List of Famous people born in North Bačka District, Serbia

Gyula Ortutay was a Hungarian ethnographer and politician, who served as Minister of Religion and Education between 1947 and 1950.

Danilo Kiš was a Serbian and a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. His best known works include Hourglass, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich and The Encyclopedia of the Dead.

Sylvester Levay is a Serbian-born Hungarian recording artist and composer.

Eva Ras is a Serbian actress, writer, and painter.

Yehuda Elkana was a historian and philosopher of science, and a former President and Rector of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

János Pénzes was the Hungarian-born Roman Catholic Emeritus Bishop of Subotica between 1989 and 2020.

Tomislav Sivić is a former professional footballer and current coach.

Branislav Simić is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler from Serbia. He competed at the 1956, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the middleweight category (−87 kg), and won a gold medal in 1964 and a bronze in 1968.