List of Famous people born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Emir Kusturica is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician. He also has French citizenship. He has been recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films, as well as his projects in town-building. He has competed at the Cannes Film Festival on five occasions and won the Palme d'Or twice, as well as the Best Director prize for Time of the Gypsies.

Zana Marjanović is a Bosnian actress. In 2010, she was cast as a lead in Angelina Jolie's directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011). Zana studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

Bakir Izetbegović is a Bosnian politician who is the current President of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and member of the House of Peoples since 25 February 2019.

Milica "Mila" Mulroney is the wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney. She was notable for taking on a greater role during her husband's tenure than previous spouses of Canadian prime ministers and for the criticism of lavish spending habits.

Goran Bregović is a recording artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Slavic-speaking countries in the Balkans, and is one of the few former Yugoslav musicians who has performed at major international venues such as Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall and L'Olympia.

Branko Đurić also known by his nickname Đuro, is a Bosnian actor, comedian, film director and musician, who lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Erih Koš was a Serbian writer and translator of Jewish origin. He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sabahudin Kurt was a Bosnian folk and pop singer. Kurt represented Yugoslavia in Copenhagen in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the entry "Život je sklopio krug". He finished in thirteenth place, scoring 0 points.

Nenad Janković, known as Dr Nele Karajlić, is a Bosnian Serb comedian, musician, composer, actor and television director living and working in Belgrade, Serbia. One of the founders of the New Primitivism cultural movement in his homeown of Sarajevo, he was also the lead singer and co-author for one of former Yugoslavia's best known bands, Zabranjeno Pušenje. He co-created and participated in TV shows Top lista nadrealista and Složna braća. During the Bosnian War Nele moved to Belgrade where he formed one of two descendant factions of Zabranjeno Pušenje. That splinter of the band was joined by filmmaker Emir Kusturica, and renamed it The No Smoking Orchestra.

Muhamed Fazlagić, known as Fazla, is a singer from Bosnia and Herzegovina.