List of Famous people born in Serbia

Miroslav Tuđman is a Croatian scientist and politician, the son and eldest child of the first President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, and Ankica Žumbar.

Đorđe Despotović is a Serbian footballer who plays for Russian Premier League club Rubin Kazan as a centre forward.

Ivan Klajn was a Serbian linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian. He was a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the editor-in-chief of the Matica srpska's journal Jezik danas. Through his paternal family, which lived in Vukovar for generations, he was of Croatian-Jewish descent.

Vladimir Micov is a Serbian professional basketball player for Buducnost VOLI of the Adriatic League and the Prva A Liga. Standing at a height of 2.03 m, he mainly plays as a small forward.

Albert Bunjaku is a professional footballer who plays for German club Viktoria Köln. He previously represented Switzerland, before switching to the newly formed Kosovo national football team, for which he was the former all-time top scorer with three goals.

Zoltan Sabo was a Serbian professional footballer who played as a defender, and later manager. He also held Hungarian citizenship.

Dušan Makavejev was a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s—many of which belong to the Black Wave. Makavejev's most internationally successful film was the 1971 political satire W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, which he both directed and wrote.

Uroš Spajić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defender. He currently plays for Dutch club Feyenoord, on loan from Krasnodar.

Stefan Branković, also known in historiography as Stefan the Blind, was briefly the despot (ruler) of the Serbian Despotate between 1458 and 1459, member of the Branković dynasty.

Jelena Genčić was a Serbian tennis and handball player and coach.