Niko Miljanić

Dr. Nikola "Niko" Miljanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола "Нико" Миљанић; 1892 – 20 October 1957) was a Montenegrin and Serbian anatomist and surgeon, professor of anatomy at Belgrade Medical School, resistance participant during World War II and the president of Montenegrin wartime Assembly.

[1] He has been a full professor of anatomy during the period 1920—1934, then held lectures on surgery propaedeutics from 1935 until 1947.

As a French ex-pupil he was elected president of the French ex-pupils Association and the founder of the bilingual Serbian-French journal Anali medicine i hirurgije (Annals of Medicine and Surgery), published 1927-1934.

In 1930, he unveiled the Monument of Gratitude to France in Belgrade's Kalemegdan Park, together with King Alexander I of Yugoslavia.

Miljanić was a member of the French Academy of Surgeons and was decorated with the order of the Légion d'honneur.