100 Notable alumni of University of Belgrade

Jovana Joksimović is a Serbian television presenter, best known for hosting the morning TV show Jutarnji program. In May 2008, together with her, at that time soon to be, husband Željko Joksimović, she was the host of the 53rd edition of Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. She now hosts UranaK1 on K1 TV.

Milan St. Protić is a Serbian historian, politician and diplomat who served as the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the United States, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. He was also the Mayor of Belgrade in 2000/01.

Metropolitan Sawa, has been the Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland, and hence the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church since 1998, the second largest organized religion in Poland.

Ljubodrag "Duci" Simonović; born 1 January 1949) is a Serbian philosopher, author and retired basketball player.

Josip "Joška" Broz was a Serbian politician. A self-professed Yugoslav, Broz was the grandson of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito and one of the most prominent supporters of the Titoist legacy within the former Yugoslavia.

Ljubivoje Ršumović is a Serbian poet and writer.

Nebojša Čović is a Serbian businessman, basketball executive, and politician. Since 2011, he has been serving as the president of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade.

Velibor Vasović was a Serbian footballer and manager, also one of the legendary players of Partizan and Ajax and is regarded one of greatest defenders of his generation. A sweeper who could play in midfield, Vasović was renowned for his defensive positioning, never-say-die attitude and tactical awareness.

Krste Petkov Misirkov was a philologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer from the region of Macedonia.

German was the 43rd Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1958 to 1990. He was successful in revitalizing the Serbian Orthodox Church to a certain extent during the Communist period, despite two schisms that occurred during his tenure.

Lazar "Laza" Lazarević was a Serbian writer, psychiatrist, and neurologist.

Stevan Sremac was a Serbian realist and comedy writer.

Nemanja Šarović is a Serbian politician and journalist. He served several terms in the National Assembly as a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Šarović left the Radicals in July 2020 and is now the leader of the Love, Faith, Hope (LJVN) political organization. He is also a journalist for KTV Television and is known for his satirical...

Borislav "Bora" Stanković was a Serbian basketball player and coach, as well as a longtime administrator in the sport's various governing bodies, including FIBA and the International Olympic Committee. He played 36 games for the Yugoslavian national basketball team internationally.

Momčilo "Momo" Kapor was a Serbian novelist and painter.

Slavica Đukić Dejanović is a Serbian politician who served as minister of education from 2023 to 2025. A long-time member of the Socialist Party of Serbia, she previously served as minister of family care in the transitional government of Milomir Minić, president of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2008 to 2012, acting president of Serbia after the resignation of...

Goran Vesić is a Serbian politician who served as the minister of construction, transport and infrastructure from 2022 to 2024. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party, he served as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and briefly in 2022. He also served as the deputy mayor of Belgrade from 2018 to 2022.

Danilo Türk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. He was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005.

Vanja Udovičić is a Serbian politician and former professional water polo player who served as minister of youth and sports from 2013 to 2022. An independent politician, he is aligned with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Petar Živković was a Serbian military officer and political figure in Yugoslavia. He was Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 7 January 1929 until 4 April 1932.

Cvijetin "Majo" Mijatović was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1980 to 1981. He also served as President of the League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1965 to 1969.

Boško Obradović is a Serbian politician. He is the co-founder and former president of the right-wing political party Dveri. He was the party's nominee for the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections.

Ivan Miljković is a Serbian businessman and former professional volleyball player. Miljković was a member of the Serbia men's national volleyball team from 1998–2012. He is an Olympic Champion (2000), a European Champion (2001, 2011), and a medalist of the FIVB Volleybal Men's World Championship, World Grand Champions Cup, World Cup and World League. Celebrated for his numerous individual and...

Siniša Mali is a Serbian economist and politician serving as first deputy prime minister of Serbia since 2024 and as minister of finance since 2018. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as mayor of Belgrade from 2014 to 2018, and as the president of the Temporary Council of Belgrade from 2013 to 2014. Following the...

Branko Milanović is a Serbian-American economist and university professor. He is most known for his work on income distribution and inequality.

Borisav Jović was a Serbian economist, diplomat and politician who served as the President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1991.

Vaso Čubrilović was a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb scholar and politician.

Džemal Bijedić was a Bosnian and Yugoslav politician who served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from July 1971 until his death in a plane crash in January 1977. He additionally served as Secretary of the Interior from July to December 1971. Bijedić was also President of the People's Assembly of SR Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1967 to 1971.

Philip Zepter is a Serbian businessman and entrepreneur. He is the president of the Zepter International Group.

Miroslav Mišković is a Serbian oligarch, business magnate, investor and owner of Delta Holding.

Vladeta Jerotić was a Serbian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, philosopher and writer.

Milan Panić is a Serbian businessman, humanitarian and former politician. He served as the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1993. During and after his time as prime minister, he campaigned for peace and democracy in the Balkan region. He ran for President of Serbia in 1992, ultimately coming in second to Slobodan Milošević in...

Svetozar Cvetković is a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1980 and played the lead role in Do Not Forget Me Istanbul together with Mira Furlan.

Borisav "Bora" Stanković was a Serbian writer belonging to the school of realism. His novels and short stories depict the life of people from South Serbia. He belongs to an exceptional group of storytellers that appeared at the turn of the 20th century, Ivo Ćipiko, Petar Kočić, Milutin Uskoković, Svetolik Ranković, Veljko Milićević and others.

Ivan Ribar, known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav Croat communist politician and military leader. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the Yugoslav Communist Party. In 1936, Ribar became secretary of the Central Committee of SKOJ (Young Communist League of Yugoslavia). During World War II in Yugoslavia,...

Amfilohije was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church, theologian, university professor, author and translator. He was first the Bishop of Banat between 1985 and 1990, and then the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral from 1990, until his death. As the metropolitan bishop, he was the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. He was one of...

Milan Stojadinović was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and economist who was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939. He also was Foreign Minister from 1935 to 1939 and as Finance Minister three times (1922–1924, 1924–1926, 1934–1935).

Đorđe Marjanović was a Serbian and Yugoslav singer.

Zorana Mihajlović is a Serbian politician who served as deputy prime minister of Serbia from 2014 to 2022 and as minister of mining and energy from 2012 to 2014, and again from 2020 to 2022. A former member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), she previously served as minister of construction, transport and infrastructure from 2014 to 2020.

Milan Milutinović was a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 1997 to 2002.

Dušan Makavejev was a Serbian film director and screenwriter. He is known 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.

Mirjana Joković is a Serbian film and stage actress, best known for her role as Natalija Zovkov in Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995). She currently is Director of Performance for Acting and an acting teacher in the Theater Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles.

Stevan Stojanović, known as Stevan Mokranjac (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Мокрањац, pronounced [stêʋaːn mokrǎːɲats]) was a Serbian composer and music educator. Born in Negotin in 1856, Mokranjac studied music in Belgrade, Munich, Rome and Leipzig while in his twenties. Later, he became the conductor of the Belgrade Choir Society and founder of the Serbian School of Music and the first Serbian...

Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian and Yugoslav statesman, economist, and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Štip, where he was also educated. He continued his education in Skopje and graduated in law in Belgrade. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia,...

Margita "Magi" Stefanović was a Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist of a Yugoslav rock band Ekatarina Velika (EKV).

Nikola Kalabić was a Serb and Yugoslav surveyor and Chetnik commander during World War II.

Filip Vujanović is a Montenegrin politician who served as the 3rd president of the Republic of Montenegro under Serbia and Montenegro from 2003 to 2006, and the 1st president of independent Montenegro from 2006 to 2018.

Petar Stambolić was a Yugoslav-born Serbian communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and as President of the Presidency from 1982 until 1983.

Matija Bećković is a Serbian poet, writer and academic.

Borislav Pekić was a Serbian writer and political activist.

Mihailo Petrović Alas, was a Serbian mathematician, inventor, university professor and academic. He was a distinguished professor at Belgrade University, an academic, fisherman, philosopher, writer, publicist, musician, businessman, traveler and volunteer in the Balkan Wars, the First and Second World Wars. He was a student of Henri Poincaré, Paul Painlevé, Charles Hermite and Émile Picard. Petrović contributed significantly to the...

Mirjana Karanović is a Serbian actress, film director and screenwriter. Considered one of the best Serbian and Yugoslavian actresses of all time, she is probably the best known for her performance in her debut film Petria's Wreath (Petrijin venac), as well as for her frequent collaborations with film directors Emir Kusturica and Jasmila Žbanić. Karanović received international acclaim and a...

Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco was a prelate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia who is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Irinej was the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 2010 until his death in 2020.

Marinika Tepić is a Serbian politician. She is a vice-president of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) and a prominent opponent of Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić and the governing Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Jovan Cvijić was a Serbian geographer, ethnologist, university professor and academic.

Miloš Crnjanski was a Serbian writer and poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, journalist and a diplomat.

Dragan Đilas is a Serbian opposition leader, businessman and media executive who has been the president of the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) since its founding in April 2019. He previously served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2008 to 2013 and as president of the Basketball Federation of Serbia from 2011 to 2016. A long-time member of the...

Antonije Pušić, known professionally as Rambo Amadeus (Cyrillic: Рамбо Амадеус), is a Montenegrin author and performer. A self-titled "musician, poet, and media manipulator", he is a noted artist across the countries of former Yugoslavia.

Lazar "Laza" Ristovski is a Serbian former actor, director, producer and writer. He has appeared on stage about 4,000 times, and starred in over 90 films and 30 TV series, mostly in lead roles. He briefly served as a member of the National Assembly from 1 August 2022 until his resignation on 9 August 2022.

Ana Đurić, known professionally as Konstrakta, is a Serbian singer and songwriter. She had risen to prominence as the lead vocalist of the indie pop band Zemlja gruva!, which was founded in 2007, before pursuing her solo career in 2019. She gained more significant recognition by representing Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song "In corpore sano",...

Janko Tipsarević is a Serbian tennis coach and former professional player. He is also a politician, serving as a member of the City Assembly of Belgrade since 21 June 2024. He is also a member of the populist Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Ivan Stambolić was a Serbian politician who served as the president of the League of Communists of Serbia (SKS) from 1984 to 1986. A prominent member of SKS, he also served as prime minister of Serbia from 1978 to 1982 and as president of Serbia from 1986 to 1987.

Tamara Vučić is the First Lady of Serbia as the wife of the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić.

Neda Arnerić was a Serbian film, stage and television actress, and politician. A graduate art historian, she was considered a sex symbol of Yugoslav cinematography.

Milan Babić was a Croatian Serb politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed state largely populated by Serbs of Croatia that wished to break away from Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence.

Milorad Pavić was a Serbian writer, university professor, translator, literary historian and academic. He published a number of poems, short stories and novels during his lifetime, the most famous of which was the Dictionary of the Khazars (1984). Upon its release, it was hailed as "the first novel of the 21st century." Pavić's works have been translated into more than...

Konstantin "Koča" Popović was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. He is on occasion referred to as "the man who saved the Yugoslav Partisans", because it was he who anticipated the weakest point in the Axis lines on the Zelengora–Kalinovik...

Nikola Pašić was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and diplomat. During his political career, which spanned almost five decades, he served five times as prime minister of Serbia and three times as prime minister of Yugoslavia, leading 22 governments in total. He played an instrumental role in the founding of Yugoslavia and is considered one of the most influential figures...

Vuk Drašković is a Serbian writer and politician.

Branislav Nušić was a Serbian playwright, satirist, essayist, novelist. Nušić was the founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and a civil servant.

Boris Tadić is a Serbian politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2004 to 2012. He led the Democratic Party (DS) from 2004 to 2012 as well, and previously served as minister of defence from 2003 to 2004.

Vojislav Koštunica is a Serbian former politician who served as the last president of FR Yugoslavia from 2000 to 2003 and as the prime minister of Serbia from 2004 to 2008.

Ivica Dačić is a Serbian politician serving as deputy prime minister of Serbia since 2022 and minister of internal affairs since 2024. He has been the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) since 2006.

Branko Ćopić was a Yugoslav and Serbian writer. He wrote poetry, short stories, and novels, and became famous for his stories for children and young adults, often set during World War II in revolutionary Yugoslavia, written with characteristic humor in the form of ridicule, satire, and irony.

Igor Stefan Kokoškov is a Serbian professional basketball coach.

Meša Selimović was a Yugoslav writer, whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Bosnian and Serbian literature. Some of the main themes in his works are the relations between individuality and authority, life and death, and other existential problems.

Milovan Djilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democratic socialist, Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe.

Desanka Maksimović was a Serbian poet, writer and translator. Her first works were published in the literary journal Misao in 1920, while she was studying at the University of Belgrade. Within a few years, her poems appeared in the Serbian Literary Herald, Belgrade's most influential literary publication. In 1925, Maksimović earned a French Government scholarship for a year's study at...

Miloš Biković is a Serbian and Russian actor and producer. His best known films are box office hits South Wind (2018), Serf (2019), Serf 2 and The Challenge (both 2023).

Fahreta Živojinović, known by her stage name Lepa Brena (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Лепа Брена), is a Yugoslav singer, actress, and businesswoman. With around 40 million sold records, she is regarded as the most commercially successful recording artist from the former Yugoslavia. Brena is also often credited with creating the turbo-folk genre with her first two albums Čačak, Čačak (1982) and Mile...

Gojko Mitić is a Serbian-German actor and director. He gained great popularity in East Germany for his portrayal of historical and fictional Native American characters in numerous DEFA Indian films. His popularity may stem from the fact that both in East Germany and later in West Germany attempts were made to attach labels to him: "DEFA bosses" on the one...

Milorad Dodik is a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 8th President of Republika Srpska from 2022 until his removal from office in 2025. Having previously held the office from 2010 to 2018, he also served as the 7th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2018 to 2022.

Stefan Kapičić is a Serbian actor best known for his role voicing Colossus in the Deadpool franchise. He is also one of three members of the Council for Film Industry of Montenegro.

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his overthrow in 2000. Milošević played a major role in the Yugoslav Wars and became the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes.

Aleksandar Vučić is a Serbian politician serving as President of Serbia since 2017. A founding member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as President of the SNS from 2012 to 2023, First Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014, and Prime Minister of Serbia from 2014 to 2017.

Marko Đurić is a Serbian politician and diplomat who has served as the minister of foreign affairs since 2024. Prior to becoming a government minister, Đurić was the ambassador of Serbia to the United States of America since from 2020 to 2024, and the non-resident ambassador of Serbia to Colombia since from 2021 to 2024.

Dušan Kovačević is a Serbian playwright, scriptwriter, film director and academic best known for his theatre plays and movie scripts. He also served as the ambassador of Serbia in Lisbon, Portugal.

Branislav Lečić is a Serbian actor, director, academic, writer, politician. Lečić rose to prominence for his role as the rebellious Crni in the twelve-episode miniseries Sivi dom (1986). Lečić served as the Minister of Culture and Media from 2001 to 2004.

Sergej Trifunović is a Serbian actor, comedian, singer, politician and citizen activist.

Vasile "Vasko" Popa was a Yugoslav and Serbian poet of ethnic-Romanian heritage. He is regarded as one of 20th-century Yugoslavia's and Serbia's most important poets, and his work has been widely translated.

Zdravko Krivokapić is a Montenegrin professor and former politician who served as Prime Minister of Montenegro from 2020 to 2022.

Porfirije is the current and 46th patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He was the Metropolitan Bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana from 2014 to 2021 and Titular Bishop of Jegra between 1999 and 2014. He is also a university professor and author of theological works.

Patriarch Pavle was the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1990 to his death. His full title was: His Holiness the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Pavle.

Zoran Đinđić was a Serbian politician and philosopher who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the mayor of Belgrade in 1997, becoming the first non-communist and first democratically elected official to hold both key positions after World War II. Đinđić was a long-time opposition politician and held a doctorate in...

Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of artistic identity by bringing...

Blaže Koneski was a Macedonian poet, writer, literary translator, and linguistic scholar, who had a major contribution to the codification of the standard Macedonian language, for which he earned the reputation of father of the Macedonian literary language. He is the key figure who shaped Macedonian literature and intellectual life in the country. During his life and after his death,...

Vojislav Šešelj is a Serbian politician. He is the founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS). From 1998 to 2000, he was a deputy prime minister of Serbia.

Mladen Ivanić is a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 6th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2014 to 2018. He is the founder, member and former president of the Party of Democratic Progress.