Latinka Perović (born in Kragujevac, Serbia in 1933) is Serbian born historian and former politician. At the age of 27, she was already president of Women's Antifascist Front of Serbia. Perović was Chief Secretary of the Communist Party of Serbia from 1968 to 1972. She was considered the most influential woman in the country. In 1972 Perović was removed from this position because Josip Broz Tito considered her views too liberal. After that, she never returned to politics. Perović devoted herself to historical research and became known as one of the most prominent experts on Serbian 19th century history, but Serbian modern history as well.
She graduated in philology and political science at the University of Belgrade. From 1976 to 1998 she worked at the Institute for Recent History of Serbia. In her writings and studies on modern Serbia, she oftentimes emphasizes that Serbia needs a politician who would publicly claim responsibility for the destruction wrought in the former Yugoslavia in order to help the reconciliation with the neighboring states and prevent the recurrence of this kind of tragedy.
Being the founder of modern liberalism in Serbia, some claim Perović is also political guru to Čedomir Jovanović, president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Serbia.
Since 1993 Perović has been an editor in chief of Currents of History magazine. She rarely appears in public or gives interviews.