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.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Sarajevo during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1970s with 140 notable births.

What Sarajevo Is Known For

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Football is Sarajevo's biggest profession — 34% of all notables (260).

Sarajevo over-indexes on bobsled17.9× the global rate.

Sarajevo under-produces politician — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Football260
  2. Basket64
  3. Politician47
  4. Actor41
  5. Singer36
  6. Writer19
  7. Film18
  8. Player14
  1. Bobsled817.9×
  2. Basket646.7×
  3. Handball83.4×
  4. Football2603.1×
  5. Singer362.3×
  6. Film181.9×
  7. Artist141.8×
  1. Politician470.5×

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.

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  • Sports
  • Film & TV
  • Writing
  • Music
  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
  • Other
Bobsled8
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Showing 8 of 762 notable people

0486 BOBSLED

Igor Boras

Born 1968

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0490 BOBSLED

Zdravko Stojnić

Born 1957

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0494 BOBSLED

Zoran Sokolović

Born 1965

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0532 BOBSLED

Mario Franjić

Born 1962

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0535 BOBSLED

Ognjen Sokolović

Born 1963

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0541 BOBSLED

Nizar Zaćiragić

Born 1968

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0548 BOBSLED

Edin Krupalija

Born 1977

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0639 BOBSLED

Izet Haračić

1965 - 2015

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