List of Famous people born in South Bačka District, Serbia

Stevan Jelovac was a Serbian professional basketball player.

Mileva Marić, sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein or Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn, was a Serbian physicist and mathematician and the first wife of Albert Einstein from 1903 to 1919. She was the only woman among Einstein's fellow students at Zürich Polytechnic and was the second woman to finish a full program of study at the Department of Mathematics and Physics. Marić and Einstein were collaborators and lovers and had a daughter Lieserl in 1902, whose fate is unknown. They later had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard.

Monica Seles is a retired professional tennis player, who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. She was born and raised in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia to an ethnic Hungarian family. She became a naturalized American citizen in 1994 and also received Hungarian citizenship in June 2007. A former world no. 1, she won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States.

Darko Miličić is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He is 2.13 m, and played the center position. Miličić played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 2003 to 2013. He is the fourth youngest player and the youngest foreign player to have played in the NBA, and is the youngest player to have played in an NBA Finals game and the youngest player to win the NBA championship.

Đorđe Balašević was a Serbian and former Yugoslav recording artist and singer-songwriter.

Milan Pavkov is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serbian SuperLiga club Red Star Belgrade.

Slaviša Jokanović is a Serbian former footballer, and the current manager of Qatari club Al-Gharafa.

Aleksandar Katai is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Red Star Belgrade and the Serbia national team.

Porfirije is the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was the Metropolitan bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from 2014 to 2021. Before that, he was titular bishop of Jegar between 1999 and 2014.

Mijat Gaćinović is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim.