many sevdalinkas are unknown....
singer - Saša MatićSaša MaticAleksandar "Saša" Matić is a Bosnian Serb folk singer, very popular in former Yugoslavia. He has a twin brother, Dejan Matić, who is also a popular singer. Both of them were born completely blind.-Biography:He and his brother were born on April 26, 1978 in Drvar, SR Bosnia to father Zoran and...
– folk singer - Himzo PolovinaHimzo PolovinaDr. Himzo Polovina was a Bosnian singer and songwriter, most famous for performing sevdalinka songs. In addition, Dr...
– sevdalinkaSevdalinkaSevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sevdalinka is popular across the ex-Yugoslavia region, especially in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The actual composers of many sevdalinkas are unknown....
singer - Beba SelimovićBeba SelimovicBeba Selimović in Trebinje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She is best known as a singer of Bosnian sevdalinka songs and has over 300 to her name. She was one of the speakers at the memorial service for Safet Isović on September 3, 2007....
– sevdalinkaSevdalinkaSevdalinka is a traditional genre of folk music from Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sevdalinka is popular across the ex-Yugoslavia region, especially in Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The actual composers of many sevdalinkas are unknown....
singer - Miloš BojanićMiloš BojanicMiloš Bojanić is a Bosnian Serb pop-folk singer. Milos was born in Bijeljina, He lived in Ruhotina, near Bijeljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then a part of Yugoslavia. His sons, Bane and Mikica, are singers as well, Bane lives in Chicago...
– turbofolk singer - Mile KitićMile KiticMilojko "Mile" Kitić is a popular Bosnian turbo-folk singer.He was popular in most parts of the former Yugoslavia. He is married to the Serbian singer Marta Savić.-Biography:...
– turbofolk singer - Seka AleksićSeka AleksicSvetlana "Seka" Aleksić is a Bosnian pop-folk and techno folk singer.-Biography:...
– popfolk singer
Bogutović Family
- 14th Century Vojvoda BogutVojvoda BogutVojvoda Bogut was a 14th-century Serbian military commander of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan "The Mighty" of the Serbian Empire ....
– First known ancestor of the House of Petrović-NjegošHouse of Petrovic-NjegošThe House of Petrović-Njegoš was the Royal House of Montenegro from 1696 to 1918. Montenegro had enjoyed de facto independence from the Ottoman Empire from 1711 but only received formal international recognition as an independent principality in 1878.Montenegro was ruled from inception by...
, royal Family of Montenegro, ruler of Jablan Grad, near present day UgljevikUgljevikUgljevik is a municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The municipality located in the eastern foothills of Mount Majevica, in picturesque countryside, where wondrous and beautiful mountain starts descending towards the flatlands of Semberija, to which it is tied more than any other...
, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 14th Century Đurađ BogutovićĐurađ BogutovićĐurađ Bogutović was a 14th-century Serbian nobleman. He was the grand-father to Herak Heraković, the founding father of the Petrović-Njegoš and Heraković-Popović families of the Njeguši tribe....
– the son of Vojvoda Bogut and the 14th Century nobleman, grandfather of Herak Heraković, the founding father of the Petrović-Njegoš and Heraković-Popović families of the NjegušiNjegušiNjeguši is a village in southern Montenegro, within Cetinje municipality. It is located on the slopes of Mount Lovćen, within Lovćen national park....
tribe
Kulinić Dynasty
- 1172–1204 Ban KulinBan KulinBan Kulin was a notable Ban of Bosnia who ruled from 1180 to 1204 first as a vassal of the Byzantine Empire and then of the Kingdom of Hungary. He was brought to the power by Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus. He had a son, Stjepan Kulinić who succeeded him as Bosnian Ban...
- 1204–1232 Stjepan KulinićStjepan KulinicStephen Kulinić , son of Bosnia's Ban Kulin, was a Bosnian Ban in 1204–1232. He was a faithful Catholic and thus a supporter of the Hungarian Crown, but not very popular in Bosnia - as he turned away from his father's policies and prosecuted the Bogumils...
- 1232–1253 Matej NinoslavMatej NinoslavMatej Ninoslav , son of Radivoj, was a Bosnian Ban . Most of Bosnia was under the Kingdom of Hungary from 1235 to 1241. Ninoslav was also a Prince of Split in 1242–1244 during the local civil war. Ninoslav established control of most of Bosnia after the Hungarian withdrawal...
Kotromanić Dynasty
Kings:- 1254–1287 Prijezda IPrijezda IPrijezda I was a Bosnian Ban as a vassal of the Hungarian Kingdom reigning 1250–1287. He was probably the founder of the House of Kotromanić.- From Christianity to Heresy and backwards :...
- 1287–1290 Prijezda IIPrijezda IIPrijezda II was a Bosnian Ban in 1287–1290 alone, but later together with his brother Stephen I Kotroman as a vassal of the Hungarian Kingdom. He was one of the sons of Ban Prijezda I. After his father's withdrawal from power in 1287, he split Bosnia with his brother taking control over western...
- 1267–1313 Stjepan I Kotromanić, also known as Kotroman
- 1314–1353 Stjepan II Kotromanić
- 1353–1366 & 1367–1391 Tvrtko I of BosniaTvrtko I of BosniaStjepan Tvrtko I was a ruler of medieval Bosnia. He ruled in 1353–1366 and again in 1367–1377 as Ban and in 1377–1391 as the first Bosnian King....
- 1366–1367 Stjepan Vuk
- 1391–1395 Stephen Dabiša of Bosnia
- 1398–1404 & 1409–1418 Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia
- 1404–1409 & 1421–1433 & 1435–1442 Tvrtko II of BosniaTvrtko II of BosniaStephen Tvrtko II reigned as King of Bosnia from 1404 to 1409 and again from 1421 to his death. His reigns took place during a very turbulent part of Bosnian history.-Family connections:...
- 1433–1435 Radivoj Ostojić
- 1443–1461 Stephen Thomas of Bosnia
- 1461–1463 Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia
Queens:
- Dorothea of BulgariaDorothea of BulgariaDorothea of Bulgaria was the first Queen of Bosnia.-Early life:She was the daughter of Emperor Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria and his wife Anna of Wallachia....
- Jelena GrubaJelena GrubaHelen Gruba was the Queen regnant of Bosnia from 1395 to 1398. She was the only female ruler of Bosnia.Helen came from the noble House of Nikolić, which ruled a part of Zachlumia.-Queen consort:...
- VitačaVitačaVitača was Queen consort of Bosnia as the first wife of King Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia.Vitača married Ostoja, the illegitimate son of King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, before his accession to the throne of Bosnia. Ostoja was a member of the Bosnian Church and Vitača was most likely a member of that church as...
- Kujava
- Jelena NelipčićJelena NelipčićJelena Nelipčić was Duchess of Split by her first marriage and Queen of Bosnia by her second marriage. By birth, she was a member of the Croatian Nelipić noble family, having estates in Dalmatian Zagora....
- Dorothy GaraiDorothy GaraiDorothy Garai was Queen consort of Bosnia as spouse of King Tvrtko II of Bosnia.-Family and engagement:She was the daughter of powerful Hungarian nobleman, John Garai, who governed Croatia as ban, and a descendant of a notable Hungarian noble family of Garai. Dorothea's grandfather was Palatine...
- Katarina Kosača
- Mary of SerbiaMary of Serbia, Queen of BosniaHelena of Serbia, later known as Maria was the last Queen of Bosnia and Despoina of Serbia.-Background:...
Kosača Family
- Sandalj Hranić, Sandalj Hranić Kosača, 1370–1435, medieval nobleman from the House of Kosača.
- Stjepan Vukčić KosačaStjepan Vukcic KosacaStjepan Vukčić Kosača was a Herzegovina nobleman. He was a member of the House of Kosača, a Grand Duke of Herzegovina, Lord of Zahumlje and Primorje and also Herzog of Serbian Saint Sava...
a.k.a. Duke of Saint SavaSaint SavaSaint Sava was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law and literature, and a diplomat. Sava was born Rastko Nemanjić , the youngest son of Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja , and ruled the appanage of Hum briefly in...
, Herceg Stjepan Kosača, Vojvoda of Hum (Herzegovina) – father of Bosnian Queen, Katarina Kosača Kotromanić - Vlatko VukovićVlatko VukovicVlatko Vuković Kosača was a medieval nobleman who ruled as Grand Duke of Hum.He was a son of Vuk Kosača, the founder of the medieval house of Kosača. He governed the province of Hum, which was part of the Banate of Bosnia. The Ottoman threat was building to the east, threatening neighboring...
, Vlatko Vuković Kosača, died 1392, medieval nobleman from the House of Kosača
Ottoman rule 1463–1878
- Gazi Husrev-begGazi Husrev-begGazi Husrev-beg was a Bosniak bey in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 16th century...
– militaryMilitaryA military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...
strategistStrategyStrategy, a word of military origin, refers to a plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. In military usage strategy is distinct from tactics, which are concerned with the conduct of an engagement, while strategy is concerned with how different engagements are linked...
and the greatest donor and builder of SarajevoSarajevoSarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans.... - Husein GradaščevićHusein GradašcevicHusein-kapetan Gradaščević was a Bosnian Muslim general who fought for Bosnian autonomy in the Ottoman Empire. He is often referred to as "Zmaj od Bosne", meaning "Dragon of Bosnia"...
a.k.a. Husein-kapetan, The Dragon of Bosnia – XIX century Bosnian nobleman and autonomy fighter - Isa-Beg IsakovićIsa-Beg IsakovicIsa-Beg Ishaković, or Isa-Beg Isaković, was an Ottoman general and the first governor of the Ottoman Province of Bosnia. He ruled during the 1450s and 1460s. He made much of the initial conquests for the Turkish Empire in the region, and was one of the then Sultan's most trusted generals. He was...
– general, first governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia, and founder of the cities of SarajevoSarajevoSarajevo |Bosnia]], surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of Southeastern Europe and the Balkans....
and Novi PazarNovi PazarNovi Pazar is a city and municipality located in southwest Serbia, in the Raška District. According to the official census in 2011, number of inhabitants of municipality is 92,776, while the city itself has a population of 60,638... - Ivan Frano JukićIvan Frano JukicIvan Franjo Jukić was a writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina whose life and cultural and political legacy have left an indelible mark on the cultural history of the country, where he is remembered as one of the founders of Bosnian modernism.-Biography:Ivan Jukić was born in Banja Luka to the family...
- Ferhat-paša SokolovićFerhat-paša SokolovicFerhat-pasha Sokolović was an Ottoman general and statesman from Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Biography:Ferhat-pasha was born into the famous Bosnian family, which among others, also gave the Ottoman Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolović. Ferhat Pasha was governor of the sanjak of Klis between 1566 and...
– founder and designer of Banja Luka old town - Mehmed Pasha Sokolović a.k.a. Sokollu Mehmet Paşa – Grand Vizier to Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II
- Damat İbrahim PashaDamat Ibrahim PashaDamad Ibrahim Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier three times Damad Ibrahim Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier three times Damad Ibrahim Pasha was an Ottoman statesman who held the office of Grand Vizier three times (the first time from...
– Grand Vizier - Tiryaki Hasan PashaTiryaki Hasan PashaTiryaki Hasan Pasha ; Hasan-paša Tiro ; also called Alacaatlı Hasan Pasha , was a commander of the Ottoman army during the early 17th century. He trained in the Enderun school and was probably a devshirme...
a.k.a. Hasan pasa Tiro – Bosnian national hero
Austro-Hungarian occupation 1878–1918
- Gavrilo PrincipGavrilo PrincipGavrilo Princip was the Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914...
– member of black handBlack HandUnification or Death , unofficially known as the Black Hand , was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on September 6, 1901. It was intent on uniting all of the territories containing significant Serb populations annexed by...
, Serb, and assassin of Archduke Franz FerdinandArchduke Franz Ferdinand of AustriaFranz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia...
, the assassinationAssassinationTo carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...
triggered World War I
Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918–1941
- Džemaludin ČauševićDžemaludin CauševicMehmed Džemaludin ef. Čaušević was a Bosniak reformer and imam.- Early life :Džemaludin Čaušević was born in the year 1870 in the northwestern Bosnian village Arapuša, 12km near town of Bosanska Krupa. His earliest education was obtained at the hands of his father, Ali Hodža Čaušević, who was a...
– Reis-ul-ulema - David ElazarDavid ElazarDavid "Dado" Elazar was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.-Early life:...
- Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces - Mehmed SpahoMehmed SpahoMehmed Spaho was a prominent and influential Bosniak political figure. He was the leader of the Yugoslav Muslim Organization....
– leader of the Yugoslav Muslim Organisation
World War II
- Peter TomichPeter TomichPetar Herceg 'Tonić was a United States Navy sailor who received the United States military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
– World War II hero - Rodoljub ČolakovićRodoljub ColakovicRodoljub Čolaković was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav politician.A native of Bijeljina, Rodoljub Čolaković joined Socialist Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1919 as a student. Later he joined Crvena pravda, left-wing terrorist organisation in assassination of Yugoslav interior minister Milorad...
– World War II war hero, People's Hero of YugoslaviaPeople's Hero of YugoslaviaThe Order of the People's Hero was a Yugoslav gallantry medal, the second highest military award, and third overall Yugoslav decoration. It was awarded to individuals, military units, political and other organisations who distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroic deeds during war and in...
Presidents of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
1943–1990
- Kecmanović, Vojislav Đedo – (25 November 1943 – November 1946)
- Pucar, Đuro StariĐuro PucarĐurađ "Đuro" Pucar "Stari" was a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb politician. During World War II he was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans and was later decorated with the Order of the People's Hero and twice with the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour...
– (November 1946 – September 1948) - Šegrt, Vlado – (September 1948 – March 1953)
- Pucar, Đuro StariĐuro PucarĐurađ "Đuro" Pucar "Stari" was a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb politician. During World War II he was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans and was later decorated with the Order of the People's Hero and twice with the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour...
– (December 1953 – June 1963) - Dugonjić, Rato – (June 1963 – 1967)
- Bijedić, DžemalDžemal BijedicDžemal Bijedić was a Bosniak Communist politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the prime minister of Yugoslavia from 1971 until his death.- Early life :...
– (1967–1971) - Pozderac, HamdijaHamdija PozderacHamdija Pozderac was a Bosniak communist politician and the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1971- 74. He was a vice president of the former Yugoslavia in late 1980s, and was in line to become the president of Yugoslavia just before he was forced to resign from politics in 1987...
– (1971 – May 1974) - Dugonjić, Rato – (May 1974 – April 1978)
- Dizdarević, RaifRaif DizdarevicRaif Dizdarević is a former Bosniak politician. Dizdarević was born in Fojnica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. During World War II he participated in the armed resistance in the Partisans....
– (April 1978 – April 1982) - Mikulić, BrankoBranko MikulicBranko Mikulić was a communist politician and statesman in the Yugoslavia. Mikulić was one of the leading communist politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the communist rule in the former Yugoslavia.-Biography:...
– (April 1982 – 26 April 1984) - Renovica, MilankoMilanko RenovicaMilanko Renovica was a Yugoslav politician. He was the president of the Yugoslav League of Communists and served as president of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is an ethnic Serb.-References:...
– (26 April 1984 – 26 April 1985.) - Mesihović, Munir – (26 April 1985 – April 1987)
- Andrić, Mato – (April 1988 – April 1989)
- Filipović, Nikola – (April 1988 – April 1989)
- Piljak, ObradObrad PiljakObrad Piljak is a Bosnian politician and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April 1989 to December 1990. He was the last nominated member of the Communist party of Bosnia and Herzegovina to serve as Presidency chairman, before the first multi-party elections were...
– (April 1989 – December 1990)
Prime ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1945–1990
- Čolaković, RodoljubRodoljub ColakovicRodoljub Čolaković was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav politician.A native of Bijeljina, Rodoljub Čolaković joined Socialist Party of Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1919 as a student. Later he joined Crvena pravda, left-wing terrorist organisation in assassination of Yugoslav interior minister Milorad...
– (27 April 1945 – September 1948) - Pucar, Đuro StariĐuro PucarĐurađ "Đuro" Pucar "Stari" was a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb politician. During World War II he was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans and was later decorated with the Order of the People's Hero and twice with the Order of the Hero of Socialist Labour...
– (September 1948 – December 1953) - Humo, AvdoAvdo HumoAvdo Humo was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician, writer and a Order of the People's Hero recipient....
– (December 1953 – 1956) - Karabegović, OsmanOsman KarabegovićOsman Karabegović was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician and a Order of the People's Hero recipient...
– (1956–1963) - Brkić, HasanHasan BrkićHasan Brkić was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician. He was also recipient of People's Hero of Yugoslavia. From 1963 to 1965, he was President of the Executive Council of Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
– (1963–1965) - Kolak, RudiRudi KolakRudi Kolak was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician.-Biography:Kolak was born in Gornji Ribnik near Ključ in Bosnia. He studied at University of Belgrade'd Law School until 1940. Kolak joined Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1941 thus becoming Yugoslav Partisan...
– (1965–1967) - Mikulić, BrankoBranko MikulicBranko Mikulić was a communist politician and statesman in the Yugoslavia. Mikulić was one of the leading communist politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the communist rule in the former Yugoslavia.-Biography:...
– (1967–1969) - Kosovac, Dragutin – (1969 – April 1974)
- Renovica, MilankoMilanko RenovicaMilanko Renovica was a Yugoslav politician. He was the president of the Yugoslav League of Communists and served as president of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is an ethnic Serb.-References:...
– (April 1974 – 28 April 1982) - Maglajlija, Seid – (28 April 1982 – 28 April 1984)
- Ubiparip, Gojko – (28 April 1984 – April 1986)
- Lovrenović, Josip – (April 1986 – April 1988)
Bosnian presidents since 1990
- Alija IzetbegovićAlija IzetbegovicAlija Izetbegović was a Bosniak activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who, in 1990, became the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000...
– (December 1990 – October 1996) (sole) - Alija IzetbegovićAlija IzetbegovicAlija Izetbegović was a Bosniak activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who, in 1990, became the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000...
(October 1996 – October 1998) (collective presidency chairman) - Živko RadišićŽivko RadišicŽivko Radišić is a Bosnian Serb politician and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
– (October 1998 – June 1999) - Ante JelavićAnte JelavicAnte Jelavić is a Croat politician and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Jelavić was born in 1963 in Podprolog, Vrgorac, Croatia, then Yugoslavia, and was elected to the post as a candidate of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Ante Jelavić served as...
– (June 1999 – February 2000) - Alija IzetbegovićAlija IzetbegovicAlija Izetbegović was a Bosniak activist, lawyer, author, philosopher and politician, who, in 1990, became the first president of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served in this role until 1996, when he became a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving until 2000...
– (February 2000 – October 2000) - Živko RadišićŽivko RadišicŽivko Radišić is a Bosnian Serb politician and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
– (October 2000 – June 2001) - Jozo KrižanovićJozo KrižanovićJozo Križanović was a Croat politician of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Križanović died from complications following surgery in Zagreb on December 2, 2009.-Career:...
– (June 2001 – February 2002) - Beriz BelkićBeriz BelkicBeriz Belkić is former Member and Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2001.Belkić graduated from the faculty of economics with the University of Sarajevo, in his hometown...
– (February 2002 – October 2002) - Mirko ŠarovićMirko ŠarovicMirko Šarović is a Bosnian Serb politician, former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
– (October 2002 – April 2003) - Borislav ParavacBorislav ParavacBorislav Paravac is a Bosnian Serb politician and was a member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 11, 2003 to November 6, 2006....
– (April 2003 – June 2003) - Dragan ČovićDragan CovicDragan Čović is a Croat politician from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Čović is the leader of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently Čović is under indictment from the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina for misuse of office.-Career:Čović worked for the airplane...
– (June 2003 – February 2004) - Sulejman TihićSulejman TihicSulejman Tihić is a Bosniak politician, a leading member of Party of Democratic Action .Tihić was born in the town of Bosanski Šamac in northern Bosnia. He obtained a degree in Law from the University of Sarajevo...
– (February 2004 – October 2004) - Borislav ParavacBorislav ParavacBorislav Paravac is a Bosnian Serb politician and was a member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 11, 2003 to November 6, 2006....
– (October 2004 – June 2005) - Ivo Miro JovićIvo Miro JovicIvo Miro Jović is the former Bosnian Croat member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, elected in the Parliament on May 9, 2005 following the sacking of Dragan Čović by the High Representative on charges of corruption...
– (June 2005 – October 2006) - Nebojša RadmanovićNebojša RadmanovicNebojša Radmanović is a Bosnian Serb politician. He finished his schooling in Banja Luka, before going on to study at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy...
– (part of collective presidency) - Željko KomšićŽeljko KomšicŽeljko Komšić is a Bosniaks politician from the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.On 1 October 2006, he was elected by Bosnikas as the representatives of Croat to a four-year term as the member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-Early life and the war in Bosnia:Komšić has a law degree...
– (part of collective presidency)(collective presidency chairman) - Haris SilajdžićHaris SilajdžicHaris Silajdžić is a Bosnian politician and academic. In the 2006 elections, Silajdžić was elected as the Bosniak member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina for four years in the rotating presidency.He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.- Political career:From 1990...
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Other political figures since 1943
- Vladimir DedijerVladimir DedijerVladimir Dedijer was a Yugoslav partisan fighter, politician and historian.During World War II he was an editor of the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper Borba, and member of the agitprop section to the General Staff.After the war he was a member of Yugoslav delegation on 1946 Paris peace...
– a Partisan fighter, politician, and historian - Jovan DivjakJovan DivjakJovan Divjak was a Bosnian general in the Bosnian army during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War. He was the deputy commander of the Main Staff until 1994. Although he was born to Serbian parents, he is a self-declared Bosnian.-Early life and military career:He was born in Belgrade to Serbian parents...
– general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992–1995 war, poet - Zoran Đinđić – prime minister of the Republic of Serbia, Mayor of Belgrade, and the philosopher
- Mladen IvanićMladen IvanicMladen Ivanić is a Bosnian Serb politician. From 2001 to 2003, Ivanić was Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, and his leadership is described by many as rather successful...
– politician and diplomat - Zlatko LagumdžijaZlatko LagumdžijaDr. Zlatko Lagumdžija is a Bosnian politician and academic. He is known for his leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
– politician and diplomat - Irfan LjubijankićIrfan LjubijankicDr. Irfan Ljubijankić was a Bosnian facial surgeon, classical music composer, politician and diplomat. He was a good friend of Yusef Islam ....
– surgeon, composer, politician and diplomat - Cvijetin MijatovićCvijetin MijatovicCvijetin Mijatović was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1980 until 1981.In 1933, he became a member of KPJ...
a.k.a. Majo – politician and one-time President of the Collective Presidency of the SFR Yugoslavia - Stjepan ŠiberStjepan ŠiberStjepan Šiber was a war time general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After finishing high school in Gradacac, he went to Ljubljana where he finished schooling at the military academy. Afterward, he became an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. By 1992, he had become a...
– Deputy Commander of the B&H Army during the 1992–1995 conflict - Boris TadićBoris TadicBoris Tadić is the President of Serbia and leader of the Democratic Party. He was elected to a five-year term on 27 June 2004, and was sworn into office on 11 July. He was re-elected for a de facto second five-year term on 3 February 2008 and was sworn in on 15 February...
– President of the Republic of Serbia - Adnan TerzićAdnan TerzicAdnan Terzić was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 2002 until January 2007. Terzić is member of the SBB BiH - Union for Better Future of BiH. He is a member of the Bosniak community....
– politician, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Nikola ŠpirićNikola ŠpiricDr. Nikola Špirić born September 4, 1956 in Drvar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian Serb politician and is the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina elected on 4 January 2007....
– politician, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Basketball
- Edin BavčićEdin BavcicEdin Bavčić is a Bosnian professional basketball player. He was selected by the Toronto Raptors in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft, 56th overall...
– NBA basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ersPhiladelphia 76ersThe Philadelphia 76ers are a professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association . Originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA... - Dejan BodirogaDejan BodirogaDejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....
– Voted first on the list by the fans worldwide for the ULEB Euroleague Basketball 2001–2010 All-Decade Team. His family originates form the village of BodirogeBodirogeBodiroge is a village in the municipality of Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.-References:...
near TrebinjeTrebinjeTrebinje is the southernmost municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity and is located in southeastern Herzegovina, some from the Adriatic Sea.... - Dražen DalipagićDražen DalipagicDražen Dalipagić , born in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Yugoslavian basketball player. He was enshrined as a player in the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.-Yugoslavian national team:...
– basketball player, former Real Madrid player, Olympic medalist - Predrag DanilovićPredrag DanilovicPredrag "Saša" Danilović , usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilovic , is a retired professional basketball player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s...
– basketball coach and former basketball player - Damir Omerhodžić-MarkotaDamir MarkotaDamir Markota is a Croatian-Swedish professional basketball player at the forward position. He is 2.09 m tall and 118 kg in weight. His style of play has been compared to that of Vladimir Radmanović...
– NBA basketball player with the Milwaukee BucksMilwaukee BucksThe Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center.... - Mirza DelibašićMirza DelibašicMirza Delibašić was a Bosnian basketball player. He was born in Tuzla, located in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the former Yugoslavia.- Career :...
– basketball player, former Bosna and Real Madrid player, Olympic medalist - Razija MujanovićRazija MujanovicRazija Mujanović is a retired Bosnian basketball player. She started her career in Jedinstvo Aida, Tuzla, and continued in Italy, Spain, Brazil, USA, Croatia and Hungary...
– basketball player - Aleksandar NikolićAleksandar NikolicAleksandar "Aca" Nikolić was a renowned Bosnian Serb basketball player and coach from Yugoslavia. He is considered to be so instrumental and important to the game's development in the country that he is often referred to as the Father of Yugoslav basketball...
– "Father of Yugoslav Basketball" - Mile IlićMile IlicMile Ilić is a Serbian professional basketball player formerly of the New Jersey Nets of the NBA. Ilić, a 7 ft 1 in tall center, was drafted by the Nets in 2005 as the 43rd overall pick, and began his rookie season in 2006-07....
– basketball player - Zoran PlaninićZoran PlaninicZoran Planinić is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is currently a member of the Euroleague club BC Khimki...
– NBANational Basketball AssociationThe National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
basketball player - Vladimir RadmanovićVladimir RadmanovicVladimir Radmanović is a Serbian professional basketball player who last played for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association...
– NBANational Basketball AssociationThe National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
basketball player with the Los Angeles LakersLos Angeles LakersThe Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association... - Zoran SavićZoran SavicZoran Savić is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. The 208 cm forward played in various European nations.-Career:...
– basketball player - Nedžad SinanovićNedžad SinanovicNedžad Sinanović is a Bosnian professional basketball center who plays for Unicaja. He has played professionally in Belgium, Spain and Germany....
– basketball player - Robert RothbartRobert RothbartRobert Rothbart is a Bosnian-Israeli-Serbian professional basketball player playing the position of center for Union Olimpija.- Biography :Robert was born in Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time part of the former Yugoslavia...
– basketball player - Borislav StankovićBorislav StankovicBorislav "Bora" Stanković is a Serbian former basketball player and coach, as well as a longtime administrator in the sport's various governing bodies. For his contributions to the game of basketball he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991.Stanković was born in Bihać, Bosnia and...
– former basketball player - Bogdan TanjevićBogdan TanjevicBogdan Tanjević is an ex-Yugoslav, naturalized Italian, Bosnian, and Turkish basketball coach last managed Turkish national basketball team between 2004-10 and Fenerbahçe Ülker between 2007-10...
– basketball coach - Žarko VarajićŽarko VarajicŽarko Varajić is a retired Montenegrin basketball player that represented SFR Yugoslavia as a player, including at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal.In 1979, Varajić scored 45 points - the record in the number of points scored in the final matches of...
– basketball player, Olympic medalist - Marković, NenadNenad MarkovicNenad Marković is a famous former Bosnian professional basketball player and a basketball coach.-Playing career:...
– basketball player, former Bosnia national team player, National team coach - Adnan HodzicAdnan HodzicAdnan Hodzic is a Bosnian basketball player. A 6'8 power forward, Hodzic plays for Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee...
basketball player
Chess
- Predrag NikolićPredrag NikolicPredrag Nikolić is a Bosnian chess grandmaster.He first competed for the Yugoslav Championship in 1979, taking a share of second place. The following year and again in 1984, he went one step further and became the Yugoslav national champion...
– chess player, Grand Master since 1983 - Ivan SokolovIvan SokolovIvan Sokolov is a chess grandmaster born in Jajce, SFR Yugoslavia, who currently resides in the Netherlands. Sokolov won the 1988 Yugoslav Championship....
– chess player, Grand Master since 1987, now plays for the Netherlands
Football
- Sergej BarbarezSergej BarbarezSergej Barbarez is a former football attacking midfielder from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He played for Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga from 2006 to 2008. He finished his career after the season 2007–08...
– football player - Elvir BaljićElvir BaljicElvir Baljić is a retired Bosnian football player and current assistant manager in Bosnia-Herzegovina's national team.-Club career:...
– football player - Miroslav BlaževićMiroslav BlaževicMiroslav "Ćiro" Blažević is a Bosnian Croat football manager. He is the current head coach of Mes Kerman in Iran Pro League....
– football coach - Elvir BolićElvir BolicElvir Bolić is a former Bosnian football forward. He is the all-time leading scorer for the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team....
– football player - Asim FerhatovićAsim FerhatovicAsim "Hase" Ferhatović was a Bosnian footballer. He started his professional football career in 1948 for FK Sarajevo...
– former football player - Vahid HalilhodžićVahid HalilhodžicVahid "Vaha" Halilhodžić is a former Bosnian football player and now a manager, currently managing the Algeria national football team....
– football coach and former footballer - Josip KatalinskiJosip KatalinskiJosip "Škija" Katalinski was a Bosnian football player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest football players from the former Yugoslavia.-Club career:...
– former football player - Savo MiloševićSavo MiloševicSavo Milošević is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a striker.After making a name for himself at Partizan, he signed for Aston Villa, and went on to spend the vast majority of the following decade playing in Spain, where he represented four clubs, amassing La Liga totals of 241 games and...
– football player - Ivica OsimIvica OsimIvan "Ivica" Osim is a Bosnian former football player and manager. He was most recently head coach of Japan, before he suffered a stroke in November 2007 and left the post...
– football coach and former footballer - Saša PapacSaša PapacSaša Papac is a Bosnian association footballer who currently plays for Rangers in the Scottish Premier League and the Bosnia & Herzegovina national team....
– football player - Asmir BegovićAsmir BegovicAsmir Begović is a Bosnian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Stoke City and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team....
– football player - Predrag PašićPredrag PašicPredrag Pašić is a former Bosnian footballer.During his club career he played for FK Sarajevo and VfB Stuttgart. He earned 10 caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in the 1982 FIFA World Cup....
– football coach, former player - Boro PrimoracBoro PrimoracBoro Primorac is a Croatian football coach and a former Yugoslav international player. Currently, he is the first team coach at Arsenal....
– football coach - Hasan SalihamidžićHasan SalihamidžicHasan Salihamidžić is a Bosnian football midfielder currently playing for VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga.-Early life:His father Ahmed and mother Šefika gave him the nickname "Braco" meaning "little brother" in Bosnian since Hasan has an older sister, hence his current nickname "Brazzo". He...
– midfielder - Blaž SliškovićBlaž SliškovicBlaž "Baka" Slišković is a former Bosnian Croat football player and currently the manager of Al-Ansar....
– football coach and former footballer - Safet SušićSafet SušicSafet "Pape" Sušić is a Bosnian former footballer and current manager of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national football team. In his playing days, he operated as playmaking attacking midfielder...
– football coach and former footballer - Sulejman HalilovićSulejman HalilovicSulejman Halilović is a former footballer from Bosnia and Herzegovina.During his club career he played for FK Jedinstvo Odžak, Dinamo Vinkovci, Red Star Belgrade and Rapid Wien. He earned 12 caps for the Yugoslavia national football team, and participated in UEFA Euro 1984.-External links:* at...
– former football player from Odzak - Meho KodroMeho KodroMehmed "Meho" Kodro Sejtanić , known as Kodro, is a retired Bosnian footballer who played as a striker, and a current manager....
– former football player - Enver MarićEnver MaricEnver Marić is a former Bosnian football goalkeeper and now a successful coach....
– former football goalkeeper - Mario StanićMario StanicMario Stanić is a former Croatian football midfielder.-Career:He started his career with Željezničar Sarajevo. He was considered to be one of the most talented young players in former Yugoslavia. In 1992, war began and he went to Croatia, where he played for Dinamo Zagreb...
– former player - Dušan BajevićDušan BajevicDušan Bajević is a Bosnian football manager and former Yugoslav international.-Playing career:...
– football coach and former player - Faruk Hadžibegić – former football player
- Mirsad FazlagićMirsad FazlagicMirsad Fazlagić is a Bosnian former footballer.He started his football career in 1957 playing for a local club in his home town of Čapljina...
– former footballer - Mirsad HibicMirsad HibicMirsad Hibić is a former Bosnian football player.Hibić had been a prolific part of the Bosnian national team since its inception, having been capped 36 times...
– former footballer - Zlatan BajramovićZlatan BajramovicZlatan Bajramović is a German-born Bosnian footballer. He last played for Eintracht Frankfurt....
– football player - Edin DžekoEdin DžekoEdin Džeko is a Bosnian footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Bosnian national team. He was named Bosnian Footballer of the Year for 2009 and 2010...
– football player - Zvjezdan MisimovićZvjezdan MisimovicZvjezdan Misimović is a German-born Bosnian footballer who plays for FC Dynamo Moscow...
– football player - Safet NadarevićSafet NadarevicSafet Nadarević is a Bosnian football defender who currently plays for Eskişehirspor in Turkcell Super League.Nadarević started his career at NK Jedinstvo Bihać of Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
– football player - Haris MedunjaninHaris MedunjaninHaris Medunjanin is a Bosnian footballer who plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C. in Israel. Mainly a attacking midfielder, he can also appear as an left midfielder.He has dual citizenship, Bosnian and Dutch.-Early years:...
– football player - Muhamed MujićMuhamed MujicMuhamed Mujić is a Bosnian striker who played at FIFA World Cup 1962 for SFR Yugoslavia.-External links:*...
– former footballer - Ivan CurovićIvan CurkovicIvan Ćurković had a professional goalkeeping career and was the president of the FK Partizan and of the Serbian Olympic Committee...
– former footballer - Franjo VladićFranjo VladicFranjo Vladić was a Bosnian Croat footballer who played for Yugoslavia national football team.-Career:He began his club career with the then largest regional side in Herzegovina, Velež Mostar...
– former footballer - Darko MaletićDarko MaleticDarko Maletić is a Bosnian footballer. He currently plays for FC Aktobe. Maletić holds peculiar record: he played in UEFA Cup for 5 different clubs from various countries .-Club career:...
– footballer - Tarik HodzicTarik HodžicTarik Hodžić is a former Bosnian football player.He started playing football in FK Željezničar youth team. In 1970, he signed his first professional contract with the club, but he was loaned out to Famos Hrasnica. He played there for three seasons...
- footballer
Foreign footballers of Bosnian birth/parentage
– Croatian national team- Mladen PetrićMladen PetricMladen Petrić is a Croatian international footballer who plays for Hamburger SV in the Fußball-Bundesliga Bundesliga. He also holds the Swiss citizenship.-Early life:...
– striker Hamburger SV and Croatian national team - Ivan RakitićIvan RakiticIvan Rakitić is a Croatian footballer who plays for Sevilla FC and the Croatian national team.Born in Möhlin, he started his professional career at Swiss giants Basel and spent two seasons with them before establishing popularity for his time in the German Bundesliga with Schalke 04...
– midfielder Schalke 04 and Croatian national team - Vedran ĆorlukaVedran CorlukaVedran Ćorluka is a Croatian footballer who plays for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur as a defender. He is also a part of the Croatia national team...
– defender Totenham and Croatian national team - Mario MandžukićMario MandžukicMario Mandžukić is a Croatian professional footballer playing for VfL Wolfsburg and Croatian national team.-Club career:Mandžukić was born in Slavonski Brod, at the time in SFR Yugoslavia....
– striker NK Dinamo Zagreb and Croatian national team - Jerko Leko – midfielder and Croatian national team
- Niko KovačNiko KovacNiko Kovač is a former Croatian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Red Bull Salzburg. He was the long-standing captain of Croatia before retiring from international football in January 2009...
– midfielder and Croatian national team - Robert KovačRobert KovacRobert Kovač is a retired Croatian football defender.- Early career :Kovač started his career in lower league clubs Rapide Wedding and Hertha Zehlendorf before making his Bundesliga debut with 1. FC Nuremberg in 1995...
– defender and Croatian national team - Ivan KlasnićIvan KlasnicIvan Klasnić is a Croatian footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers of the Premier League. He is a Croatian international. In 2007, Klasnić underwent a kidney transplant, and became the first player to participate in a major tournament after a transplant.-St. Pauli:Klasnić started his...
– striker Nantes and Croatian national team - Mario StanićMario StanicMario Stanić is a former Croatian football midfielder.-Career:He started his career with Željezničar Sarajevo. He was considered to be one of the most talented young players in former Yugoslavia. In 1992, war began and he went to Croatia, where he played for Dinamo Zagreb...
– retired midfielder FC Chelsea and Croatian national team - Darijo SrnaDarijo SrnaDarijo Srna is a Croatian footballer who plays for Shakhtar Donetsk as a captain and is also the captain of the Croatian national team.-Club career:Srna's talent was seen by many scouts in Croatia while he was young...
– midfielder and Croatian national team (Bosnian father)
– Serbian national team
- Mladen KrstajićMladen KrstajicMladen Krstajić is a former Serbian footballer who currently works as a director of football for FK Partizan.-Early life:...
– defender Schalke 04 and Serbian national team - Zdravko KuzmanovićZdravko KuzmanovicZdravko Kuzmanović is a Swiss-born Serbian footballer who plays as a midfielder for VfB Stuttgart in the Germanic Bundesliga.-Early life:...
– midfielder AC Fiorentina and Serbian national team - Ognjen KoromanOgnjen KoromanOgnjen Koroman is a Serbian international footballer. He plays for Krylia Sovetov Samara-Career:...
– midfielder C.Zvezda and Serbian national team - Neven SubotićNeven SuboticNeven Subotić is a Serbian football defender, who plays for Borussia Dortmund of the German Bundesliga. He made his first-team debut in the 2006–07 season for 1. FSV Mainz 05. In 2008, he signed with Dortmund...
– defender Borrusia Dortmund and Serbian national team - Savo MiloševićSavo MiloševicSavo Milošević is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a striker.After making a name for himself at Partizan, he signed for Aston Villa, and went on to spend the vast majority of the following decade playing in Spain, where he represented four clubs, amassing La Liga totals of 241 games and...
– retired Serbian national team striker
– Swedish national team striker
- Denni AvdićDenni AvdicDenni Avdić is a Swedish footballer who plays for Werder Bremen as a striker. He grew up in Huskvarna, where he played for Husqvarna FF. He has played one game for the Sweden national football team....
– striker FC Elfsborg and Swedish national team striker - Ajsel KujovićAjsel KujovicAjsel Kujović is a Swedish footballer of Montenegrin descent, who playes forward in the Swedish club Landskrona BoIS....
– striker and Swedish U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Montenegro, Sweden or Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Emir KujovićEmir KujovicEmir Kujović is a Swedish footballer of Montenegrin descent, who plays as a striker for Turkish club Kayserispor.-Career:...
– striker and Swedish U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Montenegro, Sweden or Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Emra TahirovićEmra TahirovicEmra Tahirović is a Swedish footballer of Bosnian descent. He is currently a free agent.- Early life :Emra was born in Sarajevo but fled to Sweden upon the outbreak of the Bosnian War. He was raised in Örebro, Sweden....
– striker FC Zürich and Swedish U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Sweden or Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Anes MravacAnes MravacAnes Mravac is a Swedish footballer of Bosnian decent, who is currently playing for IF Limhamn Bunkeflo.-Notes:...
– defender FF Malmö and Swedish U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Sweden or Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Zlatan AzinovicZlatan AzinovicZlatan Azinović is a Swedish football goalkeeper of Bosnian descent currently playing for Kalmar FF.-External links:**http://www.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/zlatan-azinovic/...
– goalkeeper Kalmar FF and Swedish U21 national team - Zlatan IbrahimovićZlatan IbrahimovicZlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Milan and the Swedish national team for which he is captain....
– striker FC Barcelona and Swedish national team striker
– Austrian national team
- Marko ArnautovićMarko ArnautovicMarko Arnautović is an Austrian footballer, who is playing for SV Werder Bremen.- Background :Arnautović was born in Floridsdorf, a district in the northern part of Vienna...
– striker FC Twente and Austrian national team - Sanel KuljićSanel KuljicSanel Kuljić is an Austrian footballer of Bosnian descent, who plays as a striker. He is playing for Swiss Super League side Neuchâtel Xamax.His father emigrated to Austria from SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1970s....
– striker and Austrian national team - Zlatko JunuzovićZlatko JunuzovicZlatko Junuzović is an Austrian footballer of Bosnian descent playing for FK Austria Wien and the Austrian Football Team.-Early life:...
– striker and Austrian national team - Haris BukvaHaris BukvaHaris Bukva is a Austrian professional footballer of Bosnian descent who plays for SK Sturm Graz. He formerly played for SV Pasching, FC Kärnten and was on loan to FC Wels and LASK Linz.-External links:*...
– defender SK Austria Kärnten and Austrian U21 national team
– German national team
- Marko Marin – midfielder Borrusia M'gladbach and German national team
- Mario VrančićMario VrancicMario Vrančić is a German football player who plays for Borussia Dortmund II.- Career :On 26 June 2009 was loaned out from 1. FSV Mainz 05 for one season to Rot-Weiss Ahlen...
– midfielder Mainz and German U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Germany or Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Mustafa KučukovićMustafa KucukovicMustafa Kučuković is a German football striker of Bosnian descent, who plays for Energie Cottbus.-Career:...
– striker Grenoble Foot 38 and German U19, U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Germany or Bosnia and Herzegovina)
– Swiss national team
- Eldin JakupovićEldin JakupovicEldin Jakupović is a Bosnian-born Swiss professional footballer. He moved to Switzerland at a young age due to the Bosnian war.-Career:...
– goalkeeper FC Zürich and Swiss national team - Danijel SubotićDanijel SuboticDanijel Subotić is a Swiss footballer of Bosnian descent who plays for FCM Targu Mures in the Romanian Liga 1 as a forward. He was born in Zagreb but his family originated from Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, all then Yugoslavia ....
– striker FC Portsmouth and Swiss U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Serbia, Swiss or Bosnia and Herzegovina)
– Danish national team
- Nikola SarićNikola SaricNikola Sarić is a Danish professional footballer, currently playing for HNK Hajduk Split in the Croatian First League. Sarić is a member of the national youth sides of Denmark.-Herfølge:...
– striker FC Liverpool and Danish U21 national team (possibly senior national team of Denmark, Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina)
– Slovenian national team
- Samir HandanovićSamir HandanovicSamir Handanovič, is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Italian club Udinese and the Slovenian national team. He is well known for his ability to save pentalies...
– goalkeeper AC Udineze and Slovenian national team - Jasmin HandanovićJasmin HandanovicJasmin Handanović is a Slovenian football goalkeeper who plays for Maribor in Slovenian PrvaLiga.-Career:...
– goalkeeper and Slovenian national team - Mirnes ŠišićMirnes ŠišicMirnes Sead Šišić is a Slovenian footballer of Bosnian descent who is currently playing for OFI Crete in Greek Super League.-Early career:...
– midfielder Olympiacos and Slovenian national team - Jasmin KurtičJasmin KurtićJasmin Kurtić is a Slovenian football midfielder player currently playing for Varese in the Italian Serie B, on loan from Palermo.-Club career:A right-footed midfielder, Kurtić joined 1. SNL club ND Gorica in July 2010 from 2...
– midfielder Bela Krajina and Slovenian U21 national team - Armin BačinovićArmin BačinovičArmin Bačinovič is a Slovenian football midfielder who currently plays for Palermo and Slovenia national football team.-Club career:...
– midfielder Maribor and Slovenian U21 national team
Handball
- Zlatan ArnautovićZlatan ArnautovicZlatan Arnautović is a former Yugoslav handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics....
– team handball player (Olympic Gold Medal 1984, World Cup Gold 1986) - Irfan SmajlagićIrfan SmajlagicIrfan "Pipe" Smajlagić is a Croatian former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia.He was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
– former team handball player - Mirko AlilovićMirko AlilovicMirko Alilović is a Croatian handball goalkeeper who plays for KC Veszprém. He is also member of the Croatia national handball team, with them he won the silver medals both on the World Championship and the European Championship .He was named the best athlete from Ljubuški in 2007.-Achievements:*...
– goalkeeper plays for Croatian national team
Martial arts
- Amel MekićAmel MekicAmel Mekić is a Bosnian judoka.He is consistently ranked as one of top sportspeople in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held annually by Nezavisne Novine....
– judo - Anton JosipovićAnton JosipovicAnton Ante Josipović is a former boxer from Bosnia and Herzegovina...
– boxing, light heavyweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics - Marijan BenešMarijan BenešMarijan Beneš is a former Yugoslavian boxer from Bosnia and Herzegovina, still considered one of the best in the Yugoslavian history. After a brilliant amateur career, culminating in the gold medal in European Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade, he turned professional in 1977, and won the...
– boxing, gold medal at the 1973 European Championship - Arnela OdžakovićArnela OdžakovicArnela Odžaković is a karate fighter and BiH sportswoman of the year 2007....
– karate, 5th place at 2006 World Championship
Tennis
- Amer DelićAmer DelicAmer Delić is a Bosnian tennis player. Representing the United States as a tour player until 2009, he now represents the country of his birth, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is a member of its Davis Cup team....
– tennis player - Ivan LjubičićIvan Ljubicic----Ivan Ljubičić is a Croatian tennis player born in Bosnia and Herzegovina . His career-high ATP ranking to date has been no. 3, and he stands at no. 37....
– tennis player - Mervana Jugić-SalkićMervana Jugic-SalkicMervana Jugić-Salkić is a Bosnian tennis player. She turned professional in 1999, and reached her highest singles ranking on 21 June 2004, when she was ranked Word No. 99. On 10 July 2006, Jugić-Salkić reached No. 59 in doubles, after winning ASB Classic in 2004 with Jelena Kostanić and...
– tennis player - Marin ČilićMarin CilicMarin Čilić , is a Croatian professional tennis player. His career high ATP ranking is no. 9, achieved on 22 February 2010, following his best-ever performance at a Grand Slam, reaching the semi-finals in the 2010 Australian Open...
– tennis player
Other prominent people
- Tijana ArnautovićTijana ArnautovicTijana Arnautović is a Bosnian Serb-Canadian beauty pageant titleholder. Arnautović was born in the small town of Konjic in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the family lived until the Bosnian War...
– Miss World Canada 2004, model - Emerik BlumEmerik BlumEmerik Blum was born to immigrant Hungarian parents on August 7, 1911 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina which was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died on June 24, 1984 in Fojnica, Bosnia then a part of Yugoslavia...
– founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo, arguably the most successful and influential businessman in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Vladimir ĆorovićVladimir CorovicVladimir Ćorović was a 20th-century Serbian historian, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . He is best known for his many acclaimed works on the history of Serbs and Yugoslavia.-Early:...
– historian - Emir KusturicaEmir KusturicaEmir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
– actor and a filmmaker - Zoran Đinđić – former Prime Minister of SerbiaSerbiaSerbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
- Mila PivnickiMila MulroneyMilica "Mila" Mulroney , is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. They have one daughter, Caroline, and three sons, Benedict, Mark, and Nicholas...
– wife of the 18th Prime Minister of CanadaPrime Minister of CanadaThe Prime Minister of Canada is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus head of government for Canada, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or viceroy on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution...
Brian MulroneyBrian MulroneyMartin Brian Mulroney, was the 18th Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993 and was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993. His tenure as Prime Minister was marked by the introduction of major economic reforms, such as the Canada-U.S... - Alija SirotanovićAlija SirotanovicAlija Sirotanović was a Yugoslav miner, Hero of Socialist Labour and perhaps the most famous of all Yugoslav udarniks...
– Bosnian coal-miner, worker-hero, his face was on the 10 and 20000 dinar banknotes - Boris TadićBoris TadicBoris Tadić is the President of Serbia and leader of the Democratic Party. He was elected to a five-year term on 27 June 2004, and was sworn into office on 11 July. He was re-elected for a de facto second five-year term on 3 February 2008 and was sworn in on 15 February...
– President of Serbia - Adil ZulfikarpašićAdil ZulfikarpašicAdil Zulfikarpašić was a prominent Bosniak politician and intellectual.-Biography:Adil Zulfikarpašić was born in Foča, a town along the River Drina in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ....
– businessman, one-time politician, and philanthropistPhilanthropistA philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
, founder of the Bosniak InstituteBosniak InstituteThe Bosniak Institute is a cultural center in Sarajevo focusing on Bosniak culture. It was established by Adil Zulfikarpašić. The institute is housed in a renovated sixteenth century Turkish bath and includes a library and an art center.-External links:*...
in Sarajevo - Inga PeulichInga PeulichInga Peulich is an Australian politician. She is of Bosnian heritage, being born Inga Dosen in Bosnia and Herzegovina and migrated to Australia in 1967 with her family. Peulich has a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Education...
– Australian politician born in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Goran PandevGoran PandevGoran Pandev , is a Macedonian footballer who plays as a forward for Italian Serie A club Napoli on loan from Internazionale. He is also considered a key player for the Macedonian national team.-Early career:...
- Fikret HodžićFikret HodžićFikret Hodžić was a professional bodybuilder from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Hodžić competed during the 1970s and 1980s representing the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia....
Yugoslav-Bosnian bodybuilder
Infamous people
- Andrija ArtukovićAndrija ArtukovicAndrija Artuković was a Croatian politician and a member of the Ustaše movement. Artuković was convicted of war crimes committed against minorities in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II...
– minister in the government of the Independent State of CroatiaIndependent State of CroatiaThe Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...
and war criminal - Tihomir BlaškićTihomir BlaškicTihomir Blaškić is a Bosnian Croat army officer who was sentenced in 2000 to 45 years imprisonment at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes as part of the Lašva valley ethnic cleansing...
– convicted of violating the laws of war, committing ethnic cleansingEthnic cleansingEthnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic orreligious group from certain geographic areas....
and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian warBosnian WarThe Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides... - Miroslav FilipovićMiroslav FilipovicMiroslav Filipović was a Croatian Ustaše and Roman Catholic friar who was convicted of war crimes by both a German military court and a Yugoslav civil court and hanged in Belgrade.-Early life:Filipović's date of birth was 5 June 1915, but little else about his early years has been...
– UstašeUstašeThe Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement was a Croatian fascist anti-Yugoslav separatist movement. The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span to the River Drina and to the border...
leader, commander of the Jasenovac concentration campJasenovac concentration campJasenovac concentration camp was the largest extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia and occupied Yugoslavia during World War II...
, and war criminal - Radovan KaradžićRadovan KaradžicRadovan Karadžić is a former Bosnian Serb politician. He is detained in the United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, accused of war crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats during the Siege of Sarajevo, as well as ordering the Srebrenica massacre.Educated as a...
– Political leader of the Serbs during 1992–1995, indicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes and genocideGenocideGenocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...
, most wanted man in Europe - Momčilo KrajišnikMomcilo KrajišnikMomčilo Krajišnik is a Bosnian Serb former politician convicted of murder and other crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war .He co-founded the Bosnian Serb nationalist Serbian Democratic Party with Radovan...
– politician, convicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes and ethnic cleansingEthnic cleansingEthnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic orreligious group from certain geographic areas....
during the Bosnian warBosnian WarThe Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides... - Maks LuburićMaks LuburicVjekoslav "Maks" Luburić was a Croatian Ustaše, a war criminal, and the commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp.- Biography :...
– UstašeUstašeThe Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement was a Croatian fascist anti-Yugoslav separatist movement. The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span to the River Drina and to the border...
leader, commander of the Jasenovac concentration campJasenovac concentration campJasenovac concentration camp was the largest extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia and occupied Yugoslavia during World War II...
, war criminal - Ratko MladićRatko MladićRatko Mladić is an accused war criminal and a former Bosnian Serb military leader. On May 31, 2011, Mladić was extradited to The Hague, where he was processed at the detention center that holds suspects for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia...
– General of the Serbian Army during 1992–1995, indicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes and genocideGenocideGenocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...
, most wanted man in Europe alongside Karadžić - Ante PavelićAnte PavelicAnte Pavelić was a Croatian fascist leader, revolutionary, and politician. He ruled as Poglavnik or head, of the Independent State of Croatia , a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia...
– UstašeUstašeThe Ustaša - Croatian Revolutionary Movement was a Croatian fascist anti-Yugoslav separatist movement. The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Nazism, and Croatian nationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span to the River Drina and to the border...
leader, founder and leader of the fascist Independent State of CroatiaIndependent State of CroatiaThe Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...
, war criminal - Biljana PlavšićBiljana PlavšicBiljana Plavšić is a former president of Republika Srpska and war criminal. She is the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced. She was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war...
– politician, convicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes during the Bosnian warBosnian WarThe Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides... - Vojislav ŠešeljVojislav ŠešeljVojislav Šešelj, JD is a Serbian politician, writer and lawyer. He is the founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party and was vice-president of Serbia between 1998 and 2000...
– politician, radical extremist, Chetnik leader, indicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes, ethnic cleansingEthnic cleansingEthnic cleansing is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic orreligious group from certain geographic areas....
, and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian warBosnian WarThe Bosnian War or the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between April 1992 and December 1995. The war involved several sides...
See also
- Bosnian-Herzegovian demographic changes in 1991-2005 period
- List of Bosniaks
- List of Croats
- List of Serbs