List of people from Serbia

Middle Ages

Baroque

Enlightenment

• John of Tobolsk (1651–1715) was a Serbian cleric born in Nizhyn, in the Czernihow Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the time, now revered as a saint.
• Radul of Riđani (fl. 1650–1666) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and chieftain of Riđani, and a prolific letter writer who kept the authorities of Perast informed about Ottoman preparations for the Battle of Perast. A collection of his letters are kept in a museum.
• Kiprijan Račanin (c. 1650–1730) was a Serbian writer and monk who founded a copyist school in Szentendre in Hungary, like the one he left behind at the Rača monastery in Serbia at the beginning of the Great Turkish War in 1689.
• Jerotej Račanin (c. 1650–after 1727) was a Serbian writer and copyist of church manuscripts and books. After visiting Jerusalem in 1704 he wrote a book about his travel experiences from Hungary to the Holy Land and back.
• Čirjak Račanin (Bajina Bašta, c. 1660–Szentendre, 1731) was a Serbian writer and monk, a member of the famed "School of Rača".
• Đorđe Branković, Count of Podgorica (1645–1711) who wrote the first history of Serbia in five volumes.
• Tripo Kokolja (1661–1713) was a well-known Serbian-Venetian painter.
• Sava Vladislavich (1669–1738), framed Peter the Great's proclamation of 1711, translated Mavro Orbin's Il regno de gli Slavi (1601); The Realm of the Slavs) from Italian into Russian, and composed the Treaty of Kiakhta and many others
• Julije Balović (1672–1727) wrote in Italian and Serbian. He is the author of Practichae Schrivaneschae, a manual for a ship's scribe, and Perast Chronicles, a collection of epic poetry.
• Gavril Stefanović Venclović (fl. Bajina Bašta, 1670–Szentendre, 1749), one of the first and most notable representatives of Serbian Baroque and Enlightenment literature, wrote in the vernacular. Milorad Pavić saw Venclović as a living link between the Byzantine literary tradition and the emerging new views on modern literature. He was the precursor of enlightenment aiming, most of all, to educate the common folk.
• Ivan Krušala (1675–1735) is best known for writing a poem about the Battle of Perast in 1654, among others. He worked in a Russian embassy in China at the time when Sava Vladislavich was the ambassador.
• Hristofor Žefarović was a 17th- and 18th- century Serbian poet who died in Imperial Russia spreading the Pan-Slav culture.
• Simeon Končarević (c. 1690–1769), a Serbian writer and Bishop of Dalmatia who, exiled twice from his homeland, settled in Russia where he wrote his chronicles.
• Parteniy Pavlovich (c. 1695–1760) was a Serbian Orthodox Church cleric who championed South Slavic revival.
• Danilo I, Metropolitan of Cetinje (1697-1735) was a writer and founder of the Petrović Njegoš dynasty.
• Sava Petrović (1702–1782) wrote numerous letters to the Moscow metropolitan and the Empress Elizabeth of Russia about the deploring conditions of the Serb Nation under occupation by the Turks, Republic of Venice and the Habsburg Empire.
• Pavle Nenadović (1703–1768) was commissioned by Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Karlovci, Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta to compose a heraldic book, Stemmatographia.
• Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš (1709–1766), Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Montenegro, wrote patriotic poetry and the first history of Montenegro, published in Moscow in 1754
• Pavle Julinac (1730–1785) was a Serbian writer, historian, traveller, soldier and diplomat
• Jovan Rajić (1726–1801), writer, historian, traveller, and pedagogue, who wrote the first systematic work on the history of Croats and Serbs
• Mojsije Putnik (1728–1790), Metropolitan, educator, writer and founder of secondary schools and institutions of higher learning.
• Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), one of the most notable representatives of the Serbian Baroque in art and literature.
• Teodor Kračun (1730–1781), icon painter in the 18th century style of Baroque and Rococo.
• Nikola Nešković (1740–1789) was a most prolific Serbian icon, fresco and portrait painter in the Baroque style.
• Teodor Ilić Češljar (1746–1793) was one of the best late Baroque Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina.
• Pavel Đurković (1772–1830) was one of the most important Serbian Baroque artists (writers, icon painters, goldsmiths, woodcarvers) along with Jakov Orfelin (1750–1803), Stefan Gavrilović, Georgije Bakalović, and others.
• Jovan Četirević Grabovan (1720–1781) was a Serbian icon painter. He painted the Lepavina and Orahovica monasteries, among others.
• Kiril Zhivkovich (1730–1807) was a Serbian and Bulgarian writer.
• Petar I Petrović Njegoš (1748–1830) was a writer and poet besides being a spiritual and temporal ruler of the "Serb land of Montenegro" as he called it.
• Sofronije Jugović-Marković (fl. 1789) was a Serbian writer and activist in Russian service. He wrote "Serbian Empire and State" in 1792 in order to raise the patriotic spirit of the Serbs in both the Habsburg and Ottoman empires.
• Stefano Zannowich (1751–1786) was a Montenegrin Serb writer and adventurer. From his early youth he was prone to challenges and adventures, unruly and dissipated life. He wrote in Italian and French, besides Serbian. He is known for his "Turkish Letters" that fascinated his contemporaries.
• Tripo Smeća (1755–1812) was a Venetian historian and writer who wrote in Italian and in Serbian.
• Hadži-Ruvim (1752–1804) was a Serbian Orthodox archimandrite who documented events and wars in his time, established a private library, wrote library bibliographies, collected books in which he drew ornaments and miniatures. He did wood carving and woodcutting.

Rationalism

• Simeon Piščević (1731–1797), was a Serbian writer and high-ranking officer in the service of both Austria and Imperial Russia.
• Dositej Obradović (1739–1811), influential protagonist of the Serbian national and cultural renaissance, founder of modern Serbian literature
• Teodor Janković-Mirijevski (1740–1814), the most influential educational reformer in the Habsburg Empire and Imperial Russia
• Avram Miletić (1755–after 1826) was a merchant and writer of epic folk sings.
• Avram Mrazović (1756–1826) was a Serbian writer, translator and pedagogue.
• Jovan Muškatirović (1743–1809) was one of the early disciples of Dositej Obradović.
• Aleksije Vezilić (1753–1792) was a Serbian lyric poet who introduced the Teutonic vision of the Enlightenment to the Serbs.
• Emanuilo Janković (1758–1792) was a Serbian man of letters and of science.
• Pavle Solarić (1779–1821) was Obradović's disciple who wrote poetry and the first book on geography in the vernacular.
• Gerasim Zelić (1752–1828), Serbian Orthodox Church archimandrite, traveller and writer (compatriot of Dositej). His chief work was the travel memoirs Žitije (Lives), which also served as a sociological work.
• Sava Tekelija (1761–1842) was the patron of Matica Srpska, a literary and cultural society
• Gligorije Trlajić (1766–1811), writer, poet, polyglot and professor of law at the universities of St. Petersburg and Kharkiv (Harkov), author of a textbook on Civil Law which according to some laid the foundations of Russian civil law doctrine
• Atanasije Stojković (1773–1832) was a Serbian writer, pedagogue, physicist, mathematician and astronomer in the service of Imperial Russia. He also taught mathematics at the university of Kharkiv.
• Vićentije Rakić (1750–1818) was a Serbian writer and poet. He founded the School of Theology (now part of the University of Belgrade) when in 1810 he headed a newly established theological college and in 1812 the first students graduated from it. He was disciple of Dositej Obradović.
• Jovan Pačić (1771–1848) was a Serbian poet, writer, translator, painter and soldier. He translated Goethe
• Teodor Filipović (1778–1807), writer, jurist and educator, wrote the Decree of the Governing Council of Revolutionary Serbia. He taught at the newly-founded National University of Kharkiv, with his compatriots, Gligorije Trlajić and Atanasije Stojković.
• Jovan Došenović (1781–1813) was a Serbian philosopher, poet and translator.
• Jovan Avakumović (1748–1810), known as a representative of the Serbian folk poetry of the 18th century, though he only wrote a few poems which were part of handwritten poem books

Rationalism to Romanticism or Pseudo-Classicism

• Lukijan Mušicki (1777–1837), Serbian Orthodox abbott, poet, prose writer, and polyglot.
• Sava Mrkalj devised an alphabet system, which rejected 16 of 42 Slavonic letters.
• Georgije Magarašević (1793–1830), eminent writer, historian, dramatist, publisher, and founder and first editor of Serbski Letopis.
• Joakim Vujić, (1772–1847), writer, dramatist, actor, traveler and polyglot. He is known as the Father of Serbian Theatre.^[40]
• Matija Nenadović (1777–1854) author of Memoirs, an eyewitness account of the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815.
• Dimitrije Davidović (1789–1838), Minister of Education of the Principality of Serbia, writer, journalist, publisher, historian, diplomatist, and founder of modern Serbian journalism and publishing.
• Prokopije Čokorilo (1802–1866) is better known for his chronicles and a dictionary of Turkish expressions in Serbian. He contributed to the Srbsko-dalmatinski Magazin.
• Stefan Stefanović (1807–1828) is a Serbian writer who lived and worked in Novi Sad and Budapest
• Tomo Milinović (1770–1846) is a Serbian writer and freedom-fighter. He authored two books, Umotvorina (published posthumously 1847) and Istorija Slavenskog Primorija (lost and never published).
• Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1791–1847), poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer.
• Jovan Hadžić (1799–1869) was a Serbian writer and legislator
• Jovan Stejić (1803–1853) was a Serbian physician writer, philosopher, translator, and a critic of Vuk Karadžić's language reform.
• Jovan Sterija Popović, (1806–1856), playwright, poet and pedagogue who taught at the University of Belgrade, then known as Grande École (Velika škola).
• Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, (1813–1851) works include The Mountain Wreath (Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac), the Ray of the Microcosm (Луча микрокозма / Luča mikrokozma), the Serbian Mirror (Огледало српско / Ogledalo srpsko), and False Tsar Stephen the Little (Лажни цар Шћепан Мали / Lažni car Šćepan Mali).
• Nikanor Grujić, (1810–1887), Rationalism to Romanticism
• Vasa Živković, Rationalism to Romanticism
• Svetozar Miletić, writer and editor of a magazine called Slavjanka, in which Serbian students living under Habsburg occupation championed their ideas of national freedom
• Ljubomir Nenadović, writer
• Matija Ban (1818–1903), writer, poet, dramatist, politician and diplomat
• Medo Pucić, writer and prominent Serbian nationalist who was one of the leaders of the "Serb-Catholic" Circle in Nineteenth-Century Dalmatia.
• Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1828–1878), poet
• Uroš Knežević, Rationalism to Romanticism
• Konstantin Danil, Rationalism to Romanticism
• Ognjeslav Utješenović (1817–1890), Rationalism to Romanticism
• Milica Stojadinović Srpkinja, Romanticism

Romanticism

• Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Romanticism
• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Romanticism
• Avram Miletić was merchant and writer of epic songs who wrote the earliest collection of urban lyric poetry.
• Old Rashko, Romanticism
• Živana Antonijević, Romanticism
• Tešan Podrugović, Romanticism
• Filip Višnjić, Romanticism
• Sava Mrkalj, Romanticism
• Đuro Daničić, collaborated with Vuk Karadžić in reforming and standardizing the Serbian language, and translating the Bible from old Serbo-Slavonic into modern-day Serbian
• Vuk Vrčević, collaborated with Vuk Karadžić collecting Serbian tales and songs in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Dalmatia along with Vuk Popović
• Ivan Stojanović, Romanticism
• Branko Radičević, Romanticism
• Petar Preradović is claimed by two literatures, Croatian and Serbian, as their own, and with equal rights. Romanticism
• Jovan Sundečić, Romanticism
• Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Romanticism
• Đura Jakšić, Romanticism
• Novak Radonić (1826–1890), Romanticism
• Đorđe Marković Koder, Romanticism
• Staka Skenderova is a Bosnian Serb writer, teacher and social worker.
• Vaso Pelagić, Romanticism
• Laza Kostić, Romanticism
• Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša, Romanticism
• Visarion Ljubiša, Romanticism
• Čedomilj Mijatović, Romanticism
• Kosta Trifković, Romanticism
• Ilarion Ruvarac, Romanticism
• Mato Vodopić (1816–1893) was a Serb-Catholic Bishop of Dubrovnik and poet, Romanticism
• Marko Miljanov, Romanticism
• Nikša Gradi, Romanticism
• Pero Budmani, Romanticism
• Ivan Stojanović, Romanticism

Realism

• Jakov Ignjatović, Realism
• Dimitrije Ruvarac, Realism
• Kosta Ruvarac, Realism
• Milovan Glišić, Realism
• Panta Srećković
• Jaša Tomić, Realism
• Gavrilo Vitković, Realism
• Ljubomir Nenadović, Realism
• Milan Đ. Milićević, Realism
• Laza Lazarević, Realism
• Stefan Stefanović
• Janko Veselinović (writer), Realism
• Simo Matavulj, Realism
• Nićifor Dučić, Realism
• Božidar Petranović, Realism
• Nicholas I of Montenegro
• Svetolik Ranković, Realism
• Stevan Sremac, Realism
• Radoje Domanović, Realism
• Vojislav Ilić, Realism
• Svetozar Marković, Realism
• Vladimir Jovanović, Realism
• Ljubomir Nedić, Realism
• Sava Bjelanović, Realism
• Marko Car, Realism
• Paja Jovanović, Realism
• Uroš Predić, Realism
• Marko Murat, Realism
• Svetomir Nikolajević, Realism
• Nikola Musulin, Realism
• Vladan Đorđević, Realism
• Nikodim Milaš, Realism
• Risto Kovačić, Realism
• Ivo Vojnović, Realism
• Ivan Ivanić (1867–1935) was a diplomat and an author of numerous books, including travel literature.
• Antun Fabris (1864–1904), Realism
• Milan Rešetar, Realism
• Medo Pucić, Realism
• Niko Pucić, Realism

Moderna

• Petar Kočić, Realism to Moderna
• Borisav Stanković, Realism to Moderna
• Svetozar Ćorović, Realism to Moderna
• Branislav Nušić, Realism to Moderna
• Mileta Jakšić. Realism to Moderna
• Aleksa Šantić, Realism to Moderna
• Veljko Petrović (poet), Moderna
• Sima Pandurović, Moderna
• Jevto Dedijer, Moderna
• Milan Rakić, Moderna
• Vladislav Petković Dis, Moderna
• Jovan Dučić, Moderna
• Isidora Sekulic
• Dimitrije Mitrinović
• Bogdan Popović
• Stijepo Kobasica
• Kosta Abrašević, Moderna
• Jela Spiridonović-Savić

Avant-Garde

• Momčilo Nastasijević
• Vojislav Jovanović Marambo, naturalism, kitchen sink drama
• Isidora Sekulić
• Jelena Dimitrijević
• Miloš Crnjanski for a time led a movement called Sumatraism.
• Stanislav Vinaver (1891–1965)
• Vladimir Velmar-Janković (1895–1976)
• Oskar Davičo (1909–1989), Surrealist
• Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993)
• Dušan Vasiljev (1900–1924)
• Vladan Desnica (1905–1967)
• Ivo Andrić
• Meša Selimović

Contemporary

Uncategorized writers

Uncategorized poets