59 Serbian surnames

Mirko Apostolović, known as Uzun-Mirko was a Serbian voivode, with the rank of bimbaša during the Serbian revolution; he took part in both the First and Second Serbian Uprising. He was famed for his many fatal wounds, undetected infiltration into the Ottoman fort at Belgrade, among other operations, which gained him many awards. He is the founder of the Uzun-Mirković family.

Marko Atlagić is a Croatian-born, Serbian historian and politician. He is one of the leaders of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and Head of the Historical Department at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Priština in North Mitrovica, with auxiliary historical sciences as his preferred field.

Dušan "Duško" Bajević is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player.

The Balšić or the Balsha was a noble family that ruled "Zeta and the coastlands", from 1362 to 1421, during and after the fall of the Serbian Empire. Balša, the founder, was a petty nobleman who held only one village during the rule of Emperor Dušan the Mighty, and only after the death of the emperor, his three sons gained power in Lower Zeta after acquiring the lands of gospodin Žarko under unclear circumstances, and they then expanded into Upper Zeta by murdering voivode and čelnik Đuraš Ilijić. Nevertheless, they were acknowledged as oblastni gospodari of Zeta in edicts of Emperor Uroš the Weak. After the death of Uroš (1371), the family feuded with the Mrnjavčevići, who controlled Macedonia. In 1421, Balša III, on his death, passed the rule of Zeta to his uncle, Despot Stefan the Tall.

Bašić is a South Slavic surname.

Miodrag Belodedici is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a sweeper.

Bojana Bobusic is a former professional Australian tennis player playing on the ITF women's circuit. On 20 February 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 227. She is coached by Rohan Fisher.

Ilija Bozoljac is a Serbian professional tennis player and coach.

Vukašin Brajić is a Bosnian Serb pop-rock singer who rose to fame after participating in the first season (2008–09) of Operacija trijumf, the Serbian version of Star Academy, in which he came in second place.

Jovana Brakočević Canzian is a Serbian female professional volleyball player, who was a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and also the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg. There she was named Best Server of the tournament. She was also a member of the Serbia women's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 2011 European Championship in Serbia and Italy. There she was voted MVP of the tournament.

The Branković is a Serbian medieval noble family and dynasty. According to genealogies created in the first half of the 15th century, the family descends via female lineage, through marriage with the Nemanjić dynasty. The family rose to prominence during the fall of the Serbian Empire. The original family domains were centered in the Kosovo region. Later family members extended their rule over all remaining unconquered regions of Serbia making them the last sovereign rulers of medieval Serbian state. The dynasty ruled the Serbian Despotate from 1427 to 1459, and their descendants continue to claim the throne of the Despotate Serbia, some having entered the ranks of the Hungarian aristocracy, while other descendants of the dynasty continue to go by a courtesy title.

Nikola “Niki” Budalic is a Canadian retired soccer player who currently serves as a director of soccer operations for Inter Miami CF.

Dajana Butulija is a Serbian professional women's basketball player who plays for AZS-UMCS Lublin in the Basket Liga Kobiet. Standing at 1.76 m, she plays at the shooting guard position. She also represents the Serbian national basketball team.

Željko Buvač is a Bosnian football manager and former professional player who works as a sporting director for Russian Premier League club FC Dynamo Moscow. He is the former assistant manager of Premier League club Liverpool, a role he took in 2015 but left in April 2018.

Veselin Čajkanović was a Serbian classical scholar, philologist, philosopher, ethnologist, orientalist, religious history scholar, and Greek and Latin translator.

Jelena Čanković, is a Serbian football midfielder who plays for FC Rosengård of the Swedish Damallsvenskan. She joined FC Barcelona in August 2013 from Spartak Subotica. In September 2013, Čanković made her debut for the senior Serbia women's national football team. She played for Ferencvárosi TC before she signed for Växjö DFF. In 2016 Čanković was chosen as Player of the year in the Hungarian Jet-Sol Liga. In 2018 she provided the most assists in Damallsvenkan and was named one of three nominees for Best Midfielder, selected from Swedish national team players and Damallsvenskan players.

Luka Ćelović also known as Luka Ćelović-Trebinjac was a Serbian businessman, merchant and rentier. At the beginning of the 20th century, he was one of the most influential people in Serbia, a patriot and a great benefactor, also a philanthropist of education. He was the first president of the Belgrade Cooperative. In 1902, with Milorad Gođevac, he founded the Serbian Chetnik Organization in Belgrade.

Dragan Ćeran is a Serbian football striker who plays for Pakhtakor Tashkent.

Đorđe Čotra is a Serbian footballer.

Slavko Ćuruvija was a Serbian journalist and newspaper publisher. His murder on 11 April 1999 in Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia provoked international outrage and wide condemnation. In January 2014 two people were arrested and two others named by the Serbian police as suspects in Ćuruvija's murder, including Radomir Marković, former head of the State Security Service (SDB) from 1998 to 2001.

Nikola Čuturilo, also known as Čutura is a Serbian rock musician. He is known as a guitarist for the band Riblja Čorba, as well as for his solo work.

Dražen "Praja" Dalipagić is a Serbian retired professional basketball player and head coach. He was selected the best athlete of Yugoslavia in the year 1978, and is one of the most decorated athletes in Yugoslavian history. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. Dalipagić was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 2004, and into the FIBA Hall of Fame, also as a player, in 2007. In 2008, he was named one of the 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.

Branko Damljanović is a Serbian grandmaster. His rating peaked at 2625 in July 2006. His chess career started in 1975 in Čačak. He is now a selector.

Jezdimir Dangić was a Yugoslav and Bosnian Serb Chetnik commander during World War II. He was born in the town of Bratunac in the Austro-Hungarian occupied Bosnia Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Imprisoned during World War I for his membership of the revolutionary movement Young Bosnia, he subsequently completed a law degree and became an officer in the gendarmerie of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes at the beginning of 1928. In 1929, the country changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1940, Dangić was appointed to lead the court gendarmerie detachment stationed at the royal palace in the capital, Belgrade. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Dangić commanded the gendarmerie unit that escorted King Peter II to Montenegro as he fled the country. In August of that year, the leader of the Chetnik movement, Colonel Draža Mihailović, appointed Dangić as the commander of the Chetnik forces in eastern Bosnia. Here, Dangić and his men launched several attacks against the forces of the Independent State of Croatia. Soon after his appointment, Dangić's Chetniks captured the town of Srebrenica from the occupiers. Afterwards, they became largely inactive in fighting the Germans, choosing instead to avoid confrontation. In December, Chetniks under Dangić's command massacred hundreds of Bosnian Muslims in the town of Goražde. In the same month, his Chetniks captured five nuns and took them with them through Romanija to Goražde, where they later committed suicide to avoid being raped.

Milovan Danojlić is a Serbian writer.

Mlađan Dinkić is a Serbian economist, musician and former politician.

Vlade Divac is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former player who was most recently the vice president of basketball operations and general manager of the Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Božidar Đelić is a Serbian economist and former politician. A longtime member of the Democratic Party, he was highly positioned in politics of Serbia after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević. He served as the Minister of Finance and Economy in the Government of Serbia from 2001 to 2004 and later as Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and Minister of Science and Technological Development from 2007 to 2011.

Laslo Đere is a Serbian professional tennis player. He is a member of the Hungarian community in Serbia.

Dragan Đokanović is a Bosnian Serb politician, member, founder and president of the Democratic Party of Federalists, physician, sportsman and one of the most popular men in history of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the research of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Momčilo Đujić was a Serbian Orthodox priest and Chetnik warlord. He led a significant proportion of the Chetniks within the northern Dalmatia and western Bosnia regions of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), a fascist puppet state created from parts of the occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II. In this role he collaborated extensively with the Italian and then the German occupying forces against the communist-led Partisan insurgency.

Đurašići is a village in the municipality of Prijepolje, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 265 people.

Uroš Drenović was a Bosnian Serb military commander in the central Bosnia region of the puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), led by the fascist Ustaše, during World War II. After distinguishing himself in resisting the Ustaše alongside communist-led rebels, Drenović betrayed the communist-led Partisans and began to collaborate with the Ustaše, Italians and Germans against them.

Suzana Drobnjakovic, known by her stage name Sasha Alexander, is an American actress and TV director. She played Gretchen Witter on Dawson's Creek and has acted in films including Yes Man (2008) and He's Just Not That Into You (2009). Alexander played Caitlin Todd for the first two seasons of NCIS. From July 2010 through September 2016, Alexander starred as Maura Isles in the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles.

Dragomir Dujmov is a Serbian poet, novelist and short story writer from Hungary.

Aleksa Dundić or Oleko Dundich was a Serbian participant in Russia's October Revolution. A popular character in Russian literature, Dundić was honoured with the Order of the Red Banner.

Aleksandar Džikić is a Serbian professional basketball coach. His current team as head coach is Budućnost of the ABA League.

Ivan Ergić is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a midfielder.

Božidar Ferjančić was a Serbian historian, a specialist in medieval Serbian history and the later Byzantine empire. He was member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Aleksandar Filimonović is a Serbian film and television actor, best known for his roles in the films Dolemite Is My Name, White Lions and Montevideo, and in the television series My father's killers, Ravna gora, Village is burning..., The Americans, NCIS, as well as series of commercials for Chipsy, Pils, Telekom, Skybet, Dulux and others.

Ilija Garašanin was a Serbian statesman who served as the prime minister of Serbia between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1861 to 1867.

Milorad Gođevac was the organizer of the Serbian Chetnik Organization, a doctor by profession.

Slavko Goluža is a retired Croatian handball player and current coach of HT Tatran Prešov.

Marko Grubelić is a Serbian footballer.

Milan Gurović is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current basketball coach. During his pro career, he played for numerous clubs from all over Europe. Gurović was also a member of the senior national teams of both FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia.

Konstantin Hadija was a Serbian politician serving as the secretary of Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia.

Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević was a Serbian historian, ethnographer, journalist and writer.

Nebojša Jelenković is a former Serbian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Bojan Jorgačević is a retired Serbian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Saša Kajkut is a Bosnian retired professional footballer who played as a striker.

Danilo Kalafatović was a Serbian military officer and Army general who served in the armies of the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia during the first half of the 20th century. During the Second World War, he was briefly Chief of the General Staff and Supreme Commander of Yugoslavia.

Ljubomir Kaljević was a Serbian politician and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Serbia.

Nataša Kandić is a Serbian political writer, human rights activist and coordinator of the RECOM Reconciliation Network, founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an organization campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the Serbian role in the conflict. It was formed in 1992. The HLC's research was integral to the war crimes prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), particularly the "smoking gun" video linking Serbian military forces to the Srebrenica massacres. She has won numerous international awards for her human rights work. She is a figure of controversy in Serbia where she was the subject of a defamation lawsuit by former President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić.

The Karađorđević dynasty is a Serb family, founded by Karađorđe Petrović (1768-1817), the veliki vožd of Serbia during the First Serbian Uprising of 1804-1813. In the course of the 19th century the relatively short-lived dynasty was supported by the Russian Empire and was opposed to the Austria-Hungary-supported Obrenović dynasty. After Karađorđe's assassination in 1817, Miloš Obrenović founded the House of Obrenović. The two houses subsequently vied for the throne for several generations. Following the assassination of the Obrenović King Alexander I of Serbia in 1903, the Serbian Parliament chose Karađorđe's grandson, Peter I Karađorđević, then living in exile, to occupy the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia. He was duly crowned as King Peter I, and shortly before the end of World War I in 1918, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Peter I as sovereign. In 1929 the kingdom was renamed Yugoslavia, under Alexander I, the son of Peter I. In November 1945 the family lost their throne when the League of Communists of Yugoslavia seized power during the reign of Peter II.

Karadžić is a Serbian surname, derived from karadža, a colloquial Serbian term for "black ox" or generally for "an animal with black fur or dark complexion", itself derived from Turkish karaca meaning "roe deer". The Karadžić family name was derived from a progenitor who was called karadža, a nickname found in Serbia since the second half of the 15th century. The surname is widespread over former Yugoslavia. It may refer to:Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864), Serb linguist, major reformer of the Serbian language Milan Karadžić, Montenegrin director Milutin Karadžić, Serbian and Montenegrin actor Radovan Karadžić, former president of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a convicted war criminal Ljiljana Zelen Karadžić, wife of Radovan Karadžić Šujo Karadžić, Montenegrin and Old-Herzegovinian uskok Tomislav Karadžić, Serbian football administrator Goran Karadžić, Serbian basketball player Vuk Karadžić (basketball), Serbian basketball player Stevan Karadžić, Serbian basketball coach and former player.

Anđelko Karaferić was a Serbian musician, professor of counterpoint and Associate Dean at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts in North Kosovo. He graduated from the Belgrade Music Academy in 1970. He has served for many years as the principal oboist of the Radio-Television of Pristina Symphony Orchestra.

Ilija M. Kolarac Endowment, also known as the Kolarac People's University Building, is at 5 Students' Square in the heart of Belgrade. The building is a monument of a great cultural and historical importance and as such was declared as the immovable cultural property.

Ognjen Koroman is a Serbian football manager and former professional player.