This is a list of historical and living Bosniaks who are famous or notable.

• Mak Dizdar, his works Stone Sleeper and The Blue River are important poetic achievements
• Hamid Dizdar, writer and poet but also older brother of Mak Dizdar
• Safvet-beg Bašagić, considered the father of Bosnian renaissance
• Osman Nuri Hadžić, intellectual and writer who co-launched the political journal Behar
• Edhem Mulabdić, writer and co-founder of the political journal Behar
• Mehmed Kapetanović, writer and public official who founded the influential political journal Bošnjak ("Bosniak")
• Musa Ćazim Ćatić, poet of the Bosnian Renaissance at the turn of the 20th century
• Alija Isaković, essayist, publicist, playwright, and lexicographer of the Bosnian language
• Nasiha Kapidžić-Hadžić, children's author and poet
• Hasan Kikić, literate and poet who co-founded the journal Putokaz (Signpost)
• Zuko Džumhur, writer, painter and caricaturist.
• Meša Selimović, writer whose novel Death and the Dervish is one of the most important literary works in post-Second World War Yugoslavia
• Mula Mustafa Bašeskija, 18th-century chronicler, diarist, poet, calligrapher and retired Jannisary in the Ottoman Empire.
• Dževad Karahasan, awarded writer and philosopher
• Bisera Alikadić, poet and author, best known for her work Larva and Krug
• Semezdin Mehmedinović, writer and filmmaker but also a magazine editor
• Skender Kulenović, novelist, dramatist and poet
• Abdulah Sidran, poet and screenwriter
• Derviš Sušić, writer best known for his first work I, Danilo
• Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar, novelist, poet and playwright
• Nedžad Ibrišimović, writer and sculptor
• Hamza Humo, writer of short novels and editor of both Zabavnik and Gajret
• Enver Čolaković, best known for his 1944 novel The Legend of Ali-Pasha
• Zija Dizdarević, prose writer
• Ahmed Muradbegović, writer, dramatist and novelist
• Nihad Hasanović, writer and translator
• Avdo Karabegović, writer and poet
• Osman Đikić, romantic poet and dramatist
• Abdulvehab Ilhamija, 18th-century dervish and prose writer
• Husein Dubravić, comedic writer, historian, teacher, and publisher
• Faruk Šehić, poet, novelist and short story writer
• Ćamil Sijarić, novelist and short story writer
• Sait Orahovac, awarded author and folklorist
• Zaim Topčić, awarded writer
• Zlatko Topčić, awarded writer and screenwriter
• Safet Plakalo, playwright, journalist and theatre critic

• Hazim Delić, Bosnian War criminal
• Ismet Bajramović, Bosnian soldier and organised crime figure
• Ramiz Delalić, One of several prominent underworld figures who helped defend Sarajevo
• Mušan Topalović, Commander during the Bosnian war and a gangster
• Jusuf Prazina, Sarajevan gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War
• Šefka Hodžić, convicted of the 1969 murder of her pregnant friend

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• List of Bosniak Sportspeople
• Bosnian people category

• For references. Also see, Logicka Djela Bosanskih Turaka na Arapskom Jeziku by Dr. Amir Ljubić