Milan Emil Uzelac (August 26, 1867 - January 7, 1954) was a Croatian soldier and military commander who was a leading figure in the air forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Independent State of Croatia. Emil Uzelac was born in Komárom, Hungary, on the 26th of August 1867. He was born into a Serbian Orthodox Christian family. He started in the compulsory Austro-Hungarian army in 1888. He died in Petrinja on the 7th of January 1954 and was buried in Zagreb's Mirogoj cemetery.