Vitez (Cyrillic: Витез) is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The word "vitez" literally means knight in the South Slavic languages, Bosnian; Croatian; Slovenian; Serbian and Macedonian, it is also used in Hungarian. The Russian cognate is Vityaz.

20.628 total

In 1991 the population of the Vitez municipality was 27,859, of which were 45,49% Croats (12.675), 41,32% Muslims by nationality (i.e. Bosniaks) (11.514), 5,38% Serbs (1.501), 4,94% Yugoslavs (1.377), 2,87% others and unknown (792).

The population of the town itself was:

total: 7,200

Antoine Vitez (20 December 1930–30 April 1990) was a French actor, director, and poet. He became a central character and influence on the French theater in the post-war period, especially in the technique of teaching drama. He was also translator of Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail Sholokhov.

Antoine Vitez was born in Paris and trained to be an actor, finding his first acting job at the age of 19 in Ils attendent Lefty at the Théâtre Maubel. He left the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris in 1950 without graduating and became a Communist activist, which he continued until 1979, when he left the Communist Party following the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR. He met Louis Aragon in 1958 and became his private secretary from 1960 to 1962. He worked in the theater Balachova Tania, and wrote reviews published by Jean Vilar in the magazine Théâtre populaire. Vitez also found work reading on the radio and voice-dubbing in films. He had his first opportunity as director with Sophocles' Electra at the Maison de la Culture de Caen in 1966.

János Vitéz (Sir John) is a poem written in Hungarian by Sándor Petőfi and a musical by Pongrác Kacsóh adapted from the poem. The poem was written in 1845, and is notable for its length, 370 quatrains divided into 27 chapters, and for its clever wordplay. It has gained immense popularity in Hungary, and is today considered a classic of Hungarian literature. In 1904 it was adapted into a hugely popular musical; in 1973, it was adapted into an animated feature film, the first of its kind in Hungary.

Kukorica Jancsi ("Johnny Corn") is found abandoned in a corn field as an infant; he is taken in by a peasant landowner, and by his adolescent years, is a shepherd for his master. He is in love with an orphan girl, Iluska, who is being raised by her wicked stepmother. Jancsi and Iluska hope to be married, but once, while they are spending time together, many of Jancsi's sheep wander away, and he is chased from the village by his master. Dejected, he joins a company of hussars, who are en route to France to fight the Turkish invasion there. The Hussars journey from Hungary to France (crossing the many, heavily fictionized countries in between, such as Italy, Poland and India), where they arrive just in time for the battle. Jancsi saves the French princess from capture, and the king in gratitude offers him her hand in marriage and the kingdom to rule. Jancsi turns the offers down, telling the king about his love for Iluska; the king then gives him a reward of gold, and names him János Vitéz ("Sir John").

Zlatko Vitez (born 22 June 1950 in Varaždin) is a Croatian theatre and film actor. He also served as the Croatian Minister of Culture in the period between October 1994 and November 1995 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Nikica Valentić.

Vitez graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1972 and went on to appear in about a hundred theatre productions at several prominent theatres, including the Gavella Drama Theatre and the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

Between the mid-1970s and late 1990s he also appeared in a number of Croatian television and feature films, most notably of which was the leading role in Zvonimir Berković's 1985 film Love Letters with Intent (Ljubavna pisma s predumišljajem).