Mihajlo Mihajlov

Mihajlo Mihajlov (, ; 26 September 1934 – 7 March 2010) was a Serbian author, academic and publicist.

Mihajlov became one of the most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe after his arrest, trial and conviction in 1965. He spent a total of seven years in prison and was the only Yugoslav dissident whose passport was revoked. He appealed, and a higher court substituted a suspended sentence of five months. After that, he started publishing texts in foreign press, for which he was arrested on 8 August 1966 and subsequently sentenced to three and a half years in prison. He was released in 1970, but was arrested again on 7 October 1974 and convicted for writing articles for The New York Times and The New York Review of Books and was imprisoned until 1977.

He emigrated to the United States in 1978, where, among other things, he worked as a lecturer From 1985 to 1994, he collaborated with Radio Free Europe. He was on the Editorial Board of Kontinent, an émigré dissident journal which focused on the politics of the Soviet Union and its satellites founded in 1974 by writer Vladimir Maximov. He was also on the original Advisory Board of the non-profit educational organization Center for the Survival of Western Democracies, founded by author Lev Navrozov in 1979.

He returned to Belgrade in 2001 where he lived until his death on 7 March 2010. He was interred on 13 March 2010 in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens in the Belgrade New Cemetery.