List of Bosnian and Herzegovinian people

This is a list of Bosnians and Herzegovinians (including those of contemporary Bosniak, Croat, Serb and other ethnicities):

Arts

Fine arts

• Adi Granov – comic book artist
• Braco Dimitrijević – conceptual artist
• Endi E. Poskovic – printmaker and artist
• Gabrijel Jurkić – painter
• Safet Zec – painter and graphic designer
• Šejla Kamerić – video art and installation
• Senad Basic ´aka´ Bruno Baziq – Photographer
• Helena Klakocar – cartoonist
• Maya Kulenovic – painter (Canada)
• Mersad Berber – painter
• Nesim Tahirović – painter
• Lazar Drljača – painter
• Dragan Vlasic – Photographer, Videographer
• Slobodan Pejić – painter and sculptor
• Todor Švrakić – painter
• Zuko Džumhur – cartoonist

Architecture

• Selma Harrington - architect and designer
• Vesna Bugarski - Bosnia-Herzegovina's first female architect
• Ivan Štraus - architect, academician
• Zlatko Ugljen - architect
• Hasan Cemalovic - architect
• Ivan Ceresnjes - architect
• Izet Soko - architect

Composition

• Franciscus Bossinensis – composer
• Dino Zonić – composer and conductor
• Nihad Hrustanbegovic – composier, concert artist, accordionist and pianist
• Elvidin Krilić – musician, accordion player and composer
• Miroslav Čangalović – Bosnian opera and concert singer
• Lotfi Bouchnak – Tunisian singer, ud player, composer and public figure
• Flory Jagoda – composer and singer

Theatre and performing arts

• Adnan Hasković - actor
• Branko Đurić – actor, director, original member of the cult comedy Top Lista Nadrealista line-up
• Davor Dujmović – actor
• Enis Bešlagić – actor
• Haris Pašović – director
• Josip Pejaković – actor
• Midhat Ajanović – film theorist, animator and novelist
• Mustafa Nadarević – actor
• Oskar Danon – composer and conductor
• Vedran Smailović, - cellist
• Vladimir Valjarević – pianist
• Zijah Sokolović – actor, director
• Zoran Bečić – actor and director

Literature

• Ivo Andrić – writer, Nobel Laureate
• Meša Selimović – writer
• Branko Ćopić – writer
• Aleksa Šantić – poet
• Aleksandar Hemon – writer
• Isak Samokovlija – writer
• Mak Dizdar – poet
• Zaim Topčić – writer
• Zlatko Topčić – writer

Science and technology

• Mahmut Bajraktarević – mathematician
• Asaf Duraković - physician and expert in nuclear medicine and depleted uranium
• Asim Kurjak - physician, gynecologist
• Asim Peco - linguist and professor of Philology at the University of Belgrade
• Vladimir Prelog – chemist, Nobel Laureate
• Irfan Škiljan – creator of freeware image viewer IrfanView
• Zlatko Tešanović - physicist, professor at the Johns Hopkins University, USA

Popular culture

Film, radio and television

• Aida Begić – film director
• Ademir Kenović – film director and producer François Chalais Prize
• Adnan Hasković – actor
• Bekim Fehmiu – actor
• Danis Tanović – Academy Award, Golden Globe, Berlin Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival-winning director and screenwriter
• Haris Pašović – theatre and film director
• Emir Kusturica – film director, two time Palme d'Or winner
• Hajrudin Krvavac - film director
• Harun Mehmedinović - filmmaker, photographer, author
• Ivana Miličević – actress, notable appearances in Seinfeld, Felicity, among others
• Jasmila Žbanić – film director, 2006 Golden Bear winner
• Jasmin Dizdar – film director
• Karl Malden – actor, Oscar winner, and the former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His family originates from Bileća.
• Nenad Dizdarević – film director
• Pjer Žalica – film director
• Srđan Vuletić – filmmaker
• Tarik Filipović – actor
• Vehid Gunić – TV presenter
• Zlatko Topčić – screenwriter

Music

• Adi Lukovac – musician, music producer, founder of band Adi Lukovac & Ornamenti
• Alen Islamović – musician, one-time frontman of Divlje Jagode i Bijelo Dugme
• Aljoša Buha – member of the original line-up of Crvena Jabuka, killed in a car accident
• Alma Čardžić – pop singer
• Amila Glamočak – pop singer, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest
• Beba Selimović – sevdalinka singer
• Boris Novković – singer and songwriter
• Brano Likić – composer and founder of Rezonansa
• Dado Džihan – composer, producer, one-time member of Zabranjeno pušenje and Top lista nadrealista
• Davorin Popović – singer and frontman of Indexi
• Deen – former leader of the boyband Seven Up, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest
• Dina Bajraktarević - sevdalinka and folk singer
• Dino Merlin – pop singer, songwriter, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest
• Dražen Ričl a.k.a. Zijo – original frontman for Crvena Jabuka
• Dražen Žerić a.k.a. Žera – original member of Crvena Jabuka and its current frontman
• Edo Maajka – rapper, leader of rap group Disciplinska komisija
• Elvir Laković Laka, rock music singer, songwriter
• Goran Bregović – musician and composer, founder of Bijelo Dugme
• Hakala – folk singer
• Halid Bešlić – folk singer
• Hanka Paldum, sevdalinka singer
• Haris Džinović – folk singer
• Hajrudin Varešanović – a.k.a. Hari Mata Hari pop singer and songwriter, represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest finishing third
• Himzo Polovina – sevdalinka singer
• Igor Vukojević – singer
• Indira Radić – folk singer
• Jadranka Stojaković – pop singer
• Kemal Malovčić - popular Bosnian etno-psyhodelic singer
• Kemal Monteno – singer, musician, and songwriter
• Kornelije Kovač – composer, musician, member of the original line-up of Indexi, founder of Korni grupa
• Lepa Brena – pop-folk singer
• Maya Berović - pop star
• Mile Kitić – turbofolk singer
• Mirsada Bajraktarević - singer
• Nada Mamula – sevdalinka singer
• Nada Topčagić - singer
• Nadja Benaissa - singer
• Nenad Janković – musician, original frontman of Zabranjeno pušenje, original member of the Top lista nadrealista line-up
• Nikša Bratoš – composer, producer, one-time member of Rezonansa and Valentino, member of Crvena Jabuka
• Osman Hadžić – folk singer
• Safet Isović – sevdalinka singer
• Saša Lošić – singer, composer and founder of the Plavi orkestar band
• Saša Matić – folk singer
• Sead Lipovača - original member of Divlje Jagode
• Sejo Sexon, – founder of Zabranjeno pušenje and current frontman of the Zagreb-based post-war line-up
• Seka Aleksić – pop-folk singer
• Selma Bajrami – folk singer
• Šemsa Suljaković, folk singer
• Šerif Konjević – folk singer
• Silvana Armenulić, folk and sevdalinka singer
• Tifa – singer and musician
• Tomo Miličević - guitarist for Thirty Seconds to Mars
• Vesna Pisarović – pop singer
• Zaim Imamović – sevdalinka singer
• Zdravko Čolić – pop singer
• Željko Bebek – musician and singer

Politicians and historical figures

Medieval Bosnian state 1154–1463

Bogutović Family

• 14th century Vojvoda Bogut – First known ancestor of the House of Petrović-Njegoš, royal Family of Montenegro, ruler of Jablan Grad, near present-day Ugljevik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 14th century Đurađ Bogutović – the son of Vojvoda Bogut and the 14th century nobleman, grandfather of Herak Heraković, the founding father of the Petrović-Njegoš and Heraković-Popović families of the Njeguši tribe

Borić Dynasty

• 1154–1163 Ban Borić

Hrvatinić Family

• Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić – Bosnian Duke, founder of the town of Jajce

Kulinić Dynasty

• 1172–1204 Ban Kulin
• 1204–1232 Stjepan Kulinić
• 1232–1253 Matej Ninoslav

Kotromanić Dynasty

Kings:

• 1254–1287 Prijezda I
• 1287–1290 Prijezda II
• 1267–1313 Stjepan I Kotromanić, also known as Kotroman
• 1314–1353 Stjepan II Kotromanić
• 1353–1366 & 1367–1391 Tvrtko I of Bosnia
• 1366–1367 Stjepan Vuk
• 1391–1395 Stephen Dabiša of Bosnia
• 1398–1404 & 1409–1418 Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia
• 1404–1409 & 1421–1433 & 1435–1442 Tvrtko II of Bosnia
• 1433–1435 Radivoj Ostojić
• 1443–1461 Stephen Thomas
• 1461–1463 Stephen Tomašević

Queens:

• Elizabeth of Bosnia
• Dorothea of Bulgaria
• Dorothy Garai
• Jelena Gruba
• Jelena Nelipčić
• Katarina Kosača
• Kujava
• Mary of Serbia
• Vitača

Kosača Family

• Sandalj Hranić, Sandalj Hranić Kosača, 1370–1435, medieval nobleman from the House of Kosača.
• Stjepan Vukčić Kosača a.k.a. Duke of Saint Sava, Herceg Stjepan Kosača, Vojvoda of Hum (Herzegovina) – father of Bosnian Queen, Katarina Kosača Kotromanić
• Vlatko Vuković, Vlatko Vuković Kosača, died 1392, medieval nobleman from the House of Kosača

Ottoman rule 1463–1878

• Gazi Husrev-beg – military strategist and the greatest donor and builder of Sarajevo
• Husein Gradaščević a.k.a. Husein-kapetan, The Dragon of Bosnia – 19th century Bosnian nobleman and autonomy fighter
• Isa-Beg Isaković – general, first governor of the Ottoman province of Bosnia, and founder of the cities of Sarajevo and Novi Pazar
• Ivan Franjo Jukić
• Ferhad Pasha Sokolović – founder and designer of Banja Luka old town
• Mehmed Paša Sokolović a.k.a. Sokollu Mehmet Paşa – Grand Vizier to Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II
• Damad Ibrahim Pasha – Grand Vizier
• Tiryaki Hasan Pasha a.k.a. Hasan-Paša Tiro – Bosnian national hero
• Osman Pazvantoğlu, Bosnian Ottoman soldier, a governor of the Vidin district after 1794, and a rebel against Ottoman rule.

Austro-Hungarian occupation 1878–1918

• Gavrilo Princip – member of black hand, Serb, and assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the assassination triggered World War I

Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1918–1941

• David Elazar - Chief of staff of the Israeli Defence Forces
• Džemaludin Čaušević – Reis-ul-ulema
• Mehmed Spaho – leader of the Yugoslav Muslim Organisation

World War II

• Peter Tomich – World War II hero
• Rodoljub Čolaković – World War II war hero, People's Hero of Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1943–1991

Presidents of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1943–1990

• Kecmanović, Vojislav Đedo – (25 November 1943 – November 1946)
• Pucar, Đuro Stari – (November 1946 – September 1948)
• Šegrt, Vlado – (September 1948 – March 1953)
• Pucar, Đuro Stari – (December 1953 – June 1963)
• Dugonjić, Rato – (June 1963 – 1967)
• Bijedić, Džemal – (1967–1971)
• Pozderac, Hamdija – (1971 – May 1974)
• Dugonjić, Rato – (May 1974 – April 1978)
• Dizdarević, Raif – (April 1978 – April 1982)
• Mikulić, Branko – (April 1982 – 26 April 1984)
• Renovica, Milanko – (26 April 1984 – 26 April 1985.)
• Mesihović, Munir – (26 April 1985 – April 1987)
• Andrić, Mato – (April 1988 – April 1989)
• Filipović, Nikola – (April 1988 – April 1989)
• Piljak, Obrad – (April 1989 – December 1990)

Prime ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1945–1990

• Čolaković, Rodoljub – (27 April 1945 – September 1948)
• Pucar, Đuro Stari – (September 1948 – December 1953)
• Humo, Avdo – (December 1953 – 1956)
• Karabegović, Osman – (1956–1963)
• Brkić, Hasan – (1963–1965)
• Kolak, Rudi – (1965–1967)
• Mikulić, Branko – (1967–1969)
• Kosovac, Dragutin – (1969 – April 1974)
• Renovica, Milanko – (April 1974 – 28 April 1982)
• Maglajlija, Seid – (28 April 1982 – 28 April 1984)
• Ubiparip, Gojko – (28 April 1984 – April 1986)
• Lovrenović, Josip – (April 1986 – April 1988)

Bosnian presidents since 1990

• Alija Izetbegović – (December 1990 – October 1996) (collective presidency chairman)
• Alija Izetbegović (October 1996 – October 1998) (collective presidency chairman)
• Živko Radišić – (October 1998 – June 1999)
• Ante Jelavić – (June 1999 – February 2000)
• Alija Izetbegović – (February 2000 – October 2000)
• Živko Radišić – (October 2000 – June 2001)
• Jozo Križanović – (June 2001 – February 2002)
• Beriz Belkić – (February 2002 – October 2002)
• Mirko Šarović – (October 2002 – April 2003)
• Borislav Paravac – (April 2003 – June 2003)
• Dragan Čović – (June 2003 – February 2004)
• Sulejman Tihić – (February 2004 – October 2004)
• Borislav Paravac – (October 2004 – June 2005)
• Ivo Miro Jović – (June 2005 – October 2006)
• Nebojša Radmanović – (part of collective presidency)
• Željko Komšić – (part of collective presidency)(collective presidency chairman)
• Haris Silajdžić – (part of collective presidency)

Other political figures since 1943

• Adnan Terzić – politician, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Boris Tadić – President of the Republic of Serbia
• Cvijetin Mijatović a.k.a. Majo – politician and one-time President of the Collective Presidency of the SFR Yugoslavia
• Irfan Ljubijankić – surgeon, composer, politician and diplomat
• Jovan Divjak – general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992–1995 war, poet
• Mladen Ivanić – politician and diplomat
• Nikola Špirić – politician, Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Stjepan Šiber – Deputy Commander of the B&H Army during the 1992–1995 conflict
• Vladimir Dedijer – a Partisan fighter, politician, and historian
• Zlatko Lagumdžija – politician and diplomat
• Zoran Đinđić – prime minister of the Republic of Serbia, Mayor of Belgrade, and the philosopher

Sportspeople

Basketball

• Adnan Hodžić - basketball player
• Aleksandar Nikolić – "Father of Yugoslav Basketball"
• Amel Tuka-athlete
• Bogdan Tanjević – basketball coach
• Borislav Stanković – former basketball player
• Damir Omerhodžić-Markota – NBA basketball player with the Milwaukee Bucks
• Damir Mulaomerović - retired basketball player
• Dejan Bodiroga – Voted first on the list by the fans worldwide for the Euroleague Basketball 2001–2010 All-Decade Team. His family originates form the village of Bodiroge near Trebinje
• Dražen Dalipagić – basketball player, former Real Madrid player, Olympic medalist and FIBA Hall of Famer
• Emir Mutapčić – assistant coach of FC Bayern Munich and current coach of the German national team
• Edin Bavčić – former NBA basketball player with the Philadelphia 76ers

Edin Džeko-football player

• Elmedin Kikanović - basketball player
• Jasmin Repeša - basketball coach
• Mile Ilić – former basketball player
• Mirza Delibašić – basketball player, former Bosna and Real Madrid player, Olympic medalist and FIBA Hall of Famer
• Bojan Bogdanović, basketball player (born in Mostar), former Real Madrid player
• Mirza Teletović - NBA basketball player the Brooklyn Nets
• Nedžad Sinanović – basketball player
• Nenad Marković – basketball player
• Nihad Đedović - basketball player with Bayern Munich
• Predrag Danilović – basketball coach and former basketball player
• Razija Mujanović – basketball player
• Robert Rothbart – basketball player
• Vladimir Radmanović – NBA basketball player with the Los Angeles Lakers
• Zoran Planinić – NBA basketball player
• Zoran Savić – former basketball player

Chess

• Ivan Sokolov – chess player, Grandmaster since 1987
• Predrag Nikolić – chess player, Grandmaster since 1983
• Bojan Kurajica - chess player, Grandmaster

Football

• Asim Ferhatović – former football player
• Asmir Begović – football goalkeeper
• Blaž Slišković – football coach and former footballer
• Boro Primorac – football coach
• Darko Maletić – football player
• Dušan Bajević – football coach and former player
• Edin Džeko – Manchester City (on loan to Roma) and Bosnia national team
• Edin Višća - football player
• Elvir Baljić – football player
• Elvir Bolić – football player
• Elvir Rahimić - football player
• Emir Spahić - football player
• Enver Marić – former football goalkeeper
• Faruk Hadžibegić – former football player
• Franjo Vladić – former footballer
• Gradimir Crnogorac - football player
• Haris Međunjanin – football player
• Haris Škoro - former football player
• Hasan Salihamidžić – former Bayern Munich midfielder and second Bosnian to win Champions League
• Ibrahim Duro - former football player
• Ivica Osim – football coach and former footballer
• Izet Hajrović - football player
• Josip Katalinski – former football player
• Mario Stanić – former footballer
• Mehmed Baždarević - former footballer
• Mensur Mujdža - football player
• Miroslav Blažević – football coach
• Mirsad Fazlagić – former football player
• Miralem Pjanić – AS Roma and Bosnia national team
• Muhamed Mujić – former footballer
• Mirsad Hibić – former footballer
• Meho Kodro – former football player
• Predrag Pašić – football coach, former player
• Safet Nadarević – football player
• Safet Sušić – football coach and former footballer, Paris Saint-Germain and Ligue 1 great
• Saša Papac – football player
• Savo Milošević – football player
• Sead Kolašinac - football player
• Sejad Salihović - football player
• Senijad Ibričić - football player
• Sergej Barbarez – football player
• Sulejman Halilović – former football player
• Tarik Hodžić- footballer
• Tomislav Piplica – former football player
• Vahid Halilhodžić – football coach and former footballer
• Vedad Ibišević - football player
• Zlatan Bajramović – football player
• Zvjezdan Misimović – football player

Foreign footballers of Bosnian origin

– Australian national team

• Eli Babalj – forward for Adelaide United and the Australian national team
• Dino Đulbić – defender for Perth Glory and formerly the Australian national team

– Croatian national team

• Alen Halilović – midfielder and Croatian national team
• Davor Šuker – retired Croatian national team striker
• Darijo Srna – midfielder and Croatian national team (Bosnian father)
• Dejan Lovren – defender and Croatian national team
• Ivan Klasnić – striker Nantes and Croatian national team
• Ivan Rakitić – midfielder Sevilla and Croatian national team
• Jerko Leko – midfielder and Croatian national team
• Mario Mandžukić – striker Bayern Munich and Croatian national team
• Mario Stanić – retired midfielder Chelsea F.C. and Croatian national team
• Mladen Petrić – striker West Ham United and Croatian national team
• Niko Kovač – midfielder and Croatian national team
• Nikica Jelavić, striker Hull and Croatian national team
• Robert Kovač – defender and Croatian national team
• Vedran Ćorluka – defender Lokomotiv Moscow and Croatian national team

– Serbian national team

• Mladen Krstajić – defender Schalke 04 and Serbian national team
• Neven Subotić – defender Borrusia Dortmund and Serbian national team
• Ognjen Koroman – midfielder Red Star Belgrade and Serbian national team
• Savo Milošević – retired Serbian national team striker
• Zdravko Kuzmanović – midfielder AC Fiorentina and Serbian national team

– Swedish national team

• Zlatan Ibrahimović – striker Paris Saint-Germain and Swedish national team

– Austrian national team

• Marko Arnautović – striker Stoke City and Austrian national team
• Zlatko Junuzovic - midfielder SV Werder Bremen and Austrian national tean

– German national team

• Marko Marin – midfielder Sevilla and German national team

– Swiss national team

• Eldin Jakupović – goalkeeper Hull City and Swiss national team
• Haris Seferović – striker Real Sociedad and Swiss national team

– Slovenian national team

• Armin Bačinović – midfielder Palermo and Slovenian national team
• Zlatan Ljubijankić – retired striker and Slovenian national team
• Jasmin Kurtič – midfielder Sassuolo and Slovenian national team
• Mirnes Šišić – midfielder Olympiacos and Slovenian national team
• Samir Handanovič – goalkeeper Inter Milan and Slovenian national team
• Josip Iličić – midfielder Fiorentina and Slovenian national team
• Haris Vučkić - midfielder Newcastle United and Slovenian national team

Handball

• Adnan Harmandić – handball player for HSG Wetzlar
• Abaz Arslanagić – former handball player
• Danijel Šarić – goalkeeper for FC Barcelona Handbol
• Enid Tahirović – one of the top goalkeepers in the Bundesliga. Currently he plays for HSV Hamburg
• Irfan Smajlagić – former handball player
• Mirko Alilović – goalkeeper plays for Croatian national team
• Mirsad Terzić – handball player, and the current captain of Bosnian national team
• Muhamed Mustafić – handball player
• Muhamed Toromanović – handball player
• Svetlana Dašić-Kitić – best female handball player ever by International Handball Federation
• Zlatan Arnautović – former handball player (Olympic Gold Medal 1984)

Martial arts/boxing

• Amel Mekić – judo
• Anton Josipović – boxing, light heavyweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics
• Arnela Odžaković – karate, 5th place at 2006 World Championship
• Dževad Poturak – retired super heavyweight kickboxer and former WKA European Champion and K-1 Fighting Network Prague 2007 tournament Champion
• Hamid Guska – boxing coach
• Marijan Beneš – boxing, gold medal at the 1973 European Championship
• Adnan Ćatić – boxing, reigning IBF world champion, former WBO champion, and a two time former WBA champion
• Jasmin Hasić – super heavyweight boxer best known for winning Bronze Medal at the European Junior Championships 2007 in Sombor
• Marijan Benes – boxing, Light Middleweight champion (march,17 1979

Tennis

• Alexandros Jakupovic – tennis player (Bosnian father)
• Amer Delić – tennis player
• Ivan Dodig – tennis player
• Ivan Ljubičić – tennis player
• Marin Čilić – tennis player
• Mervana Jugić-Salkić – tennis player
• Sandra Martinović – tennis player
• Damir Džumhur – tennis player
• Andrea Petkovic – tennis player, playing for Germany

Other prominent people

• Adil Zulfikarpašić – businessman, one-time politician, and philanthropist, founder of the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo
• Alija Sirotanović – Bosnian coal-miner, worker-hero, his face was on the 10 and 20000 dinar banknotes
• Boris Tadić – President of Serbia
• Branko Crvenkovski – Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2004, then President of the Republic of Macedonia from 2004 to 2009.
• Dr. Eso Sadiković – doctor of medicine
• Emerik Blum – founder of Energoinvest, former Mayor of Sarajevo, arguably the most successful and influential businessman in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Fikret Hodžić - Bosnian bodybuilder
• Kemal Curić - automobile designer known best for his work at Ford, where he was responsible for numerous concept and production cars
• Inga Peulich – Australian politician born in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Omer Halilhodžić – automobile designer responsible for the styling of the 2004 Mitsubishi Colt, and the concept cars which preceded it: CZ2, CZ3, CZ3 cabriolet, and CZT. He has since penned the Mitsubishi Concept Sportback, and the Mitsubishi Concept X, which presages the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X production car.
• Mila Mulroney – wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney
• Tijana Arnautović – Miss World Canada 2004, model
• Vladimir Ćorović – historian
• Zoran Đinđić – former Prime Minister of Serbia
• Nijaz Ibrulj – philosopher and a professor at the University of Sarajevo
• Faruk Čaklovica – Professor of Bromatology and Rector of the University of Sarajevo
• Željko Topić, Croatian civil servant and Vice-President of the European Patent Office born in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Infamous people

• Andrija Artuković – minister in the government of the Independent State of Croatia and war criminal
• Ante Pavelić – Ustaše leader, founder and leader of the fascist Independent State of Croatia, war criminal
• Biljana Plavšić – politician, convicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes during the Bosnian war
• Vjekoslav Luburić – Ustaše leader, commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp, war criminal
• Miroslav Filipović – Ustaše leader, commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and war criminal
• Momčilo Krajišnik – politician, convicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes and ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war
• Radovan Karadžić – Political leader of the Serbs during 1992–1995, indicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes and genocide, most wanted man in Europe
• Ratko Mladić – General of the Serbian Army during 1992–1995, indicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes and genocide, most wanted man in Europe alongside Karadžić
• Tihomir Blaškić – convicted of violating the laws of war, committing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war
• Vojislav Šešelj – politician, radical extremist, Chetnik leader, indicted by the International War Tribunal for war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war

See also

• Bosnian-Herzegovian demographic changes in 1991-2005 period
• List of Bosniaks
• List of Croats
• List of Serbs