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COMPANIONS from Serbia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Serbian Companions. The pantheon dataset contains 673 Companions, 3 of which were born in Serbia. This makes Serbia the birth place of the 28th most number of Companions behind Thailand and Israel.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Serbian Companions of all time. This list of famous Serbian Companions is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Mileva Marić (1875 - 1948)

With an HPI of 73.11, Mileva Marić is the most famous Serbian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 55 different languages on wikipedia.

Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић, pronounced [milěːva mǎːritɕ]; 19 December 1875 – 4 August 1948), sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein (Милева Марић-Ајнштајн, Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn), was a Serbian physicist, mathematician, and the first wife of Albert Einstein from 1903 to 1919. She was the only woman among Einstein's fellow students at Zürich Polytechnic. Marić and Einstein were study colleagues and lovers, and had a daughter Lieserl in 1902, who likely died of scarlet fever at one and a half years old. They later had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. They separated in 1914, with Marić taking the boys and returning to Zürich from Berlin. They divorced in 1919. When Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921, he transferred the money to Marić, chiefly to support their sons; she had access to the interest. In 1930, their second son Eduard had a breakdown at about age 20 and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. It is unknown if and to what extent Marić contributed to Albert Einstein's early work, and to the Annus Mirabilis Papers in particular.

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2. Olivera Despina (1372 - 1444)

With an HPI of 60.29, Olivera Despina is the 2nd most famous Serbian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Maria Olivera Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Деспина Оливера Лазаревић; 1372 – after 1444), also known as Despina Hatun, was a Serbian princess and consort of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, whom she married just after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 as a pledge of peace between the Lazarević and Ottoman dynasties. She was the youngest daughter of Lazar of Serbia and Princess Milica. The story of Olivera's and Bayezid's captivity by Timur after the Battle of Ankara (1402) has been popularly narrated, most often in plays and operas. The most significant one is Tamburlaine (1587–1588) by Christopher Marlowe, in which she is named “Zabina”.

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3. Draga Mašin (1864 - 1903)

With an HPI of 59.86, Draga Mašin is the 3rd most famous Serbian Companion.  Her biography has been translated into 29 different languages.

Draginja "Draga" Obrenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиња "Драга" Обреновић; 23 September [O.S. 11 September] 1866 – 11 June [O.S. 29 May] 1903), née Lunjevica (Луњевица) and formerly Mašin (Машин), was the Queen consort of Serbia as the wife of King Aleksandar Obrenović. She was formerly a lady-in-waiting to Aleksandar's mother, Queen Natalija (until 1897).

Pantheon has 3 people classified as companions born between 1372 and 1875. Of these 3, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased companions include Mileva Marić, Olivera Despina, and Draga Mašin.

Deceased Companions

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