- Many famous Serbian writers were born, educated or lived and worked in Šabac
- Anka Obrenović, the daughter of Jevrem Obrenović, was a writer whose translations in 1836 were the first literary works compiled by a woman to be published in post-Ottoman Serbia
- The great Serbian writer Janko Veselinović was an alumnus of the Šabac Grammar school
- The Serbian writer and psychiatrist Laza K. Lazarević was born in Šabac and had also been a pupil at the Šabac Grammar school
- The Serbian academic, playwright, screenwriter and theater worker Dušan Kovacević was also born in the Šabac area
