List of people from Belgrade
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This is a list of notable residents of Belgrade, Serbia.
- Marina Abramovic, Performance artist.
- Flavius Claudius Iovianus, known as Jovian Emperor of Rome, born in the city in 332 A.D., restores Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire.
- Atilla the Hun uses the city as a military base for his further penetration into the Balkans, between 441 and 443 A.D., a decade before his death in 453. He is presumably buried 70 km north of the city.
- King Stefan Dragutin, first King of Serbia to rule the city, makes Belgrade the capital of his Kingdom of Syrmia in 1284.
- Despot Stefan Lazarević makes the city the capital of Serbian Despotate in 1404.
- Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of Serbia, proclaims it the capital city in 1841.
- Peter I of Serbia, King of Serbia
- Stepa Stepanović, Field marshal(vojvoda) of Serbian Army
- Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.
- Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia.
- Josip Broz Tito, former Yugoslav president and co-founder of Non-Aligned Movement.
- Slobodan Milošević, late president of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- Zoran Đinđić, late prime minister of Serbia and mayor of Belgrade.
- Dragutin Gavrilović, colonel of the Serbian Army in World War I and the defender of Belgrade in 1915.
- Milutin Milanković, scientist.
- Dositej Obradović, author, writer and a Minister of Education, establishes the University of Belgrade in 1808.
- Ivo Andrić, novelist, short-story writer and a Nobel Prize laureate.
- Milorad Pavić, poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian
- Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
- Meša Selimović, author.
- Milan Radonjić, TV personality, comedian
- Thomas Nagel, philosopher.
- Archibald Reiss, scientist.
- Dušan Makavejev, Yugoslavian film director, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Milenko Stefanović, a world famous classical musician from Belgrade.
- Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac leads the Belgrade choir in the late 19th century.
- Dušan Bogdanović, guitarist and composer.
- Bojan Zulfikarpašić, jazz pianist and composer.
- Predrag Gosta, conductor and harpsichordist.
- David Bizic, opera singer.
- Dejan Miladinovic, opera director (SFRJ, Serbia, USA), professor SMU Dallas TX, USC Los Angeles CA
- Goran Bregović, musician and singer-songwriter.
- Enki Bilal, comic book creator, comics artist and film director.
- Emir Kusturica, filmmaker, double winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
- Enrique Iglesias,singer, lived as child
- Novak Đoković, ATP Tennis Player (World No.1).
- Ana Ivanovic, WTA Tennis Player (is a former World No. 1 in singles).
- Jelena Janković, WTA Tennis Player (is a former World No. 1 in singles).
- Jelena Dokić, WTA Tennis Player.
- Shaul Ladany, Israeli world-record-holding Olympic racewalker, Bergen-Belsen survivor, Munich Massacre survivor, and Professor of Industrial Engineering.
- Viktor Troicki, ATP Tennis Player.
- Janko Tipsarević, ATP Tennis Player.
- Marko Jarić, NBA player.
- Bruce Sterling, Science fiction author, one of the founders of cyberpunk movement.
- Goran Simić, Opera singer, Bass.
- Laurent-Désiré Kabila, former president of the Congo.[1]
- Madeleine Albright former United States Secretary of State.
- Ivana Sert, Serbian-Turkish TV personality, model, and fashion designer.
- David Albala, military officer, physician, diplomat, and Jewish community leader
- Paulina Lebl-Albala, feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, and professor
