55 Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language

Dritan Abazović is a Montenegrin politician, President of the United Reform Action since May 2017, he was member of the Parliament of Montenegro, from 2012 until 2020, when he assumed the office of Deputy Prime Minister for the national security in the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapić.

Vladimir Arsenijević is a Serbian novelist, columnist, translator, editor, musician, and publisher. He lives and works in Belgrade. Arsenijević won the prestigious NIN Award for the Yugoslavian novel of the year 1994 for his novel In the Hold.

Vladislav Bajac is Serbian writer, poet, journalist and publisher.

Svetislav Basara is a Serbian writer and columnist.

Ivana Bodrožić is a Croatian writer and poet.

Marica Bodrožić is a German writer of Croatian descent. She was born in Svib in Cista Provo, Croatia in the former Yugoslavia. She moved to Germany as a child and currently lives in Berlin.

Ermin Bravo is a Bosnian actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2001. He is most known for starring in the 2003 Bosnian film Remake. Bravo is also remembered as a unique character in the 2017 film Men Don't Cry.

Ranko Bugarski is a Serbian linguist, academic and author.

Nadežda Čačinovič is a Croatian philosopher, sociologist, comparativist, feminist and Croatian-language book author.

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.

Edvin Kanka Ćudić, is a Bosnian human rights activist, martial artist, journalist and political analyst who is best known as the leader of the UDIK, an organisation campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia.

Filip David is a Serbian writer and screenwriter, best known for penning essays, dramas, short stories and novels. In 2015, he won the NIN Award for best Serbian novel of the year 2014 for his novel "Kuća sećanja i zaborava".

Boris Dežulović is a Croatian journalist, writer and columnist, best known as one of the founders of the now defunct satirical magazine Feral Tribune.

Jasna Diklić is a Bosnian theatre and film actress. She was born in Sarajevo. Her mother was also an actress and a puppeteer. Diklić's first theatre experiences began at MESS Festival's experimental theatre studio, after which she proceeded to study acting at the Department of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.

Štefica Galić is a Bosnian journalist and human rights activist. During the Bosnian War, Galić saved about a thousand people from internment in a detention camp. She is a vocal critic of nationalist politics. Since September 2019, Štefica Galić has been protected by the German Bundestag.

Rajko Grlić is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia.

Maja Herman Sekulić is a Serbian poet, novelist, essayist and translator.

Srećko Horvat is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag called him as "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Jacobin, Newsweek and The New York Times.

Viktor Ivančić is a Croatian journalist, best known as the founding member and long-time editor-in-chief of satirical weekly Feral Tribune.

Ivan Ivanji is a Serbian author of many internationally renowned novels.

Dejan Jović is political scientist from Croatia. He is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. He is also main editor of the Croatian Political Science Review, one of the leading academic journals in political science and social science in Southeastern Europe. Dejan Jović is a specialist in Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav politics as well as foreign policies and theories of international relations.

Mirjana Karanović is a Serbian actress, film director and screenwriter. Considered one of the best Serbian and Yugoslavian actresses of all time, she is probably the best known for her performance in her debut film Petria's Wreath, as well as for her frequent collaborations with film directors Emir Kusturica and Jasmila Žbanić. Karanović received international acclaim and a nomination for European Film Award for Best Actress for her role in Žbanić's Grbavica.

Ivan Klajn was a Serbian linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian. He was a regular member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the editor-in-chief of the Matica srpska's journal Jezik danas. Through his paternal family, which lived in Vukovar for generations, he was of Croatian-Jewish descent.

Željko Komšić is a Bosnian politician and diplomat who is the 6th and current Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He served as the Presidency member already from 2006 until 2014, and he was elected to the same office for a third term in the 2018 election, thus becoming the second Presidency member overall and the first, and so far only Croat member to serve more than two terms. He was sworn in on 20 November 2018, along with fellow newly elected presidency members Šefik Džaferović (Bosniak) and Milorad Dodik (Serb).

Snježana Kordić ; born 29 October 1964) is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive language policy in Croatia. Her 2010 book on language and nationalism popularises the theory of pluricentric languages in the Balkans.

Goran Marković is a Serbian film and theatre director, screenwriter, writer, and playwright. He has directed approximately 50 documentaries, 13 feature films, and 3 theatre plays. He has also written five books.

Dragan Markovina is a Croatian historian, author and former president of the New Left Croatia party.

Vili Matula or Vilim Matula is a Croatian actor, director, civil activist and politician. He is widely known as one of the most prominent Croatian actors of all time, as well as new representative in Croatian Parliament for green-left coalition We can!.

Dragoljub Mićunović is a Serbian politician and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the modern Democratic Party (DS) in 1989, and its first President (1990-1994). He left DS in 1996 to form Democratic Centre. As a member of Democratic Opposition of Serbia, he was speaker of the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro between 2000 and 2004. In 2004, he rejoined DS and has been an active member of the party and member of the Assembly of Serbia since. He was a candidate at the 2003 Serbian presidential election, winning 35.42% of the popular vote, but the election was canceled due to low turnout.

Rastko Močnik is a Slovenian sociologist, psychoanalyst, literary theorist, translator and political activist. Together with Slavoj Žižek and Mladen Dolar, he is considered one of the co-founders of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis.

Aleksandar Novaković is a Serbian writer and playwright.

Borka Pavićević was a Yugoslavian-Serbian dramaturge, newspaper columnist, and cultural activist. She was also described as a "dramatist, Belgrade liberal and pacifist intellectual". She founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination in 1994, and was a co-founder of the Belgrade Circle.

Vesna Pešić is a Serbian politician and sociologist.

Vedrana Rudan is a Croatian journalist and novelist.

Jasna Šamić is a Bosnian and French writer, author of books written both in the French and Bosnian language.

Rade Šerbedžija is a Croatian actor, director and musician. He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law. He was one of the best known Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1990s. He is internationally known mainly for his supporting roles in Hollywood films such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, X-Men: First Class, The Saint, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Mission: Impossible 2; his role as Boris the Blade in Snatch; and for his recurring role as former Soviet Army General Dmitri Gredenko in Season 6 of TV action series 24.

Mima Simić is a Croatian writer, an awarded film critic, translator and an LGBTIQ+ media activist. She holds degrees in Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb and Gender Studies from the Central European University. Simić was Croatia's first openly out LGBTIQ+ political candidate.

Danko Sipka is a Serbian American linguist and professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University.

Slobodan Šnajder is a Croatian writer and publicist.

Biljana Srbljanović is a Serbian playwright.

Srđan Srdić is a Serbian novelist, short-story writer, essayist, editor, publisher and creative reading/writing teacher. He has published four novels, two short story collections and a book of essays, and has contributed as a writer and/or editor to several short story collections and literary magazines.

Dejan Tiago Stanković (1965) is a writer and literary translator born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He is a naturalized citizen of Portugal.

Igor Štiks is a novelist and scholar. His novels The Judgment of Richard Richter and A Castle in Romagna have earned him multiple awards; the former has been translated into 15 languages.

Dubravka Stojanović is a Serbian historian, and professor at University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy.

Feđa Stojanović is a Serbian actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1962.

Ognjen Sviličić is a Croatian screenwriter and film director noted for his critically acclaimed 2007 film Armin.

Vesna Teršelič is a peace activist who founded the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. In 1998, she was joint recipient of the Right Livelihood Award along with Katarina Kruhonja of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Osijek.

Ante Tomić is a Croatian writer and journalist.

Srbijanka Turajlić is Serbian academic and political activist. She is retired professor at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Dubravka Ugrešić is a Yugoslav writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996.

Vladimir Veličković was a Serbian painter.

Stanislava Staša Zajović is an transnational feminist and peace activist. She is the co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black in Belgrade, Serbia.

Pjer Žalica is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. His father Miodrag (1926–1992) was a noted dramaturgist and poet who scripted several TV movies.

Jasmila Žbanić is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for having directed and written the script for the 2020 Bosnian movie Quo Vadis, Aida? which earned her nominations for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and a BAFTA Award for Best Director.

Saša Rakezić is a Serbian cartoonist, author of such works as Life Under Sanctions, Psychonaut, Dream Watcher, and Bulletins from Serbia.