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Derviš Korkut (5 May 1888 – 28 August 1969) was a Bosnian Muslim scholar and humanist. A librarian and curator of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he is famous for saving the Sarajevo Haggadah from the Nazis and Ustashas during the Holocaust in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi German puppet state in Yugoslavia during World War II.
Korkut also saved a Jewish girl, Mira Papo by bringing her into his family and hiding her identity. When he refused to join the Communists after the war he was sentenced to prison for several years. He was released, but his civil rights were never restored. After his release he continued his job as curator of the Museum of the City of Sarajevo until his death in 1969. Together with his wife, Serveta Ljuž, he was proclaimed Righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1999.