Lujo Bakotić (21 November 1867 – 31 March 1941) was a Serbian writer, publicist, lawyer, lexicographer and diplomat.

[1] He was baptized Alojzije ("Lujo") Juraj Franjo Ivan Josip Bakotić.

[citation needed] He completed his high school (gymnasium) education in Split, and jurisprudence in Vienna and Graz.

[1] He was a lawyer by profession who was also politically active, representing the Serbian Party in the Diet of Dalmatia.

With the start of the Great War, he left Belgrade for Niš and then went to Paris and finally Rome, where he was made a secretary in the Vatican to work on a mission, preparing a Concordat between Serbia and the Vatican (which never materialized).