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Dr. Safvet-beg Bašagić, also known as Mirza Safvet, was a Bosnian writer who is often described by Bosniak historians as the "father of Bosnian Renaissance", and one of most renowned poets of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the turn of the 20th century. Bašagić co-founded the political journal Behar and was a founder of the cultural society and magazine Gajret, and was elected President of the Bosnian council in 1910. He is also well known for his lexicon that exceeded seven hundred biographies that he compiled over decades.

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Musa Ćazim Ćatić was a Bosnian poet of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Renaissance at the turn of the 20th century.

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Enver Čolaković was a Bosnian novelist, poet and translator, best known for his 1944 novel The Legend of Ali-Pasha. During the later stages of World War II he served as a cultural attaché to the Independent State of Croatia embassy in Budapest. After the war he spent the rest of his life in Zagreb, where he published a number of literary translations from Hungarian and German.

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Umihana Čuvidina was a Bosnian poet of Ottoman times. She is the earliest Bosnian female author whose work survives to this day. Čuvidina sang her poems and contributed greatly to the traditional genre of Bosniak folk music, sevdalinka.

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Hamid Dizdar was a Bosnian writer and poet. His younger brother Mak Dizdar was also a prominent poet.

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Mehmedalija "Mak" Dizdar was a Bosnian poet. His poetry combined influences from the Bosnian Christian culture, Islamic mysticism and cultural remains of medieval Bosnia, and especially the stećci.

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Abdulvehab Ilhamija Žepčevi was an 18th-century Bosnian dervish and prose writer.

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Mehmed-beg Kapetanović Ljubušak was a Bosnian writer and public official.

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Dževad Karahasan is a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded with Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.

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Hasan Kikić was a Bosnian literate and poet.

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Hamdija Kreševljaković was a Bosniak historian.

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Skender Kulenović was a Yugoslav poet, novelist and dramatist.

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Edhem Mulabdić was a Bosnian writer and co-founder of the political journal Behar.

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Zaim Muzaferija was a Bosnian film, television and stage actor, and poet. The magazine 6yka (Buka) called Muzaferija a "legend of Bosnian cinema."

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Ćamil Sijarić was a Bosniak novelist and short story writer. He enrolled in law school in 1936 and earned his degree four years later. Sijarić died in a car crash at the age of 75.

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Derviš Sušić was a Bosnian writer, known best for his first work I, Danilo.

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Zlatko Topčić is a Bosnian screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He has written a number of films, including: Remake, The Abandoned, Miracle in Bosnia; theater plays: Time Out, I Don't Like Mondays, Refugees; novels: The Final Word, Dagmar, Nightmare.

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Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi Bosnevi was a Bosniak poet and writer who used the Arebica script.