List of people from Belgrade
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This is a list of notable residents of Belgrade, Serbia.
- Marina Abramović, performance artist
- David Albala, military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
- Atilla the Hun, used the city as a military base for his further penetration into the Balkans, between 441 and 443 AD, a decade before his death in 453; he is presumably buried 70 km north of the city
- Ivan Avakumović, History professor at the University of British Columbia and author
- Enki Bilal, comic book creator, comics artist and film director
- David Bizic, opera singer
- Dušan Bogdanović, guitarist and composer
- Goran Bregović, musician and singer-songwriter
- Igor Delijanić, meteorologist
- Zoran Đinđić, late prime minister of Serbia and mayor of Belgrade
- Jelena Dokić, WTA tennis player
- Novak Đoković, ATP tennis player (World No.1)
- King Stefan Dragutin, first King of Serbia to rule the city, made Belgrade the capital of his Kingdom of Syrmia in 1284
- Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia
- Dragutin Gavrilović, colonel of the Serbian Army in World War I and the defender of Belgrade in 1915
- Predrag Gosta, conductor and harpsichordist
- Ana Ivanovic, WTA tennis player; former World No. 1 in singles
- Jelena Janković, WTA tennis player; former World No. 1 in singles
- Marko Jarić, NBA player
- Jovian, Flavius Claudius Iovianus, Emperor of Rome, born in the city in 332 AD, restored Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila, former president of the Congo[1]
- Mladen Kalpic, journalist, lecturer, filmmaker, and artist
- Emir Kusturica, filmmaker, double winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
- Shaul Ladany, Israeli world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering
- Stefan Lazarević, despot, made the city the capital of Serbian Despotate in 1404
- Paulina Lebl-Albala, feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor
- Isa Lero "Džamba", criminal
- Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavian film director, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s
- Dejan Miladinovic, opera director (SFRJ, Serbia, USA), professor SMU Dallas TX, USC Los Angeles CA
- Milutin Milanković, scientist
- Slobodan Milošević, late president of Serbia and Yugoslavia
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, led the Belgrade choir in the late 19th century
- Thomas Nagel, philosopher
- Radoslav Novaković, rugby player
- Dositej Obradović, author, writer and a Minister of Education, established the University of Belgrade in 1808
- Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia, proclaimed it the capital city in 1841
- Prince Paul of Yugoslavia
- Milorad Pavić, poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian
- Peter I of Serbia, King of Serbia
- Nune Popović, Serbian author, activist
- Milan Radonjić, TV personality, comedian
- Archibald Reiss, scientist
- Meša Selimović, author
- Ivana Sert, Serbian-Turkish TV personality, model, and fashion designer
- Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
- Goran Simić, opera singer, bass
- Bojana Stamenov, singer, Serbian representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
- Milenko Stefanović, classical musician from Belgrade
- Stepa Stepanović, field marshal (vojvoda) of Serbian Army
- Luka Stevanović, swimmer and IT expert
- Bruce Sterling, science fiction author, one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement
- Janko Tipsarević, ATP tennis player
- Josip Broz Tito, former Yugoslav president and co-founder of Non-Aligned Movement
- Dragutin Topić, high jumper, gold medallist at the 1990 European Athletics Championships
- Bojan Zulfikarpašić, jazz pianist and composer
- Vesna Milosevic-Zdjelar, Canadian astrophysicist, science educator
- Gordana Lazarevich, Canadian musicologist, university department head
- Jelena Adzic, Canadian media personality, CBC arts reporter
- Ana Sokolovic, Canadian award winning music composer
- Bojana Sentaler, Canadian fashion designer
- Lilly Otasevic, Canadian sculptor and designer
- Jelena Behrend, American jewelry designer
- Ana Kras, American furniture and fashion designer, photographer, artist
- Sacha Lakic, French automobile and furniture designer
- Ivy Jenkins (Ivana Vujic), Canadian bass player and designer
- Daniel Nestor (Danijel Nestorović), Canadian Olympic Gold tennis player
- Ana Popovic, blues guitarist
- Maja Bogdanović, cellist
- Jelena Mihailović (JelaCello), cellist
- Roksanda Ilincic, London-based fashion designer
- Jelena Kovacevic, American engineering professor and university leader
- Veselin Jevrosimovic, CEO of IT company ComTrade Group
- David Maxim Micic, Progressive metal guitarist, multi-instrumentalist
References[]
- ^ Kabila: Dok sam živ neću priznati nezavisno Kosovo Archived 2009-11-28 at the Wayback Machine
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