Milan Budimir (; 2 November 1891 – 17 October 1975) was a Serbian classical scholar.
Life
Budimir was born in Mrkonjić Grad, Austria-Hungary (now in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina). He studied Classical Philology at the University of Vienna, where he received his PhD in 1920. He was appointed an assistant that same year and soon the assistant professor at the Department of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, before being appointed senior lecturer in 1928 and full professor in 1938. As the professor and the head of the Department of the Classical Philology, he worked until retirement in 1962, with interruptions during the German occupation in World War II.
As a researcher of high rank, he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art in 1948 and became a regular member of the same Academy in 1955. Budimir died in Belgrade on 17 October 1975.
Milan Budimir did research in the field of classical philology in all its branches: history of classical languages, especially Ancient Greek, and the history of Ancient Greek and Roman literature. He also researched the Old Balkan and Slavic languages, the history of religion, the heritage of the classical period in Serbia and Balkans, especially in language, literature and folklore, as well as the research in the field of linguistics.
He started and edited the Balkan magazine Revue internationale des Études balkaniques along with Petar Skok between the wars. Milan Budimir's chief merit in this field relates to the gathering and explaining of the voluminous lexical material of the languages of the pre-Greek Indo- Europeans, as well as to the establishing of the phonetic laws of these languages.