List of people from Novi Sad

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Statue of Svetozar Miletić in Novi Sad
Statue of Jovan Jovanović Zmaj in Novi Sad

This is a list of famous or notable citizens of Novi Sad (included in the list are natives as well as permanent and/or temporary residents).

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Arts

Architecture

Literature and poetry

Laza Kostić (1841–1910)
Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1830–1878)
  • Aleksandar Tišma (1924–2003), writer; born in village Horgoš near Kanjiža and lived in Novi Sad
  • Branislav Nušić (1864–1938), Serbian novelist, playwright, comediographer, story writer, essayist, founder of modern Rhetoric in Serbia; lived in Novi Sad
  • Boško Petrović (1915–2001), Serbian novelist and poet, secretary and president of Matica Srpska; studied and lived in Novi Sad
  • Danilo Kiš (1935–1989), possibly the best-known ex-Yugoslavian writer alongside the Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić; lived in Novi Sad
  • Damjan Kaulić (1760–1810) Serbian publisher, bookseller and printer; only bookseller in Novi Sad until 1790; born in Sremski Karlovci and lived in Novi Sad.
  • Đura Jakšić (1831–1878), Serb poet, painter, narrator, playwright, bohemian, and patriot; born in Srpska Crnja and lived in Novi Sad
  • Jakov Ignjatović (1822–1889), writer; lived in Novi Sad
  • Jovan Grčić Milenko (1846–1875), poet; born in village Čerević in Beočin municipality; attended gymnasium in Novi Sad
  • Jovan Hadžić (1799–1869; pseudonym Miloš Svetić), one of the founders of Matica srpska and its first president; poet, literary historian, interpreter, lawyer; born in Sombor and lived in Novi Sad
  • Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), one of the best-known Serb poets; born in Novi Sad
  • Baja
    and lived in Novi Sad
  • Jovan Rajić (1726–1801), writer and historian; born in Sremski Karlovci and lived in Novi Sad
  • Kosta Trifković (1843–1875), Serb writer, one of the best comediographers of the time; born in Novi Sad
  • Lajos Zilahy (1891−1974), author of the novel Two Prisoners
  • Laza Kostić (1841–1910), Serb man of letters; born in the village of Kovilj near Novi Sad, and lived in Novi Sad
  • Mika Antić (1932–1986), Serbian poet; born in village Mokrin near Kikinda and lived in Novi Sad
  • Milica Stojadinović-Srpkinja (1830–1878), writer; born in village Bukovac near Novi Sad
  • Mira Alečković (1924–2008), Serbian and Yugoslav poet; born in Novi Sad
  • Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861), Slovak philologist, poet; one of the first scientific Slavists; literary historian, historian and ethnographer; lived in Novi Sad
  • Pero Zubac (born 1945), Serbian and Yugoslav author, poet, screenwriter, academic, and journalist; born in Nevesinje in Bosnia and Herzegovina and resides in Novi Sad
  • Vasa Stajić (1878–1947), writer and professor; born in village Mokrin near Kikinda and lived in Novi Sad
  • Vasko Popa (1922–1991), Yugoslav poet of Romanian descent; lived in Novi Sad
  • Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
    (1787–1864), Serb linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language; spent 1809/1810 winter in Novi Sad
  • Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Serbian polymath; born in Vukovar in Croatia and lived and died in Novi Sad.

Painting

  • Alfréd Kemény (1895–1945), Hungarian artist and art critic; born in Novi Sad
  • Anastas Bocarić (1864–1944), painter and teacher; born in Budva, Montenegro, lived and worked in Novi Sad (1911–1932)
  • Dimitrije Avramović (1815–1855), painter; born in village Šajkaš in the Titel municipality and lived in Novi Sad
  • Emerik Feješ (1904–1969), Hungarian–Serbian painter; born in Osijek in Croatia and lived in Novi Sad
  • Igor Antić (born 1962), French–Serbian visual artist; born and raised in Novi Sad; son of Mika Antić
  • Minya Mikic (born 1975) born as Minja Višekruna, Italian artist, painter, and graphic designer; born in Novi Sad
  • Nikola Aleksić (1808–1873), painter; born in Arad in Romania and lived and worked in Novi Sad until 1826.
  • Sokol movement in Yugoslavia
    ; born in Novi Sad
  • Uroš Predić (1857–1953), painter; born in village Orlovat in the Zrenjanin municipality and lived in Novi Sad
  • Vasa Ostojić (1730–1791), Serbian Baroque icon and fresco painter; worked on Uspenska crkva in Novi Sad; died in Novi Sad

Comics

  • Branislav Kerac (born 1952; also known as Bane Kerac), Serbian comic book creator; created and/or worked on Cat Claw, Tarzan, Zagor and Kobra comics
  • Gradimir Smudja (born 1956), Serbian cartoonist and painter in Italy and France; born in Novi Sad
  • Petar Meseldžija (born 1965), fantasy and comic book artist and illustrator
  • Sibin Slavković (born 1953), comic book artist, illustrator and editor; created and worked on Tarzan, Il Grande Blek, Tex; born in Žunjevići and resides in Novi Sad since 1983

Sculpture

Multiple art disciplines

  • Emanuilo Janković (1758–1792), Serbian writer, dramatists, philosopher, translator, editor and scientist; born and raised in Novi Sad
  • Jovan Grčić Milenko (1846–1875) Serbian poet, writer, physician; born in Ćerević lived and studied in Novi Sad
  • Jovan Hristić (1933–2002), Serbian poet, playwright, essayist, literary and theater critic, translator, editor; died in Sremska Kamenica in Novi Sad
  • Milan Savić (1845–1930), Serbian physician writer, historian, philosopher, medical doctor, geographer, literary critic, translator, president of Matica srpska; lived and studied in Novi Sad
  • Mladen Dražetin (1951–2015), doctor of social sciences, intellectual, economist, theatrical creator, poet, writer and philosopher. He was born and died in Novi Sad.
  • Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958) Serbian and Yugoslav writer, historian, lawyer, philosopher, literary critic, diplomat, and politician; born in Novi Sad

Entertainment

Fashion and modeling

  • Jovana Marjanović (born 1987), Serbian beauty pageant model; born in Novi Sad
  • Sanja Papić (born 1984), Serbian supermodel and beauty pageant titleholder

Film, theater, and television

Draginja Ružić (1834–1905)

Music

Đorđe Balašević (1953–2021)

Sciences

Biology

  • Adolf Hempt (1874–1943), biologist; founder of the Pasteur Institute in Novi Sad; born in Novi Sad
  • Dušan Kanazir (1921–2009), Serbian molecular biologist, president of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts; lived and studied in Novi Sad
  • Miloš Marić (1885–1944), histologist; brother of Mileva Marić; head of the department of histology at the Saratov State University in Russia; researched in the field of mitosis and amitosis, which laid the foundation for cloning; born in Ruma and lived in Novi Sad

Chemistry

  • Pavle Trpinac (1905–1991), Serbian chemist and professor; born and raised in Novi Sad
  • Vojtěch Šafařík (1829–1902), Czech chemist of Slovakian descent; born in Novi Sad

Mathematics

Albert and Mileva Einstein, 1912
  • Bogdan Gavrilović (1864–1947), mathematician physicist, philosopher and educator; born in Novi Sad
  • Mileva Marić (1875–1948), mathematician; Albert Einstein's first wife; sister of Miloš Marić; born in Titel and lived in Novi Sad
  • Olga Hadžić (1946–2019), mathematician; rector of the University of Novi Sad and the first woman rector in Serbia; born and lived in Novi Sad

Physics

  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist of profound genius; widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century; lived in Novi Sad 1905-1907 (in Kisačka Street 20) with his wife, Mileva Marić

Psychology

  • Milenko Vlajkov (born 1950}, psychologist and psychotherapist, author and meditation master; born in Novi Sad[1]

Scholars

  • slavist
    , journalist
  • Đuro Daničić (1825–1882), Serbian philologist, translator, linguist historian and lexicographer; born and studied in Novi Sad

Business

Politics

Svetozar Miletić (1826-1901)

Religion

Philanthropy

Marija Trandafil (1816–1883)
  • 1848 Hungarian Revolution
  • Sava Tekelija (1761–1842), first Serbian doctor of law; founder of Tekelijanum; president of Matica srpska; philanthropist, noble and merchant; born in Arad in Romania
  • Savka Subotić (1834–1918), Serbian political activist, philanthropist and one of the first leading feminists in Vojvodina

Military

  • Đorđe Sečujac (1715-1759), Serb Habsburg military commander; lived in Novi Sad
  • Jakov Mrvica (1978-2004), born as Željko Mrvica, Israeli-Serbian military person; lived in Novi Sad

Sports

Monika Seleš, 1999

Basketball

Canoe

  • Bora Sibinkić (born 1978), professional sprint canoer, president of the kayak and canoe club Vojvodina; born in Novi Sad
  • Petar Sibinkić (born 1976), professional sprint canoer, competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympic games; born and grew up in Novi Sad

Football

Handball

Rowing

Shooting

Tennis

Track and field

See also

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Holzinger Institute Personlich Weiterkommen - PROFESSOR MILENKO VLAJKOV" (PDF). dr-holzinger-institut.de. Dr. Holzinger Institute. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
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