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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.