This is a list of notable Serbian American

Serbian American

Serbian Americans are citizens of the United States who are of Serbian ancestry. For the 2000 US Census, 140,337 Americans indicated Serbian as their first ancestry, while 170,312 persons declared to have Serbian ancestry...

s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants, regardless of their ethnic origin.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Serbian American or must have references showing they are Serbian American and are notable.

Actors

• Sasha Alexander
  Sasha Alexander
  Sasha Alexander is an American actress. She is best known for several roles, including Gretchen Witter, the sister of Pacey Witter on Dawson's Creek; NCIS Special Agent Kate Todd in the first two seasons of NCIS; as Lucy in Yes Man ; and as Catherine in He's Just Not That Into You .She currently...
  
   - Actress
• Milla Jovovich
  Milla Jovovich
  Milla Jovovich December 17, 1975)is an American model, actress, musician, and fashion designer. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action-themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt".Milla Jovovich began...
  
   - Actress
• Mike Begovich
  Mike Begovich
  Michael Joseph "Mike" Begovich is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Lance Miller on MyNetworkTV telenovela, Fashion House.-Filmography:* Fashion House .... Lance Miller...
  
   - Actor
• Predrag Bjelac
  Predrag Bjelac
  Predrag Bjelac is a Serbian actor. He portrayed Igor Karkaroff in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Lord Donnon in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. He is a graduate of the Belgrade University's Faculty of Dramatic Arts , class of 1986, and studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre...
  
   - Actor
• Lolita Davidovich
  Lolita Davidovich
  Lolita Davidovich is a Canadian film and television actress.-Early life and career:Davidovich was born in London, Ontario, the daughter of immigrants from Yugoslavia. Her father was from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, and her mother was from Slovenia; she spoke only Serbian during her early years...
  
   - Actress
• Brad Dexter
  Brad Dexter
  Brad Dexter , was an American actor.-Life and career:Dexter was born Boris Malanovich , in Goldfield, Nevada, of Serbian parentage. He spoke Serbian as his first language. Burly, dark and handsome, Brad Dexter was usually given supporting roles of a rugged character...
  
   - Actor
• Milena Govich
  Milena Govich
  -Biography:She was born in Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma. Both of her parents, Dr. Bruce Michael Govich and Dr. Marilyn Green Govich, are professors of music: Bruce worked at University of Oklahoma and Marilyn currently works at the University of Central Oklahoma...
  
   - Actress
• Karl Malden
  Karl Malden
  Karl 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...
  
   - Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Actor
• Alex Nesic
  Alex Nesic
  Alexander D. "Alex" Nesic is an American film and television actor, best known for his work in the miniseries Sleeper Cell.-Background:...
  
   - Actor
• Natalia Nogulich
  Natalia Nogulich
  Natalia Nogulich is an American actress.Nogulich was born Natalija Nogulich in Chicago, Illinois, of Serbian descent. Her best-known appearances have been on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Vice Admiral/Fleet Admiral Alynna Nechayev...
  
   - Actress
• Catherine Oxenberg
  Catherine Oxenberg
  Catherine Oxenberg is an American actress known for her performance as Amanda Carrington on the 1980s American prime time soap opera Dynasty. The daughter of HRH Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Oxenberg is a descendant of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty.-Early life:Though born in New York City,...
  
   - Actress
• John Miljan
  John Miljan
  John Miljan was an American actor of Serbian origin. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958.He died from cancer.-Selected filmography:* The Lone Chance * Silent Sanderson...
  
   - Actor
• Rade Šerbedžija
  Rade Šerbedžija
  Rade Šerbedžija , occasionally credited as Rade Sherbedgia in some English-language productions, is a Croatian actor, director and musician of Serb origin. He was one of the most popular Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1980s. He is now internationally known mainly for his supporting roles in...
  
   - Actor
• Steve Vinovich
  Steve Vinovich
  -Biography:Vinovich was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Jennie J. , a secretary, and Stephen J. Vinovich, an insurance salesman.-Filmography:*Cold Case *8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter...
  
   - Actor

Musician

• Lene Lovich
  Lene Lovich
  Lene Lovich is an American singer based in England, who first gained attention as part of the New Wave music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her most popular hit single was "Lucky Number", first released in 1979.-Early years:...
  
   - New Wave Singer
• Nikola Resanovic
  Nikola Resanovic
  Nikola Resanovic is an American composer and professor of music. He is the winner of the 2003 Cleveland Arts Prize in Music and is one of Ohio's best known living composers....
  
   - Music Composer and Professor of Music
• Miloš Raičković - Music Composer and Anti-War Activist
• Rudolph Réti
  Rudolph Reti
  Rudolph Reti , was a musical analyst, composer and pianist. He was the older brother of the great chess master Richard Réti ....
  
   - Music Composer and Pianist

Military

• Jake Allex
  Jake Allex
  Jake Allex, born Jake Allex Mandusich in Prizren, Kosovo, Ottoman Empire was an American soldier of ethnic Serbian descent who received the Medal of Honor for his service in the U.S...
  
   - Soldier
• George Fisher (settler)
  George Fisher (settler)
  George Fisher was a customs officer and early leader of the Texas Revolution.Fisher was born to Serbian parents in Székesfehérvár, Hungary in April 1795...
  
   - Customs Officer and Early Leader of the Texas Revolution
• Mitchell Paige
  Mitchell Paige
  Mitchell Paige was a recipient of the Medal of Honor from World War II...
  
   - Soldier
• Elijah Monte Radlovic
  Elijah Monte Radlovic
  Ilija Monte Radlovic was a British Arny officer and an author.- Personal background :Radlovic was born in Montenegro...
  
   - British Officer and Author
• Milo Radulovich - Former Reserve Air Force Lieutenant
• Lance Sijan
  Lance Sijan
  Lance Peter Sijan was a United States Air Force officer and fighter pilot...
  
   - Air Force Soldier
• Butch Verich
  Butch Verich
  Demetrio 'Butch' Verich was born in Laona, Wisconsin in 1932 of Serb-Montenegrin ancestry. In 1967, Lieutenant Commander Butch Verich, along with two other VF-162 F-8s attacked enemy flak sites ahead of an A-4 strike....
  
   - Lieutenant
• Mele "Mel" Vojvodich - Major General in the USAF

Politician

• Melissa Bean
  Melissa Bean
  Melissa Luburich Bean is a former U.S. Representative for the who served from 2005 until 2011. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...
  
   - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois's 8th district (maiden name is Luburić)
• Helen Delich Bentley
  Helen Delich Bentley
  Helen Delich Bentley is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the State of Maryland .-Life and career:...
  
   - American Politician
• Rod Blagojevich
  Rod Blagojevich
  Rod R. Blagojevich is an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. A Democrat, Blagojevich was a State Representative before being elected to the United States House of Representatives representing parts of Chicago...
  
   - former Governor of Illinois
• George Voinovich
  George Voinovich
  George Victor Voinovich is a former United States Senator from the state of Ohio, and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he served as the 65th Governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998, and as the 54th mayor of Cleveland from 1980 to 1989.-Personal life:Born in Cleveland, Ohio, his father was...
  
   - Senior Senator from Ohio
• Rose Ann Vuich
  Rose Ann Vuich
  Rose Ann Vuich served as a member of the California State Senate from 1977 until 1993. She was the first female member of the California State Senate....
  
   - California's First Female Senator

Sports

• Norm Bulaich
  Norm Bulaich
  Norman Batton Bulaich is a former American football running back in the National Football League.-Professional Career:...
  
   - Former American Football Player
• Milorad Čavić
  Milorad Cavic
  Milorad Čavić is an American-born Serbian swimmer.-Swimming career:...
  
   - Swimmer
• Vlade Divac
  Vlade Divac
  Vlade Divac is a retired Yugoslav and Serbian professional basketball player who spent most of his career in the NBA. At , he played center and was known for his passing skills...
  
   - Former NBA Player
• Walt Dropo
  Walt Dropo
  Walter Dropo , nicknamed "Moose", was an American college basketball standout and a professional baseball first baseman...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball player
• George Glamack
  George Glamack
  George Gregory Glamack was an American basketball player.The 6'7" giant, during that era, attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Glamack, an All-America in 1940 and 1941, was nicknamed the Blind Bomber because of his poor eyesight and remarkably accurate hook shot...
  
   - Former Basketball Player
• Eli Grba
  Eli Grba
  Eli Grba is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. During his 5-year baseball career, he pitched for the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels . He was the first selection in the 1960 MLB expansion draft, and he became a charter member of the Angels...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball player
• Mike Kekich
  Mike Kekich
  Michael Dennis Kekich was a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Seattle Mariners between 1965 and 1977...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball player
• Johnny Miljus
  Johnny Miljus
  John Kenneth Miljus nicknamed Big Serb and Jovo, was Serbian-American baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball between and . Miljus batted and threw right-handed...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball Player
• Ilija Mitic
  Ilija Mitic
  Ilija Mitic is a former Serbian American professional soccer player. He was a star of the North American Soccer League, its 7th all-time leading scorer with 239 points in 166 games, including 101 goals....
  
   - Former Professional Soccer Player
• Mike Mamula
  Mike Mamula
  Michael Brian Mamula is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft. He played college football at Boston College.-College career:Mamula played college football at Boston College...
  
   - Former Professional American Football Player
• Pete Maravich
  Pete Maravich
  Peter "Pistol Pete" Press Maravich was an American professional basketball player. Born and raised in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Maravich starred in college at Louisiana State University and played for three NBA teams until injuries induced him to retire in 1980...
  
   - Former NBA player; named in 1996 as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
• Press Maravich
  Press Maravich
  Petar "Press" Maravich was an American college and professional basketball coach. He received the nickname "Press" for always having gossip-styled updates in his hometown of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb. Maravich Sr...
  
   - Professional Basketball Coach and Father of Pete Maravich
• Doc Medich
  Doc Medich
  George Francis "Doc" Medich in Aliquippa, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1972-1982...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball player
• Gregg Popovich
  Gregg Popovich
  Gregg Popovich is an American basketball coach, and is currently the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs. With the resignation of Jerry Sloan as head coach of the Utah Jazz on February 10, 2011, Popovich is the longest tenured coach in the NBA and also the...
  
   - NBA Coach
• Sasha Pavlovic - NBA Player
• Jeff Samardzija
  Jeff Samardzija
  Jeffrey Alan Samardzija is an American baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs...
  
   - Pitcher in the Chicago Cubs organization and former Notre Dame
  Notre Dame Fighting Irish football
  Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the football team of the University of Notre Dame. The team is currently coached by Brian Kelly.Notre Dame competes as an Independent at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level, and is a founding member of the Bowl Championship Series coalition. It is an...
  
   football player
• Predrag Savović
  Predrag Savovic
  Predrag Savović is a retired professional basketball player. He played for the NBA's Denver Nuggets and Iurbentia Bilbao of the Spanish ACB, among other teams.-Education:...
  
   - Former NBA Player
• Filip Filipovic (Born 1977) played one season (2002)as a kicker with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.
• Momcilo Gavric
  Momcilo Gavric
  Momčilo "Gabbo" Gavrić was born in Sinj, Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1938. He was born in a large family. Gavric aspired to play professional soccer. In 1959 he left Sinj for Beograd, and immediately, began playing with first division side OFK Beograd...
  
   played as kicker one season for the 1969 San Francisco 49'ers of the National Football League.
• Erik Bakich
  Erik Bakich
  Erik Bakich is an American college baseball coach. He currently serves as the head coach of the University of Maryland baseball team. Bakich previously served as an assistant coach at Vanderbilt and Clemson.-Early life:...
  
   is a college baseball coach.
• Marko Jaric
  Marko Jaric
  Marko Jarić is a Serbian professional basketball player. He is married to Brazilian model Adriana Lima.-Pro career:...
  
  , NBA player.
• Pete Vuckovich
  Pete Vuckovich
  Peter Dennis Vuckovich is a retired American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who came across as an intimidating presence on the mound with his 6'4" 220 lb frame and Fu Manchu moustache. Vuckovich was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 1974...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball player
• Sasha Vujačić
  Sasha Vujacic
  Aleksandar "Sasha" Vujačić is a Slovenian basketball player who has played in Italy, the United States , and more recently for Anadolu Efes S.K. in Turkey...
  
   - NBA Player
• John Vukovich
  John Vukovich
  John Christopher Vukovich was an American third baseman and coach in Major League Baseball best known for his years of service with the Philadelphia Phillies. He played in parts of ten seasons from 1970 to 1981 for the Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and Milwaukee Brewers...
  
   - Former Major League Baseball player & coach
• Trifun Živanović
  Trifun Zivanovic
  Trifun Zivanovic is an American-born Serbian figure skater. Born in the United States, Zivanovic competes internationally for Serbia.-Career:...
  
   - Figure Skater
• Lou Zivkovich
  Lou Zivkovich
  Lou Zivkovich was a defensive end for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League. He is widely known for appearing as the July 1974 centerfold in Playgirl magazine, at the age of 33.-Early life:Zivkovic is the son of Canadian immigrants...
  
   - Former American Football Player
• Bill Vukovich
  Bill Vukovich
  Bill Vukovich was a Serbian American automobile racing driver. He won the 1953 and 1954 Indianapolis 500 plus two more American Automobile Association National Championship races...
  
   - Automobile Racing Driver

Scientists

• Nikola Tesla
  Nikola Tesla
  Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
  
   - Physicist
• Mihajlo Pupin
  Mihajlo Pupin
  Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D, LL.D. , also known as Michael I. Pupin, was a Serbian physicist and physical chemist...
  
   - Physicist and Physical Chemist
• Milan Vuitch
  Milan Vuitch
  Dr. Milan Vuitch was a physician performing abortions in Washington, D.C. and Silver Spring, Maryland. Born in Serbia, he was a naturalized U.S. citizen.-Court victory:In 1969, Judge Gerhard A...
  
   - Physician Performing Abortions in Washington, D.C.

Writers

• Walt Bogdanich
  Walt Bogdanich
  Walt Bogdanich is an American investigative journalist.-Life:Bogdanich graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1975 with a degree in political science...
  
   - Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Bill Dorich
  Bill Dorich
  William "Bill" Dorich is an American journalist and writer whose name is upon the class action suit against the Vatican Bank and others, a US federal lawsuit in California against the Vatican and Franciscan Order. The lawsuit involves the laundering of Axis loot from former Yugoslavia by the...
  
   - Journalist
• Branko Mikasinovich
  Branko Mikasinovich
  Branko Mikasinovich is a scholar of Yugoslav and Serbian literature as well as a noted Slavist. He has edited Introduction to Yugoslav Literature , a representative anthology of modern Yugoslav prose and poetry in English, Five Modern Yugoslav Plays , a unique collection of plays written between...
  
   - Slavist, journalist
• Charles Simic
  Charles Simic
  Dušan "Charles" Simić is a Serbian-American poet, and was co-Poetry Editor of the Paris Review. He was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2007.-Early years:...
  
   - Poet and the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States
• Dejan Stojanović – Poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman, and former journalist
• Steve Tesich
  Steve Tesich
  Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.-Career:...
  
   - Oscar-winning Screenwriter, Playwright and Novelist
• Serge Trifkovic - journalist for Chronicles Magazine
• Milena Pavlović-Barili
  Milena Pavlovic-Barili
  Milena Pavlović-Barili was a Serbian painter and poet....
  
   - Painter and poet
• Srđa Trifković
  Srđa Trifković
  Srđa Trifković is a Serbian writer on international affairs and foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles. He was director of the Center for International Affairs at the Rockford Institute until his...
  
   - Writer and editor
• Natasha Radojčić-Kane
  Natasha Radojcic-Kane
  Natasha Radojčić-Kane is an American writer of Serbian descent.She graduated from Columbia University where she earned an MFA in fiction. She is the author of two novels HOMECOMING and YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE HERE, several plays and screenplays. She is a co-founder of the literary journal H.O.W....
  
   - Writer

Others

• Peter Bacanovic - Martha Stewart's stockbroker
• Peter Bogdanovich
  Peter Bogdanovich
  Peter Bogdanovich is an American film historian, director, writer, actor, producer, and critic. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino, and Francis Ford Coppola...
  
   - Film Director
• Tom Carapic
  Tom Carapic
  Tom Carapic , full name Tomislav Sava Carapic, is an artist who specialises in found object artwork.Carapic was born in Velisevac, Serbia . He was educated at a military school in Herzegovina in the 1950s, and served as a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army...
  
   - Found Object Artwork
• Natalie Jacobson
  Natalie Jacobson
  Natalie Jacobson was for a quarter-century a well-regarded and popular television newscaster with WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts....
  
   - Television Newscaster
• Sam Jankovich
  Sam Jankovich
  Sam Jankovich, a Butte, Montana native is sports administrator that has held several positions including athletic director at the Washington State and the University of Miami...
  
   - General Manager of the Las Vegas Gladiators
• Petar V. Kokotovic
  Petar V. Kokotovic
  Petar V. Kokotovic is a professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He has made contributions in the areas of adaptive control, singular perturbation techniques, and nonlinear control....
  
   - Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara
• Milan Mandarić
  Milan Mandaric
  Milan Mandarić is a Serbian-American business tycoon who has owned a string of successful businesses and football clubs including Portsmouth, Leicester City and Sheffield Wednesday. He currently is the chairman of Sheffield Wednesday...
  
   - Owner of two Soccer Clubs in England: Portsmouth F.C. and Leicester
• Alisa Maric
  Alisa Maric
  Alisa Marić is a Serbian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is living in Belgrade, capital of Serbia . She has dual citizenship, Serbian and American...
  
   - Woman Grandmaster and International Master of Chess
• Mateja Matejić (Priest)
  Mateja Matejic (Priest)
  Mateja Matejić Serbian Cyrillic Матеја Матејић - Priest of Serbian Orthodox Church, emigrant since 1945, and the Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and Literatures at Ohio State University...
  
   - Priest
• Nenad Medic
  Nenad Medic
  Nenad Medić is a Serbian-Canadian professional poker player with a World Series of Poker bracelet and World Poker Tour Championship title. He resides in Niagara Falls, Ontario...
  
   - Professional Poker Player
• Branko Milanovic
  Branko Milanovic
  Branko Milanović is a Lead economist in the World Bank's research department in the unit dealing with poverty and inequality and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Washington, D.C.....
  
   - Lead Economist in the World Bank's Research Department
• Nikola Moravčević
  Nikola Moravcevic
  Nikola Moravcevic is a University Professor, Critic and academic writer. He was born in Zagreb, in a family of Serbian officer of Yugoslav Royal Army on December 10, 1935....
  
   - University Professor, Critic and Writer
• Bob O'Billovich
  Bob O'Billovich
  Robert "Bob" O'Billovich, nicknamed "Obie", is the current General Manager of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League....
  
   - CFL executive, former CFL player and coach
• Milan Panić
  Milan Panic
  Milan Panić or Milan Panic is a Serbian American multimillionaire, a Newport Beach and Pasadena, California-based business tycoon. He served as Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992-1993...
  
   - Multimillionaire
• Dragoljub Pokrajac
  Dragoljub Pokrajac
  Dragoljub Pokrajac Dragoljub Pokrajac Dragoljub Pokrajac (born 1970 in Šibenik, Croatia (then Yugoslavia) is a Serbian-American scientist. His fields of interest include data mining, video analysis, image processing, applied mathematics and others...
  
   - Computer scientist and Associate Professor at Delaware State University
• Milt Popovich
  Milt Popovich
  Milton John Popovich was a professional American football halfback in the National Football League. He played with the Chicago Cardinals from 1938 to 1942.-External links:**...
  
   - Former NFL player
• Preki
  Preki
  Predrag Radosavljević is a former American international soccer player of Serbian extraction...
  
   - Former MLS Player
• Dan Radakovich
  Dan Radakovich
  Dan Radakovich is the Athletics Director at Georgia Tech. He has held that position since February 22, 2006, beating out former Tech player and head coach Bill Curry and former Tech baseball and football player and baseball assistant coach Cam Bonifay for the job. Radakovich has a long background...
  
   - Sports Administration
• Joe Raduka
  Joe Raduka
  Joe Raduka is a former Yugoslav-American soccer player who began his career with Red Star Belgrade before spending time with indoor and outdoor teams in the U.S., Canada and Belgium...
  
   - Former MLS Player
• Slavko Vorkapić
  Slavko Vorkapic
  Slavko Vorkapić , was a Serbian-American film director and editor, former Dean of USC Film School, painter, and a prominent figure of modern cinematography and film art.-Early life:Slavko Vorkapić was born on March 17, 1894, in...
  
   - Film director, editor, painter
• Carl Kosta Savich
  Carl Kosta Savich
  Carl Kosta Savich is a Serbian-American historian, academic and writer. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and has an M.A. in History from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and a J.D. in Law from the University of Baltimore...
  
   - Teacher, History, Political Science
• Paul Stojanovich
  Paul Stojanovich
  Paul Stojanovich was an American television producer whose notable creations include American Detective and World's Wildest Police Videos .-Career:...
  
   - Television Producer
• Pete Romcevich
  Pete Romcevich
  Pete Romcevich was an Serbian-American racecar driver born in Silopaj, Serbia. He was killed in a midget race at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit when his car went out of control.-Indy 500 results:...
  
   (1907–1952) was a Serbian-American racecar driver born in Silopaj, Serbia who took part in the 1947 Indy 500
• William Salatich (deceased) - was the Chairman of the Board of Gillete Corporation.
• Alex Dragnich - is the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for distinguished service to Vanderbilt University, and he is author of numerous books on Yugoslav history.
• Boyan Jovanovic
  Boyan Jovanovic
  Boyan Jovanovic is a professor of economics at New York University.Jovanovic, of Serbian descent, received his undergraduate education at the London School of Economics and his graduate training at the University of Chicago....
  
   (1951) is a professor of economics at New York University.
• Stephen Yokich
  Stephen Yokich
  Stephen Phillip Yokich was an American labor union activist who served as President of the United Auto Workers from 1994 to 2002.-Early life and union career:...
  
   (1935–2002) was an American labor union activist who served as President of the United Auto Workers from 1994 to 2002.
• Milan Vukcevich
  Milan Vukcevich
  Milan Radoje Vukcevich was a Yugoslav scientist, chess International Master, Grandmaster chess problem composer, and writer....
  
   - Chess International Master, Grandmaster chess problem composer, and writer
• Mira Zivkovich
  Mira Zivkovich
  Mira Zivkovich is the Ellis Island Medal of Honor winning President and CEO of MZI Global Marketing a strategic marketing consulting firm and Dame Commander of the Order of Merit of Savoy.-Background:...
  
  - Ellis Island Medal of Honor winner, Dame Commander, Founder and CEO of MZI Global Marketing