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List Of Serbian Canadians
This is a list of notable Serbian Canadians, that is, notable Canadian citizens of ethnic Serb descent. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Serbian Canadian or must have references showing they are Serbian Canadians and are notable. Arts and Entertainment * Alex Lifeson, rock guitarist for Rush * Stana Katic, Hollywood actress * Dan Petronijevic, Canadian actor * Nina Kiri, Hollywood actress * Emilija Baranac, Hollywood actress * Lolita Davidovich, Hollywood actress * Mike Dopud, Hollywood actor * Luigi von Kunits, conductor, founder of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra * Ana Sokolovic, music composer * Sasa Radulovic (architect), award-winning architect * Bojana Sentaler, fashion designer * Ivy Jenkins, Metal bass player, fashion designer * Tijana Arnautović, Miss Canada 2004 * Bratsa Bonifacho, artist * Viktor Mitic, artist * Alexander Zonjic, flutist, music radio host * Philippe Djokic, violinist, conductor * Denise Djokic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbian Canadians
The community of Serbian Canadians ( sr, Канадски Срби/Kanadski Srbi) includes Canadian citizens of Serb ethnicity, or people born in Serbia who permanently reside in Canada. Serbs (and Serbians) have migrated to Canada in various waves during the 20th century. Today there are five or more generations of Serbs in the country. The 2016 census recorded 96,530 people in Canada declaring themselves as "Serbian". Serbian Canadians generally belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church and follow the Eastern Orthodox tradition. History The first Serbs to arrive in Canada came to British Columbia in the 1850s. Many of them came from the state of California in the United States, while others directly emigrated from the Balkans. They primarily originated from the Bay of Kotor and the Dalmatian coast which had similar climates as their destinations. A second wave of Serb emigration occurred from 1900 to 1914. In both instances, the majority of these migrants came from territories c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zonjic
Alexander Zonjic (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Зоњић; born April 30, 1951) is a flutist born in Windsor, Ontario, who performs both light jazz and classical compositions in the United States, based in Detroit, Michigan. He is the son of a Greek mother and a Serbian émigré father who left the war-torn Yugoslavia before Tito's communists took over. He was educated in Windsor where he graduated from University of Windsor in 1975 and continued studying with Ervin Monroe, a distinguished first flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the 1980s, Continuing to live in Windsor with his wife, Lorraine, and son, Alex Jr., Zonjic performed regularly in Detroit-area clubs such as Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Alexanders, and Murdock's. Discography *1978: ''Alexander Zonjic'' *1981: ''The Classical Album'' *1987: ''When Is It Real?'' *1988: ''Romance With You'' (Optimism) *1988: ''Elegant Evening'' (Inner City, 1988) *1991: ''Neon'' (Reprise) *1993: ''Passion'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anica Nonveiller
Anica Lazin Nonveiller (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Лазин Нонвеје; born 1957) is a Serbian Canadian journalist, writer and producer. She is the sister of a Parisian theatre director Miloš Lazin. In 1991 she was fired from a state-owned Radio Belgrade for broadcasting a Croatian war song during the Yugoslav wars. After receiving death threats in 1992 she took refuge in France and latter moved with her family to Canada. Since 1996 she published political articles, essays and ''Tisza'' an autobiographical novel. She's the founder and director of the production house Aria that produces plays in Montreal that incorporates theatre, classical singing and political engagement. Life Anica Lazin was born in Kikinda and raised in Belgrade by a half-German mother, Rakila Blat, and a Serbian agronomist David Lazin. Under Josip Broz Tito's regime, her father has spent two years in prison for political activism. She graduated in 1979 in classical singing and got a job as a musica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Todorović
Dragan Todorović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Тодоровић; born September 1958 in Kragujevac, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a6h ujwriter and multimedia artist. Until 1995 he lived in Yugoslavia, where he worked as a journalist, editor, and television personality. Career Between 1977 and 1995 Todorović published over 2,000 articles (commentaries, interviews, essays and reports) in leading Yugoslav magazines. On radio, he worked as a host, writer and producer, among other things writing and directing 24 radio-plays for Radio Politika. He also made two TV documentaries and hosted over 150 TV shows. He won the Best Young Journalist award in 1980. He published four books in Yugoslavia: ''Tajfun zvani Bruce'' (Hurricane Called Bruce, 1989—biography of Bruce Springsteen), ''Džokej pun burbona'' (Jockey Full of Bourbon, 1990—Tom Waits' poetry - translation and introduction), ''Pogled kroz prozor metroa'' (View Through the Window of a Subway, 1991—biography of Tom Wait ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogden Gavanski
Ogden Gavanski is a film producer from Canada who has worked on local and American productions. He has worked with well-known Hollywood actors and also co-produced with Pedro Almodovar. Career Gavanski has produced various films including '' Tremors 5: Bloodlines'', ''Cult of Chucky'', ''Liberty Stands Still'', '' The Man with the Iron Fists 2'', ''Man About Town (2006 film)'' and '' The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power''. He's worked with Hollywood actors such as Ben Affleck, Rebecca Romijn, John Cleese, Lou Ferrigno, Rutger Hauer, Wesley Snipes, and Linda Fiorentino. Gavanski also co-produced ''My Life Without Me'' with Pedro Almodovar in 2003. Starring Sarah Polley and Mark Ruffalo, the film won the "German Art House Cinemas" award at the Berlin Film Festival and garnered a nomination for best film at the European Film Awards. The film also won a best feature Leo Award, which celebrates excellence in British Columbia's film and television industry. Gavanski is one of the owne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Linehan
Brian Richard Linehan (September 3, 1944 – June 4, 2004) was a Canadian television host from Hamilton, Ontario,Brian Linehan at . best known for his interviews on the longrunning talk show '' City Lights''."Life of Brian" '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Mihailovich
Alex Mihailovich is a veteran television journalist and foreign affairs expert. His reporting has focused on Ukraine, Russia, the Balkans, China, US and the Middle East. Born and raised in Toronto, Alex has also extensively covered Canadian politics through his decades long career. Since 2015, Alex Mihailovich has been an independent journalist with frequent appearances on RT and radio programs, as well as guesting on the CBC and a number of podcasts. He was a reporter and news anchor at Sun News Network in Canada from 2011 until the television station closed its doors in 2015. Prior to that, Alex was a reporter for Global News Toronto and a correspondent for '' 16:9 – The Bigger Picture'', a Canadian investigative news magazine television series which aired nationally on Global TV. At the beginning of his career, Alex was with CTV Television Network for 5 years, which included a role as news anchor at CTV Northern Ontario and as a reporter at CTV Toronto. He attended Carleton Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Spremo
Boris Spremo, (Serbian Cyrillic: Борис Спремо; October 20, 1935 – August 21, 2017) was a Canadian photojournalist. He was the first photojournalist to receive the Order of Canada."Boris Spremo" . '''', January 29, 2009. Career After graduating from the Belgrade Cinematographic Institute, he moved to Canada in 1957 via . He found work with ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelena Adzic
Jelena Adzic (Serbian language, Serbian: ) is a Serbian-born Canada, Canadian radio and television journalist, currently the national arts and entertainment journalist for CBC News Network in Toronto. Career Adzic began working at the CBC in 2002, where she has since become the national face of entertainment news.Adzic fumbles her way to the top She hosts the television program "CBC News: The Scene" and also covers live events such as the Toronto International Film Festival. She has interviewed household names such as Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra and Susan Sarandon. She also does radio, including reporting and guest hosting for CBC programs such as "Here and Now (Toronto)" and "Q (radio show)". Adzic's approach to interviewing is friendly and informal, even when m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saša Petricic
Saša Petricic is a Canadian journalist. He is currently the Asia Correspondent and videojournalist for CBC Television's '' The National'' and other CBC News programs, based in Beijing, China. He previously spent four years covering the Middle East. Education Petricic attended high school in Toronto, at the North Toronto Collegiate Institute. He went on to earn a journalism degree with combined honours in Soviet and East European Studies from Carleton University. He also studied at Hope College in Michigan and at the University of Quebec. Career From 1993 to 2001, Petricic covered federal politics, elections and political issues from the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa. During that time, he contributed various stories and features to BBC News and CNN. He subsequently covered major events and issues from every continent as a CBC correspondent and videojournalist. In 2006, Petricic was the first CBC reporter to file stories from Antarctica. He covered the 2004 Indian Ocean earth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Mulroney
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, אברהם בן אברהם). Bar-, "son of" in Aramaic, is also seen, e.g. Simon bar Kokhba ( he, שמעון בר כוכבא). Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin'' (بن), ''Ibn''/''ebn'' (ابن). People with the given name * Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1 * Ben Affleck (born 1972), American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Ben Askren (born 1984), American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist * Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player * Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player * Ben Barnes (other), multiple people * Ben Bartch (born 1998) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilly Otasevic
Lilly Otasevic ( sr-Cyrl, Лили Оташевић, born 1969) is a Serbian Canadian artist based in Toronto, whose large-scale sculptural works have been commissioned by several local governments in Ontario, Canada. Ecological concepts are frequently incorporated into her sculptures and also determine the materials being used. Career Although a trained painter, Otasevic's portfolio mainly consists of large-scale sculptures. She often focuses on environmental themes when designing public art works. Her "Mobius" monument has a looped shape which refers to the recycling logo, thereby underlining our relationship with nature. Molded from stainless steel, the sculptural work is found in downtown Toronto. Otasevic's "Break-Wave" bench proposal won the 2016, design competition held by the Design Exchange museum and Nespresso. Displayed at Toronto's Union Station, each bench has a curved shape that reflects the organic characteristics of coffee beans. The three benches are made of su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
