List of Serbs of North Macedonia

This is a list of people who are Serbs or of Serbian descent, from present-day North Macedonia.

Medieval nobility

• Branko Mladenović, Serbian magnate
• Vuk Branković, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Dejan, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Constantine Dragaš, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Jovan Dragaš, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Grgur Golubić, medieval Serbian nobleman
• King Vukašin, medieval Serbian king (1365-1371)
• King Marko, medieval Serbian king (1371-1395)
• Jovan Oliver, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Paskač, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Vlatko Paskačić, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Ostoja Rajaković, medieval Serbian nobleman
• Nikola Stanjević, medieval Serbian nobleman

Churchmen

• Mihailo Bojčić, metropolitan of Kratovo
• Maksim I, Serbian Patriarch (1655-1672)
• Jefrem Janković Tetovac, Orthodox bishop
• Atanasije II Gavrilović, Serbian Patriarch (1747-1752)
• Zaharija Dečanac, Metropolitan of Raška and Prizren (1819-1830)
• Dositej Novaković, Orthodox bishop of Timok
• Dimitrije Mladenović, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Protoiereus in the Kumanovo kaza

Artists

Visual arts

• Josif Mihajlović Jurukovski, architect and politician
• Petar Popović, architect
• Jovan of Kratovo, 16th century illuminator
• Radomir Reljić, painter
• Ljubica Sokić, painter
• Mladen Srbinović, painter
• Olga Jančić, sculptor

Performing arts

Film

• Dragomir Felba, actor
• Predrag Laković, actor
• Slobodan Aligrudić, actor
• Ljubiša Samardžić, actor
• Ljubomir Ćipranić, actor
• Nataša Petrović, actress

Music

• Isaiah the Serb, 15th century composer
• Mara Đorđević, Serbian singer
• Maja Odžaklievska, Serbian singer, born in Skopje
• Tijana Dapčević, Serbian singer, born in Skopje, Serb mother, Eurovision participant
• Tamara Todevska, Macedonian singer, born in Skopje, Serb mother, Eurovision participant
• Dragan Vučić, Macedonian composer
• Martin Vučić, Macedonian singer, born in Skopje, Eurovision participant
• Barbara Popović, Macedonian singer^[citation needed], Junior Eurovision participant
• Martija Stanojković, Macedonian and Serbian singer, Junior Eurovision participant

Literature

• Stanislav of Lesnovo, 14th century writer
• Dimitar of Kratovo, 15th century writer and lexicographer
• Kosta Abrašević, Serbian poet [1]
• Andjelko Krstić, writer
• Petar Džadžić, literary critic

Scientists

• Stevan Simić, geographer
• Tomo Smiljanić Bradina, ethnographer and writer
• Jovan Trifunovski, geographer and anthropologist
• Traian Stoianovich, historian
• Dragoslav Avramović, economist
• Aleksandar Mladenović, linguist
• Ljubomir Maksimović, historian
• Milan Damnjanović, physicist
• Vladimir Kanjuh, cardiovascular pathologist, professor of pathology and cardiovascular pathology

Politicians

• Petar Novaković Čardaklija, diplomat in the First Serbian Uprising
• Vasilije Jovanović, founder of the Chetnik movement, interwar minister
• Josif Mihajlović Jurukovski, mayor of Skopje [2]
• Ilija Šumenković, interwar minister and ambassador
• Ivan Stoilković, politician and president of the Democratic Party of Serbs in Macedonia

Military

Serbian Revolution

• Cincar Janko Popović, duke in the First Serbian Uprising
• Cincar Marko Kostić, duke in the First Serbian Uprising
• Vučo Žikić, notable figure in the First Serbian Uprising

Rebels

• Velika Begovica, female rebel in the Kozjak region active during the Serbo-Turkish War (1876–78)
• Zdravko Trajković-Dimitrijević (born ca. 1850, fl. 1876–80), known as Davče, was a Serbian soldier and rebel leader in Old Serbia and northern Macedonia. He hailed from Kumanovo. He participated in the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78), and after the war fought in various rebel bands throughout Old Serbia and Macedonia against the Ottomans. He was among the 65 signatories of the 1880 appeal to Serbia to aid in a rebellion in Macedonia. He was part of Spiro Crne's band during the Brsjak Revolt.[3]

Kingdom of Serbia

• Lazar Petrović, Serbian general and adjutant of King Aleksandar Obrenović

Guerilla fighters in Macedonian struggle under Ottomans

• Jovan Babunski, Chetnik guerrilla
• Gligor Sokolović, Chetnik guerrilla
• Micko Krstić, Chetnik guerrilla
• Ditko Aleksić, Chetnik guerrilla
• Đorđe Cvetković, Chetnik guerrilla
• Jovan Dolgač, Chetnik guerrilla
• Jovan Dovezenski, Chetnik guerrilla
• Petko Ilić, Chetnik guerrilla
• Petar Kacarević, Chetnik guerrilla
• Todor Krstić-Algunjski, Chetnik guerrilla
• Cene Marković, Chetnik guerrilla
• Doksim Mihailović, Chetnik guerrilla
• Pavle Mladenović, Chetnik guerrilla
• Stevan Nedić-Ćela, Chetnik guerrilla
• Spasa Garda, Chetnik guerrilla
• Zafir Premčević, Chetnik guerrilla
• Trenko Rujanović, Chetnik guerrilla
• Boško Virjanac, Chetnik guerrilla
• Rista Cvetković-Božinče, Chetnik guerrilla

World War II

• Vera Jocić, Yugoslav Partisan
• Milivoje Trbić, guerilla fighter

Sports

• Aleksa Amanović, Serbian born, Macedonian football player
• Saša Ćirić, football player
• Miroslav Đokić, football player
• Darko Glišić, football player
• Rudi Gusnić, football player
• Saša Ilić, football player
• Stanoje Jocić, Serbian football player and a Yugoslav international
• Petar Krstić, football player
• Miljan Miljanić, football manager
• Ljubodrag Milošević, former football player, football coach
• Veljko Paunović, retired football player and football manager
• Milovan Petrović, Macedonian footballer
• Predrag Ranđelović, Serbian born, Macedonian football player
• Stevica Ristić, naturalized Macedonian footballer married to a Macedonian women
• Dušan Savić, football player
• Kuzman Sotirović, the first footballer from Macedonia to play in Yugoslavia national team
• Goran Stanić, football player
• Vujadin Stanojković, football player
• Ostoja Stjepanović, football player
• Dejan Stojanović, Austrian born Macedonian Serb footballer
• Nikola Stojanović, football player
• Dragoslav Šekularac, football legend of Red Star Belgrade, born in Štip
• Blagoje Vidinić, football player
• Jelena Antić, basketball player
• Pero Antić, basketball player [4]
• Ivica Blagojević, basketball player
• Miroslav Despotović, basketball player
• Goran Dimitrijević, basketball player
• Nenad Dimitrijević, basketball player
• Marko Dujković, basketball player
• Stevan Gligorijević, basketball player
• Budimir Jolović, basketball player
• Lazar Lečić, basketball coach
• Dragan Lukovski, basketball player
• Ranko Mamuzić, basketball player
• Kristijan Manević, basketball player
• Dragan Milenković, basketball player
• Ivan Mišković, basketball player
• Marjan Mladenović, basketball player
• Boris Nešović, basketball player
• Petar Nikolić, basketball player
• Predrag Pajić, basketball player
• Aleksandar Petrović, basketball coach
• Darko Radulović, basketball player
• Emil Rajković, former professional basketball player and current coach
• Toni Simić, basketball player
• Boban Stajić, basketball player
• Srdjan Stanković, basketball player
• Uroš Vasiljević, basketball player
• Đorđe Vojnović, basketball player and coach
• Nenad Zivčević, basketball player
• Dragica Kresoja, handball player
• Vesna Milošević, handball player
• Savica Mrkić, handball player
• Nemanja Pribak, handball player
• Radoslav Stojanović, handball player
• Veselin Vuković, handball player and coach
• Goran Kasum, sports wrestler

Other

• Dimitrije Pepić, 16th-century endower and benefactor from Kratovo
• Denko Krstić, merchant and activist
• Golub Janić, national worker and benefactor
• Temko Popov, activist and national worker
• Despot Badžović, teacher and national worker
• Vanja Bulić, Serbian journalist and author
• Dragan Pavlović Latas, Macedonian journalist[5]

By descent

Born in Serbia and elsewhere with Serbian origins from North Macedonia:

• Miloš Biković, paternal descent from Berovo[6]
• Svetlana Bojković, paternal descent from Kumanovo[7]
• Aleksandar Cincar-Marković, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• Dimitrije Cincar-Marković, politician, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Serbia, army general, Chief of General Staff, professor of war history and strategy
• Alexander Kačaniklić, Swedish football player, family hails from Čučer-Sandevo
• Josif Tatić, actor, maternal descent from Skopje

See also

• List of Serbs
• List of Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of Serbs of Croatia
• List of Serbs of Montenegro
• List of Serbs of Slovenia
• List of Serbs of Albania

References

1. Бранко Шашић, Знаменити Шапчани и Подринци, Шабац 1998. available via Riznica srpska http://riznicasrpska.net/knjizevnost/index.php?topic=367.0
2. Mladen Stančić, Zaboravili na tvorca modernog Skoplja, Večernje novosti 9.11.2013 http://www.novosti.rs/vesti/planeta.300.html:462960-Zaboravili-na-tvorca-modernog-Skoplja
3. Hadži-Vasiljević 1928, p. 9.
4. "NBA Pero: Zvezdin "delija", momče Makedonče". 5 August 2013.
5. "Вечер OnLine". Vecer. Archived from the original on 2010-01-27.
6. "Дедо ми е од Берово и ќе дојдам после корона, вели актерот Милош Биковиќ кој ќе го промовира филмот "Хотел Белград" во Македонија". 7 May 2020.
7. "Svetlana Bojković Biografija". 31 December 2018.

Sources

• Hadži-Vasiljević, Jovan (1928). Četnička akcija u Staroj Srbiji i Maćedoniji (in Serbian). Belgrade: Sv. Sava.