Pero Budmani (Serbian Cyrillic: Перо Будмани, pronounced [pěro budmâːni]; 27 October 1835 – 27 December 1914) was a Croatian Serb writer, linguist, grammarian, and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot.

[2] Budmani wrote a seminal book in Italian called Grammatica della lingua serbo-croata (illyrica) that described the Serbo-Croatian grammar, published in Vienna in 1867.

Because it was written primarily as a manual for use in the gymnasia in Dalmatia, it was restricted in scope and space, but it soon received high praise from Đuro Daničić in Rad JAZU #2 in 1868.

[5] In 1883, Budmani moved to Zagreb (at the time part of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia) and became the editor of the Rječnik (Dictionary) of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (following the death of Đuro Daničić).

But already the following year, seriously ill and embittered for the persecution suffered at the hands of the Austrian police (who considered him a dangerous subversive), Pero Budmani fled from home, reached Ancona and died there on December 27, 1914.