Olga Vidović

Agricultural engineer, professor, genetics in agronomy and inventor of two new varieties of beans. She was the first female dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and among the first in the country. She was born and raised in Sarajevo.

She graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in Belgrade in 1950 , and in 1964 she defended her doctoral dissertation Expanding the Types of Beans in Bosnia in Their Selective Value. At the Faculty of Agriculture in Sarajevo, she became a professor and served as dean (1977-1979). From 1981 to 1985 she was also the vice-rector of the University of Sarajevo. She chaired the BiH Genetics Society for numerous years.