Vladimir Rolović (1916, Bar-1971, Stockholm), was a SFRY politician, Ambassador of Yugoslavia and National Hero of Yugoslavia who was murdered by Ustasha Croatian emigration while serving as Ambassador in Stockholm.
He was born on May 21, 1916, in the village of Brčeli near Bar. He came from a poor family, his childhood was spent in his home village, where he finished elementary school. Despite of the difficult conditions, he continued education in Bar, Peć and Cetinje, and enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the Belgrade University.
In 1935 he became a member of SKOJ-a, and in the beginning 1936 of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In 1940 he was elected to the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Montenegro.
Due to the revolutionary work, he was arrested in the 1935 in Cetinje and in 1938 in Belgrade.
After the occupation of Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II, he returned to his native country, and was actively involved in preparations for the uprising.
In December 1941 he participated in the attack on the Pljevlja. He served as political commissioner for the first Montenegrin partisan battalion. He was a director of the political department of the first Dalmatian, fifteenth Majevica and seventeenth east Bosnian Division.
He served as a member of the Montenegro government, as assistant of federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, member of the city Committee Communist party of Belgrade, and ambassador of Yugoslavia in Norway, Japan and finally Sweden.
In Stockholm on April 7, 1971 he was attacked by a group of Ustaša members in a terrorist attack on the Yugoslav embassy, and was mortally wounded. Eight days later, on April 15, he succumbed to his injuries. The assassins Miro Barešić and Anđelko Brajović were caught and convicted in Sweden.
He was named as a national hero of SFRY on April 9, 1971.