WAnte Bakotić was a Croatian Partisan known for marking the beginning of the 1945 breakthrough from the Jasenovac concentration camp by shouting "Forward, comrades!".
WJovo Bećir was a Montenegrin brigadier general and a colonel of the Royal Yugoslav Army.
WBerta Bergman was a Yugoslav physician and the first Bosnian woman to finish high school.
WSlavko Brill was a Croatian Jewish sculptor and ceramics artist born in Nova Gradiška.
WPavle Đurišić was a Montenegrin Serb regular officer of the Royal Yugoslav Army who became a Chetnik commander (vojvoda) and led a significant proportion of the Chetniks in Montenegro during World War II. He distinguished himself and became one of the main commanders during the popular uprising against the Italians in Montenegro in July 1941, but later collaborated with the Italians in actions against the Communist-led Yugoslav Partisans. In 1943, his troops carried out several massacres against the Muslim population of Bosnia, Herzegovina and the Sandžak, and participated in the anti-Partisan Case White offensive alongside Italian forces. Đurišić was captured by the Germans in May 1943, escaped and was recaptured.
WMavro "Moše" Frankfurter (1875–1942) was a Croatian rabbi from Vinkovci who was killed during the Holocaust at the Jasenovac concentration camp.
WIzidor Gross was a Croatian chess master and hazzan.
WHanžeković Memorial is an athletics event at the Sportski Park Mladost athletic stadium in Zagreb, Croatia as part of the IAAF World Challenge Meetings. It was first organized in 1951.
WDr. Slavko Hirsch was a Croatian physician, founder and director of the Epidemiological Institute in Osijek.
WŽiga Hirschler was a Croatian Jewish composer, music critic and publicist who was killed during the Holocaust.
WEdmund Moster was a Croatian Jewish entrepreneur, industrialist, inventor and co-founder of the "Penkala-Moster Company" in Zagreb.
WLeo Müller was Croatian industrialist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and second son of well known Croatian industrialist Adolf Müller.
WDaniel Ozmo was a Bosnian Jewish painter and printmaker. He studied in Belgrade, where he became a member of the communist progressive youth movement.
WRod Riffler was a Croatian modern dance teacher, choreographer and owner of a dance school in Zagreb, who was killed during the Holocaust.
WArmin Mordekhai Schreiner was influential Croatian industrialist, banker, Jewish activist and member of the first Freemasonry Jewish Lodge Zagreb No. 1090 independent order of B'nai B'rith.
WOton Vinski was an influential Croatian banker who was killed during the Holocaust.
WPetar Zimonjić was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 until the beginning of World War II.