Notable Historical Figures

• Dominik Dujo Marković – the first captain of Sombor police 

• Jovan Janko Branković – captain of the military town of Sombor

• Martin  Parčetić – the first mayor (the grand judge) of the free imperial city of Sombor

• Vasilije  Damjanović – multiple term mayor of the free imperial city of Sombor 

• Bona  Mihaljević – the first chronicler of Sombor 

• Avram Mrazović – the founder and a longstanding principal of ‘Norma’ – the first Serbian teacher training school

• Kuzman  Kozma Josić – the first Serbian to publish school reports with orations and student dialogues, forerunners of today’s plays   

• Nikolaj Simić – one of the pioneers in our philosophy and Serbian philosophical terminology 

• Gedeon (Georgije) Petrović – during his reign over the Eparchy of Bačka, a Serbian Gymnasium (Grammar School) was established in Novi Sad.  

• Avram Maksimović – the first president of the Serbian Reading Room in Sombor. 

• Jovan Savić, widely known by pseudonym Ivan Jugović – minister of education within the Insurgent Serbian Government 

• Dimitrije Isailović – one of the seven founders and first vice-presidents of the Serbian Society of Literature, forerunner of the national academy of sciences.    

• Platon (Pavle) Atanacković – president of ‘Matica Srpska’ whose efforts resulted in relocation of the first Serbian literary, cultural and scientific society from Pest to Novi Sad.   

• Jovan Hadžić, also known by pseudonym Milos Svetić – the first president of ‘Matica Srpska’ and a writer of the first Serbian Civil Code (1842). 

• Samuil (Sava) Maširević  - metropolitan of Karlovci and patriarch of Sebia

• Isidor  Nikolić Srbogradski – Serbian political pioneer at the time of the Serbian Dukedom  

• Nikola Nika Mihajlović – a lawyer and a mayor of Sombor 

• Gábor Grosschmid – one of the founders of the Historical Society of the Bács–Bodrog County   

• Karlo Bijelicki – the founder of the Sombor City Library  

• Dimitrije Popović – associate and correspondent of Vuk Karadžić

• Aleksandar  Stojačković – a journalist, Serbian politician and historian 

• Jovan Đorđević – initiated establishment of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad and the National Theatre in Belgrade 

• Georgije (Đorđe) Branković - metropolitan of Karlovci and patriarch of Serbia 

• Nikola Vukićević – a teacher, pedagogue and a longstanding principal at the Serbian Teacher Training School in Sombor

• Nikola Nika Maksimović – eminent political pioneer of Sombor in the second half of the 19^th century

• Mita Popović – an attorney, poet and translator 

• Laza Kostić – a Serbian poet, writer, philosopher, aesthetician, translator, polyglot, doctor of laws, theatre critic, journalist, politician and the writer of the most beautiful poem ever written in the Serbian language – Santa Maria della Salute

• Nika Grujić - Ognjan – a Sombor teacher, writer and a Serbian politician 

• Karoly Vertesi – a well-known Hungarian travel writer and journalist 

• Pal Demeter – a poet and translator of Serbian poetry into Hungarian   

• Đerđ Radič – a longstanding principal of Sombor Grammar School, a professor and a writer   

• Dimitrije Mita Petrović – a longstanding professor at the Serbian Teacher Training School in Sombor, a scientist and a writer   

• Jovan Blagojević – a teacher and principal of the Girls’ Secondary School in Sombor, story writer and translator

• Gozsdu Elek – one of the founders of the Free Lyceum in Sombor   

• Ede Margalić - a longstanding principal of Sombor Grammar School, well-known Latinist and Slavist  

• Eugene Smith – clerk to the Sombor court and a philosopher

• Radivoj Simonović – a physician, health educator, ethnographer, historian, geographer, mountaineer and a photographer 

• Đula Dudaš – Sombor professor and a historian