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Art, sculptors[edit]

Art, painters, cartoonists, illustrators[edit]

Car racing[edit]

Uncategorized[edit]

Literary critics/historians and art-critics

Red links[edit]

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Academic sciences, invention[edit]

Academic sciences, philosophy[edit]

Historians[edit]

Military[edit]

  • Jovan Kursula (1768–1813; voivode of the First Serbian Uprising)
  • Petar Zambelic, Montenegrin captain who was commissioned by the Chilean Navy in 1890s and a survey ship called Condor was allocated to him for military and commercial sea route exploration. He died in 1903 in an accident. A commemorative plaque in Cyrillic was dedicated to him in his native Boka Kotorska in 1952.
  • Timoleon Vasos Mavrovouniotis, Greek general of Montenegrin Serb descent, led a 1,500-men expeditionary force that landed February 3, 1897 at Kolymvari and claimed Crete for George I of Greece.
  • Petar Zelalic (born 1727), the first Serbian Orthodox Christian in the 18th century to be knighted by the authorities of Malta for defending the island from the Ottoman Empire. A series of stamps called Captains of Boka Kotorska, including Petar Zelalic, Marko Ivanovic, Matija Balovic (1718–1794)and Ivan Bronza (d. 1749), were issued in 2005 by Serbia and Montenegro, honouring their maritime exploits.

Music[edit]

Literature, baroque[edit]

  • Simeon Končarević (c. 1690-1769), Serbian and Albanian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia, who wrote The Chronicle of the Dalmatian (Orthodox) Bishop
  • Jovan Stefanov Balević (1726–1796) was a graduate of the Serbian Orthodox Seminary at Sremski Karlovci and the University of Halle before travelling to Imperial Russia, and enlisting in the Russian army to fight the Turks. Balević's book -- A Brief and Objective Description of the Present State of Montenegro—was written in St. Petersburg in 1757, but the work never appeared in Russia and, was only finally published in Cetinje in 1884
  • Pavle Julinac (1731–1785) holds an eminent place in modern Serbian historiography, being credited as the first Serb to publish a comprehensive history of the entire Serbian nation in Venice in 1765.He was greatly influenced by Slovak Jan Tomke-Saski, his college professor. (Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš, however, holds the distinction of being the first Serb to write and publish the history of the Serbian land of Montenegro in Moscow in 1754.

Literature, rationalism to romanticism[edit]

Photography[edit]

Politicians[edit]

Science[edit]

Sports, boxers[edit]

Uncategorized[edit]

Dusan Petricic (Teaches at Oakville's Sheridan College)

Montenegro[edit]
  • Captain Count Jovan Mirkovic born in Herceg Novi was a distinguished Serbian sea captain.
  • Captain Tomo Djurov Milinovic
  • Krsto Corko, born in Perast, was a famed mariner. He was a Spanish Marquis and Governor of the Balearic Islands in the second half of the 17th century.
  • Marko Martinovic, a maritime teacher, who taught 17 Russian dukes maritime skills and navigation in Perast in 1698.
  • Jozo Lukovic of Prcanj was a distinguished sea captain during the end of the 18th century. Lukovic was intimate with Petar I Petrovic Njegos, who decided at that time to forestall the Great Powers by annexing the Bay of Kotor. In Montenegro itself the conditions were ripe for the establishment of a government and a state. On October 29, 1813, the Bishop had created a Central Commission, half of whom, including Lukovic, were from the Bay of Kotor and area and the other half from the Highlands, over which Peter I presided and which was to administer and to unite the territories. Lukovic acted as a deputy for Peter I, and in the Central Commission he defended the bishop's vision with great vigour. He knew it was propitiuous for the creation of a state and a foundation for the realization of more final aims.
  • Petar Zelalic, born in Bijela, was a recipient of the coveted gold medal of courage and the rank of Maltese knight in the successful defence of the island of Malta against the Turks in the 1700s.
  • Dobrota-born Ivanovic brothers, Marko Ivanovic and Jozo Ivanovic, became famous in battle against pirates and Turks in the Mediterranean. In 1751 a fortunate occasion had allowed Marko to take part in a big naval fight with the Turkish pirates at Patras, and in 1756, being now in command of a ship, he fought against the same enemies in Piraeus, serving with distinction on both occasions.
  • Mato Mrsa is a Serb from Perast, a well-known sea captain and teacher at a nautical school.
  • Antun Lukovic, descendant of an old Bokelj family from Boka Kotorska in Montenegro, was chief marine engineer in the construction of the Suez Canal, from 1859 to 1869.
  • Mitar Martinovic
  • Major Borko Pastrovic
  • Second Lieutenant Milivoje Naumovic (served under Vojvoda Vuk's command, 17 times-wounded in combat, obtained a Law degree at the University of Paris in the early 1920s; served as vice-consul in Chicago in 1925-1926. Later, he was appointed consul in San Francisco. In 1933 he was recalled to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Belgrade and in February 1936 became the first consul general in Montreal. As Reuter's correspondent in Belgrade Naumovic was arrested by the Ozna, Tito's secret police. He was sentenced to six years for "propagating alarming news." It was alleged that he had sent false messages on the situation in Yugoslavia at the time of the forced landings of American planes.
  • Slavka Tomic was a war heroine, mobilized at the age of 18, wounded many times, and promoted to sergeant.
Austrian-Hungarian[edit]
Imperial Russia[edit]
United States[edit]

During the American Civil War, the earliest Serbian immigrants who came to Louisiana from the Old Country served in the Slavonian Rifle Company, European Brigade, and Louisiana Militia.(Source: "Yugoslavs in Louisiana" by Milos M. Vujnovich, Pelican Publishing, Louisiana, 1999)

Republic of Venice[edit]
Albania[edit]
Ottoman[edit]
Romania-Moldavia[edit]
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