List of Famous people born in Tuzla City, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miralem Pjanić
Miralem Pjanić is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Barcelona and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
Andrea Petkovic
Andrea Petkovic is a German tennis player. Born in Tuzla, SFR Yugoslavia, to Serbian father Zoran and Bosniak mother Amira, she moved to Germany at six months old and turned professional in 2006 at the age of 18. A former top-10 player, Petkovic reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 9 on 10 October 2011, becoming the first German female player ranked inside the top 10 since Steffi Graf in 1999. That year, she reached the quarterfinals at three Grand Slam tournaments as well as a Premier Mandatory final at the China Open, and qualified as an alternate to the WTA Tour Championships.
Jusuf Nurkić
Jusuf Nurkić is a Bosnian professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Standing at 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) tall and weighing 290 lb (132 kg) the center was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 16th overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft. He also represents the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team internationally.
Alma Zadić
Alma Zadić is an Austrian lawyer and politician of the Green Party who has been serving as Minister of Justice in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz since 7 January 2020.
Andreja Pejić
Andreja Pejić is a Bosnian-Australian model and actress. She was known as the world’s first fully androgynous supermodel. Since coming out as a trans woman in 2013, she has become one of the most recognisable transgender models in the world.
Lepa Brena
Fahreta Živojinović, known by her stage name Lepa Brena, is a Yugoslav and Serbian pop-folk singer, actress and businesswoman. She is the best-selling female recording artist from the former Yugoslavia.
Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić is a Bosnian Serb former politician and University Professor who served as President of Republika Srpska and was later convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War.
Maya Sar
Maja Sarihodžić, known by her stage name Maya Sar, is a Bosnian singer-songwriter. Sar represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Korake ti znam". Her debut album Krive riječi was released 1 June 2013.
Emir Hadžihafizbegović
Emir Hadžihafizbegović is a Bosnian actor. Often regarded as one of the best Bosnian actors, he has appeared in over fifty films including When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Remake (2003), Fuse (2003), Days and Hours (2004), The Border Post (2006), Grbavica (2006), Armin (2007), Death of a Man in the Balkans (2012), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012) and These Are the Rules (2014).