Salamon Berger Ouz (25 February 1858 – 11 January 1934) was a Croatian Jewish industrialist, textile trader, and founder and first director of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb.

[1][2] Berger Ouz was born on 25 February 1858 in Mnešice, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, in present-day Slovakia.

When he lost his parents at 16 years of age, Berger moved to Zagreb.

[2][3] As a textile merchant and manufacturer, Berger presented the products of Croatian industry on 96 exhibitions across the Europe, United States and Australia.

Over the course of his business travels around Croatia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, he amassed a collection of ethnographic artefacts.