People's Hero of Yugoslavia

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The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia awarded the title People's Hero of Yugoslavia (Narodni heroj Jugoslavije) mostly to individuals for valor in combat during World War II. A total of 1307 awards were given in Yugoslavia, between the early 1940s up to 1957.

Order of National Hero of Yugoslavia, 1st Class

Notable recipients

Notable people that received the title include:

Boško Pavkovljević Pinki,
Božidar Adžija,
Maks Baće Milić,
Vlado Bagat,
Vladimir Bakarić,
Milutin Baltić,
Ante Banina,
Aleš Bebler,
Jakov Blažević,
Josip Broz Tito,
Viktor Bubanj,
Marija Bursać,
Boško Buha,
Rade Bulat,
Anka Butorac,
Krste Crvenkovski,
Rudi Čajavec,
Rodoljub Čolaković,
Peko Dapčević,
Nikola Demonja,
Nada Dimić,
Petar Drapšin,
Rato Dugonjić,
Jošo Durbaba,
Stjepan Stevo Filipović,
Petar Gračanin,
Većeslav Holjevac,
Vlado Janić Capo,
Ante Jonjić,
Žikica Jovanović Španac,
Ante Jurjević Baja,
Edvard Kardelj,
Boris Kidrič,
Franjo Kluz,
Lazar Koliševski,
Rade Končar,
Pero Kosorić,
Sava Kovačević,
Ivan Krajačić,
Boris Krajger,
Josip Kraš,
Vicko Krstulović,
Ivan Lučić Lavčević,
Nikola Ljubičić,
Veselin Masleša,
Miloš Minić,
Kosta Nađ,
Gojko Nikoliš,
Franjo Ogulinac Seljo,
Stevo Opačić,
Marko Orešković,
Pavle Pap,
Stanko Parmač,
Bogdan Pecotić,
Dušan Pekić,
Slobodan Penezić Krcun,
Vladimir Perić Valter,
Moše Pijade,
Koča Popović,
Ognjen Prica,
Slobodan Princip Seljo,
Đuro Pucar Stari,
Ivo Lola Ribar,
Germano Senjanović,
Ljubomir Šercer,
Velimir Škorpik,
Simela Šolaja,
Mika Špiljak,
Mitar Trifunović Učo,
Slaviša Vajner Čiča,
Veljko Vlahović,
Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo,
Vojin Zirojević,
Žarko Zrenjanin
Milan Žeželj.

Statistics

A total of 1307 awards were given in Yugoslavia up to 1957. 1220 were male and 87 were female.

By place of birth (not ethnicity), the National Heroes were split as follows:

Croatia - 282
Bosnia and Herzegovina - 278
Serbia - 259
Montenegro - 244
Slovenia - 161
Macedonia - 66
abroad - 17

By social status, there were:

490 workers
226 serfs
499 intellectuals
76 other occupations
16 unknown

All recipients were members of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, while 800 of them were also members before World War II. The majority of them, 1261, had engaged in the war in 1941; there were 41 heroes from 1942 and five from 1943.

Of the National Heroes who died in the war, there were:

624 killed in combat
104 shot themselves
55 died of suicide
30 died from fatal injuries
20 killed in prison
13 hanged
12 massacred
4 died of disease
3 buried alive
3 strangled
1 impaled
1 burned on a skewer
5 died in accidents

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