Jovan Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Поповић; 18 November 1905 – 13 February 1952) was a Serbian writer and academic.

[1] Popović was born in Kikinda, in modern-day Serbia.

He joined the Yugoslav Partisans in the beginning of the armed struggle in Serbia in 1941.

He became a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on November 14, 1950.

His statue stands on the square of his hometown of Kikinda and a grammar school in Belgrade is named after him.