Božidar Janković (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Јанковић; 7 December 1849 – 7 July 1920) was a Serbian army general commander of the Serbian Third Army during the First Balkan War between the Balkan League and the Ottoman Empire. In 1901 he served as Minister of the Army in the Ministry of Defence.

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Božidar Janković
Božidar Janković
23rd Minister of the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia
In office 27 April 1901 – 3 August 1901
Monarch	Peter I
Prime Minister	Mihailo Vujić
Preceded by	Miloš Vasić
Succeeded by	Čedomilj Miljković
1st Chief of the Supreme Command of the Kingdom of Montenegro
In office 6 August 1914 – 20 April 1915
Commander-in-chief	Nicholas I
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Petar Pešić
Personal details
Born	(1849-12-07)7 December 1849 Belgrade, Serbia
Died	7 July 1920(1920-07-07) (aged 70) Herceg Novi, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Military service
Allegiance	Principality of Serbia  Kingdom of Serbia
Rank	General
Commands	Serbian Third Army[1]
Battles/wars	Serbo-Turkish wars Serbo-Bulgarian War First Balkan War

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He graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff School. He became State Secretary of Military Matters of Serbia in 1902. As President of the National Defence, he participated in the Chetnik fighting for Macedonia.

In World War I he was the Chief of Staff of the Montenegrin Supreme Command until June 1915 and a delegate of the Serbian Supreme Command at the Montenegrin Supreme Command.

Janković died on 7 July 1920 in the town of Herceg Novi.^[2] The town of Elez Han in Kosovo was named 'Đeneral Janković' after him. His son Milojko B. Jankovic (1884 - 1973) was the army general in the army of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and a number of other decorations.^[3]

• Ministry of Defence
• Petar Bojović
• Radomir Putnik
• Živojin Mišić
• Stepa Stepanović
• Ilija Gojković
• Pavle Jurišić Šturm
• Ivan S. Pavlović