List of Sarajlijas

Sarajevo has had a number of famous citizens over the years. They include an Academy Award winner, two Nobel Prize winners, legendary musicians, novelists, and politicians. Sarajevo has also produced presidents for three countries.

* Isa-Beg Isaković - general, first governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia, and founder of the cities of Sarajevo and Novi Pazar
*Gazi Husrev-beg (1480 – 1541), bey in the Ottoman Empire, greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo
*Vladimir Prelog (born 1906), Nobel prize winner for Chemistry
*Ivica Osim (born 1941), football coach
*Jasmila Žbanić (born 1974), director
*Mula Mustafa Bašeskija (1731-1809), traveling writer
*Goran Bregović (born 1950), composer
*Branko Crvenkovski (born 1962), President of the Republic of Macedonia
*David Elazar (1925-1976), general
*Mustaj-Beg Fadilpašić (1830-1892), mayor
*Asim Ferhatović (1933-1987), footballer
*Aleksandar Hemon, writer
*Almir Imširević, playwriter
*Miljenko Jergović (born 1966), writer
*Hasan Kaimija (1625-1691), dervish
*Nehemija Kije Kajon {1650-1726), Jewish mystic
*Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević (1865-1908), poet
*Hamdija Kreševljaković (1888-1959), historian
*Emir Kusturica (born 1954), director
*Nele Karajlić (born 1962), musian, composer, actor, director
*Fra Grgo Martić (1822-1905), priest
*Juraj Neidhart (1918-1979), architect
*Muhamed Nerkesija Es-Seraji (1592-1634), poet
*David Pardo (1719-1792), rabbi
*Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (1790-1847), poet
*Muhamed Fadil-Pasha Šerifović (1802-1882), religious man
*Abdulah Sidran (born 1944), writer
*Ivan Straus (born 1928), architect
*Boris Tadić (born 1958), President of Serbia
*Mladen Savović (born 1950), engineer
*Zeljko Bebek (born 1945), lead singer of Bijelo Dugme 1974-1984
*Mladen Vojičić aka Tifa, Musician, former lead singer of Bijelo Dugme
*Tomo Miličević (born 1979), musician
*Ivana Miličević (born 1974), actress
*Davor Sučić (Sejo Sexon) (born 1961), musician
*Dubravko Brigić (1959-1998) poet, journalist
*Branko Đurić Đuro (born 1962), actor and director
*Radivoje Andrić (born 1967), director
*Mila Mulroney, former first lady of Canada
*Pasanovic Nadija
*Dr. Muhamed Karamehmedovic, profesor, founder of Academy of Arts
*Zlatan Tucaković, mathematician

See also

Nikola Bogojevic Born 1974,president of MontenegroDado Dzigal Born 1983