Stana Tomašević

Stana Tomašević (1920–1983) was a Yugoslav Partisan officer during World War II, a model, and a politician and diplomat.

As an idealistic young patriot, she immediately joined the Partisans and became the first woman commissar in Yugoslavia.

While she was in Drvar, the British military photographer John Talbot took inspiring pictures of her that were dropped as leaflets over Europe to encourage resistance to the occupiers.

[2] After the war, she served as a federal minister in the Yugoslav government and was the country's first woman ambassador - to Norway and Iceland (1963-1967) and later Denmark (1974-1978).

She died of cancer in 1983, shortly after retiring as President of the Federal Chamber of the Yugoslav Parliament, the country's highest-ranking woman at that time.