List of Famous people born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Boris Novković
Boris Novković is a Croatian singer-songwriter born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been active since the 1980s.
Amila Glamočak
Amila Glamočak is a Bosnian singer. She participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 with the song "Za našu ljubav" for Bosnia and Herzegovina, finishing 22nd out of 23. She appeared in the Bosnian national final on two other occasions but failed to qualify. She now lives in Turkey and is remarried.
Predrag Danilović
Predrag "Saša" Danilović, usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilović, is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s. Danilović was the EuroLeague Final Four MVP in 1992, was voted Mister Europa Player of the Year in 1998, and was Italian League MVP the same year.
David Elazar
David "Dado" Elazar was the ninth Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), serving in that capacity from 1972 to 1974. He was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War.
Luna Mijovic
Luna Mijović is a Bosnian actress. She has appeared in more than ten films since 2006. Mijović was born in Sarajevo to Serb father Vlastimir Mijović and Bosniak mother Amra.
Semka Sokolović-Bertok
Semka Sokolović-Bertok was a Yugoslav actress. She also was a competitive chess player in her youth, winning the Croatian Chess Juniors Championship eight times.
Bekim Fehmiu
Bekim Fehmiu was a Yugoslavian theater and film actor of Albanian ethnicity. He was the first Eastern European actor to star in Hollywood during the Cold War.
Nino Pršeš
Vahidin Pršeš is a Bosnian singer. Upon completion of Music High School he continued to pursue his studies at the Sarajevo Music Academy, Department of Music Theory and Pedagogy.
Boris Tadić
Boris Tadić is a Serbian politician who served as President of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. He was elected to his first term on 27 June 2004, when Serbia was part of Serbia and Montenegro, and re-elected for a second term on 3 February 2008, this time as president of independent Serbia. He resigned on 5 April 2012 in order to trigger an early election. Prior to his presidency, Tadić served as the last Minister of Telecommunications of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and as the first Minister of Defence of Serbia and Montenegro. He is a psychologist by profession.
Braco Dimitrijević
Slobodan "Braco" Dimitrijević is a Bosnian conceptual artist. His works deal mainly with history and the individual's place in it. He lives and works in Paris, France.