List of Serbs
The following is a list of notable individuals who are or were Serbs or of Serbian ancestry.
Art
Visual arts
Architecture
- Emilijan Josimović
- Svetozar Ivačković, post-Romantic architect
- Konstantin Jovanović, architect who designed National assemblies of Serbia and Bulgaria and National Bank of Serbia
- Vladimir Nikolić
- Dimitrije T. Leko, Serbian architect and urbanist
- Nikola Nestorović
- Momčilo Tapavica, designer of Novi Sad's Matica Srpska building; also 1st Serb to win an Olympic medal at 1st modern Olympic Games
- Jelisaveta Načić, pioneer in women's architecture in Serbia
- Momir Korunović
- Dragiša Brašovan, modernist architect, leading architect of the early 20th century in Yugoslavia
- Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić, architect, 1st woman engineer in Germany
- Milan Minić , architect, artist, professor and author
- Nikola Dobrović
- Milan Zloković, architect, founder of the Group of Architects of Modern Expressions.
- Mihailo Janković, architect who designed several important structures in Serbia
- Milica Šterić, architect for Energoprojekt, built post World War 2 power plants
- Alexis Josic, French architect
- Bogdan Bogdanović, architect, urbanist and essayist, designed monumental concrete sculpture in Jasenovac
- Ivan Antić, architect and academic, considered one of the former Yugoslavia's best post-World War 2 architects
- Ilija Arnautović, Slovene architect, known for his projects during the period of Slovenian socialism
- Ivanka Raspopović, Serbian architect
- Aleksandar Đokić, architect known for Brutalist and postmodernist styles
- Zoran Bojović , architect for Energoprojekt, worked in Africa
- Zoran Manević, prominent Serbian architecture historian
- Svetlana Kana Radević, architect
- Ljiljana Bakić, Serbian architect
- Louis and Dennis Astorino, American architects of Serbian origin, Louis was the 1st American architect to design a building in the Vatican
- Ksenija Bulatović, architect
- Maja Vidaković Lalić, architect
- Dubravka Sekulić, architect and academic
Sculptors
- Petar Ubavkić, recognized as the first sculptor of modern Serbia
- Đorđe Jovanović, won prizes at the World Exhibitions in Paris 1889 and 1900 for the works "Gusle" and "Kosovo Monument"
- Simeon Roksandić, sculptor and academic, highly regarded for his bronzes and fountains, frequently cited as one of the most important figures in Yugoslavian sculpture.
- Dragomir Arambašić
- Vukosava Velimirović
- Iva Despić-Simonović
- Risto Stijović, sculptor, author of Monument to Franchet d'Esperey in Belgrade
- Sreten Stojanović
- John David Brcin, Serbian American sculptor
- Yevgeny Vuchetich
- Vojin Bakić, Yugoslav sculptor
- Jovan Soldatović, author of :File:Petrovaradin i žrtve racije.JPG|Monument of the 1942 raid victims near Žabalj
- Olga Jevrić, awarded sculptor
- Matija Vuković, awarded sculptor
- Dušan Džamonja , sculptor
- Miodrag Živković
- Nebojša Mitrić
- Mirjana Isaković, former professor at Faculty of Applied Arts
- Drinka Radovanović, author of many monuments to national heroes
- Dara Fanka, sculptor and public space designer
- Lilly Otasevic, Serbian born Canadian sculptor/designer
Painters, cartoonists, illustrators
- Lovro Dobričević of Kotor, Venetian painter who first started to paint at the Serbian Orthodox Savina Monastery, Montenegro, in the mid-15th century.
- Đorđe Mitrofanović, Serbian fresco painter and muralist who travelled and worked throughout the Balkans and the Levant.
- Tripo Kokolja, Venetian painter, born in Perast, who is remembered for his still life and landscape painting.
- Joakim Marković
- Hristofor Žefarović
- Teodor Stefanov Gologlavac
- Janko Halkozović
- Jovan Četirević Grabovan
- Jakov Orfelin,
- Vasa Ostojić,
- Teodor Kračun
- Dimitrije Bačević
- Nikola Nešković
- Lazar Serdanović,
- Simeon Lazović
- Teodor Ilić Češljar
- Stefan Gavrilović
- Jovan Pačić
- Pavel Đurković
- Aleksije Lazović
- Petar Nikolajević Moler, revolutionary and painter
- Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter
- Konstantin Danil, painter and portraitist of the 19th century
- Grigorije Davidović-Obšić,
- Uroš Knežević
- Katarina Ivanović
- Dimitrije Avramović, painter known best for his iconostasis and frescos.
- Pavel Đurković
- Novak Radonić
- Mina Karadžić
- Jelena Patrnogic
- Đura Jakšić
- Đorđe Krstić
- Uroš Predić
- Paja Jovanović
- Anastas Bocarić
- Marko Murat
- Dragutin Inkiostri Medenjak, painter and is also considered the first interior designer in Serbia.
- Jovan Pešić
- Beta Vukanović
- Rista Vukanović
- Nadežda Petrović
- Stevan Aleksić
- Veljko Stanojević
- Todor Švrakić
- Ljubomir Ivanović
- Lazar Drljača
- Jovan Bijelić
- Petar Dobrović
- Vasa Pomorišac
- Risto Stijović
- Zora Petrović
- Ilija Bašičević
- Ignjat Job
- Sava Šumanović
- Mladen Josić
- Milo Milunović
- Milan Konjović
- Ivan Tabaković
- Živko Stojsavljević
- Dragan Aleksić, Yugoslav dadaist painter, founder of Yugo-Dada
- Mihajlo Petrov
- Marko Čelebonović, artist
- Đorđe Andrejević Kun Serbian and Yugoslavian painter, designer of the Belgrade Coat of Arms and reputedly designed the Coat of arms of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Orders and medals of Socialist Yugoslavia|Yugoslav orders and medals
- Janko Brašić, one of the foremost contributors to the naive art genre
- Petar Lubarda
- Predrag Milosavljević
- Milena Pavlović-Barili
- Ljubica Sokić
- Miodrag B. Protić
- Ljubinka Jovanović
- Milorad Bata Mihailović
- Mića Popović
- Mića Popović
- Kossa Bokchan
- Sava Stojkov
- Mladen Srbinović
- Petar Omčikus
- Ljubomir Pavićević Fis, graphic- and industrial designer, According to the Belgrade Museum of Applied Arts, "Serbia's oldest and most well-known designer".
- Draginja Vlasic, painter
- Radomir Stević Ras
- Olja Ivanjicki, contemporary artist in fields such as sculpture, poetry, costume design, architecture and writing, but was best known for her painting.
- Predrag Koraksić Corax, political caricaturist
- Ljuba Popović
- Milić od Mačve
- Vladislav Lalicki
- Vladimir Veličković
- Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan
- Bratsa Bonifacho
- Djordje Prudnikov
- Dušan Otašević
- Stevan Knežević
- Dušan Petričić, illustrator and caricaturist
- Dragan Malešević Tapi
- Jugoslav Vlahović, illustrator, known for many Yugoslav album covers
- Relja Penezic
- Branislav Kerac, comics artist, he created Cat Claw
- Rastko Ćirić
- Gradimir Smudja, cartoonist in France and Italy, published acclaimed "Le Cabaret des Muses"
- Mile V. Pajić
- Milica Tomić
- Zoran Janjetov, comics artist, worked with Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Slobodan Peladić
- Aleksandar Zograf, cartoonist
- Uroš Đurić
- Gradimir Smudja
- Petar Meseldžija
- Jasmina Djokic
- Viktor Mitic
- Irena Kazazić, Slovenian painter of Serbian origin
- Aleksa Gajić, comics artist
Performance artists
- Marina Abramović, performance artist
- Ana Prvacki, performance and installation artist
Photographers
- Anastas Jovanović, first professional photographer of Serbia
- Milan Jovanović, Serbian photographer.
- Branibor Debeljković), the first photographer member of ULUS
- Stevan Kragujević, photojournalist and art photographer
- Boris Spremo, Serbian-born Canadian award-winning photojournalist, member of the Order of Canada
- Zoran Đorđević, press photographer and film lecturer
- Dragan Tanasijević, portrait photographer
- Željko Jovanović, press photographer
- Srdjan Ilic, award-winning press photographer
- Boogie , Serbian-born American documentary photographer
- Goran Tomasevic, award-winning press photographer for Reuters
- Milena Rakocević, fashion photographer
Music
Composers
- Kir Joakim
- Kir Stefan the Serb
- Nikola the Serb
- Isaiah the Serb
- Pajsije, the Serbian Patriarch from 1614 to 1647, he also composed chants
- Elena Pucić-Sorkočević was the first female composer in the Republic of Ragusa, ethnic Serb
- Josip Runjanin,, Croatian and Serbian composer, ethnic Serb.
- Kornelije Stanković
- Slavka Atanasijević, Serbian composer and pianist.
- Josif Marinković, one of the most important Serbian composers of the 19th century.
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac
- Jovo Ivanišević
- Stanislav Binički
- Petar Krstić
- Petar Stojanović
- Isidor Bajić
- Petar Konjović
- Miloje Milojević
- Stevan Hristić
- Rudolph Reti
- Mihailo Vukdragović
- Marko Tajčević
- Ljubica Marić
- Dragutin Gostuški
- Vasilije Mokranjac
- Dusan Trbojevic
- Dejan Despić
- Voki Kostić
- Zoran Sztevanovity
- Milan Mihajlović
- Zoran Simjanović
- Dušan Šestić, composer of the National anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Vojna Nešić
- Vladimir Tošić
- Zoran Erić
- Goran Bregović, Bosnian and Serbian composer, Croat father and Serb mother
- Miloš Raičković
- Vladimir Graić
- Isidora Žebeljan
- Ana Sokolovic, Serbian born Canadian music composer
- Aleksandra Vrebalov, Serbian born American composer and musician
- Aleksandar Kobac
- Kristina Kovač
- Jasna Veličković
Opera singers
- Biserka Cvejić, Serbian opera singer and university professor.
- Radmila Bakočević, spinto soprano
- Olivera Miljaković
- Milka Stojanović
- Radmila Smiljanić, classical soprano who has had an active international career in operas and concerts since 1965. She is particularly known for her portrayals of heroines from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini.
- Oliver Njego, baritone, student of Bakočević, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming a prominent opera singer.
- Laura Pavlović, lyric and spinto soprano opera singer, and a soloist with the Serbian National Theatre Opera in Novi Sad.
- Milena Kitic, Serbian-born American mezzo-soprano
- Željko Lučić, Serbian operatic baritone
- Suzana Šuvaković Savić
- Nikola Mijailović, baritone
- David Bižić, baritone
Performers
- Filip Višnjić, guslar
- Djuro Milutinović the Blind, guslar
- Petar Perunović-Perun, Montenegrin Serb, naturalized U.S., guslar
- Vlastimir Pavlović Carevac, Serbian violinist, conductor and founder and director of the National Orchestra of Radio Belgrade
- Mihailo Živanović, clarinetist, saxophonist and composer
- Milenko Stefanović, classical and jazz clarinettist
- Duško Gojković, jazz trumpetist and composer
- Del Casher, American musician and inventor
- Muruga Booker, drummer, composer, recording artist
- Brian Linehan, host-producer of TV's City Lights
- Bora Dugić, flautist
- Lene Lovich, New Wave singer, songwriter, musician
- Raša Đelmaš, rock drummer
- Philippe Djokic, professor of violin at Dalhousie University
- Radomir Mihailović Točak, rock, jazz, blues guitarist
- Bora Đorđević, rock singer
- Laza Ristovski, rock/jazz keyboard player
- Miroslav Tadić, classical guitarist
- Milan Mladenović, singer, guitar player
- Uroš Dojčinović, guitarist
- Zoran Lesandrić, rock musician
- Boban Marković, acclaimed brass ensemble leader, won "Best Orchestra" at 40th Guča Sabor. Soundtrack for Kusturica movies.
- Bojan Zulfikarpašić, pianist
- Mike Dimkich, Punk guitarist
- Marina Arsenijevic, concert pianist and composer
- Ana Popović, blues guitarist
- Stefan Milenković, violin player
- Slobodan Trkulja, multi-instrumentalist
- Kornelije Kovač, rock keyboard player and composer
- Milaan, accordionist
- Jasna Popovic, pianist
- Denise Djokic, Canadian cellist
- Maja Bogdanović, cellist
- Ivy Jenkins, metal bass player, fashion designer
- Nemanja Radulović, violinist
- Jelena Mihailović, cellist
- Marija Šestić
- David Maxim Micic
Singers
- Nada Mamula, traditional folk singer
- Đorđe Marjanović
- Bora Spužić Kvaka, singer
- Lola Novaković, pop singer
- Predrag Živković Tozovac
- Toma Zdravković
- Lepa Lukić, folk singer
- Boba Stefanović
- Dušan Prelević, folk singer
- Miloš Bojanić, folk singer
- Šaban Šaulić, folk singer-songwriter
- Zdravko Čolić, pop singer
- Bora Đorđević, rock musician, member of Riblja Čorba
- Đorđe Balašević, pop-rock musician
- Slađana Milošević, rock musician
- Željko Samardžić, pop singer
- Zorica Brunclik, folk singer
- Vesna Zmijanac, pop-folk singer
- Mitar Mirić, folk singer
- Lepi Mića, singer
- Ana Bekuta
- Snežana Đurišić
- Momčilo Bajagić "Bajaga", rock musician, member of Bajaga i Instruktori
- Bebi Dol, pop, rock and jazz singer-songwriter
- Nele Karajlić, rock musician, member of Zabranjeno Pušenje
- Baja Mali Knindža, singer
- Aca Lukas, pop-folk musician
- Dragana Mirković, pop-folk singer
- Divna Ljubojević, singer
- Svetlana Spajić, world music singer-songwriter
- Aleksandra Kovač, pop and R&B singer-songwriter, member of K2
- Željko Joksimović, pop singer, 2nd place at Eurovision 2004, and 3rd place at Eurovision 2012
- Aco Pejović
- Ceca, pop-folk singer
- Dalibor Andonov Gru, rapper
- Aleksandra Radović, pop and R&B singer
- Viki Miljković
- Goca Tržan, Europop singer, member of Tap 011
- Kristina Kovač, pop and R&B singer-songwriter, member of K2
- Vlado Georgiev, pop-rock musician
- Jelena Karleuša, pop singer
- Nataša Bekvalac, pop singer
- Jelena Karleuša, pop singer
- Saša Matić, pop-folk musician
- Seka Aleksić, pop-folk singer
- Marija Šerifović, pop singer, winner of the Eurovision 2007
- Milan Stanković, pop singer
- Stefan Đurić Rasta, rapper
Performing Arts
Actors
- Milorad Petrović
- Dobrica Milutinović
- Žanka Stokić
- Iván Petrovich German actor of Serbian origin, silent screen star
- Nevenka Urbanova, actress
- Gloria Grey, American silent film star
- Rahela Ferari
- Karl Malden, Academy award winning actor
- John Vivyan, born as John R. Vukayan; film, stage and television actor, also a highly decorated veteran
- Brad Dexter, actor in Hollywood classics
- Rade Marković
- Mija Aleksić
- Mira Stupica
- Mihajlo Bata Paskaljević
- Miodrag Petrović Čkalja
- Olivera Marković, actress
- Radmila Savićević
- Branko Pleša
- Pavle Vujisić
- Stevo Žigon
- Pavle Vujisić
- Živojin Milenković
- Ljuba Tadić
- Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljković
- Mira Banjac
- Renata Ulmanski
- Stevan Šalajić
- Bora Todorović
- Nadja Regin, Serbian actress, part of the crew of From Russia with Love
- Đoko Rosić
- Dragomir Gidra Bojanić
- Velimir Bata Živojinović
- Jelena Žigon
- Danilo Stojković
- Taško Načić,
- Ružica Sokić
- Slobodan Aligrudić
- Nikola Simić
- Milena Vukotic, Italian film actress
- Ljubiša Samardžić
- Rada Rassimov, Italian actress, best known for her role in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Ivan Rassimov
- Vera Čukić
- Mihailo Janketić
- Zoran Bečić
- Gojko Mitić
- Olivera Katarina
- Milena Dravić
- Olivera Katarina
- Petar Kralj
- Mel Novak
- Seka Sablić
- Beba Lončar, Serbian-Italian film actress
- Dragan Nikolić
- Boro Stjepanović
- Predrag Ejdus
- Josif Tatić
- Marko Nikolić
- Milan Gutović
- Petar Božović
- Branko Cvejić
- Svetlana Bojković
- Vojislav Brajović
- Miki Manojlović, Yugoslav and Serbian actor, star of some of the most important films in Yugoslav cinema, president of the Serbian Film Center since 2009
- Natalia Nogulich, American actress
- Aleksandar Berček
- Danilo Lazović
- Lazar Ristovski, actor and director
- Gorica Popović
- Predrag Miletić
- Bogdan Diklić
- Radmila Živković
- Radoš Bajić
- Neda Arnerić
- Vesna Čipčić
- Jelica Sretenović
- Zlata Petković
- Slavitza Jovan
- Ljiljana Blagojević
- Milenko Zablaćanski
- Branislav Lečić
- Mirjana Karanović
- Olga Odanović
- Zoran Cvijanović
- Branimir Brstina
- Žarko Laušević
- Lolita Davidovich, American actress, True Detective
- Catharine Oxenberg, American TV actress
- Sonja Savić
- Milorad Mandić
- Predrag Bjelac
- Slavko Labović
- Anica Dobra, Serbian actress, who won Bavarian Film Awards "Best Young Actress" for Rosamunde, cast in German Love Scenes from Planet Earth
- Dragan Bjelogrlić
- Srđan Žika Todorović
- Vesna Trivalić
- Dejan Čukić
- Nikola Kojo
- Anita Mančić
- Dubravka Mijatović
- Nebojša Glogovac
- Dragan Mićanović
- Branka Katić
- Branka Katić
- Goran Kostić
- Vojin Ćetković
- Nenad Jezdić
- Nataša Ninković
- Katarina Žutić
- Sergej Trifunović
- Sasha Alexander, Hollywood actress, daughter-in-law of Sophia Loren
- Adrienne Janic
- Nikola Đuričko
- Miloš Samolov
- Milla Jovovich
- Stana Katić, Canadian born Hollywood actress, featured in TV series Castle
- Milena Govich, Serbian American actress of TV series Law & Order
- Ben Mulroney
- Ursula Yovich, Australian actress of Serbian-Aboriginal origin
- Gordan Kičić
- Branko Tomović
- Sonja Kolačarić
- Sarah Sokolovic
- Sloboda Mićalović
- Marija Karan
- Mirka Vasiljević
- Petar Benčina, actor
- Danica Curcic, Danish actress, Serbian parentage
- Nina Senicar, American film actress
- Miloš Biković
- Jelisaveta Orašanin
- Mirka Vasiljević
Film/TV
- Svetozar Botorić, owner of Serbia's first movie theatre, the Paris Cinema
- Slavko Vorkapić, director and editor
- Aleksandar Petrović, film director
- Dušan Makavejev, film director and screenwriter.
- Đorđe Kadijević, film and TV director
- Boro Drašković, director
- Peter Bogdanovich, director
- Gojko Mitić, director
- Želimir Žilnik, director, Golden Bear winner at the Berlin International Film Festival
- Slobodan Pavićević, film and TV production manager and producer
- Slobodan Šijan, director
- Goran Paskaljević, director
- Dušan Kovačević, director and writer
- Božidar Zečević, film historian and critic
- Emir Kusturica, filmmaker, actor, writer and musician
- Predrag Bambić, film and television cinematographer and producer
- Goran Gajić, director
- Srđan Dragojević, director
- Ivan Šijak, director
- Sven Stojanovic, Swedish TV director
- Srdan Golubović, director
- Stefan Arsenijević, director, Golden Bear winner at the Berlin International Film Festival
- Mila Turajlić, documentary filmmaker
- Boris Malagurski, documentary filmmaker
Designers
- Zoran Ladicorbic, Serbian-born American fashion designer
- Verica Rakocević, fashion designer
- Miljen Kljaković, award-winning production designer
- Sacha Lakic, Serbian-born French automotive and furniture designer
- Konstantin Grcic, industrial designer
- Jelena Behrend, Serbian-born American jewelry designer
- Marek Djordjevic, automobile designer
- Marijana Matthäus, Serbian fashion designer
- Elena Karaman Karić, interior designer, furniture designer
- Aleksandar Protić, fashion designer
- Ana Šekularac, British fashion designer of Serbian descent
- Boris Nikolić, fashion designer
- Roksanda Ilincic, Serbian-born British fashion designer
- Zvonko Marković, fashion designer
- Gorjana Reidel, Serbian-born American jewelry designer
- Ivana Sert, swimsuit designer, television presenter, model
- Bojana Sentaler, Serbian-born Canadian fashion designer
- Bata Spasojević, fashion designer
- Ines Janković, fashion designer
- Ana Kras, Serbian-born American fashion and furniture designer, photographer
- Ana Ljubinković, fashion designer
- Mihailo Anušić, fashion designer
- Sonja Jocić, fashion designer
- Nevena Ivanović, fashion designer
- George Styler, Serbian-born American fashion designer
- Rushka Bergman, Serbian-born American fashion stylist and editor
- Jovan Jelovac, founder and director of Belgrade Design Week
- Ivana Pilja, fashion designer
- Ana Rajcevic, fashion artist
- Aleksandra Lalić, fashion designer
- Evica Milovanov-Penezic, glove designer
Models
- Zlata Petković
- Aleksandra Melnichenko, Serbian model and pop group member, wife of Andrey Melnichenko
- Nataša Vojnović, Serbian fashion model
- Maja Latinović, Serbian fashion model
- Dragana Atlija, model and actress
- Sanja Papić, Miss Serbia and Montenegro at the Miss Universe 2002
- Bojana Panić, Serbian fashion model and actress
- Sara Brajovic French fashion model
- Ana Mihajlović, Serbian fashion model
- Vedrana Grbović, model and beauty pageant winner
- Danijela Dimitrovska, Serbian fashion model
- Georgina Stojiljković, Serbian fashion model
- Olya Ivanisevic, Serbian fashion model
- Aleksandra Nikolić, Serbian fashion model
- Mila Miletic, Serbian fashion model
- Sofija Milošević, Serbian fashion model
- Andreja Pejic, Australian fashion model
- Veruska Ljubisavljević, Miss Venezuela 2018
- Anđelka Tomašević, model and beauty pageant winner
- Sara Mitić, model and beauty pageant winner
Dancers and choreographers
- Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, granddaughter of Marko Miljanov and wife of Frank Lloyd Wright
- Nick Kosovich, ballroom dancer and actor
- George Zoritch, Russian dancer and teacher of Serbian antecedents
- Milorad Mišković, ballet dancer and choreographer, honorary president of UNESCO International Dance Council
- Jelena Tinska, actress and ballerina
- Tamara Martinović, ballet dancer
Literature
Writers
- Buća, noble family, originating in Kotor during the Middle Ages. Some of their antecedents were writers and poets.
- Miroslav of Hum, 12th-century Great Prince of Zachlumia from 1162 to 1190, an administrative division of the medieval Serbian Principality covering Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia.
- Anonymous author of the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, a 12th-century literary work, preserved in its Latin version only, has all the indication that it was written in Old Slavic, or, at least, that a portion of the material included in it existed previously in the Slavic language.
- Stefan Nemanja, issued an edict called the "Hilandar Charter" for the newly established Serbian monastery at Mount Athos.
- Stefan the First-Crowned, wrote "The Life of Stefan Nemanja", a biography of his father.
- Saint Sava, Serbian royalty and Archbishop, author of oldest known Serbian constitution – the Zakonopravilo. Also, he authored Karyes Typikon in 1199 and Studenica Typikon in 1208.
- Monk Simeon, wrote Vukan's Gospel.
- Atanasije , a disciple of Saint Sava, was a Serbian monk-scribe who wrote a "Hymn to Saint Sava" and a "Eulogy to Saint Sava".
- Grigorije the Pupil, author of Miroslav Gospel and Miroslav of Hum commissioned it.
- Domentijan, Serbian scholar and writer. For most of his life, he was a monk dedicated to writing biographies of clerics, including "Life of St. Sava."
- Bratko Menaion, represents the oldest Serbian transcription of this liturgical book, discovered in the village of Banvani, and written by presbyter Bratko during the reign of king Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia in 1234.
- Stefan Uroš I of Serbia, author of the Ston Charter.
- Theodosius the Hilandarian, technically the first Serbian novelist, wrote biographies of Saint Sava and St. Simeon
- Grigorije II of Ras, monk-scribe
- Nikodim I, Abbot of Hilandar, issued an edict wherein he grants to the monks of the Kelion of St. Sava in Karyes a piece of land and an abandoned monastery. He translated numerous ancient texts and wrote some poetry. Also, he wrote Rodoslov.
- Dragolj Code, written in 1259 by Serbian monk Dragolj.
- Stanislav of Lesnovo, wrote "Oliver's Menologion" in Serbia in 1342.
- Jakov of Serres, author of Triodion.
- Elder Grigorije, Serbian nobleman and monk, possibly "Danilo's pupil", i.e. the main author of "Žitija kraljeva i arhiepiskopa srpskih".
- Isaija the Monk, translated the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
- Anonymous Athonite was Isaija the Monk's biographer and one of the many unidentified authors of Medieval works.
- Elder Siluan, author of a hymn to Saint Sava. Hesychasm left a strong imprint in Serbian medieval literature and art, which is evident in works by Domentijan and Teodosije the Hilandarian, but most prominently in the writings of Danilo of Peć, Isaija the Monk and Elder Siluan.
- Stefan Dušan, author of Dušan's Code, the second oldest preserved constitution of Serbia.
- Jefimija, daughter of Caesar Vojihna and widow of Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević, took monastic vows and is the author of three found works, including "Praise to Prince Lazar". One of the earliest European female writers.
- Jefrem , born in a priestly family, of Bulgarian origin, was the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from 1375 to 1379 and from 1389 to 1392. He was also a poet who left a large body of work, preserved in a 14th-century manuscript from Hilandar Monastery.
- Dorotej of Hilandar, wrote a charter for the monastery of Drenča in 1382.
- Rajčin Sudić, Serbian monk-scribe who lived during the time of Lord Vojihna, the father of Jefimija.
- Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow, Bulgarian-born, Serbian clergyman who as the Metropolitan of Moscow wrote The Book of Degrees, which grouped Russian monarchs in the order of their generations. The book was published in 1563.
- Saint Danilo II, wrote biographies of Serbian medieval rulers, including the biography of Jelena, the wife of King Stefan Dragutin.
- Antonije Bagaš, translated works from Greek into Serbian.
- Euthymius of Tarnovo, founder of the Tarnovo Literary School that standardized the literary texts of all Orthodox Slavs, including those in Serbia and in Kievan Rus.
- Nikola Radonja, as monk Gerasim, served and helped with great merit Hilandar and other monasteries at Mount Athos, and authored "Gerasim Chronicle".
- Princess Milica, consort of Prince Lazar. One of the earliest European female writers.
- Psalter of Branko Mladenović, dated 1346.
- Vrhobreznica Chronicle, also written between 1350 and 1400 by an anonymous monk-scribe.
- Jefrem, twice Serbian patriarch, though Bulgarian born. He was also a poet.
- Maria Angelina Doukaina Palaiologina, Serbian writer.
- Gregory Tsamblak, Bulgarian writer and cleric, abbot of Serbia's Visoki Dečani, wrote A Biography of and Service to St. Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia, and On the Transfer of Relics of Saint Paraskeva to Serbia.
- Danilo III, Patriarch of the Serbs, Serbian patriarch and writer. He wrote Slovo o knezu Lazaru.
- Nikola Stanjević, commissioned monk Feoktist to write Tetravangelion at the Hilandar monastery, now on exhibit at the British Museum in London, collection No. 154.
- Jelena Balšić, educated Serbian noblewoman, who wrote the Gorički zbornik, correspondence between her and Nikon of Jerusalem, a monk in Gorica monastery on Beška in Zeta under the Balšići.
- Stefan Lazarević, Knez/Despot of Serbia, wrote biographies and poetry, one of the most important Serbian medieval writers. He founded the Resava School at Manasija monastery.
- Đurađ Branković, author psalter Oktoih, published posthumously in 1494 by Hieromonk Makarije, the founder of Serbian and Romanian printing.
- Kir Joakim, late 14th century musical writer.
- Dečani Chronicle, written by an anonymous monk, also from the Resava School made famous by Manasija monastery. Rewritten and published in 1864 by Archimandrite Serafim Ristić of the Dečani Monastery
- Oxford Serbian Psalter, written by an anonymous monk-scribe.
- Munich Serbian Psalter, written by an anonymous monk-scribe.
- Tomić Psalter, named after Simon Tomić, a Serbian art collector, found the 14th century illuminated manuscript in Old Serbia in 1901.
- Dorotheus of Hilandar, author of a charter for the monastery of Drenča.
- Romylos of Vidin, also known as Romylos of Ravanica where he died in the late 1300s.
- Kir Stefan the Serb, Serbian monk-scribe and composer.
- Nikola the Serb, Serbian monk-scribe and composer.
- Isaiah the Serb, monk-scribe and composer of chants in the 15th century. He finished the translation from Greek to Serbian of the Corpus Areopagiticum, the works of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, in 1371, and transcribed the manuscripts of Joachim, Domestikos of Serbia.
- Danilo III, writer and poet.
- Constantine of Kostenets, Bulgarian writer and chronicler who lived in Serbia, author of the biography of Despot Stefan Lazarević and of the first Serbian philological study, Skazanije o pismenah.
- Kantakuzina Katarina Branković, remembered for commissioning the Varaždin Apostol in 1454.
- Radoslav Gospels, work of both Celibate Priest Feodor, also known as "Inok from Dalsa", who is credited for transcribing the Radoslav Gospel in the Serbian recension, now in the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg. Radoslav is the famed miniaturist who illuminated the pages.
- Jelena Balšić's correspondence with monk Nikon of Jerusalem between 1441 and 1442 is found in Gorički zbornik, named after the island of Gorica in Lake Skadar where Jelena built a church.
- Dimitrije Kantakuzin, while residing in the Rila monastery in 1469 Kantakuzin wrote a biography of Saint John of Rila and a touching "Prayer to the Holy Virgin" imploring her aid in combating sin.
- Konstantin Mihailović, the last years of his life were spent in Poland where he wrote his Turkish Chronicle, an interesting document with a detailed description of the historical events of that period as well as various customs of the Turks and Christians.
- Pachomius the Serb, prolific hagiographer who came from Mount Athos to work in Russia between 1429 and 1484. He wrote eleven saint's lives while employed by the Russian Orthodox Church in Novgorod. He was one of the representatives of the ornamental style known as pletenje slova.
- Dimitar of Kratovo, 15th-century Serb writer and lexicographer of the Kratovo Literary School.
- Ninac Vukoslavić, chancellor and scribe at the court of Scanderbeg, and author of his letters.
- Deacon Damian who wrote "Koporin Chronicle" in 1453.
- Vladislav the Grammarian, Serbian monk, writer, historian and theologian.
- Dimitar of Kratovo was a 15th-century Serb writer and lexicographer, one of the most important members of the Kratovo literary school.
- Martin Segon was a Serbian writer, Catholic Bishop of Ulcinj and a 15th-century humanist.
- Lazar of Hilandar After Pachomius the Serb, the most significant Serbian monk in Imperial Russia.
- Benedikt Kuripečič was the first to record part of the folk songs of the Battle of Kosovo dealing with Miloš Obilić's exploits.
- Stefan Paštrović, author of two books, engaged a certain hieromonk Sava of Visoki Dečani to print them in Venice at the Francesco Rampazetto and Heirs publishing house in 1597.
- Jakov of Kamena Reka, worked in the Vuković printing house in Venice with Vićenco Vuković, son of Božidar.
- Radiša Dimitrović owned the Belgrade printing house where many medieval works were published.
- Peja wrote a poem In the Court and in the Dungeon, from The Service of Saint George of Kratovo, and a biography of the same saint between 1515 and 1523.
- Teodor Ljubavić wrote the Goražde Psalter in 1521.
- Tronoša Chronicle was written in 1526 and transcribed by hieromonk Josif Tronoša in the eighteenth century.
- Jovan Maleševac was a Serbian Orthodox monk and scribe who collaborated in 1561 with the Slovene Protestant reformer Primož Trubar to print religious books in Cyrillic.
- Matija Popović was a 16th-century Serbian Orthodox cleric from Ottoman Bosnia who also supported the Reformation movement.
- Peter Petrovics was a 16th-century Serbian magnate and one of Hungary's most influential and fervent supporters of the Reformation.
- Teodor Račanin was the first Serbian writer and monk of the Rachan Scriptorium School mentioned in Ottoman and Serbian sources.
- Dimitrije Ljubavić was a Serbian Orthodox deacon, humanist, writer, and printer who sought to bring a rapprochement between the Lutherans and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- Jovan the Serb of Kratovo was a Serbian writer and monk whose name is preserved as the author of six books, now part of the Museum Collection of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
- Inok Sava was the first to write and publish a Serbian Primer at the printing press of Giovanni Antonio Rampazetto in Venice in two editions, first on the 20th and the second on the 25th of May 1597, after which the book somehow fell into neglect only to be rediscovered recently.
- Pajsije I Janjevac was a Serbian Patriarch and an author whose works showed an admixture of popular elements.
- Georgije Mitrofanović was a Serbian Orthodox monk and painter whose work can be seen in the church at the Morača monastery.
- Mavro Orbin was the author of the "Realm of the Slavs" which made a significant impact on Serbian historiography, influencing future historians, particularly Đorđe Branković.
- Zograf Longin, was an icon painter and writer.
- Jakov of Kamena Reka worked in the Vuković printing house in Venice with Vićenco Vuković.
- Mariano Bolizza was a prominent Serbian writer who also wrote in Italian.
- Đorđe Branković, Count of Podgorica who wrote the first history of Serbia in five volumes.
- Radul of Riđani was a Serbian Orthodox priest and chieftain of Riđani, and a prolific letter writer who kept the authorities of Perast informed about Ottoman preparations for the Battle of Perast. A collection of his letters are kept in a museum.
- Kiprijan Račanin was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre in Hungary, like the one he left behind at the Rača monastery in Serbia at the beginning of the Great Turkish War in 1689.
- Jerotej Račanin was a Serbian writer and copyist of church manuscripts and books. After visiting Jerusalem in 1704 he wrote a book about his travel experiences from Hungary to the Holy Land and back.
- John of Tobolsk was a Serbian cleric born in Nizhyn, in the Czernihow Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the time, now revered as a saint.
- Čirjak Račanin was a Serbian writer and monk, a member of the famed "School of Rača".
- Tripo Kokolja was a well-known Serbian-Venetian painter.
- Sava Vladislavich, framed Peter the Great's proclamation of 1711, translated Mavro Orbin's Il regno de gli Slavi from Italian into Russian, and composed the Treaty of Kiakhta and many others
- Gavril Stefanović Venclović, one of the first and most notable representatives of Serbian Baroque and Enlightenment literature, wrote in the vernacular. Milorad Pavić saw Venclović as a living link between the Byzantine literary tradition and the emerging new views on modern literature. He was the precursor of enlightenment aiming, most of all, to educate the common folk.
- Julije Balović wrote in Italian and Serbian. He is the author of Practichae Schrivaneschae, a manual for a ship's scribe, and Perast Chronicles, a collection of epic poetry.
- Ivan Krušala is best known for writing a poem about the Battle of Perast in 1654, among others. He worked in a Russian embassy in China at the time when Sava Vladislavich was the ambassador.
- Simeon Končarević, a Serbian writer and Bishop of Dalmatia who, exiled twice from his homeland, settled in Russia where he wrote his chronicles.
- Parteniy Pavlovich was a Serbian Orthodox Church cleric who championed South Slavic revival.
- Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje was a writer and founder of the Petrović Njegoš dynasty.
- Sava Petrović wrote numerous letters to the Moscow metropolitan and the Empress Elizabeth of Russia about the deploring conditions of the Serb Nation under occupation by the Turks, Republic of Venice and the Habsburg Empire.
- Pavle Nenadović was commissioned by Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Karlovci, Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta to compose a heraldic book, Stemmatographia.
- Jovan Četirević Grabovan was a Serbian icon painter. He painted the Lepavina and Orahovica monasteries, among others.
- Tomo Medin was a Montenegrin Serb writer and adventurer. He and Casanova had two duels together.
- Zaharije Orfelin, one of the most notable representatives of the Serbian Baroque in art and literature
- Jovan Rajić, writer, historian, traveler, and pedagogue, who wrote the first systematic work on the history of Croats and Serbs
- Mojsije Putnik, Metropolitan, educator, writer, and founder of secondary schools and institutions of higher learning.
- Kiril Zhivkovich was a Serbian and Bulgarian writer.
- Pavle Julinac was a Serbian writer, historian, traveler, soldier, and diplomat.
- Simeon Piščević, was a Serbian writer and high-ranking officer in the service of Austria and Imperial Russia.
- Dositej Obradović, influential protagonist of the Serbian national and cultural renaissance, founder of modern Serbian literature
- Nikola Nešković was a most prolific Serbian icon, fresco and portrait painter in the Baroque style.
- Stefan von Novaković was a Serbian writer and publisher of Serbian books in Vienna and patron of Serbian literature.
- Teodor Janković-Mirijevski, the most influential educational reformer in the Habsburg Empire and Imperial Russia
- Jovan Muškatirović was one of the early disciples of Dositej Obradović.
- Teodor Ilić Češljar was one of the best late Baroque Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina.
- Petar I Petrović Njegoš was a writer and poet besides being a spiritual and temporal ruler of the "Serb land of Montenegro" as he called it.
- Vićentije Rakić was a Serbian writer and poet. He founded the School of Theology.
- Stefano Zannowich was a Montenegrin Serb writer and adventurer. From his early youth, he was prone to challenges and adventures, unruly and dissipated life. He wrote in Italian and French, besides Serbian. He is known for his "Turkish Letters" that fascinated his contemporaries. His works belong to the genre of epistolary novel.
- Hadži-Ruvim was a Serbian Orthodox archimandrite who documented events and wars in his time, established a private library, wrote library bibliographies, collected books in which he drew ornaments and miniatures. He did wood carving and woodcutting.
- Gerasim Zelić, Serbian Orthodox Church archimandrite, traveller and writer. His chief work was the travel memoirs Žitije, which also served as a sociological work.
- Tripo Smeća was a Venetian historian and writer who wrote in Italian and in Serbian.
- Avram Mrazović was a Serbian writer, translator and pedagogue.
- Emanuilo Janković was a Serbian man of letters and of science.
- Sava Tekelija was the patron of Matica Srpska, a literary and cultural society
- Gligorije Trlajić, writer, poet, polyglot and professor of law at the universities of St. Petersburg and Kharkiv, author of a textbook on Civil Law which according to some laid the foundations of Russian civil law doctrine
- Old Rashko, Romanticism
- Tomo Milinović is a Serbian writer and freedom-fighter. He authored two books, Umotvorina and Istorija Slavenskog Primorija.
- Jovan Pačić was a Serbian poet, writer, translator, painter and soldier. He translated Goethe
- Pavel Đurković was one of the most important Serbian Baroque artists.
- Joakim Vujić,, writer, dramatist, actor, traveler and polyglot. He is known as the Father of Serbian Theatre.
- Atanasije Stojković was a Serbian writer, pedagogue, physicist, mathematician and astronomer in the service of Imperial Russia. He also taught mathematics at the university of Kharkiv.
- Živana Antonijević, Romanticism
- Lukijan Mušicki, Serbian Orthodox abbott, poet, prose writer, and polyglot.
- Matija Nenadović author of Memoirs, an eyewitness account of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815.
- Teodor Filipović, writer, jurist and educator, wrote the Decree of the Governing Council of Revolutionary Serbia. He taught at the newly-founded National University of Kharkiv, with his compatriots, Gligorije Trlajić and Atanasije Stojković.
- Stevan Živković-Telemak is the author of Obnovljene Srbije, 1780-1831 and Serbian translator of François Fénelon's Les Aventures de Telemaque.
- Jovan Došenović was a Serbian philosopher, poet and translator.
- Sava Mrkalj, devised an alphabet system, which rejected 16 of 42 Slavonic letters.
- Luka Milovanov Georgijević is considered the first children's poet of new Serbian literature. He collaborated with Vuk Karadžić on the production of grammars and the dictionary.
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Romanticism
- Sofronije Jugović-Marković was a Serbian writer and activist in Russian service. He wrote "Serbian Empire and State" in 1792 in order to raise the patriotic spirit of the Serbs in both the Habsburg and Ottoman empires.
- Dimitrije Davidović, Minister of Education of the Principality of Serbia, writer, journalist, publisher, historian, diplomatist, and founder of modern Serbian journalism and publishing.
- Sima Milutinović Sarajlija, poet, Hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer.
- Georgije Magarašević, eminent writer, historian, dramatist, publisher, and founder and first editor of Serbski Letopis.
- Jovan Hadžić was a Serbian writer and legislator
- Prokopije Čokorilo is known for his chronicles and a dictionary of Turkish expressions in Serbian. He contributed to the Srbsko-dalmatinski Magazin.
- Jovan Stejić was a Serbian physician writer, philosopher, translator, and a critic of Vuk Karadžić's language reform.
- Pavle Stamatović
- Jovan Sterija Popović,, playwright, poet and pedagogue who taught at the University of Belgrade, then known as Grande École.
- Stefan Stefanović. Serbian writer who lived and worked in Novi Sad and Budapest
- Božidar Petranović, Realism
- Nikanor Grujić,, Rationalism to Romanticism
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, works include The Mountain Wreath, the Ray of the Microcosm, the Serbian Mirror, and False Tsar Stephen the Little.
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Romanticism
- Ognjeslav Utješenović, Rationalism to Romanticism
- Matija Ban, writer, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat
- Vasa Živković, Rationalism to Romanticism
- Medo Pucić, writer and prominent Serbian nationalist who was one of the leaders of the "Serb-Catholic" Circle.
- Jovan Đorđević, Serbian man of letters, writer of lyrics to the Serbian National anthem
- Svetozar Miletić, writer and editor of a magazine called Slavjanka, in which Serbian students living under Habsburg occupation championed their ideas of national freedom
- Ljubomir Nenadović, writer
- Milorad Pavlović-Krpa, was merchant and writer of epic songs who wrote the earliest collection of urban lyric poetry., writer and early Anton Chekhov translator
- Tešan Podrugović, Romanticism
- Filip Višnjić, Romanticism
- Sava Mrkalj, Romanticism
- Pavle Stamatović
- Đorđe Marković Koder, Romanticism
- Vuk Vrčević, collaborated with Vuk Karadžić collecting Serbian tales and songs in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dalmatia along with Vuk Popović
- Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Romanticism
- Dimitrije Matić
- Jakov Ignjatović, Realism
- Visarion Ljubiša, Romanticism
- Branko Radičević, Romanticism
- Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša, Romanticism
- Jovan Sundečić, Romanticism
- Nikša Gradi, Romanticism
- Novak Radonić, Romanticism
- Bogoboj Atanacković
- Ljubomir Nenadović, Realism
- Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja, Romanticism
- Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja, Romanticism
- Ivan Stojanović, Romanticism
- Gavrilo Vitković, Realism
- Staka Skenderova, Romanticism, a Bosnian Serb writer, teacher and social worker.
- Milan Đ. Milićević, Realism
- Đura Jakšić, Romanticism
- Ilarion Ruvarac, Romanticism
- Nićifor Dučić, Realism
- Vaso Pelagić, Romanticism
- Vladimir Jovanović, Realism
- Marko Miljanov, Romanticism
- Pero Budmani, Romanticism
- Kosta Ruvarac, Realism
- Ljudevit Vuličević
- Miloš Crnjanski
- Laza Kostić, Romanticism
- Nicholas I of Montenegro, Romanticism
- Stojan Novaković
- Čedomilj Mijatović, Romanticism
- Evgenije Popović
- Kosta Trifković, Romanticism
- Svetomir Nikolajević, Realism
- Vladan Đorđević, Realism
- Nikodim Milaš, Realism
- Risto Kovačić, Realism
- Svetozar Marković, Realism
- Milovan Glišić, Realism
- Sava Bjelanović, Realism
- Laza Lazarević, Realism
- Dragomir Brzak
- Simo Matavulj, Realism
- Stevan Sremac, Realism
- Jaša Tomić, Realism
- Ivo Vojnović, Realism
- Ljubomir Nedić, Realism
- Marko Car, Realism
- Vojislav Ilić, Realism
- Milan Rešetar, Realism
- Nikola T. Kašiković
- Janko Veselinović , Realism
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch
- Jelena Dimitrijević
- Svetolik Ranković, Realism
- Bogdan Popović
- Antun Fabris, Realism
- Branislav Nušić, Realism to Moderna
- Ivan Ivanić, Realism; a diplomat and an author
- Lujo Bakotić
- Radoje Domanović, Realism
- Svetozar Ćorović, Realism to Moderna
- Borisav Stanković, Realism
- Petar Kočić, Realism to Moderna
- Jovan Skerlić
- Isidora Sekulic
- Kosta Abrašević, Moderna
- Jevto Dedijer, Moderna
- Stijepo Kobasica
- Vojislav Jovanović Marambo, naturalism, kitchen sink drama
- Dimitrije Mitrinović
- Mir-Jam
- Jela Spiridonović-Savić
- Stanislav Vinaver
- Vladimir Velmar-Janković
- Rastko Petrović
- Branko Ve Poljanski
- Jovan Popović
- Vladan Desnica
- Meša Selimović
- Mihailo Lalić
- Branko Ćopić
- Vojin Jelić
- Dobrica Ćosić
- Dejan Medaković
- Duško Radović
- Bogdan Bogdanović, essayist
- Milo Dor
- Mateja Matejić
- Aleksandar Tišma
- Draginja Adamović
- Nenad Petrović
- Miodrag Pavlović
- Dragan Lukić
- Milorad Pavić
- Radomir Belaćević
- Borislav Pekić
- Miodrag Bulatović
- Dragoslav Mihailović
- Ivan V. Lalić
- Jovan Ćirilov
- B. Wongar, Serbian-Australian writer who explores traditional Serbian and Australian Aboriginal culture
- Vladimir Voinovich
- Mika Antić
- Slobodan Selenić
- Živojin Pavlović
- Duško Trifunović
- Svetlana Velmar-Janković
- Sava Babić
- Grozdana Olujić
- Danilo Kiš
- Milovan Danojlić
- Mirko Kovač
- Miroljub Todorović
- Milan Milišić
- Vida Ognjenović
- Vidosav Stevanović
- Milovan Vitezović
- Raša Papeš
- Dragomir Brajković
- Jovan Zivlak
- Zoran Živković
- Dušan Kovačević
- Novica Tadić
- Zoran Spasojević
- Radosav Stojanović
- Svetislav Basara
- Biljana Jovanović
- Jasmina Tešanović
- Siniša Kovačević
- Radoslav Pavlović
- Vladislav Bajac
- Dejan Stojanović
- Prvoslav Vujčić
- Goran Petrović
- Vladan Matijević
- Dragomir Dujmov
- Slobodan Savić
- Aleksandar Gatalica
- Uroš Petrović
- Zoran Stefanović
- Branislava Ilić
- Biljana Srbljanović
- Vesna Perić
- Aleksandar Novaković
- Aleksandra Čvorović, Serbian writer from Banja Luka
- Srđan Srdić
- Olivia Sudjic, British fiction writer
- Nenad Prokić
Poets
- Paskoje Primojević was a poet and Serbian scribe in the Serbian Chancellery in Dubrovnik during the time of the Republic of Ragusa.
- Dimitrije Karaman, born in Lipova, Arad in the early 1500s, was an early Serbian poet and bard.
- Ludovico Pasquali was an Italian poet and Venetian soldier of Serbian origin, though Roman Catholic by faith, who lived in the early and mid-1500s.
- Hristofor Žefarović, Serbian poet who died in Imperial Russia spreading the Pan-Slav culture.
- Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš, Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Montenegro, wrote patriotic poetry and the first history of Montenegro, published in Moscow in 1754
- Jovan Avakumović, known as a representative of the Serbian folk poetry of the 18th century, though he only wrote a few poems which were part of handwritten poem books.
- Pavle Solarić was Obradović's disciple who wrote poetry and the first book on geography in the vernacular.
- Aleksije Vezilić was a Serbian lyric poet who introduced the Teutonic vision of the Enlightenment to the Serbs.
- Avram Miletić was a merchant and writer of epic folk sings.
- Mato Vodopić was a Serb-Catholic Bishop of Dubrovnik and poet, Romanticism
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Romanticism
- Mileta Jakšić, Realism to Moderna
- Aleksa Šantić, Realism to Moderna
- Jovan Dučić, Moderna
- Milan Rakić, Moderna
- S. Avdo Karabegović
- Osman Đikić
- Vladislav Petković Dis, Moderna
- Sima Pandurović, Moderna
- Veljko Petrović , Moderna
- Momčilo Nastasijević, poet
- Desanka Maksimović
- Dušan Matić
- Rade Drainac
- Dušan Vasiljev
- Radovan Zogović, leading Serb poet and literary critic from Montenegro
- Milena Pavlović-Barili
- Oskar Davičo
- Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Albanian poet
- Branko Miljković
- Ljubomir Simović
- Dobrica Erić
- Charles Simic
- Matija Bećković
- Ljubivoje Ršumović
Journalists
- Sava Bjelanović
- Maga Magazinović, Serbia's 1st female journalist and women's rights activist
- Milorad Sokolović, sports journalist
- Vasilije Stojković, sports journalist
- Zaharije Trnavčević
- Ranko Munitić, film critic
- Gordana Suša, television journalist and columnist
- Milorad Vučelić
- Stojan Cerović, writer for the magazine ''Vreme'
- Miroslav Lazanski, columnist
- Walt Bogdanich, American investigative journalist and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.
- Milan Pantić
- Saša Marković Mikrob
- Ljiljana Aranđelović, news paper editor
- Dejan Ristanović
- Dada Vujasinović, columnist
- Brankica Stanković, Serbian investigative journalist
- Zoran Kesić, TV presenter and talk-show host
- Vukša Veličković, British cultural critic of Serbian descent
- Mirjana Bjelogrlić-Nikolov, television journalist
- Jasmina Karanac, television journalist
- Ana Marija Popović, columnist
- Dubravka Lakić, film critic
- Jelena Adzic, Serbian-born Canadian CBC journalist and on-air personality
- Saša Petricic, Canadian award-winning CBC journalist
- Anka Radakovich, American magazine columnist
- Tijana Ibrahimovic, Serbian-born American fashion journalist
Publishers and editors
- Andrija Paltašić, early printer and publisher of Serb books.
- Bonino De Boninis, early printer and publisher in Dubrovnik.
- Božidar Vuković and later his son, Vićenco Vuković, ran his father's print shop in Venice, from 1519 until 1561, with partners Stefan Marinović, Jerolim Zagurović, Jakov of Kamena Reka and others. The best known presses were established in 1519 in Goražde; at the Monastery of Rujno in the village of Bioska, near Užice; at Gračanica monastery in Kosovo; and at Mileševa monastery, near Prijepolje. In 1597 the Vuković press passed into the hands of Giorgio Rampazetto, who printed two important books—the Collection of Trvelers and the earliest Serbian primer.
- Hieromonk Makarije is the founder of Serbian and Romanian printing, having printed the first book in the Serbian language in Obod in 1493, and the first book in Wallachia. He also wrote extensively.
- Hieromonk Pahomije learned the skills of the printing trade from Hieromonk Makarije at the Crnojević printing house.
- Božidar Goraždanin founded the Goražde printing house in the 1520s.
- Luka Radovanović, was a 15th-century Serb Catholic priest from Ragusa who owned a small printing press, one of the earliest at the time.
- Đurađ Crnojević, first printed the Oktoih at Cetinje in 1495.
- Trojan Gundulić, is remembered for printing the first book in Belgrade in 1552, "The Four Gospels".
- Hieromonk Mardarije used to print his books at Mrkšina crkva printing house before the Ottomans destroyed it.
- Jerolim Zagurović, was a Catholic-Serb printer from Kotor.
- Vićenco Vuković, was one of the major printers of 16th century Serbia, like his father before him.
- Stefan Marinović, was a Serb printer from Scutari during the time of Vićenco Vuković, Jerolim Zagurović, Jakov of Kamena Reka and others.The longest-lived printing in the Balkans was done at Scutari, where Stefan Skadranin worked between 1563 and 1580. When his press stopped, because of continued Turkish authority over the region, Serbian printing left the Balkans. Later, Serbian books were printed in Venice, Leipzig, Vienna, and Trieste.
- Mojsije Dečanac is remembered for printing Praznićni minej of Božidar Vuković in Venice in 1538.
- Hieromonk Genadije was another printer who worked alongside hieromonk Teodosije at Mileševa monastery and later in Venice with hierodeacon Mojsije and hieromonk Teodosije.
- Luka Primojević, is another early printer of the 16th century from Ragusa to use Church Slavonic, Cyrillic type.
- Stefan Vujanovski
- Dimitrije Ruvarac
- Vladislav F. Ribnikar
- Darko F. Ribnikar
- Stijepo Kobasica
- Velibor Gligorić, literary critic, editor and writer
- Danilo Gregorić, news paper editor
Screenwriters
- Gordan Mihić
- Steve Tesich, Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright
- Nebojša Pajkić
- Đorđe Milosavljević
Translators
- Okica Gluščević
- Dimitrije Vladisavljević is a Serbian grammarian, translator and writer.
Academic sciences
Science and invention
- Lazar the Hilandarian, Serbian Orthodox monk who built the first mechanical clock tower in Russia
- Roger Joseph Boscovich
- Dimitrije Frušić, prominent medical doctor and journalist based in Trieste
- Josif Pančić, botanist
- Dimitrije Nešić, mathematician
- Sava Petrović, botanist
- Ljubomir Klerić, mining engineer and mathematician
- Sima Lozanić, chemist
- Laza Lazarević, physician
- Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, created "arbonite".
- Marko Leko, chemist
- Draga Ljočić, Serbia's first female doctor and women's rights activist
- Spiridon Gopčević, astronomer, also known by his nom de plume Leo Brenner, friend of American astronomer Percival Lowell
- Nikola Tesla, Serbian American physicist, inventor, and engineer known for his advancements in electrical power
- Jovan Žujović, pioneer in geological and paleontological science in Serbia
- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, physicist, professor and inventor of a new telecommunications technology
- Bogdan Gavrilović, mathematician
- Jovan Cvijić, geographer, ethnographer and geologist
- Vladimir Varićak, mathematician and theoretical physicist
- Mihailo Petrović Alas, author of the mathematical phenomenology and inventor of the first hydraulic computer capable to solve differential equations
- Mileva Marić, mathematician, wife of Albert Einstein
- Ivan Sarić, one of the earliest pioneers in aviation in Austria-Hungary and Serbia. His planes are on display at the Museum of Belgrade.
- Milutin Milanković, geophysicist, astronomer, writer, professor
- Pavle Vujević, founder of the science of microclimatology, and one of the first in the science of potamology
- Ivan Đaja, biologist and physiologist
- Jovan Hadži, Slovenian zoologist
- Jovan Čokor, epidemiologist
- Siniša Stanković, biologist
- Ilija Đuričić, veterinary physician
- Jovan Karamata, mathematician
- Danilo Blanusa, mathematician, of Serb heritage
- Tatomir Anđelić, mathematician
- Đuro Kurepa, mathematician
- Petar Đurković, astronomer
- Dragoslav Mitrinović, mathematician
- Petar Đurković, astronomer
- Pavle Savić, physicist and chemist, together with Irène Joliot-Curie he was nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics
- Milorad B. Protić, astronomer
- Rajko Tomović, physicist and iventor
- Dušan Kanazir, molecular biologist
- Obrad Vučurović, rocket scientist
- Nikola Hajdin, construction engineer
- Aleksandar Despić, physicist
- Bogdan Maglich, nuclear physicist
- Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, scientist and Club of Rome member.
- Jovan Rašković, psychiatrist
- Svetozar Kurepa, mathematician
- Tihomir Novakov, physicist
- Petar Gburčik, scientist and a professor of meteorology at the University of Belgrade. He was the author of first mathematical models of the numerical weather prediction, which were used operationally in the Weather Service of Yugoslavia from 1970 to 1977. In the same period he began modeling of the atmospheric diffusion of air-pollution and created the first model of the spatial distribution of air-pollution
- Miomir Vukobratovic, mechanical engineer and pioneer in humanoid robots
- Ljubisav Rakic, neurobiologist
- Dušan Ristanović, medical biophysict
- Miodrag Radulovacki, neuropharmacologist and professor
- Milan Kurepa, physicist
- Petar V. Kokotovic, engineering professor and theorist
- Milan Raspopović, mathematician
- Milan Vukcevich, chemist and grandmaster of chess problem composition
- Miodrag Petković, mathematician
- Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, biomedical engineer
- Gradimir Milovanović, mathematician
- Zoran Knežević, astronomer
- Bogdan Duricic, biochemist
- Zorica Pantic, engineer and president of Wentworth Institute of Technology
- Marko V. Jaric, physicist
- Voja Antonić, inventor, journalist, writer, magazine editor, radio show contributor, also creator of a build-it-yourself home computer Galaksija
- Milan Damnjanović, physicist
- Jasmina Vujic, nuclear engineering professor at Berkeley, 1st female nuclear engineering department chair in the US
- Stevo Todorčević, mathematician
- Milomir Kovac, veterinary surgeon and professor
- Miodrag Stojković, genetic scientist
- Ljubinka Nikolić, geographer and geologist, future colonist chosen for the Mars One project
- Maja Pantic, A.I. expert and professor
- Vlatko Vedral, physicist, known for his research on the theory of Entanglement and Quantum Information Theory
- Vladimir Markovic, mathematician
- Dušanka Đokić, physicist
- Teodor von Burg, the most successful participant of the International Mathematical Olympiad, 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medal
- Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar, Serbian born Canadian astrophysicist and science educator
- Jelena Kovacevic, Dean of Engineering at NYU's Tandon School and Carnegie Mellon University
- Gojko Lalic, chemistry professor at the University of Washington
Philosophy
- Dositej Obradović, author, philosopher, linguist, polyglot and the first minister of education of Serbia.
- Andrej Dudrovich, Russian national of Serb origin
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
- Vladimir Jovanović
- Svetozar Marković, sociologist
- Ljubomir Nedić, one of the most quoted philosophers in the late 19th century, a student of Wilhelm Wundt and professor at the University of Belgrade
- Branislav Petronijević, philosopher and paleontologist in the first half of the 20th century
- Veselin Čajkanović
- Ion Petrovici, Romanian national of Serbian antecedents
- Dimitrije Mitrinović, philosopher, poet, revolutionary, mystic, theoretician of modern painting, traveller and cosmopolite.
- Justin Popović
- Ksenija Atanasijević, the first recognised major female Serbian philosopher, and one of the first female professors of Belgrade University
- Dimitrije Najdanović
- Đuro Kurepa, logician
- Jevrem Jezdić
- Mihailo Marković
- Milan Damnjanović
- Ljubomir Tadić
- Mihailo Đurić
- Gajo Petrović
- Branko Pavlović
- Nikola Milošević
- Svetozar Stojanović
- Divna M. Vuksanović
- Vojin Rakić
- Davor Džalto
History and archeology
- Jovan Rajić
- Bozidar Petranovic, wrote the history of world literature in the 1840s
- Gavrilo Vitković
- Jovan Ristić
- Nićifor Dučić, theologian, historian and writer
- Ilarion Ruvarac
- Stojan Bošković
- Panta Srećković
- Mihailo Valtrović, archeologist
- Stojan Novaković
- Risto Kovačić
- Ljubomir Kovačević
- Vid Vuletic Vukasović
- Spiridon Gopčević
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch
- Mihailo Gavrilović
- Tihomir Đorđević
- Slobodan Jovanović
- Miloje Vasić, archaeologist
- Stanoje Stanojević
- Jovan Radonić
- Vladimir Petković
- Dragutin Anastasijević
- Dragutin Anastasijević
- Vladimir Ćorović
- Milan Kašanin
- Vaso Čubrilović
- Miodrag Grbic, archaeologist
- Milos Mladenovic, professor emeritus at McGill in Montreal
- Djoko Slijepčević,, church historian
- Svetozar Radojčić
- Wayne S. Vucinich
- Vladimir Dedijer
- Jevrem Jezdić
- Traian Stoianovich
- Milorad M. Drachkovitch
- Dejan Medaković
- Desanka Kovačević-Kojić
- Branko Petranović
- Milan Vasić
- Milorad Ekmečić
- Sima Ćirković
- Božidar Ferjančić, historian and Byzantine scholar
- Vasilije Krestić
- Latinka Perović
- Rade Mihaljčić
- Momčilo Spremić
- Gordana Lazarevich, Serbian born Canadian musicologist and university department head
- Predrag Dragić
- Radivoj Radić
- Miroljub Jevtić
- Milan St. Protić
- Željko Fajfrić
- Dušan T. Bataković, historian and diplomat
- Anna Novakov
- Tibor Živković
- Lidija Seničar
- Čedomir Antić
Literature and linguistics
- Sava Mrkalj
- Luka Milovanov Georgijević
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, philologist and linguist who was the major reformer of the Serbian language
- Vukašin Radišić, the first Serbian classical philologists to teach poetics
- Đuro Daničić, collaborated with Vuk Karadžić in reforming and standardizing the Serbian language, and translating the Bible from old Serbo-Slavonic into modern-day Serbian
- Katarina Milovuk
- Svetomir Nikolajevic, first professor at the Department of World Literature in Belgrade's School of Philosophy.
- Luko Zore
- Milan Rešetar, linguist, Ragusologist, historian and literary critic
- Pavle Popović, literary critic and historian
- Nikola Vulić
- Aleksandar Belić
- Miloš Trivunac
- Dragutin Anastasijević
- Milan Budimir
- Miloš N. Đurić, classical philologist, hellenist, classical translator and philosopher
- Emil Petrovici, Romanian linguist, who studied both Romanian and Slavic languages.
- Mateja Matejić , Slavist
- Pavle Ivić was a leading South Slavic dialectologist and phonologist
- Mateja Matejić
- Predrag Palavestra
- Ljiljana Crepajac
- Nikola Moravčević, literary historian and literary critic
- Ivan Klajn
- Branko Mikasinovich, Slavist
- Vladeta Janković
- Ljubiša Rajić
- Darko Tanasković
- Aleksandar Loma
- Dejan Ajdačić
- Miodrag Kojadinović
- Rajna Dragićević
Economy and sociology
- Valtazar Bogišić, jurist and a pioneer in sociology.
- Lazar Paču
- Milan Stojadinović, Minister of Finance, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia 1935–1939
- Dragoslav Avramović
- Radovan Kovačević, Serbian-American professor at the Southern Methodist University Research Center for Advanced Manufacturing, holder of several U.S. patents.
- Sreten Sokić
- Miroljub Labus, political economist
- Čedomir Čupić
- Branko Milanović, leading economist in the World Bank's research department dealing with poverty and inequality, also a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C.
- Jorgovanka Tabaković
- Kori Udovički
- Dejan Šoškić
- Radovan Jelašić, Governor of the National Bank of Serbia 2004–2010
- Dušan Pavlović
Law
- Atanasije Dimitrijević Sekereš
- Sava Tekelija, amongst the first Serbian doctor of law, president of the Matica srpska, philanthropist, noble, and merchant. Tekelija founded the Tekelijanum in Budapest in 1838 for Serb students studying in the city.
- Gligorije Trlajić
- Teodor Filipović, lawyer and professor who taught at the University of Harkov
- Konstantin Vojnović, politician, university professor and rector at University of Zagreb
- Nikodim Milaš, Serbian Orthodox bishop, polyglot, authority on church law and the Slavistics.
- Dragić Joksimović
- Kosta Čavoški, professor at the University of Belgrade's Law School and an outspoken critic of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
- Sima Avramović
- Milan Antonijević
Sports
Basketball
- John Abramovic
- Nebojša Popović
- Mike Todorovich
- Aleksandar Nikolić "Aca", FIBA Hall of Fame, Euroleague Top 10 coaches; WC Coach 78', EC Coach 77', EC Cup 70', 72', 73'
- Borislav Stanković
- Ranko Žeravica
- Trajko Rajković
- Radivoj Korać "Žućko", FIBA Hall of Fame; top 50 in Europe, Euro MVP 61', Eponymous to FIBA Cup
- Radivoj Korać, Yugoslav, deemed one of the best players in history
- Dušan Ivković "Duda", Euroleague Top 10 coaches; FIBA Coach 90', EC Coach 89', 91', 95'; EC Player 73'
- Peter Maravich
- Nikola Plećaš
- Svetislav Pešić
- Zoran Slavnić
- Zarko Zecevic
- Dražen Dalipagić "Praja", FIBA Hall of Fame; Mr. Europa 77', 78'; 76', 80'; WC 78'; EC 73',75',77'
- Božidar Maljković "Boža", Euroleague Top 10 coaches, EL Coach 89', 90', 93', 96'
- Dragan Kićanović
- Dragan Kićanović "Kića", FIBA Hall of Fame; Mr. Europa 81', 82'; 76', 80'; WC 78'; EC 73',75',77'
- Duško Vujošević
- Aco Petrović
- Željko Obradović, 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors
- Zoran Radović
- Radisav Ćurčić
- Dan Majerle
- Dan Majerle
- Zoran Savić
- Branislav Prelević
- Aleksandar Đorđević, Top 50 in Europe, Mr. Europa 94', 95', Euro MVP 97'
- Vlade Divac, FIBA Hall of Fame; Top 50 in Europe, Mr. Europa 89'; Kennedy Award 00'; NBA All-Star 01'; Number retired by Sacramento Kings
- Miloš Babić
- Nenad Marković
- Predrag Danilović, Top 50 in Europe, Mr. Europa and Italian League MVP 1998; EC 89', 91', 95', 97'
- Igor Kokoškov
- Željko Rebrača
- Dejan Bodiroga, Top 10 in 2000s Europe
- Dejan Tomašević
- Dragan Tarlać
- Miroslav Berić
- Predrag Drobnjak
- Milan Gurović
- Predrag Stojaković
- Dušan Kecman
- Dejan Milojević
- Igor Rakočević
- Marko Jarić, EuroBasket 2001, 1st 2002 FIBA World Championship
- Ratko Varda
- Petar Popović
- Vladimir Radmanović
- Miloš Vujanić
- Žarko Čabarkapa
- Marko Popović
- Nenad Krstić, All-Rookie NBA second team, EC Silver 09'
- Slavko Vraneš
- Sasha Pavlović
- Bojan Popović
- Velimir Radinović
- Mile Ilić
- Aleksandar "Aleks" Marić
- Kosta Perović
- Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player, NBA champion 2004
- Nikola Peković, NBA
- Miloš Teodosić
- Nikola Dragovic
- Nemanja Bjelica
- Boban Marjanović
- Bogdan Bogdanović
- Nikola Jokić, NBA All-star
Football
- Milutin Ivković
- Đorđe Vujadinović
- Aleksandar Tirnanić
- Ljubiša Broćić
- Milovan Ćirić
- Branko Stanković
- Rajko Mitić
- Tihomir Ognjanov
- Vladimir Beara
- Borivoje Kostić
- Miljan Miljanić
- Todor Veselinović
- Vujadin Boškov
- Miloš Milutinović
- Vladimir Durković
- Dragoslav Šekularac
- Milutin Šoškić
- Milan Galić
- Velibor Vasović
- Vladimir Kovačević
- Ilija Pantelić
- Ilija Petković
- Dragan Džajić
- Doug Utjesenovic, member of the Australian 1974 World Cup Squad
- Blagoje Paunović
- Jovan Aćimović
- Radomir Antić
- Dušan Bajević
- Vladislav Bogićević
- Vladimir Petrović
- Preki, Serbian-born American player, named Major League Soccer MVP twice.
- Miodrag Belodedici
- Dragan Stojković
- Miroslav Đukić
- Saša Ćirić
- Vladimir Jugović
- Siniša Mihajlović
- Predrag Mijatović
- Zoran Mirković
- Bobby Despotovski
- Predrag Đorđević
- Darko Kovačević
- Savo Milošević
- Mladen Krstajić
- Ivica Dragutinović
- Saša Ilić
- Veljko Paunović
- Dejan Stanković
- Marko Nikolić
- Nikola Žigić
- Nemanja Vidić, captain for Manchester United, has collection of honours including 3 consecutive Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League, the FIFA World Club Cup, three League Cup medals.
- Aleksandar Luković
- Branislav Ivanović
- Miloš Krasić
- Damir Kahriman
- Aleksandar Kolarov
- Duško Tošić
- Zdravko Kuzmanović
- Milorad Arsenijević
- Nemanja Matić
- Ljubomir Fejsa
- Bojan Krkić
- Filip Mladenović
- Uroš Spajić
- Sergej Milinković-Savić
Tennis
- Jelena Genčić
- Slobodan Živojinović
- Daniel Nestor, Canadian, born in Belgrade
- Monica Seles
- Nenad Zimonjić
- Dušan Vemic
- Dejan Petrovic
- Jelena Dokić, former world No. 4, six WTA
- Frank Dancevic, plays for Canada
- Janko Tipsarević
- Jelena Janković
- Viktor Troicki
- Novak Đoković
- Ana Ivanovic
- Andrea Petković, Bosnian Serb, German national, two WTA
- Vesna Dolonc
- Nikola Čačić
- Miloš Raonić, Montenegrin Serb and plays for Canada
- Bojana Jovanovski
- Kristina Mladenović, French of Serbian parentage
Boxing
- Zvonimir Vujin, Olympic medalist
- Marijan Beneš, Light Heavyweight, European Amateur Boxing Championship 1973 Gold, European Boxing Union 1979
- Marijan Beneš, light heavyweight
- Sreten Mirković, European Amateur Boxing Championship 1979 Silver
- Tadija Kačar, Light Heavyweight, Olympic Silver Montréal 1976
- Slobodan Kačar, Light Heavyweight, Olympic Gold Moscow 1980
- Aleksandar Pejanović, Super Heavyweight, Bronze 2001 Mediterranean Games
- Neven Pajkić, Bosnian Serb, Canadian Boxing Federation Champion
- Nenad Borovčanin, current European Cruiserweight boxing champion, undefeated with 30 wins and no losses
- Nikola Sjekloća, Intercontinental 75 kg WBC
- Geard Ajetović, welterweight
- Zdravko Mićević, Serbian-born Australian light-heavyweight champion
- Marco Huck, Serbian-born German, cruiserweight, world champion
Other
- Ivan Sarić, wrestler and a pioneer in aviation
- Giovanni Raicevich, Greco-Roman wrestler
- Paul Radmilovic, water polo player for Great Britain in the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm
- Boris Kostić, chess player
- Dragutin Tomašević, track and field athlete
- Johnny Miljus, MLB player
- James Trifunov, Serbian-Canadian Olympic medalist in wrestling
- Steve Swetonic, MLB Player
- Ozren Nedeljković, chess player
- Vasilije Tomović, chess player
- Mike Kreevich, MLB player, notable center fielder during the 1930s and 1940s
- Petar Trifunović, chess player
- Steve Sundra, 1939 World Series Champion
- Al Niemiec, player for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, and Seattle Rainiers
- George Kakasic, chess player
- Emil Verban, MLB player
- Nick Strincevich, MLB player
- Pete Suder, MLB player
- Wally Judnich, MLB player
- Jess Dobernic, MLB player
- Bill Vukovich, Serbian American automobile racing driver
- Babe Martin, MLB player
- Svetozar Gligorić, chess player
- Dragoljub Janošević, chess player
- Walt Dropo, MLB player
- Joe Tepsic, MLB Player
- Dragoljub Velimirović, chess player
- Borislav Milić, chess player
- Bronko Lubich was a wrestler, referee and trainer
- Rocky Krsnich, MLB player
- Aleksandar Matanović, chess player
- Mike Krsnich, MLB player
- Milunka Lazarević, chess player
- Borislav Ivkov, chess player
- Eli Grba, American League Champion with the New York Yankees
- Branislav Simic, Olympic champion in wrestling
- Milan Matulović, chess player
- Dimitrije Bjelica, chess player
- Dragoljub Ciric, chess player
- Milan Vukčević, chess player
- Branislav Martinović, Olympic medalist in wrestling
- Predrag Ostojić, chess player
- Alex Andjelic, coach
- Paul Popovich, MLB player
- Mickey Lolich, MLB Player
- Mirko Sandić, water polo player, member of FINA Hall of Fame
- Milan Vukić, chess player
- Mike Kekich, MLB player
- Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist and founder of Real Aikido
- John Vukovich, MLB player and coach
- Vera Nikolić, track and field athlete, double European Champion in 800m, former World record holder
- Slavko Obadov, Olympic medalist in judo
- Doc Medich, MLB player
- Ljubomir Ljubojević, chess player
- Boško Abramović, chess player
- Dave Rajsich, MLB player
- Peter Vuckovich, AL Cy Young winner
- Zoran Pančić, Olympic medalist in rowing
- Milorad Stanulov, Olympic medalist in rowing
- Momir Petkovic, Olympic champion in wrestling
- Radomir Kovačević, Olympic medalist in judo
- Gary Rajsich, MLB player
- George Vukovich, MLB player
- Mile Isaković, Olympic champion in handball
- Dan Radakovich, sports administrator
- Petar Popović, chess player
- Svetlana Dašić-Kitić, handball player, voted the best of all time
- Predrag Nikolić, chess player
- Mirko Nišović, Olympic champion in canoeing
- Branko Damljanović, chess player
- Gordana Perkučin, table tennis professional
- Goran Maksimović, Olympic champion in sports shooting
- Igor Milanović, water polo player
- Jasna Šekarić, multiple Olympic medalist in sports shooting
- Zoran Zorkic, golf coach in Texas
- Ilija Lupulesku, Olympic medalist in table tennis
- Dragan Škrbić, handball player
- Dragan Škrbić, handball player, IHF World Player of the Year 2000
- Dejan Antić, chess player
- Vladimir Grbić
- Alisa Marić, chess player
- Mirjana Marić, chess player
- Dragutin Topić, track and field athlete, World junior record holder in high jump with 2.37
- Ryan Radmanovich, MLB Player and member of Canada Olympic baseball team
- Miloš Milošević, swimmer
- Borislava Perić, table tennis professional
- Nikola Grbić, Olympic champion in volleyball and coach
- Bojana Radulović, handball player
- Ljubomir Vranjes, handball player
- Vladimir Vujasinović, water polo player
- Paola Vukojicic, field hockey player
- Aleksandra Ivošev, Olympic champion in sports shooting
- Igor Miladinović, chess player
- Dejan Savić, waterpolo trainer
- Aleksandar Karakašević, table tennis professional
- Ivan Prokić
- Danilo Ikodinović, water polo player
- Lavinia Milosovici, Romanian gymnast of Serbian origin, multiple Olympic champion
- Andrija Gerić, Olympic champion in volleyball
- Pavle Jovanovic, Serbian-American bobsledder
- Ivan Ivanišević, chess player
- Biljana Golić, table tennis professional
- Erik Bakich, college baseball coach
- Rhonda Rajsich, American racquetball player of Serbian origin
- Aleksandar Šapić, Serbian politician and a retired water polo player, multiple Olympic medalist
- Ivan Miljković, one of the most decorated volleyball players in the world
- Dragan Šolak, chess player
- Bojan Vučković, chess player
- Nataša Dušev-Janić, Olympic champion in canoeing
- Vanja Udovičić, water polo player
- Nenad Gajic, lacrosse player
- Nick Zoricic, Serbian-born, professional Canadian skier
- Ljilja Drljević, chess player
- Dragan Umicevic
- Brian Bogusevic, MLB player
- Milorad Čavić, Olympic medalist in swimming
- Nikola Karabatić, French handball player
- Maja Ognjenović, volleyball player, Olympic medalist
- Nada Matić, table tennis professional
- Jeff Samardzija, MLB player
- Filip Filipović, waterpolo player
- Nađa Higl, swimmer
- Andrea Arsović, sports shooter
- Nenad Pagonis, kickboxing champion
- Andrija Prlainović, water polo player
- Borki Predojević, chess player
- Milan Lucic, Canadian
- Sara Isaković, Olympic medalist in swimming
- Jovana Brakočević, volleyball player
- Ivana Španović, track and field athlete
- Milica Mandić, Olympic champion in taekwondo
- Christian Yelich, MLB player
- Velimir Stjepanović, swimmer
- Nikola Jakšić, waterpolo player
- Tijana Bošković, volleyball player, Olympic medalist
- Staša Gejo, sport climber
- Tijana Bogdanović, Taekwondo practitioner
Royalties
Monarchs
Princesses
- Jelena Vukanović,, Queen of Hungary
- Jelisaveta Nemanjić,, Baness of Bosnia
- Princess Milica of Serbia,
- Ana-Neda, Empress of Bulgaria
- Dragana of Serbia, Empress of Bulgaria
- Jelena Balšić,, Lady of Zeta; Grand Duchess of Hum
- Helena Dragaš,, Byzantine empress, mother of emperors John VIII Palaiologos and Constantine XI Palaiologos
- Olivera Lazarević, Princess of Serbia, and sultana
- Mara Branković, Princess of Serbia, and sultana
- Kantakuzina Katarina Branković,, countess of County of Celje
- Mara Branković, last Queen of Bosnia and Despina of Serbia
- Marija Branković, Princess of Serbia and Marchioness of Montferrat
- Milica Despina of Wallachia,, Princess of Wallachia, regent in Wallachia in 1521–1522
- Jelena Rareš, princess of Moldavia, regent in 1551–1553
- Aşub Sultan, consort of Ottoman Sultan and Valide Sultan
- Şehsuvar Sultan, valide sultan
- Ljubica Vukomanović,, Princess of Serbia
- Persida Nenadović,, Princess of Serbia
- Darinka Kvekić,, Princess of Montenegro
- Milena Vukotić,, Queen of Montenegro
- Draga Mašin,, Queen of Serbia
- Princess Zorka of Montenegro,, Queen of Serbia
- Jelena Petrović Njegoš,, Queen of Italy
Politics and diplomcy
Politicians
- Lazar Arsenijević Batalaka
- Petar Ičko
- Jakov Nenadović
- Miljko Radonjić, FM
- Petar Dobrnjac
- Petar Nikolajević Moler
- Toma Vučić-Perišić
- Dimitrije Davidović
- Avram Petronijević
- Jevrem Nenadović
- Cvetko Rajović, PM
- Tenka Stefanović
- Aleksa Simić, PM
- Stevan Knićanin
- Ilija Garašanin, PM
- Stanojlo Petrović
- Jovan Subotić
- Nikola Hristić, PM
- Filip Hristić, PM
- Niko Pucić
- Medo Pucić
- Jovan Marinović
- Jovan Ilić
- Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac
- Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša
- Nikša Gradi
- Gavro Vučković Krajišnik
- Svetozar Miletić
- Jovan Belimarković
- Jovan Ristić, PM
- Milan Piroćanac, PM
- Sava Grujić, PM
- Jovan Avakumović, PM
- Ljubomir Kaljević
- Stojan Novaković, PM
- Đorđe Simić, PM
- Svetomir Nikolajević
- Nikola Pašić, PM
- Mita Rakić
- Svetozar Marković, Socialist
- Petar Velimirović, PM
- Sava Bjelanović
- Kosta Hristić
- Golub Janić
- Andra Nikolić, FM
- Kosta Taušanović
- Jaša Tomić
- Marko Car
- Ljubomir Davidović,
- Ljubomir Jovanović
- Dragiša Lapčević
- Jaša Prodanović
- Slobodan Jovanović
- Jovan Ćirković
- Žika Rafajlović
- Velimir Vukićević, PM
- Milorad Drašković
- Nikola Uzunović
- Đura Dokić
- Vasa Jovanović
- Bogdan Radenković
- Svetozar Pribićević
- Vojislav Marinković
- Milan Grol
- Momčilo Ninčić
- Josif Kostić
- Petar Živković, PM
- Milan Srškić
- Panta Draškić
- Vasilije Trbić
- Dimitrije Tucović
- Aristotel Petrović, mayor of Sarajevo
- Ilija Šumenković
- Milan Stojadinović, PM
- Vlada Ilić
- Dušan Simović, PM
- Dušan A. Popović
- Svetozar Delić, Communist mayor of Zagreb
- Dragiša Stojadinović
- Puniša Račić
- Bogoljub Jevtić
- Živko Topalović
- Bogoljub Kujundžić
- Stevan Moljević
- Sima Marković, Communist
- Petar Dobrović
- Tanasije Dinić
- Božidar Purić
- Dimitrije Ljotić
- Dragutin Jovanović-Lune
- Dragiša Cvetković, PM
- Aleksandar Ranković, Communist
- Jovan Veselinov
- Milovan Đilas
- Petar Stambolić
- Milentije Popović, Communist
- Vladimir Dedijer, Communist
- Miloš Minić,, Communist
- Dragoslav Marković
- Dobrica Ćosić
- Antonije Isaković
- Jovan Dejanović
- Borisav Jović, former president of Yugoslavia
- Milan Panić, PM
- Jovan Rašković
- Dragoljub Mićunović
- Branislav Crnčević
- Latinka Perović, Communist
- Radmilo Bogdanović
- George Voinovich
- Nikola Koljević
- Ivan Stambolić, Communist
- Mirko Marjanović
- Trivo Inđić
- Slobodan Milošević
- Borislav Paravac
- Vojislav Koštunica, PM
- Radovan Karadžić
- Radomir Naumov
- Veroljub Stevanović
- Vuk Drašković, FM
- Miroljub Labus
- Savo Štrbac
- Mirko Cvetković, PM
- Velimir Ilić
- Zoran Đinđić, PM
- Tomislav Nikolić, President of Serbia
- Oliver Ivanović
- Drago Kovačević
- Radoman Božović, PM
- Nenad Bogdanović, Mayor of Belgrade
- Milan Martić
- Zoran Stanković
- Vojislav Šešelj
- Predrag Marković
- Tomica Milosavljević
- Rod Blagojevich
- Milan Babić
- Mirko Šarović
- Dragan Čavić, President of Republika Srpska
- Nebojša Čović
- Boris Tadić, former President of Serbia
- Branislav Andjelić
- Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska
- Slaviša Ristić
- Đorđe Vukadinović, MP
- Zoran Radojičić
- Goran Svilanović
- Mlađan Dinkić
- Andrija Mandić, leader of Serbs in Montenegro
- Slobodan Vuksanović
- Ivica Dačić, PM, FM
- Milan Parivodić
- Dejan Šoškić
- Radovan Jelašić
- Miodrag Linta
- Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia
- Radovan Ničić
- Siniša Mali
- Nikola Selaković
Diplomats
- Sava Vladislavich
- Jeremija Gagić
- Milovan Milovanović
- Jovan Dučić
- Pavle Beljanski
- Ivan Mrkić
- Dušan T. Bataković, historian and diplomat
Military
Balkans
- Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria, tsar of Bulgaria
- Novak Grebostrek
- Miloš Obilić, knight and national hero
- Ivan Kosančić, knight
- Milan Toplica, knight
- Péter Petrovics
- Starina Novak, Hajduk and Moldavian ally
- Vuk Mandušić , commander in Venetian service, active in the Dalmatian hinterland.
- Janko Mitrović, commander in Venetian service, active in the Dalmatian hinterland.
- Bajo Pivljanin, commander in Venetian service, active in Montenegro and Dalmatia.
- Stojan Janković, commander in Venetian service, active in the Dalmatian hinterland.
- Cvijan Šarić, commander in Venetian service, active in the Dalmatian hinterland.
- Constantin Brancoveanu, Wallachia
- Ilija Perajica
- Stanislav Sočivica, Serbian rebel leader, active in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
- Radič Petrović
- Aleksa Nenadović
- Koča Andjelković, Austrian volunteer and Serbian rebel leader.
- Hadži-Prodan Gligorijević, commander in the First Serbian Uprising and volunteer in the Greek War of Independence
- Mladen Milovanović, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Karađorđe, leader of the First Serbian Uprising
- Stanoje Glavaš
- Ilija Birčanin
- Jakov Nenadović, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Vasa Čarapić
- Stevan Sinđelić, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Petar Dobrnjac, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Luka Lazarević
- Čolak-Anta Simeonović, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Matija Nenadović, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Cincar-Janko
- Hajduk Veljko Petrović, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Uzun-Mirko
- Arsenije Loma
- Sima Nenadović, commander in the First Serbian Uprising
- Janko Katić
- Vasos Mavrovouniotis, volunteer in the Greek War of Independence
- Dimitrije Ljotic
- Novica Cerović
- Marko Miljanov, Montenegrin commander
- Mićo Ljubibratić, he fought with Giuseppe Garibaldi.
- Evgenije Popović, fought in a detachment commanded by Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy.
- Jovan Mišković, commander in the Serbian-Turkish Wars
- King Peter I of Serbia
- Rista Cvetković-Božinče
- General Radomir Putnik
- Ljubomir Kovačević
- General Pavle Jurišić Šturm
- General Jovan Atanacković
- General Božidar Janković
- Gavro Vuković
- General Živojin Mišić
- General Stepa Stepanović
- General Petar Bojović
- Aksentije Bacetić
- Avram Cemović
- Janko Vukotić
- Milivoje Stojanović
- General Milan Nedić
- Svetozar Ranković-Toza
- General Vojin Popović, also known as Vojvoda Vuk.
- Major Dragutin Gavrilović
- General Dušan Simović
- Blažo Đukanović
- Milunka Savić, war heroine of the 1913 Balkan War and World War I, wounded nine times.
- General Draža Mihailović
- Petar Leković, soldier for the Serbian Army and Yugoslav Partisans. He was declared the first national hero of Yugoslavia.
- Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian Serb assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which triggered the World War I
- Sofija Jovanović, war heroine of the 1913 Balkan War and World War I
- Kosta Mušicki
- Jezdimir Dangic
- Sava Kovačević
- Momčilo Gavrić, the youngest known soldier in the WWI
- Velimir Piletić
- Momčilo Đujić, Chetnik voivode
- General Koča Popović
- Milan Spasic, naval hero of World War II
- Major Pavle Đurišić
- General Kosta Nađ
- General Peko Dapčević
- General Nikola Ljubičić
- Ilija Monte Radlovic served in the British Army during World War II.
- General Veljko Kadijević
- Nikola Kavaja
- General Blagoje Adžić
- General Života Panić
- General Dragoljub Ojdanić
- General Ratko Mladić, army general and chief commander that led the Army of Republika Srpska during the Yugoslav Wars.
- General Nebojša Pavković
- General Vladimir Lazarević
- Jovica Stanišić, intelligence officer and head of the State Security Service
- General Ljubiša Jokić
Foreign rule
- At the end of the 15th century, Raci warriors came to the Polish Kingdom and played an important role in forming the Polish hussars.
- Mlatišuma, Austrian service, as a part of Serbian Militia
- Jovan Monasterlija, led Serbian Militia in the name of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor against the Turks.
- Jeronim Ljubibratić, Austrian Field marshal
- Arsenije Sečujac, Austrian general
- Adam Bajalics von Bajahaza, Austria-Hungary
- Paul Davidovich, Austria-Hungary
- Paul von Radivojevich, Austrian general
- Karl Paul von Quosdanovich, Austrian general
- Stevan Šupljikac Voivod of Serbian Vojvodina, Austria-Hungary
- Janos Damjanich, Hungarian General
- Sebo Vukovics, Hungary
- Petar Preradović, Austrian general
- Jakov Ignjatović, Hungary
- Dome Sztojay , Hungary
- Emil Vojnović, Austrian general and military historian
- Svetozar Boroević, Baron von Bojna, Austro-Hungarian field marshal of Serb origin
- Emil Uzelac, Austro-Hungarian military commander
- Veli Mahmud Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Zagan Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Skenderbeg Crnojević
- Gedik Ahmed Pasha, Grand Vizier 1474–77. Serbian from Vranje.
- Deli Husrev Pasha, Ottoman statesman and second Vizier
- Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Hadım Ali Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Lala Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Semiz Ali Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Boşnak Derviş Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Yavuz Ali Pasha, Ottoman Governor of Egypt from 1601 to 1603
- Sokolluzade Lala Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Nevesinli Salih Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Kara Musa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Sarı Süleyman Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Aşub Sultan, originally Katarina, consort of Sultan Ibrahim I and mother of Sultan Suleiman II.
- Osman Aga of Temesvar, Ottoman commander
- Şehsuvar Sultan, originally Maria, consort of Sultan Mustafa II and mother of Sultan Osman III.
- Daltaban Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Ivaz Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
- Sali Aga
- Aganlija
- Kučuk-Alija
- Sinan-paša Sijerčić, Ottoman Bosnian general. Bosnian Serb origin.
- Omar Pasha, general, convert
- George Berovich, Governor-General of Crete and Prince of Samos
- Malkoçoğlu family, one of four leading akinci families; Serbian origin
- John of Tobolsk, in the service of Peter the Great
- Jovan Tekelija
- Matija Zmajević
- Simeon Končarević
- Vuk Isakovič was Serb military commander in the Austrian-Ottoman Wars.
- Jovan Albanez
- Ivan Lukačević
- Petar Tekelija, General-in-Chief, achieved the highest rank among the Serbs who served in the Imperial Russian Army
- Jovan Horvat
- Simeon Piščević
- Semyon Zorich distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War and the first Russo-Turkish War
- Mark Voynovich, admiral, one of the founders of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, In the service of Imperial Russia
- Ivan Adamovich
- Jovan Šević
- Nikolay Depreradovich
- Ilya Duka
- Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich In the service of Tsar Alexander I during the French invasion of Russia
- Vito Marija Bettera-Vodopić in the service of Imperial Russia, died as an Austrian prisoner in occupied-Ukraine.
- Georgi Emmanuel
- Fedor Yakovlevich Mirkovich
- Mikhail Mirkovich
- Dejan Subotić
- Anto Gvozdenović
- Dmitry Horvat
- Radola Gajda, in the service of Czar Nicholas II of Russia during the Great War and after
- Aleksa Dundić
- John of Shanghai and San Francisco, In the service of Czar Nicholas II of Russia during the Great War and after
- Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, served during the Great Patriotic War
- Pierre Marinovitch, French World War I flying ace credited with 21 confirmed and 3 probable aerial victories
Religion
Church leaders
- Prince-bishop Danilo I Šćepčev Petrović-Njegoš
- Prince-bishop Sava II Petrović-Njegoš
- Prince-bishop Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš
- Prince-bishop Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Bishop of Cetinje and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro 1782–1830
- Prince-bishop Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
- Mitrofan Ban, Exarch, receiver of the Obilić medal in the Montenegrin-Ottoman War 1876–1878
Heads of the [Serbian Orthodox Church]
- Saint Sava
- Saint Arsenije I Sremac
- Saint Sava II
- Archbishop Danilo I
- Joanikije I
- Saint Jevstatije I
- Saint Jakov
- Saint Jevstatije II
- Saint Sava III
- Saint Nikodim I
- Saint Danilo II
- Saint Joanikije II, and as first Serbian patriarch
- Patriarch Sava IV
- Jefrem and
- Spiridon
- Danilo III
- Patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević
- Patriarch Kalinik I
- Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta
- Serbian Patriarch Joanikije III
- Patriarch Kalinik II
- Serbian Patriarch Dimitrije
- Serbian Patriarch Varnava
- Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo V
- Serbian Patriarch Vikentije II
- Serbian Patriarch German
- Serbian Patriarch Pavle
- Serbian Patriarch Irinej
- Patriarch Raphael I of Constantinople, Patriarch from 1475–1476
- Makarije Sokolović
- Teodor of Vršac
- Stefan Stratimirović
- Sava II Branković
- Nikolaj Velimirović
- Dositej Vasić
- Longin Krčo
- Mitrofan Kodić
- Grigorije Durić
Theologians
- Vikentije Ljuština
- Josif Rajačić
- Nikodim Milaš
- Nikolaj Velimirović
- Justin Popović
- Saint Varnava Nastić
- Veselin Kesich
- Amfilohije Radović
Saints and blessed
- Saint Jovan Vladimir
- Saint Lazar of Serbia
- Osanna of Cattaro, Roman Catholic nun and Saint who converted from Serbian Orthodoxy
- Stefan Stiljanovic
- Saint Angelina, despotess consort of Stephen Branković
- Saint Basil of Ostrog, Bishop of Zahumlje
- Sava II Branković
- Stephen of Piperi
- Theodor Komogovinski
- Avakum
- Petar Zimonjić
- Saint Platon of Banja Luka
- Saint Dionisije Milivojević
- Saint Slobodan Šiljak
- Branko Dobrosavljević
- Saint Đorđe Bogić, parish priest of Našice, was tortured and slain by the Ustasha on the order of a Roman Catholic pries
Other
Business
- Jovo Kurtović
- Miša Anastasijević
- Sima Igumanov
- Nikola Spasić
- Luka Ćelović
- Vladimir Matijević
- Milan Mandarić
- Miroslav Mišković
- Philip Zepter
- Bogoljub Karić
- Miodrag Kostić
Criminals
- Pink Panthers, jewel theft network
- Nikola Kavaja,
- Vojislav Stanimirović, organized crime
- Ratko Đokić
- Bosko Radonjich
- Ranko Rubežić
- Rade Kotur
- Arkan, warlord, organized crime
- Đorđe Božović
- Dragan "Jokso" Joksović
- Veselin Vukotić
- Goran Vuković
- Mille Marković
- Sreten Jocić
- Zvezdan Jovanović, assassinated Serbian PM Zoran Đinđić
- Dušan Spasojević
- Milorad Ulemek, assassin of PM Zoran Đinđić and President Ivan Stambolić
- Kristijan Golubović, organized crime
- Sretko Kalinić
- Mijailo Mijailović, Swedish, assassin of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh
YouTubers
- Bogdan Ilić, Rapper, gamer, actor & entertainer.
- Stefan Vuksanović, Gamer & streamer.