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 1890s Clear ×
Nedeljko Čabrinović
1895 - 1916
Cvjetko Popović
1896 - 1980
Kalmi Baruh
1896 - 1945
Miroslav Navratil
1893 - 1947
Laura Papo Bohoreta
1891 - 1941
Nafija Sarajlić
1893 - 1970
Hildegard Jone
1891 - 1963
Franz Glaubacker
1896 - 1974
Bahire Bediş Morova Aydilek
1897 - 1938
Jaro Merinsky
1895 - 1978
Ilse Ringler-Kellner
1894 - 1958
Danica Deutsch
1890 - 1976
Heinrich Rauß
Born 1890