"Bože pravde" is the national anthem of Serbia, as defined by the Article 7 of the Constitution of Serbia. "Bože pravde" was adopted in 1882 and had been the national anthem of the Kingdom of Serbia until 1919 when Serbia became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. It was re-adopted as the national anthem at first by the parliamentary recommendation in 2004 and then constitutionally sanctioned in 2006, after Serbia restored its independence.
Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was "the first woman academic in the history of Serbia" after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.
Milica Stojadinovic-Srpkinja (1828–1878) was a Serbian poet, sometimes called "the greatest female Serbian poet of the 19th century".
Gerasim Zelić was a Serbian Orthodox Church archimandrite, traveller and writer. His chief work is Žitije (Lives), in three volumes. They are memoirs of his travels throughout western Europe, Russia and Asia Minor from the latter half of the 18th century to the first decade of the 19th century and the famous personalities he encountered. He left behind invaluable original notes on the people, religions, manners, customs, and trade of his era.
Jovan Đorđević was a Serbian writer, dramatist, Minister of Education and the co-founder of the Novi Sad Serbian National Theatre in 1861, the National Theatre in Belgrade in 1868 and the Academy of Dramatic Art in 1870. He is most famous for writing the lyrics to the Serbian National anthem Bože pravde in 1872. He was also a member of Matica srpska.
Oto Horvat is a Serbian poet and writer. He lives and works in Florence, Italy.
Marko Car was a Serbian writer, politician and activist from the Bay of Kotor. He was a polyglot and an aesthetic essayist, writing numerous poems, novels, narratives, essays, and travel reports. During his lifetime, he wrote for many newspapers and magazines.
Sima Ćirković was a Yugoslav and Serbian historian. Ćirković was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts. His works focused on medieval Serbian history.
Mato Pižurica is a Serbian linguist and professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad. Pižurica is best known as the chief editor of several official orthography books for Serbian, and as the secretary of the Department of Language and Literature of Matica srpska.
Jovan Deretić was a Serbian historian and author of Serbian literary history. His work Istorija Srpske književnosti (1983) is the standard work in Serbian literary history. He is sometimes confused with pseudohistorian Jovan I. Deretić.
Milan Savić was a Serbian polymath: physician writer, historian, philosopher, medical doctor, geographer, literary critic and translator of Goethe's "Faust" in Serbian. Savić was a president of Matica srpska (1896–1911).
Mirjana Stefanović was a Serbian writer.
Gordana Đilas is a Serbian poet, librarian and bibliographer.
Slobodan Vladušić is a Serbian writer and associate professor of Serbian literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Novi Sad.
Vladan Matijević is a Serbian writer and poet.
Milan Kašanin was a Serbian art historian, art critic, curator and writer. He served as the head of three Belgrade based museums, the Museum of Prince Pavle, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Gallery of Frescoes.
Dušan Ivanić is a Serbian literary scholar and literary historian.
Srba Mitrović was a Serbian poet, translator and librarian.
Milan Antonijevic is a Serbian lawyer, human rights activist, and as of 2019, executive director of the Open Society Foundation Serbia.
Đorđe Natošević was one of the first Serbian pedagogues and pedagogical writers, an educational worker, the superintendent of Serbian schools in Austro-Hungary, the first textbook written according to Vuk Karadžić's spelling reform, the founder of teachers' schools in Pakrac, Novi Sad, Karlovac and Pančevo; founded, edited and published the first Serbian pedagogic newspaper, Školski List; and the first Serbian children's newspaper, "Friend of Serbian Youth".
