Slavic Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a Serbian tennis player. His career high is #33, achieved on 12 May 2008. In his career, he has w

Is a Serbian tennis player. His career high is #33, achieved on 12 May 2008. In his career, he has won two Futures and nine tournaments from ATP Challenger Series. He is currently the No. 48 ranked player on ATP singles rankings, and is the third highest

Is a Montenegrin footballer. He currently plays for FK Vojvodina.He started his football career at F

Is a Montenegrin footballer. He currently plays for FK Vojvodina.He started his football career at FK Milicionar Beograd and joined FK Zeta in the summer of 2001 . Tumbasevic was also the captain of FK Zeta.

Is a Bosnian-Serbian pop-folk singer of Roma descent. She is best known under her nickname Mina. Jas

Is a Bosnian-Serbian pop-folk singer of Roma descent. She is best known under her nickname Mina. Jasmina has sung as guest at many high profile birthday parties of Serbian celebrities such as: Dejan Stankovic, Siniša Mihajlovic a Mateja Kežman. In February 2009 she gave birth to daughter Anastasija.

Is a Serbian professional basketball player. Her father Predrag Ilic was professional football playe

Is a Serbian professional basketball player. Her father Predrag Ilic was professional football player and her mother Verica was a professional handball player. Jasmina appeard in Greek edition of the popular magazine Maxim.

A Serbian professional female tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 player and, as of August 18

A Serbian professional female tennis player. She is a former World No. 1 player and, as of August 18, 2008, is ranked World No. 2.Jankovic has reached the singles final of the US Open and the singles semifinals of the Australian Open and the French Open. In 2007, she won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title with British partner Jamie Murray.Jankovic learned her first tennis skills in Tennis Club 'Red Star'.[1] As a nine-and-a-half year old she was introduced to tennis by her elder brother and fitness coach Marko. She was later trained at the Tennis Academy of Nick Bollettieri. As a junior she won the 2001 Australian Open. In 2001, she started to play on the WTA Tour; she reached the second round at her first tournament at the Indian Wells Masters.

Is a Serbian alpine skier. She was named to the Serbian team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Is a Serbian alpine skier. She was named to the Serbian team at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Is a female volleyball player from Serbia, playing as a wing-spiker. She was a member of the Women's

Is a female volleyball player from Serbia, playing as a wing-spiker. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2007 European Championship in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Is a Serbian women's basketball forward at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is also a member

Is a Serbian women's basketball forward at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is also a member of the Serbia women's national basketball team.

A Serbian pop singer famed for her strong vocal performances. She has won numerous awards for her so

A Serbian pop singer famed for her strong vocal performances. She has won numerous awards for her songs and represented Serbia at 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, coming sixth with the song "Oro".[1]Jelena started her way to stardom at the young age of 8 when she won the children's song contest "Šarenijada" in Kragujevac. She joined a folklore group in Kragujevac called Kud Abrasevic that toured all over Europe winning many awards for their dance as well as Jelena winning many awards with her vocals. She was one of the main vocalist for the folklore group. This was her first public performance and with her vocal abilities captivated a very large amount of people. She performed to a much larger audience in 1994 at the Yugoslav Children's festival, held that year in Kragujevac when she won.

Is a Montenegrin writer (poet, novelist, journalist), historian and a cultural activist. He is known

Is a Montenegrin writer (poet, novelist, journalist), historian and a cultural activist. He is known for his vivid criticism of his political opponents, as well as figures from Montenegrin public life.While in Belgrade, Brkovic promoted Serbian nationalis

Was an American actor of Serbian origin. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958.

Was an American actor of Serbian origin. He appeared in 201 films between 1924 and 1958.

Was a Serbian botanist of Croatian origin. He was a famous lecturer at the Great School in Belgrade.

Was a Serbian botanist of Croatian origin. He was a famous lecturer at the Great School in Belgrade.He was acquainted with the Serbian linguist Vuk Stefanovic Karadžic in Vienna who wrote him a letter of recommendation in to the Serbian authorities in order to fulfill his wish to settle in the then Principality of Serbia. Once there he changed his first name to the Eastern Orthodox equivalent Josif and converted to the Eastern Orthodox faith.Pancic worked as a physician in rural Serbia and documented its flora during his frequent visits of the principality. He fell in love with Kopaonik which he visited 16 times between 1851 and 1886.

A Serbian linguist.Jovan Ajdukovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1991. His ma

A Serbian linguist.Jovan Ajdukovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1991. His main research intereset is contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, in particular, study of Russianisms in Slavic languages, which was the topic of his Master and Ph.D. theses.He is an editor of the international online journal Balkan Rusistics [1] (University of Sofia, Bulgaria) and a member of the Advisory Board of The International Journal of Russian Studies [2] (Ankara University, Turkey).Jovan Ajdukovic is best known for his contribution to the so-called "Theory of Contacteme" (Ajdukovic 2004, ????????? 2004, 2007) and for his "Adaptation Dictionary of Russianisms in South and West Slavic Languages", which for­mally de­scri­bes the adap­ta­tion of lexical Russianisms on each le­vel of lan­gu­a­ge - pho­ne­tic-pho­no­lo­gi­cal, derivatio­nal, morp­fo­lo­gi­cal, se­man­tic, styli­stic and syntac­tic (Ajdukovic 2004, 771).

Was a Serbian epidemiologist, infectologist, and physician famous for contributing significantly to

Was a Serbian epidemiologist, infectologist, and physician famous for contributing significantly to the works of Robert Koch. Aftering being informed of an error in his works, Koch wrote "[Cokor] saved humanity from a huge epidemic."

Was a Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of the Univ

Was a Serbian geographer, president of the Serbian Royal Academy of Sciences, and rector of the University of Belgrade.When he finished gymnasium in 1884, Cvijic wanted to study medicine abroad, but his municipality couldn't pay his scholarship. His professor from Šabac gymnasium, Vladimir Karic, suggested he attend geography lectures at the so-called Great School in Belgrade. Cvijic did that, and entered the Nature-mathematics section of the Great School. He finished his studies in the year of 1888. For one school-year he was a lecturer in Second Belgrade Gimnasium. After that, in 1889, he started studies of physical geography and geology at Vienna University with state scholarship. Cvijic finished his studies in Vienna in 1892, and in 1893 he defended his doctoral dissertation on subject "Das Karstphänomen" (The phenomenon of Karst) on the same university.

Is a Serbian Serb association footballer who plays for SV Wehen Wiesbaden.

Is a Serbian Serb association footballer who plays for SV Wehen Wiesbaden.

Is one of the best-known Serbian poets.He wrote in many of the genres of poetry, including love, lyr

Is one of the best-known Serbian poets.He wrote in many of the genres of poetry, including love, lyric, patriotic, political, youth's, and educational poetry. But he is best known for his children's poetry. His nursery rhymes have entered the Serbian nati

Was one of the greatest Serbian mathematicians of the 20th century.His family's business affairs on

Was one of the greatest Serbian mathematicians of the 20th century.His family's business affairs on the borders of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were very well known. In 1914, he finished most of his primary school in Zemun but because of const

Is a Montenegrin politician, journalist, publicist, historian and heraldist. He is the former mayor

Is a Montenegrin politician, journalist, publicist, historian and heraldist. He is the former mayor of Cetinje, Montenegro's Old Capital.Jovan Markuš graduated at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade in 1974. In the 1980s he was elected into

Was an ethnic Serbian psychiatrist and politician from Croatia.He grew up there and in Kistanje in D

Was an ethnic Serbian psychiatrist and politician from Croatia.He grew up there and in Kistanje in Dalmatia, the southern region of Croatia. During World War II, after the Ustasha pogrom of his relatives in Knin, Raškovic was exiled in the village of Kist

Was a Montenegrin politician, orchestrator of the Christmas rebellion and the King's Premier in exil

Was a Montenegrin politician, orchestrator of the Christmas rebellion and the King's Premier in exile, then a centrist politician.In the government of Lazar Tomanovic, he served the post of Minister of Education from 1907 to 1909, when he was for personal

With seventeen years of legacy function gubernadur in Montenegro 1765, after the death of his older

With seventeen years of legacy function gubernadur in Montenegro 1765, after the death of his older brother Vukolaj I Radonjic, also gubernadur. Some are denied the right heritage titles gubernadur, arguing that the right to election. Jovan in 1770 accept

Is a footballer who represents Montenegro internationally. He currently plays his club football for

Is a footballer who represents Montenegro internationally. He currently plays his club football for FC Dynamo Moscow.He played for the FR Yugoslavia XI in the Millennium Super Cup in India in January 2001 (not recognized as a full international).

Was an anthropologist, known as a founder of geology in Serbia.He is known, among other things, for

Was an anthropologist, known as a founder of geology in Serbia.He is known, among other things, for his work in anthropology. In his book, Stone Age, published in 1893, relying mostly on French scientists, he reviewed the contemporary state of knowledge i

Was a Serbian composer from Donji Kraj near Cetinje, Montenegro. While young he showed exquisite tal

Was a Serbian composer from Donji Kraj near Cetinje, Montenegro. While young he showed exquisite talent for music, and is most famous for composing contemporary anthem of Montenegro Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori (To Our Beautiful Montenegro). He died while being