43.8570° N, 18.4133° E
SARAJEVO
Most Famous People Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Notable people
- 762
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- Median birth year
- 1969
- Most distinctive
- Bobsled 17.9×
The 1984 Winter Games left the city a strange statistical fingerprint — a Bobsled bench running at close to eighteen times the global baseline, essentially the crews that trained on the Mount Trebević track before the war took it apart. Sarajevo's Basket and Handball cohorts round out the socialist-era sports-academy story, while the Film, Singer and Artist lines carry the Sarajevo School of the seventies and the New Primitives generation that came out of Koševo in the eighties.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Sarajevo during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Sarajevo Is Known For
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Football is Sarajevo's biggest profession — 34% of all notables (260).
Sarajevo over-indexes on bobsled — 17.9× the global rate.
Sarajevo under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Sarajevo's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Music
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Other
- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Mehmed Spaho
1883 - 1939
Stanko Karaman
1889 - 1959
Hamdija Kreševljaković
1888 - 1959
Zekai Apaydın
1884 - 1947
Fehim Čurčić
1886 - 1916
Edhem Bičakčić
1884 - 1941
Karl Koske
1889 - 1945
Erich Sachers
1889 - 1974
Rudolf Bailovic
Born 1885