The Order of the People's Hero or the Order of the National Hero ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Orden narodnog heroja, Oрден народног хероја; sl, Red narodnega heroja, mk, Oрден на народен херој, Orden na naroden heroj), was a Yugoslav gallantry medal, the second highest military award, and third overall Yugoslav decoration.Orders and Decorations of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1945-90
by Lukasz Gaszewski 2000, 2003 It was awarded to individuals, military units, political and other organisations who distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroic deeds during war and in peacetime. The recipients were thereafter known as People's Heroes of Yugoslavia or National Heroes of Yugoslavia. The vast majority was awarded to partisans for actions during the

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. A total of 1,322 awards were awarded in Yugoslavia, and 19 were awarded to foreigners. In 1998, the

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Y ...

decided to award the Order of the People's Hero again and decorated several military units, but no individuals.

History

Socialist Yugoslavia

The bulletin of the Supreme Command of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia no. 12–13 (December 1941 and January 1942) announced the establishment of the

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of "People's Hero" for heroic and self-sacrificing participants of the People's Liberation War. The first person to be awarded the title was Petar Leković. A total of 22 persons were awarded this title. On 15 August 1943, the title was formalized as an order together with Order of the People's Liberation,

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, Order of the Partisan Star, Order of Brotherhood and Unity and the Medal for Bravery. At the same time, all the persons who already held the title of the People's Hero were awarded the order., volume 1, page 7 The Order consists of an oval gold badge showing a soldier with rifle and banner superimposed upon a rayed star surrounded by a wreath of laurel. The badge is suspended from a red ribbon, with a narrow white stripe towards each edge. The design for this and the other Orders were undertaken by the painter Đorđe Andrejević Kun and the sculptor

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. Before 29 November 1943, the title of People's Hero was awarded by the Central Committee of

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, after 1945 it was awarded by the Presidium of the People's Assembly of Yugoslavia, and starting in 1953 by the

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. From its inception until around 1993, the Order had been awarded nearly 1,400 times. Marshal

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was awarded the Order three times: in 1944, 1972, and 1977. The holders of the order were entitled to certain benefits, like free fares on public transport, and pensions for the surviving family members of deceased people's heroes. Although the benefits have since been downscaled, post-Yugoslav countries still provide certain benefits to people's heroes. Many schools and streets in post-war Yugoslavia were named after people's heroes, and many of the names remain, to varying degrees in different successor countries. Not only people, but cities, military units and organizations were also awarded the order. Eight cities in Yugoslavia were awarded the order and proclaimed "hero cities":

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, Cetinje,

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Prilep Prilep ( mk, Прилеп ) is the fourth-largest city in North Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 and is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko. Name The name of Prilep appea ...

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, and

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Serbia and Montenegro

Following the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia,

was formed, and later renamed

Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

. In 1998, it passed a law that continued to use some of the decorations of former Yugoslavia, among them Order of the People's Hero, making it, at the time, the fourth-highest order after the Order of Yugoslavia, the

Order of the Yugoslav Star The Order of the Yugoslav Star sr, Орден југословенске звезде, ''Orden jugoslovenske zvezde'' sl, Red jugoslovanske zvezde mk, Орден на југословенската ѕвезда, ''Orden na jugoslovenskata zvezda'' ...

and the Order of Freedom.Orders and Decorations of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1990-
by Lukasz Gaszewski 2000, 2003 The Serbian media ridiculed several proposals to decorate

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with the Order of the People's hero because he would have had to decorate himself. It was never given to any individuals, but several military units active in the

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were decorated: *124th Police Intervention Brigade, Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs *126th Brigade for Air Reconnaissance, Military of Yugoslavia * 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia *37th Motorized Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia *63rd Parachute Brigade, Military of Yugoslavia

Notable recipients

Because of the large number of awards, only people with Wikipedia articles are listed. Date of the award(s) is given in parenthesis. Those marked with a

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(†) have died during the war. They were all awarded posthumously, except for Petar Leković who was awarded the order ''before'' he died in the WWII. * Mirče Acev (1945†) * Vera Aceva (1953) * Božidar Adžija (1945†) * Nisim Albahari (1953) *

Mihailo Apostolski Mihailo Apostolski ( mk, Михаило Апостолски; born Mihail Mitev Apostolov, bg, Михаил Митев Апостолов; sr, Михаило Митић or Mihailo Mitić; November 8, 1906 – August 7, 1987) was a Yugoslav gene ...

(1953) * Ljupčo Arsov (1953) * Viktor Avbelj (1951) * Maks Baće Milić (1953) *

Vlado Bagat Vlado Bagat (20 October 1915 – 1 June 1944) was a Yugoslav soldier. A native of Split, Bagat joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Bagat was involved in creation of the first Partisan ...

(1948†) * Slobodan Bajić Paja (1952†) *

Filip Bajković Filip Bajković (20 May 1910 – 15 February 1985) was the President of the Executive Council of Montenegro from 16 December 1951 to 12 July 1962. From 12 July 1962 to 5 May 1963, he was the President of the People's Assembly of Montenegro. Bio ...

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Vladimir Bakarić Vladimir Bakarić (; 8 March 1912 – 16 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Croatian communist revolutionary and a politician. Bakarić helped to organise the partisan resistance in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. From 1948 t ...

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Mitar Bakić Mitar Bakić ( sr, Митар Бакић; Berislavci near Podgorica, 7 November 1908 - Belgrade, 25 November 1960), was a Yugoslav politician, general and People's Hero of Yugoslavia. During World War II, he was political commissar of the 4th ...

(1951) * Rajka Baković (1953†) * Aleš Bebler (1953) * Anka Berus (1953) * Milan Blagojević Španac (1945†) * Vera Blagojević (1953†) * Jakov Blažević (1953) * Antun Blažić (1951†) * Mate Blažina (1953†) * Hasan Brkić (1953) * Zvonko Brkić (1953) *

(1944, 1972, 1977) * Boško Buha (1951†) * Rade Bulat (1953) * Marija Bursać (1943†) * Anka Butorac (1949†) * Rudi Čajavec (1951†) * Marijan Čavić (1953†) * Zdravko Čelar (1942†) * Jelena Ćetković (1952†) *

Rodoljub Čolaković Rodoljub "Roćko" Čolaković ( sr-cyr, Родољуб Чолаковић; 7 June 1900 – 30 March 1983) was a Yugoslav politician and writer who served as the 1st Prime Minister of PR Bosnia and Herzegovina and as the Minister for PR Bosni ...

(1953) * Krste Crvenkovski (1953) * Ljubo Čupić (1953†) * Božidarka Kika Damjanović-Marković (1953) *

Peko Dapčević Petar "Peko" Dapčević (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Петар Пеко Дапчевић; 25 June 1913 – 13 February 1999) was a Yugoslav communist who fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, joined the Partisan uprising in Montenegr ...

(1945) * Karel Destovnik (1953) *

Milovan Đilas Milovan Djilas (; , ; 12 June 1911 – 30 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democra ...

(1953, rescinded in 1957) * Nada Dimić (1951†) * Xhevdet Doda (1973†) * Robert Domany (1953†) *

Petar Drapšin Petar Drapšin ( sr-Cyrl, Петар Драпшин; 15 November 1914 – 2 November 1945) was a Yugoslav Partisan commander. Early life and education Drapšin was born to a family of poor peasant farmers in the village of Turija near Srbobran ...

(1953) * Andreana Družina (1953) *

Ratomir Dugonjić Ratomir "Rato" Dugonjić (10 January 1916 – 27 June 1987) was a Yugoslav Partisan fighter in the antifascist liberation struggle of the people of Yugoslavia, Minister in the Communist Government, Ambassador with the Non-Aligned Movement, preside ...

(1953) * Emin Duraku (1952†) * Ovadya Estreya (1953†) *

Stjepan Filipović Stjepan Filipović (27 January 1916 – 22 May 1942) was a Yugoslav communist who led the Kolubara Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment during the 1941 Partisan uprising. He was captured and executed in 1942 in Valjevo. A photo of him ...

(1949†) * Čede Filipovski Dame (1949) *

Ivan Gošnjak Ivan Gošnjak ( sh-Cyrl, Иван Гошњак; 10 June 1909 – 8 February 1980) was a Yugoslav communist who held numerous important offices in Yugoslavia during and after World War II, serving as the Minister of Defence from 1953 to 1967. Iva ...

(1953) * Petar Gračanin (1951) * Čedo Grbić (1951) * Janko Gredelj (1951†) * Fadil Hoxha (1953) *

Većeslav Holjevac Većeslav Holjevac (22 August 1917 – 11 July 1970) was a Croatian and Yugoslav soldier and communist politician. Holjevac was born in Karlovac, at the time in Austria-Hungary. He joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in 1939. Following t ...

(1951) *

Avdo Humo Avdo Humo (1 February 1914 – 24 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Bosnian communist politician, writer and an Order of the People's Hero recipient. Humo held highest positions in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1972, Hum ...

(1953) * Lizika Jančar (1953†) * Vlado Janić Capo (1951) * Blagoj Jankov Mučeto (1951†) * Vera Jocić (1951†) * Kuzman Josifovski Pitu (1945†) * Blažo Jovanović (1952) * Radovan Jovanović (1951†) * Žikica Jovanović Španac (1945†) * Olga Jovičić (1951†) * Jovo Kapičić (1950) * Osman Karabegović (1952) * Elpida Karamandi (1951†) *

Edvard Kardelj Edvard Kardelj (; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. ...

(1951) * Boris Kidrič (1952) * Đuro Kladarin (1952) * Filip Kljajić (1944†) *

Franjo Kluz Franjo Kluz (19 September 1913 – 14 September 1944) was a Yugoslav pilot from Bosnia and a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. He is best known as one of the founders of the Partisan air force, and served as an officer in No. 352 Squadron RAF. Early ...

(1948†) * Fana Kochovska (1953) *

Lazar Koliševski Lazar Koliševski ( mk, Лазар Колишевски ; 12 February 1914 – 6 July 2000) was a Yugoslav communist political leader in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and briefly in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was clos ...

(1952) *

Rade Končar Rade Končar ( sr-cyr, Раде Кончар; 6 August or 28 October 1911 – 22 May 1942) was a Croatian Serb politician and leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in the Independent State of Croatia and Dalmatia during the early stages of World W ...

(1942†) * Sava Kovačević (1943†) * Veljko Kovačević (1951) * Boris Kraigher (1953) * Josip Kraš (1945†) * Branko Krsmanović (1945†) * Vicko Krstulović (1952) * Dušan Kveder (1952) * Petar Leković (1942†) * Franc Leskošek (1952) * Nikola Ljubičić (1953) * Ivan Maček (1952) * Vahida Maglajlić (1951†) * Miha Marinko (1953) * Moma Marković (1953) * Veselin Masleša (1951†) * Sergej Mašera (1973†) * Petar Matić Dule (1951) * Mile Mećava (1953†) *

Cvijetin Mijatović Cvijetin "Majo" Mijatović ( sr-cyr, Цвијетин Мајо Мијатовић; 8 January 1913 – 15 November 1993) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as President of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1980 until 19 ...

(1953) *

Veljko Milatović Veljko Milatović ( Serbo-Croat Cyrillic: Вељко Милатовић; 5 December 1921 – 19 October 2004) was a Montenegrin Communist partisan, politician, statesman serving once as the Speaker and once as President.Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Milošević (, ; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia within Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1997 (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic of ...

(1999) *

Ivan Milutinović Ivan Milutinović (nickname Milutin; sr-cyr, Иван Милутиновић; 27 September 1901 – 23 October 1944) was a Yugoslav Partisan general and an eminent military commander who participated in World War II. Before the war In October ...

(1953†) *

Miloš Minić Miloš Minić (Милош Минић) (August 28, 1914, Preljina, Čačak, Kingdom of Serbia – September 5, 2003, Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro) was a Yugoslav Serbian communist politician. Biography Minić graduated from secondary school in ...

(1953) * Milutin Morača (1951) *

Dušan Mugoša Dušan Mugoša ( sr-cyr, Душан Мугоша 7 January 1914 – 8 August 1973), nicknamed Duć (Дућ), was a Yugoslav Partisan. He and Miladin Popović were the Yugoslav delegates that helped unite the Albanian communist groups in 1941. T ...

(1953) * Mara Naceva (1953) *

Kosta Nađ Konstantin "Kosta" Nađ ( hu, Nagy Kosztá; 13 May 1911 – 19 November 1986) was a Yugoslav Partisan Army general that fought during World War II. Biography Born on 13 May 1911 in Petrovaradin, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, he fought as a volu ...

(1951) * Stefan Naumov (1945†) * Nada Naumović (1951†) * Gojko Nikoliš (1951) * Jordan Nikolov Orce (1945†) * Marko Orešković (1945†) *

Đorđije Pajković Đorđije "Đoko" Pajković (25 June 1917, Lužac, Berane, Kingdom of Montenegro – 17 January 1980, Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) was a Yugoslav Montenegrin politician. He was the leader of the League of Communists of Montenegro from Ju ...

(1953) * Boško Palkovljević (1943†) * Đoko Pavićević (1953) * Kata Pejnović (1968) *

Slobodan Penezić Slobodan "Krcun" Penezić ( sr-cyr, Слободан Пенезић Крцун; 2 July 1918 – 6 November 1964) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Serbia ...

(1952†) * Vladimir Perić (1953) * Dušan Petrović Šane (1952) * Moša Pijade (1953) * Strašo Pindžur (1945†) * Bojan Polak (1952) *

Koča Popović Konstantin "Koča" Popović ( sr-cyrl, Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the Fir ...

(1953) * Miladin Popović (1946†) * Vladimir Popović (1952) *

Janko Premrl Janko Premrl (nom de guerre Vojko; Italianized: ) (29 February 1920 – 22 February 1943)Ferenc, Tone. 1995."'Premrl, Stanko." ''Enciklopedija Slovenije'' vol. 9, pp. 1–5. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, p. 296. was a Slovene Partisan. Life Pr ...

(1944†) * Ognjen Prica (1945†) * Slobodan Princip (1942†) * Đuro Pucar (1951) * Lepa Radić (1951†) * Darinka Radović (1953†) * Joakim Rakovac (1952†) *

Aleksandar Ranković Aleksandar Ranković (nom de guerre Marko; sr-Cyrl, Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josi ...

(1945) *

Ivo Lola Ribar Ivan Ribar (23 April 1916 – 27 November 1943), known as Ivo Lola or Ivo Lolo, was a Yugoslav communist politician and military leader of Croatian descent. In the 1930s, he became one of the closest associates of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the ...

(1944†) *

Slavko Rodić Slavko Rodić ( sr, Славко Родић; Sredice near Ključ, 7 July 1914 - Belgrade, 29 April 1949), was a Yugoslav partisan, general of Yugoslav People's Army and People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Prior to April War, Rodić worked as surve ...

(1949) * Vladimir Rolović (1971) * Franc Rozman (1944†) *

Ivan Rukavina Ivan Rukavina (January 26, 1912 – April 3, 1992) was army general of the Yugoslav People's Army, People's Hero of Yugoslavia and politician. Rukavina was a member of the International Brigades and prominent Croatian and Yugoslav communist. H ...

(1951) *

Ramiz Sadiku Ramiz Sadiku (19 January 1915 – 10 April 1943) was an Albanian law student and one of the organizers of the anti-fascist uprising in Kosovo.''Narodni heroji Jugoslavije''. Belgrade: Mladost, 1975 He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Peop ...

(1945†) *

Vlado Šegrt Vlado Šegrt (18 December 1907 – 1 August 1991) was a Yugoslav participant in the National Liberation Struggle and a socio-political worker in the Socialist Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia. He was a reserve Major General and n ...

(1951) * Ivan Šibl (1951) * Velimir Škorpik (1952†) *

Slavko Šlander Slavko Šlander, nom de guerre Aleš (20 June 1909 – 24 August 1941), was a Slovene communist, Partisan, and people's hero. He was born in Dolenja Vas near Prebold, Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary (now part of Slovenia). Due to being ex ...

(1943†) * Milan Spasić (1973†) *

Mika Špiljak Mika Špiljak ( or ; 28 November 1916 – 18 May 2007) was a Croatian politician who spent most of his political career as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in the SFR Yugoslavia. Early years He was born in Odra Sisačka (part ...

(1953) * Drago Štajnberger (1943†) *

Petar Stambolić Petar Stambolić (; 12 July 1912 – 21 September 2007) was a Serbian communist politician who served as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia from 1963 to 1967 and as President of the Presidency from 1982 until 1983. Bio ...

(1953) * Dragi Stamenković (1953) *

Mladen Stojanović Mladen Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Младен Стојановић; 7 April 1896 – 1 April 1942) was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav physician who led a detachment of Partisans on and around Mount Kozara in northwestern Bosnia durin ...

(1942†) * Blagoj Stračkovski (1953†) * Borko Temelkovski (1953) *

Milan Tepić Milan Tepić ( sr-Cyrl, Милан Тепић; 26 January 1957 – 29 September 1991) was a major in the Yugoslav People's Army during the Croatian War of Independence. In September 1991, Tepić was tasked with defending an ammunition storage in ...

(1991†) * Hristijan Todorovski Karpoš (1945†) *

Vida Tomšič Vida Tomšič ''née'' Bernot (26 June 1913 – 10 December 1998) was a Slovenian communist before World War II, Partisan fighter during the War, prominent communist politician, women's activist, and people's hero in postwar Yugoslavia. She was ...

(1953) *

Jovan Veselinov Jovan Veselinov Žarko (20 January 1906 – 8 February 1982) was a Serbian communist politician. He served as President of Serbia, Prime Minister of Serbia and as a Chairman of the League of Communists of Serbia. He was a Partisan fighter in Wor ...

(1952) *

Veljko Vlahović Veljko Vlahović (Cyrillic: Вељко Влаховић; 2 September 1914 – 7 March 1975) was a Montenegrin politician and career army officer. He was one of the more prominent members of the Montenegrin branch of the Yugoslav Communist Party fr ...

(1953) * Rada Vranješević (1951†) * Majda Vrhovnik (1951†) *

Bogdan Vujošević Bogdan Vujošević (26 January 1912, in village Doljani, near Podgorica – 10 July 1981, in Belgrade), WW2 veteran, Lieutenant General of the Yugoslav People's Army and recipient of the Order of the People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Biography Vujoše ...

(1953) *

Ratko Vujović Ratko Vujović (16 December 1916 – 29 October 1977) was a Yugoslavian political activist and soldier. After the Second World War, Vujović was the first elected President of FK Partizan. Biography Ratko Vujović was born on 16 December 1916 in ...

(1953) *

Svetozar Vukmanović Svetozar Vukmanović - Tempo ( sh-Cyrl, Светозар Вукмановић - Темпо; 3 August 1912 – 6 December 2000) was a leading Montenegrin communist and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. D ...

(1951) * Boro Vukmirović (1945†) *

Žarko Zrenjanin Žarko Zrenjanin "Uča" ( sr-Cyrl, Жарко Зрењанин, ; 11 September 1902 – 4 November 1942) was a partisan and National Hero of Yugoslavia. The city of Zrenjanin, in Serbia, is named after him, since 1946. Zrenjanin was born i ...

(1944†) Josip Broz Tito Bihać 1942.jpg,

was awarded the order three times. Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Bosne i Hercegovine.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Bosnia and Herzegovina (1955) Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Crne Gore.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Montenegro (1955) Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Hrvatske.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Croatia (1955) Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Slovenije.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Slovenia (1955) Tito sa narodnim herojima iz Srbije i Makedonije.jpg, President Tito with People's Heroes from PR Serbia and PR Macedonia (1955)

Foreign citizens recipients of the order

Source: * Sergey Biryuzov (1964) * Ivan Bulkin (1945) * Reshit Çollaku (1945†, rescinded in 1948) * Pavel Dmitrienko (1945) *

Enver Hoxha Enver Halil Hoxha ( , ; 16 October 190811 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the authoritarian ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 unti ...

(1946, rescinded in 1948) * Boris Kalinkin (1944) * Ivan Konstantinov (1945) *

Semyon Kozak Semyon Antonovich Kozak (russian: Семён Антонович Козак; – 24 December 1953) was a Ukrainian Soviet Army lieutenant general who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his command of a division during Worl ...

(1944) * Vojo Kushi (1945†, rescinded in 1948) *

Luigi Longo Luigi Longo (15 March 1900 – 16 October 1980), also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972. He was also the first foreigner to be awarded an Order of Lenin. Early l ...

(1980) *

Rodion Malinovsky Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky (russian: Родио́н Я́ковлевич Малино́вский, ukr, Родіо́н Я́кович Малино́вський ; – 31 March 1967) was a Soviet military commander. He was Marshal of the Sovi ...

(1964) * Alexander Managadze (1945) * Grigoriy Okhrimenko (1945) * Alexander Shornikov (1944) *

Vladimir Sudets Vladimir Alexandrovich Sudets (russian: Владимир Александрович Судец; 23 October 1904 - 6 May 1981) was a Soviet air commander during World War II, commanding the 17th Air Army, and later became Marshal of the aviation ...

(1964) *

Ludvík Svoboda Ludvík Svoboda (25 November 1895 – 20 September 1979) was a Czech general and politician. He fought in both World Wars, for which he was regarded as a national hero,

(1946) *

Fyodor Tolbukhin Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Толбу́хин; 16 June 1894 – 17 October 1949) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. Early life and military career Tolbukhin was born into ...

(1945) * Vasiliy Ulisko (1945) * Andrey Vitruk (1945) * Pavel Yakimov (1944) * Vladimir Zhdanov (1944) * Michał Żymierski (1946)

Hero Cities

Eight cities were the Order of the People's Hero (one in each Socialist Republic and Socialist Province), and granted the title "Hero City". Dates of the award are given in parenthesis. *

(20 October 1974) * Cetinje (7 May 1975) *

(7 May 1970) *

(7 May 1975) *

Priština Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians an ...

(7 May 1975) *

(17 May 1974) *

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) (7 May 1975)

Public and political organizations recipients of the order

* Young Communist League of Yugoslavia (

SKOJ , SKOJ mk, Сојуз на комунистичката младина на Југославија, СКМЈ sl, Zveza komunistične mladine Jugoslavije, ZKMJ , colorcode = red , founded = 1919 , dissolved = 1948 , succeeded by = League of ...

), volume 2, page 432 * District committee of SKOJ for

* Union of Veterans of People's Liberation War ( SUBNOR) * Union of the Spanish War veterans of Yugoslavia

World War II military units recipients of the order

*Brigades ** 1st Proletarian Strike Brigade, volume 2, page 407 (1958) ** 2nd Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958) ** 3rd Proletarian (

Sandžak Sandžak (; sh, / , ; sq, Sanxhaku; ota, سنجاق, Sancak), also known as Sanjak, is a historical geo-political region in Serbia and Montenegro. The name Sandžak derives from the Sanjak of Novi Pazar, a former Ottoman administrative di ...

) Strike Brigade (1958) ** 4th Proletarian (Montenegrin) Strike Brigade (1958) ** 5th Proletarian (Montenegrin) Strike Brigade (1958) ** 6th Proletarian (East Bosnian) Strike Brigade (1958) ** 1st

Lika Lika () is a traditional region of Croatia proper, roughly bound by the Velebit mountain from the southwest and the Plješevica mountain from the northeast. On the north-west end Lika is bounded by Ogulin-Plaški basin, and on the south-east by ...

Proletarian Strike Brigade (1977) ** 2nd Lika Proletarian Strike Brigade (1977) ** 3rd Lika Proletarian Strike Brigade (1974) ** 1st

Krajina Krajina () is a Slavic toponym, meaning 'frontier' or 'march'. The term is related to '' kraj'' or ''krai'', originally meaning 'edge'Rick Derksen (2008), ''Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon'', Brill: Leiden-Boston, page 244 a ...

Proletarian Strike Brigade (1975) ** 3rd Krajina Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958) ** 7th Krajina Strike Brigade (1958) ** 1st

Dalmatia Dalmatia (; hr, Dalmacija ; it, Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria. Dalmatia is a narrow belt of the east shore of the Adriatic Sea, str ...

n Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958) ** 2nd Dalmatian Proletarian Strike Brigade (1958) ** 3rd Dalmatian Strike Brigade (1958) **12th Slavonian Proletarian Strike Brigade (1977) **13th Proletaraian Strike Brigade "Rade Končar" (1972) **1st

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

n Proletarian Brigade "Tone Tomšič" (1974) **2nd Slovenian People's Liberation Strike Brigade "Ljubo Šercer" (1979) **10th Herzegovinian Strike Brigade (after 1952: 17th Proletarian) (1958) ** 1st

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capita ...

Strike Brigade (after 1958: 18th Proletarian) (1973) **1st Macedonian- Kosovan Proletarian Strike Brigade (after 1951: 15th Proletarian) **3rd Serbian Proletarian Brigade (1977) **7th

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n Strike Brigade "Vasilj Gačeša" (1958) **8th Banijan Strike Brigade (1958) **16th Banijan Strike Brigade (1958) **15th

Majevica Majevica ( sr-cyrl, Мајевица, ) is a low mountain range in northeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated between Semberija, Posavina, and Tuzla Canton. Its highest peak is Stolice, some 16 kilometres east of Tuzla, in the far sout ...

Strike Brigade (1958) *Batallions and regiments ** 2nd

People's Liberation Partizan

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"Dr

" (1972) ** Escort Battalion of the Supreme Command of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (1958) ** Workers' Battalion of the

Užice Užice ( sr-cyr, Ужице, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Zlatibor District in western Serbia. It is located on the banks of the river Đetinja. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 59,747. The Ci ...

People's Liberation Partizan Regiment (1979) *Army institutions ** Central Hospital of People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (1968) ** Partizan Hospital on Petrova Gora (1971) **Security and Intelligence Service (Varnostno-obveščevalna služba)

Statistics

A total of 1,322 persons were awarded in Yugoslavia by 1981. Most of the awarded were men (1231) and 91 were women. Most People's Heroes were either

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s or industrial workers (34%), 19% were university and high school students, 18% were

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s and 13% were experts of all kinds., volume 2, page 463 Most of the awarded were very young. Half of them joined the Army before their 25th birthday, and only 325 of them were over 30. 42% of the Heroes who died in the war were between 16 and 26 years old, 38% were between 27 and 34. Three Heroes were less than 17 years old when they died. Milka Bosnić was the youngest recipient of the order, she was just 15 when killed during the

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. Most recipients were awarded in the years following World War II, most of them between 1951 and 1953. Tito was the only person to be awarded multiple times, he was awarded the order three times. Of the 955 recipients who died in the war, 77% were killed in combat, about 15% were executed or died in prison, and about 7% died from wounds. Most of the Heroes died in 1943 (about 30%) and in 1942 (27.5%). Nine of them were killed after the war officially ended during the fight with the remaining enemy forces. 55 People's Heroes committed suicide to escape arresting. Most of the recipients of the Order were born in Croatia (21.9%), followed by

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...

(20.6%),

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(18.7%),

Central Serbia Central Serbia ( sr, централна Србија / centralna Srbija), also referred to as Serbia proper ( sr, link=no, ужа Србија / uža Srbija), is the region of Serbia lying outside the autonomous province of Vojvodina to the nor ...

(15%) and

(11.05%). Most of those who died during World War II died in Bosnia and Herzegovina (32%). In 1957 there were 410 living People's Heroes, in 1975 there were 367, and in 1981 there were 343 living Heroes.

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ZAKON O OSNOVNIM PRAVIMA LICA ODLIKOVANIH ORDENOM NARODNOG HEROJA
(''Law on Basic Rights of Persons Awarded the Order of the People's Hero'')

{{SFRY decorations Awards established in 1943 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia in World War II People's Hero Awards disestablished in 1993 Hero (title)

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Foreign citizens recipients of the order

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