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
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Braco Dimitrijević
Born 1948
Adi Granov
Born 1977
Jasenko Selimović
Born 1968
Danica Dakić
Born 1962
Maja Bajević
Born 1967
Endi E. Poskovic
Born 1969
Siniša Banović
Born 1979
Azra Aksamija
Born 1976
Tanja Softić
Born 1966
Anur Hadžiomerspahić
Born 1971
Lala Meredith-Vula
Born 1966
Adnan Softić
Born 1975
Ivan Civic
Born 1979
Damir Radović
Born 1976