59 Notable alumni of
University of Novi Sad
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The University of Novi Sad is 1094th in the world, 387th in Europe, and 3rd in Serbia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 59 notable alumni from the University of Novi Sad sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ivan Bosiljčić
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied in 2001
- Occupations
- singeractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Ivan Bosiljčić is a Serbian film, television, and theatre actor. He is popular for his leading roles in numerous television and cinematographic roles, as well as in theatrical musicals.
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Miloš Vučević
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Miloš Vučević is a Serbian lawyer and politician who has served as prime minister of Serbia since 2024. He is also the current president of the Serbian Progressive Party. He previously served as deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of defence 2022 to 2024 and as mayor of Novi Sad from 2012 to 2022.
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Nenad Čanak
- Occupations
- politicianmusicianeconomist
- Biography
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Nenad Čanak is a Serbian politician. He is the co-founder and former leader of the centre-left League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. He was the President of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2000 to 2004, and until 2020 he was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia.
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Marko Đurić
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomatjurist
- Biography
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Marko Đurić is a Serbian politician and diplomat serving as the minister of foreign affairs since 2024. Prior to becoming a government minister, Đurić was the ambassador of Serbia to the United States of America since 8 October 2020, and the non-resident ambassador of Serbia to Colombia since 3 July 2021.
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Maja Gojković
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Maja Gojković is a Serbian politician who has been the president of the Government of Vojvodina since 2024. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), she previously served as president of the National Assembly from 2014 to 2020 and deputy prime minister of Serbia and minister of culture and information from 2020 until 2024.
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Radoslav Milenković
- Occupations
- university teacherpoetdirectoractor
- Biography
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Radoslav "Rale" Milenković is a Serbian actor and theatre director. He has won the most prestigious awards for acting and directing at many festivals in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.
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Jorgovanka Tabaković
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Jorgovanka Tabaković is a Serbian politician who has been the governor of the National Bank of Serbia since 2012. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), she has been the deputy president of the party since 2012.
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Dimitrije Banjac
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied petrochemistry
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actoractorcomedian
- Biography
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Dimitrije Banjac is a Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter. Together with Nikola Škorić and Dejan Ćirjaković he is the creator and actor of several popular Serbian television show programs, including Noćna smena, Velika Srbija, Srbi u svemiru, Pravi fudbal and Državni posao. Audiences in Serbia know him best for his roles as Professor Kišprdilov in Noćna smena and Đorđe Čvarkov in Državni posao.
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István Pásztor
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied in 1980
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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István Pásztor was a Serbian politician who served as the president of the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2012 until his death in 2023. An ethnic Hungarian, he led the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians from 2008 to 2023.
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Nikola Škorić
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied history
- Occupations
- screenwriteractorcomedian
- Biography
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Nikola Škorić is a Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter. Together with Dimitrije Banjac and Dejan Ćirjaković he is the creator and actor of several popular Serbian television show programs, including Noćna smena, Velika Srbija, Srbi u svemiru, Pravi fudbal and Državni posao. He is best known to audience in Serbia for his role of Dragan Torbica in Državni Posao.
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Žarko Zrenjanin
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied in 1923
- Occupations
- revolutionarypoliticianmilitary personnelteacher
- Biography
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Žarko Zrenjanin "Uča" was a Yugoslav partisan and National Hero of Yugoslavia. The city of Zrenjanin, in Serbia, is named after him, since 1946.
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Dejan Zavec
- Occupations
- boxer
- Biography
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Dejan Zavec, best known as Jan Zaveck, is a Slovenian former professional boxer who competed from 2003 to 2015. He held the IBF welterweight title from 2009 to 2011, and challenged once for the WBA super-welterweight title in 2015. Zaveck is the only Slovenian boxer to have held a world title, and was named Slovenian Sportsperson of the Year in 2010.
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Bojan Pajtić
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- In 2008 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Bojan Pajtić is a Serbian lawyer and former politician who is a professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Law. A member of the Democratic Party (DS), he served as the president of the government of Vojvodina from 2004 to 2016 and as the president of DS from 2014 to 2016.
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Dejan Ćirjaković
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied percussion instrument
- Occupations
- actormusicianscreenwritertelevision actorcomedian
- Biography
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Dejan Ćirjaković is a Serbian actor, comedian, screenwriter and musician. Together with Nikola Škorić and Dimitrije Banjac he is the creator and actor of several popular Serbian television show programs, including Noćna smena, Velika Srbija, Srbi u Svemiru, Pravi fudbal and Državni posao.
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Milan Jelić
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Milan Jelić was a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 6th president of Republika Srpska from 2006 until his death in 2007.
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Borko Stefanović
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Borko Stefanović is a Serbian politician who was the leader of the Levica Srbije political party. Prior to founding Levica Srbije, he was active in the Democratic Party, with whom he engaged in a high-profile split in the summer of 2015. He was one of Serbia's representatives during the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations. He was the political director of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and former chief of staff for Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić.
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Igor Mirović
- Occupations
- politicianeconomistpoet
- Biography
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Igor Mirović is a Serbian politician, economist, and poet who served as the president of the Government of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party, he previously served as the minister of regional development and local self-government from 2013 and 2014.
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Pero Zubac
- Occupations
- screenwriterwritertranslatorjournalist
- Biography
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Pero Zubac is a Serbian and former Yugoslav author, poet, screenwriter, academic and journalist. He is a member of the Association of Journalists of Serbia and the Association of Writers of Serbia. In 2021 he was awarded the Order of Karađorđe's Star.
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Aleksandra Jerkov
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aleksandra Jerkov is a politician in Serbia. She has served in the National Assembly of Serbia on an almost uninterrupted basis since 2007, originally as a member of the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV) and since 2014 as a member of the Democratic Party.
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Branislav Nedimović
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Branislav Nedimović is a Serbian politician who served as deputy prime minister of Serbia from 2020 to 2022 and as minister of agriculture, forestry and water economy from 2016 to 2022. A member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he previously served as mayor of Sremska Mitrovica from 2008 to 2016.
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Aleksandar Martinović
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Aleksandar Martinović is a Serbian academic and politician. He has been a cabinet minister in the Serbian government since 2022 and is the current minister of agriculture, forestry, and water economy. Before his appointment to cabinet, he served several terms in the Serbian parliament.
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Lyubomir Miletich
- Occupations
- slavistphilologistlinguistanthropologistethnographer
- Biography
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Lyubomir Miletich was a Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death.
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Miroslav Parović
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Miroslav Parović is a Serbian politician and the president of the People's Freedom Movement.
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Dragutin Zelenović
- Occupations
- political commissarpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dragutin Zelenović was a Serbian politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from February to December 1991. He was a professor at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, served as rector of the University of Novi Sad (1987–89) and was in 1987 elected a corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He also served as a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991.
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Ratko Butorović
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ratko Butorović also known as Bata Kan Kan was a controversial Montenegrin–Serbian businessman.
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Janko Veselinović
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janko Veselinović is a Serbian academic and politician. He is a professor at the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Agriculture and a Deputy of the National Assembly of Serbia. He holds a master's degree in contracts on commercial representation and a PhD on legal regulation of governance in domestic and comparative law.
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Tomislav Žigmanov
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianwriterpoet
- Biography
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Tomislav Žigmanov is a Serbian author, community leader, and politician from the country's Croat community. He has led the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV) since 2015 and has been Serbia's minister of human and minority rights and social dialogue since 2022.
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Slobodan Vuksanović
- Occupations
- poetphilologist
- Biography
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Slobodan Vuksanović is a poet, essayist, translator and former Serbian politician, who served as Minister of Education and Sport in the Government of Serbia from 2004 to 2007.
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Borislav Novaković
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Borislav Novaković, MSc is a Serbian politician. He was a vice-president of People's Party until 2023. From 2000 to 2004, as a member of Democratic Party Novaković was the President of the city Assembly of Novi Sad. After failing re-election, this time in direct popular vote, he was appointed as Vice-President of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in 2004.
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Bojan B. Dimitrijević
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- 2002-2004 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Bojan B. Dimitrijević is a Serbian historian and politician. A former member of the Democratic Party (DS), he was a vice-president of Serbia Centre (SRCE) from 2022 to 2023.
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Igor Pavličić
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Igor Pavličić is a Serbian politician, and former Mayor of the city of Novi Sad representing the Democratic Party (DS). He was elected on 16 June 2008 and served until 12 September 2012. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Law in 1995.
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Nemanja Starović
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nemanja Starović is a Serbian politician serving as minister of labour, employment, veteran and social policy since 2024. From 2022 to 2024, he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Defense. From 2021 to 2022, he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Ludvik Toplak
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Ludvik Toplak is a Slovenian law professor and academic administrator, and former politician, ambassador, and member of the Parliament. He is the rector of the Alma Mater Europaea university and former rector of the University of Maribor. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Cveta Majtanović
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- 2017-2018 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in communication studies
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Cveta Majtanović recognized in the Balkans as a singer and songwriter who gained attention and popularity after winning the Idol Serbia-Montenegro & Macedonia, version of the British music competition format, Pop Idol, that became an international TV franchise (broadcast on RTV BK in 2003/2004).
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Andor Deli
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Andor Deli is a Hungarian politician from Vojvodina, Serbia, and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Hungary's Fidesz since 2014.
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Predrag Bubalo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Predrag Bubalo is a Serbian politician who held various ministerial positions in the Government of Serbia. He served as the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations in 2004, as the Minister of Economy from 2004 to 2007 and as the Minister of Trade from 2007 to 2008.
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Miljenko Rak
- Occupations
- coach
- Biography
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Miljenko Rak is a Croatian former long-jumper and fitness trainer. He had worked as the trainer with Olympic gold medal-winning skier, Janica Kostelić, and football manager, Slaven Bilić. He is currently fitness coach in Dinamo Zagreb and the Croatia men's national handball team.
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Filip Baloš
- Occupations
- singermusician
- Biography
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Filip Baloš is a Serbian singer-songwriter.
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Elvira Kovács
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elvira Kovács is a Serbian politician from the country's Hungarian community. She has served in the Serbian parliament since 2007 as a member of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians (VMSZ).
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Saša Dragin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Saša Dragin is former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in the Government of Serbia (2008-2011). He was previously the Minister of Environmental Protection.
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Svetozar Čiplić
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
- Biography
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Svetozar Čiplić is a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Human and Minority Rights from 2008 to 2011.
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Đurađ Jakšić
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Đurađ Jakšić is a Serbian historian and politician.
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Jovanka Nikolić
- Occupations
- short story writerwriterchildren's writerpoet
- Biography
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Jovanka Nikolić was a Serbian author of prose, poetry and poetry for children.
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Rita Kinka
- Occupations
- classical pianist
- Biography
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Rita Kinka, is a Serbian pianist of Hungarian descent.
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Jovan Zivlak
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Jovan Zivlak, is a Serbian poet, publisher and essayist.
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Igor Antić
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Igor Antić is a French-Serbian visual artist.
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Aleksandar Jovančević
- Occupations
- amateur wrestler
- Biography
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Aleksandar Jovančević is a Serbian strength and conditioning coach and former wrestler. He was FR Yugoslavia representative in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Danijela Veselinović
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- trumpeter
- Biography
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Danijela Veselinović is a Serbian trumpet player and brass ensemble leader from Arilje, dubbed the "Trumpet Princess" by Boban Marković. She and her brass band have represented Serbia across Europe.
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Dragomir Dujmov
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied in 1989
- Occupations
- literary criticpoetlibrettistwriterhistorian
- Biography
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Dragomir Dujmov is a Serbian poet, novelist and short story writer from Hungary.
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Sándor Páll
- Enrolled in the University of Novi Sad
- Studied in 1973-1977
- Occupations
- literary historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Sándor Páll was an ethnic Hungarian politician in Serbia and leader of Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians.
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Laura Pavlovic
- Born in
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North Macedonia - Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Laura Pavlović is a Serbian lyric and spinto soprano opera singer, and a soloist with the Serbian National Theatre Opera in Novi Sad.
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Ratimir Martinović
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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Ratimir Martinović is a Montenegrin pianist.
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Slobodan Peladić
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Slobodan Peladić was a Serbian painter, sculptor and multimedia artist.
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Sándor Szabó
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- music directorharpsichordist
- Biography
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Sándor Szabó is a Yugoslav-born pianist, organist and harpsichordist of Hungarian descent who has worked as a performer, conductor and music director in both Europe and North America.
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Gyula Mester
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Gyula Mester is a Hungarian scientist and Professor of Robotics at the University of Szeged. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering, Academy of Engineering Sciences of Serbia, American Romanian Academy of Arts and Science, Academia of Science and Arts Vojvodina Serbia.
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Stevan Pilipović
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Stevan Pilipović is a Professor of Mathematics, since 1987, at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of Novi Sad University.
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Andrija Radulović
- Occupations
- writerlinguistpoet
- Biography
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Andrija Radulović is a prominent Montenegrin poet. He studied history at the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Montenegro and graduated as professor of education from Faculty of education, University of Novi Sad (Serbia). He writes poetry, literary criticism, essays and translates from the Russian language. His poetry is presented in several national and international anthologies, while his literary work has been translated into twenty four languages. He lives in Podgorica. Radulovic was one of the editors of two literary magazines of the Association of Writers of Montenegro, "Square" and "Literary Record".
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Dušan Čamprag
- Occupations
- university teacherentomologist
- Biography
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Dušan Čamprag was a Serbian entomologist. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His studies primarily centered around agricultural entomology and phytomedicine.
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Zorka Grandov
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Zorka Grandov was a Serbian doctor of economics, professor emeritus and writer.
