Janko Veselinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јанко Веселиновић, pronounced [ˌjâːŋko ʋeseˈlǐːnoʋit͜ɕ]; 13 May 1862 – 26 June 1905) was a Serbian writer and novelist.

Janko Veselinović was born in Salaš Crnobarski on 1 May 1862 to a Serbian Orthodox family.

[1] He completed elementary school in Šabac in 1878 and enrolled into teacher's college in Belgrade from which he dropped out.

[2] From 1893 he worked as an assistant for the Srpske novine newspaper editor.

[2] As an enemy of the regime he lost his job in 1899–1900 and he was arrested on three separate occasions, in 1888, 1899 and 1903.