The following is a list of prominent individuals who are or were Croatian citizens or of Croatian ancestry.

Art

Architecture

Viktor Axmann Viktor Axmann (given name: Vladoje Aksmanović; 29 August 1878, Osijek, Croatia – 3 March 1946, Valpovo, Croatia) was a Croatian architect. He spent most of his life in Osijek, but he died in 1946 in a Yugoslav Partisans, communist Valpov ...

– architect, Jewish * Nikola Bašić – architect *

Vjekoslav Bastl Vjekoslav "Alojz" Bastl (1872–1947) was a Croatian architect known for his diverse secessionist architectural style. His work circulated mostly within the boundaries of Zagreb, where he resided. Later in life, he got heavily influenced by mod ...

– architect *

Julio Deutsch Julio Deutsch ( hr, Julije Dajč; 29 September 1859 – 9 June 1922) was a Croats, Croatian architect known for his architectural Art Nouveau, art nouveau style. Early life and family Deutsch was born in Geppersdorf (now Linhartovy, part of Měs ...

– architect, art nouveau style, * Hugo Ehrlich – architect, Jewish *

Ignjat Fischer Ignjat Nathan Fischer (18 June 1870, Zagreb – 19 January 1948, Zagreb) was a Croatian architect who was active in Zagreb during the first half of the 20th century. Early life and education Fischer was born in Zagreb to a Croatian-Jewish fami ...

– architect, Jewish *

Stjepan Gomboš Stjepan Gomboš (1895–1975) was a Croatian Jewish Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Aleksander Laslo, Nataša Maksimović Subašić; Graditelji novog Zagreba; stranica 22; broj 108, siječanj / veljača 2009. architect responsib ...

– architect, Jewish *

Vjekoslav Heinzel Vjekoslav Heinzel (; 21 August 1871 – 1 March 1934) was the Mayor of Zagreb from 1920 to 1928. He is best remembered for great development projects of the 1920s that significantly expanded the city. Heinzel was born as Alois Heinzel into an en ...

Leo Hönigsberg Leo Hönigsberg ( hr, Lavoslav Hoenigsberg, ; born in 1861, died in 1911) was a famous Croatian architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch. Early life and family Hönigsberg was born in Zagreb, Austro-Hungarian Monar ...

– architect, Jewish * Lavoslav Horvat *

Drago Ibler Drago Ibler (14 August 1894 – 12 September 1964) was a Croatian architect and pedagogue. His style can be described as pure simplicity and functional architecture. Ibler was born in Zagreb. He gained his diploma in architecture at the Te ...

Viktor Kovačić Viktor Kovačić (1874–1924) was a Croatian architect and is often called "the father of modern Croatian architecture". Life He was born in 1874 in Ločendol near Rogaška Slatina, present-day Slovenia. After graduating from the Crafts Scho ...

– architect *

Slavko Löwy Slavko Löwy (August 7, 1904 – April 1, 1996) was well-known Croatian architect. Background, family and education Löwy was born in Koprivnica to a respectable and wealthy Croatian Jewish family, who were engaged in trade. In Koprivnica he att ...

– architect, Jewish * Rudolf Lubinski – architect, Jewish * Paskoje Miličević Mihov – architect *

Vlado Milunić Vladimir Milunić (3 March 1941 – 17 September 2022) was a Czech architect. He was noted for designing the " Dancing House" in Prague with Frank Gehry. He also taught at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Early life Milunić was b ...

– architect *

Juraj Neidhardt Juraj Neidhardt (; 15 October 1901 – 13 July 1979) was an Austro-Hungarian and then Yugoslav architect, teacher, urban planner and writer. Biography Neidhardt was born in Zagreb on October 15, 1901. He studied architecture at the Academy of F ...

– architect *

Velimir Neidhardt Velimir Neidhardt (; born 7 October 1943) is a Croatian architect, president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2019. Neidhardt is a professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture, former president of the Croatian ...

– architect *

Stjepan Planić Stjepan Planić (27 December 1900 – 26 December 1980) was a Croatian architect. His style can be described as a synthesis of functionalist and organic architecture. Biography From 1920 to 1922 he worked for the architect Rudolf Lubinsky and, ...

– architect *

Vjenceslav Richter Vjenceslav Richter (; 8 April 1917 – 2 December 2002) was a Croatian architect. He was also known for his work in the fields of urbanism, sculpture, graphic arts, painting and stage design. Career In 1949, Richter graduated at the Department o ...

– architect *

Vladimir Šterk Vladimir Šterk (5 January 1891 – 6 March 1941) was well-known Croatian architect. Family and education Šterk was born into a Jewish family, to father Vjekoslav-Alois Šterk and mother Lina ( née Jelinek). In Zagreb he finished elementar ...

– architect, Jewish *

Anđeo Lovrov Zadranin Anđeo Lovrov Zadranin or Anđeo Lovrin (active during the fourteenth century) was a Croatian architect, born in Zadar and mostly active in Dubrovnik. He was a member of an architect family from Zadar. He had brothers Nikola, Juraj and Petar, wh ...

– architect

Sculpture

Antun Augustinčić Antun Augustinčić (4 May 1900 – 10 May 1979) was a Croatian sculptor active in Yugoslavia and the United States. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Frano Kršinić he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th ...

Lujo Bezeredi Lujo Bezeredi (also spelled Bezeredy, hu, Bezerédi Lajos; 1898 – April 20, 1979) was a Croatian- Hungarian sculptor and painter. He was born in Nova, Kingdom of Hungary, to a Hungarian-Slovak father and a Croatian mother. After the de ...

Andrija Buvina Andrea Buvina (also known as ''Andrija Buvina'', or ''Andrea Guvina'', ''Gavina'' or ''Gruvina'') was a 13th-century medieval Croatian sculptor and painter. His work is commonly associated with the Romanesque period. Works The wooden door for the ...

Ante Dabro Ante Dabro (born 13 January 1938, Čavoglave, Croatia) is a Croatian-born Australian artist/sculptor and art teacher who has lived and worked in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory since the late 1960s. Dabro's sculptures are typified by ...

Juraj Dalmatinac Giorgio da Sebenico () or Giorgio Orsini or Juraj Dalmatinac (; c. 1410 – 10 October 1473) was a Venetian sculptor and architect from Dalmatia, who worked mainly in Sebenico (now Šibenik, Croatia), and in the city of Ancona, then a maritime ...

Branislav Dešković Branislav Dešković (1883–1939) was a Croatian sculptor, best known for his expressive animal sculptures, especially his hunting dogs. He is considered the first Impressionist sculptor in Croatia. Biography Branislav Dešković was born in P ...

Ivan Duknović Giovanni Dalmata ( hr, Ivan Duknović; c. 1440 – c. 1514), born Ioannes Stephani Duknovich de Tragurio, also known as Giovanni Duknovich di Traù in Italy and Ivan Stjepanov Duknović in Croatia, was a sculptor from Trogir, Dalmatia, who was ma ...

Dušan Džamonja Dušan Džamonja ( sr, Душан Џамоња, ; 31 January 1928 – 14 January 2009) was a Yugoslav sculptor of Serbian ancestry. Education and career Džamonja was born in 1928 in Strumica, former Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1 ...

* Robert Frangeš-Mihanović *

Ivo Kerdić Ivo Kerdić (1881–1953) was a Croatian sculptor, best known for his metalwork and medallions. Biography Ivo Kerdić was born 19 May 1881 in Davor, a small village near Slavonski Brod, Croatia, at that time in Austria-Hungary. The son of a ...

* Albert Kinert *

Ivan Kožarić Ivan Kožarić (10 June 1921, Petrinja – 15 November 2020, Zagreb) was a Croatian artist who worked primarily with sculpture but also in a wide variety of media, including: permanent and temporary sculptures, assemblages, proclamations, photograp ...

Frano Kršinić Frano Kršinić (24 July 1897 – 1 January 1982) was a Croatian sculptor active in former Yugoslavia. Along with Ivan Meštrović and Antun Augustinčić, he is considered one of the three most important Croatian sculptors of the 20th centur ...

* Vasko Lipovac *

Ivan Meštrović Ivan Meštrović (; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's ...

Oscar Nemon Oscar Nemon (born Oscar Neumann; 13 March 1906 – 13 April 1985) was a Croatian sculptor who was born in Osijek, Croatia, but eventually settled in England. He is best known for his series of more than a dozen public statues of Winston Churchill, ...

Dimitrije Popović Dimitrije Popović (born 4 March 1951) is an eminent Montenegrin and Croatian painter, sculptor, art critic and philosopher born in Cetinje, Montenegro. He attended elementary and high school in his hometown and graduated from the Academy of Fine ...

Kosta Angeli Radovani Kosta Angeli Radovani (6 October 1916 – 27 February 2002) was a Croatian sculptor and member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. After World War II he was one of the founders of the Zagreb Academy of Applied Arts in 1950 where he was ...

* Vanja Radauš * Master Radovan *

Ivan Rendić Ivan Rendić (27 August 1849 in Imotski – 29 June 1932 in Split) was a Croatian sculptor. Biography He began sculpting early on in life, thanks to the stoneworking tradition of the island of Brač, where he was raised. He finished arts schoo ...

Toma Rosandić Toma Rosandić ( sr-cyr, Тома Росандић; baptized as Tomaso Vincenzo, 22 January 1878 – 1 March 1958) was a Serbian and Yugoslav sculptor, architect and fine arts pedagog. Together with Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962), he was the mos ...

* Branko Ružić *

Ivan Sabolić Ivan Sabolić (24 August 1921 – 25 June 1986) was a Yugoslavian sculptor, professor and dean of the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, head master of the workshop in 1975. Sabolić was born in Peteranec. Self-taught, he made his first works in clay ...

Petar Smajić Petar Smajić (1910–1985) was a Croatian painter and sculptor. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, a ...

* Aleksandar Srnec * Marija Ujević-Galetović *

Maksimilijan Vanka Maksimilijan "Maxo" Vanka (May 11, 1889 – February 2, 1963) was a Croatian-American artist. He is best known for the series of murals he completed in 1937 and 1941 at St. Nicholas Croatian Church in Millvale, Pennsylvania. Biography Earl ...

* Franjo Vranjanin

Painting

* Oskar Alexander *

Lovro Artuković Lovro Artuković (born in 1959 in Zagreb) is a contemporary Croatian painter and graphic artist who primarily paints large scale figurative canvases. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Artistic career For nine years, until 2003, he worked as an ...

Vladimir Becić Vladimir Becić (1886–1954) was a Croatian painter, best known for his early work in Munich, which had a strong influence on the direction of modern art in Croatia. Becić studied painting in Munich at the prestigious Academy of Arts along w ...

* Federiko Benković *

Charles Billich Charles Billich is an artist living in Sydney, Australia. His painting subjects include Ballet and sport, architecture and town planning, eroticism and classicism, portraiture, and stage, as well as Humanitarian pieces and works of religious sig ...

Nikola Božidarević Nikola Božidarević (; more commonly Nicholas of Ragusa ( it, Nicolò Raguseo, la, Nicolaus Rhagusinus, sh, Nikola Dubrovčanin 1460 – 26 November 1517/18), was a painter from Venetian Dalmatia at the turn of the Gothic in the Renaissance ...

Vlaho Bukovac Vlaho Bukovac (french: Blaise Bukovac; it, Biagio Faggioni; 4 July 1855 – 23 April 1922) was a Croatian painter and academic. His life and work were eclectic, for the artist pursued his career in a variety of locales and his style changed gre ...

Eugen Buktenica Eugen Buktenica (1914–1997) was a Croatian painter. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb. He was born in Grohote on the island of Šolta Šolta (; it, Solta; la, Solentium) is an island in Croatia. It is sit ...

* Bela Čikoš Sesija – painter, representative of symbolism: art-deco and art nouveau *

Menci Clement Crnčić Menci Clement Crnčić (Bruck an der Mur, Austria, 3 April 1865 – Zagreb, 9 November 1930) was a Croatian painter, printmaker, teacher and museum director. He studied painting and drawing in Vienna and Munich, and trained in graphic arts in Vien ...

* Josip Crnobori *

Lovro Dobričević Lovro Marinov Dobričević or Lorenzo Bon, Lorenzo di Marino da Cattaro (c. 1420 – 1478) was a painter from Venetian Dalmatia. Born in Kotor, Republic of Venice (now Montenegro), he studied art in Venice before returning to Ragusa (modern-day ...

Jelena Dorotka Jelena Dorotka Hoffmann née Jelena Dorotka von Ehrenwall (1 March 1876 – 19 May 1965) was a Dubrovniknian cubist painter. Dorotka, a native of Dubrovnik, lived as an artist in Paris between 1907 and 1914, where she met many prominent figures of ...

Davor Džalto Davor Džalto ( sr-Cyrl, Давор Џалто; born 17 May 1980) is an artist, art historian, theologian and philosopher of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin.Travnik International University https://iu-travnik.com/about-travnik/ Biography Džalto wa ...

* Marta Ehrlich *

Emerik Feješ Emerik Feješ ( sr-Cyrl, Емерик Фејеш; Osijek, November 3, 1904 – Novi Sad, July 9, 1969) was a painter; a classic of Serbian Naïve art. Biography He was born in Osijek in 1904 in the Croatia-Slavonia (Kingdom of Hungary, Aus ...

Eva Fischer Eva Fischer (Daruvar, 19 November 1920 – Rome, 7 July 2015) was a Croatia-born Italian artist who worked in oils, watercolours, engraving and lithography. Life and work Eva Fischer was born in Daruvar (present-day Croatia) in 1920. Her fath ...

* Alen Floričić * Dragan Gaži *

Vilko Gecan Vilko Gecan (16 June 1894 – 25 June 1973) was a Croatian painter, influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 1930s. He is best known for his expressionist paintings and drawings, and for his contributions to the local avantgarde ...

Ivan Generalić Ivan Generalić (December 21, 1914 – November 27, 1992) was a Croatian painter in the naïve tradition. Biography Generalić was born in Hlebine near Koprivnica. In elementary school, painting lessons were his greatest joy and as a child ...

– naïve art *

Josip Generalić Josip Generalić (1935–2004) was a Croatian painter. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava r ...

Oton Gliha Oton Gliha (Črnomelj, 21 May 1914 - Zagreb, 19 July 1999) was a Croatian artist, born in Slovenia. A graduate of the Academy of fine Arts in Zagreb, Gliha continued his studies in Paris, Vienna and Munich. He is best known for his series of abstr ...

Petar Grgec Petar Grgec (January 27, 1933 - August 2, 2006) was a Croatian Naïve Artist, born in Kloštar Podravski in the region of Podravina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia which is in present-day Croatia. Grgec graduated from the Civil Engineering Polytechnic in ...

Krsto Hegedušić Krsto Hegedušić (26 November 1901 – 7 April 1975) was a Croatian painter, illustrator and theater designer. His most famous paintings depict the harsh life of the Croatian peasantry in the manner of naive art. He was one of the founders of ...

Oskar Herman Oskar Herman (1886–1974) was a Croatian-Jewish painter. He was one of the group of Croatian artists known as the Munich Circle, who had a strong influence on modern art in Croatia. Biography Herman was born on 17 March 1886 in Zagreb to Croa ...

Josip Horvat Međimurec Josip Horvat (; 18 February 1904 – 2 June 1945) was a Croatian painter. Horvat was born to Dragutin and Marija Horvat in Čakovec. He attended elementary school in Čakovec, and grade school in Nagykanizsa and Pest. He then attended the ...

Mirko Ilić Mirko Ilić (born 1 January 1956) is a Bosnian-born comics artist and graphic designer based in New York City. Yugoslavian period Ilić was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina. His life, schooling and most of his Yugoslav-period-career was located at ...

– cartoonist, graphic designer *

Nina Ivančić Nina Ivančić was born in 1953 in Zagreb, Croatia. She is a contemporary Croatian artist working mainly in the mediums of painting and drawing. Nina Ivančić, daughter of Ljubo Ivančić, the famous Croatian painter and member of the artist group ...

Oton Iveković Oton Iveković (17 April 1869 – 4 July 1939) was a Croatian painter. A graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Iveković later taught at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts. He largely concerned himself with historical topics as well as some r ...

Marijan Jevšovar Marijan Jevšovar (1922 in Zagreb, Croatia – 1998 in Zagreb, Croatia) was a Croatian painter and founding member of the prominent 60s Croatian art group known as, Gorgona Group. Jevšovar's explorations of the medium of painting led him to ...

Ignjat Job Ignjat "Ignjo" Job ( sr-Cyrl, Игњат Јоб; 28 March 1895 – 28 April 1936) was an important representative of colour expressionism in the art scene of Yugoslavia during the 1930s. Job's landscapes of Dalmatia are reminiscent of the style ...

Drago Jurak Drago Jurak (17 January 1911 – 1 January 1994) was a Croatian painter who was active during the time of Yugoslavia. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb. Jurak was schooled for a wheelwright A wheelwright i ...

Gabrijel Jurkić Gabrijel Jurkić (24 March 1886 – 25 February 1974) was a Bosnian Croat artist.Lončarević, Vladimir. 2016. ''Gabrijel Jukić - slikar Božje ljubavi''. Glas koncila (print edition). 2016-03/04. Nr. 14 (2016.), p. 21 He was born in Livno, ...

Vjekoslav Karas Vjekoslav Karas (19 May 1821 - 5 July 1858) was a Croatian painter, considered a pioneer of a new era of Croatian painting and art in general. Life Born in Karlovac, Croatia, Karas was sent to be educated in Italy in 1838. While in Rome, he drew ...

John of Kastav John of Kastav ( la, Johannes de Castua; hr, Ivan iz Kastva; sl, Janez iz Kastva) was a 15th-century Istrian artist, a native of Kastav (Croatia). He painted the frescoes in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Hrastovlje, which included a famous ' ...

* Albert Kinert * Željko Kipke * Mira Klobučar *

Juraj Julije Klović Giorgio Giulio Clovio or Juraj Julije Klović (1498 – 5 January 1578) was an illuminator, miniaturist, and painter born in the Kingdom of Croatia, who was mostly active in Renaissance Italy. He is considered the greatest illuminator of the I ...

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portrait miniature A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

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Tripo Kokolja Tripo Kokolja (28 February 1661 – 18 October 1713) was a painter from the Bay of Kotor. He is chiefly remembered today for introducing the still life and landscape painting into the art of the eastern Adriatic. Life and work Born in Perast, ...

Edo Kovačević Edo Kovačević (16 November 1906 – 15 March 1993) was a Croatian artist, best known for his colourful landscapes and views of suburban Zagreb. He worked mainly in oils and pastels, using subtle colour harmonies and lively brush strokes to bring ...

Mijo Kovačić Mijo Kovačić (born 5 August 1935 in Gornja Šuma at Molve) is a Croatian painter and naïve artist. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb. Life Kovačić was born in Gornja Šuma, Molve, in the Podravina regio ...

Ladislav Kralj Ladislav Kralj-Međimurec (Čakovec, 24 April 1891 – 9 February 1976) was a Croatian painter and engraver. In the history of Croatian painting he is best known for his landscapes of his home county, Međimurje, and Zagorje, which he crea ...

Miroslav Kraljević Miroslav Kraljević (14 December 1885 – 16 April 1913) was a Croatian painter, printmaker and sculptor, active in the early part of the 20th century. He is one of the founders of modern art in Croatia. Kraljević studied painting in Vienna an ...

* Živa Kraus *

Kristian Kreković Kristian Kreković (1901–1985) was a Croatian painter of portraits and ethnographic art. Later in life he became known for his fascination with Incan art, and spent a number of years living in Peru. From 1960 on, he resided in Palma de Mallorc ...

Vlado Kristl Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl (24 January 1923, Zagreb, Croatia – 7 July 2004, Munich, Germany) was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his animations and short films. Biography Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was born 24 January 1923 in Zagreb, Croati ...

* Tomislav Krizman *

Izidor Kršnjavi Izidor (Iso) Kršnjavi (; 22 April 1845 – 3 February 1927) was a Croatian painter, art historian, curator and politician. Biography Born in Našice, his first art lessons were obtained in Osijek, where he studied with Hugo Conrad von Hötze ...

Ferdinand Kulmer Ferdinand Kulmer (29 January 1925 – 11 November 1998) was a Croatian abstract painter and teacher. He studied at the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts, the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, and took special classes with Đuro Tiljak. Kulmer worked in th ...

Ivan Lacković Croata Ivan Lacković Croata (January 1, 1932 – August 29, 2004) was a Croatian naive painter. Lacković was born to a peasant family in the village of Batinske near Kalinovac. After completing his primary education, he worked as a laborer in fields a ...

– naïve art * Loren Ligorio * Vasko Lipovac * Zvonimir Lončarić *

Dora Maar Henriette Theodora Markovitch (22 November 1907 – 16 July 1997), known as Dora Maar, was a French photographer, painter, and poet. A romantic partner of Pablo Picasso, Maar was depicted in a number of Picasso's paintings, including his ''Portr ...

– photographer, painter, model *

Andrija Maurović Andrija Maurović (; 29 March 1901 – 2 September 1981) was a renowned comic book author, often called the father of Croatian and Yugoslav comics. He is mostly known for his ''Stari Mačak'' (Old Mickey, Old Cat) series, published mostly during t ...

– illustrator *

Mato Celestin Medović Mato Celestin Medović (birth name Mato Medović; 17 November 1857 – 20 January 1920) was a Croatian painter. Best known for his large paintings depicting historical scenes, and his series of colourful landscapes and seascapes of his native ...

* Martin Mehkek * Ivan Milat-Luketa *

Jerolim Miše Jerolim Miše (25 September 1890 – 14 September 1970), was a Croatian painter, teacher, and art critic. He painted portraits, still lifes and landscapes of his native Dalmatia. A member of the Group of Three, Group of Four, and the Independent ...

* Antun Motika *

Franjo Mraz Franjo Mraz (April 4, 1910 in Hlebine – October 26, 1981 in Brežice) was a notable Croatian artist. Together with Ivan Generalić and Mirko Virius, he is considered a founder of Croatian naive art Naivety (also spelled naïvety), naiveness ...

* Edo Murtić * Virgilije Nevjestić * Vera Nikolić Podrinska *

Alfred Pal Alfred Pal (30 November 1920– 30 June 2010) was Croatian painter and graphic designer. Early life and education Pal was born in Vienna on November 30, 1920, into a Jewish family of Stefan and Therese ( née Deutsch) Pal. Before the First World ...

Ordan Petlevski Ordan Petlevski (24 January 1930, Prilep – 22 January 1997, Zagreb) was a prominent artist working in the media of painting, drawing, graphic arts and illustration. Education and career In the early 1950s, Petlevski came to study in Zagreb, wher ...

Ivan Picelj Ivan Picelj (28 July 1924 – 22 February 2011) was a contemporary Croatian painter, sculptor and graphic designer. Picelj developed a specific variation of geometric abstraction in Croatian painting by using primary colours and by reducing the sh ...

Oton Postružnik Oton Postružnik (1900–1978) was a Croatian artist, painter, graphic artist, and ceramist. He was one of the founding members of the Earth Group artist collective in Zagreb from 1929 to 1933. He studied in Zagreb, Prague and Paris, and was a pro ...

Ivan Rabuzin Ivan Rabuzin (27 March 1921 – 18 December 2008) was a Croatian naïve artist. French art critic Anatole Jakovsky described him in 1972 as "one of the greatest naïve painters of all times and countries". Rabuzin's father was a miner, and Ivan ...

– naïve art *

Josip Račić Josip Račić (22 March 1885 – 19 June 1908) was a Croatian painter in the early 20th century. Although he died very young (he was only 23), and his work was mostly created during his student years, he is one of the best known modern Croatian p ...

Mirko Rački Mirko Rački (13 October 1879 – 21 August 1982) was a Croatian painter. Rački was born in Novi Marof, and graduated from the Teacher's Academy in Zagreb. He then went to the private art school of Heinrich Strehblow in Vienna, then studied at t ...

Božidar Rašica Božidar Rašica (28 December 1912 – 13 September 1992) was an architect, scenographer and painter. Career Rašica was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to Serbian people, Serbian parents. He studied in Rome, Belgrade, Warsaw and finally Zagreb, ...

Slava Raškaj Slava Raškaj (; 2 January 1877 – 29 March 1906) was a Croatian painter, considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Deaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor ...

Ivan Rein Ivan Rein (9 September 1905 – 12 December 1943) was a History of the Jews in Croatia, Croatian-Jewish painter. Early life and education Rein was born in Osijek into a Jewish family. His father Mavro Rein was Osijek's prominent judge and a ...

Đuro Seder Đuro Seder (29 November 1927 – 2 May 2022) was a Croatian painter. He lived and worked in Zagreb. Career At the beginning of his career he worked as an illustrator, image editor, and designer at various magazines. He was one of the founding me ...

* Zlatko Sirotić *

Matija Skurjeni Matija Skurjeni (1898–1990) was a Croatian painter associated with the naïve art movement. He helped to found the Association of Independent Naïve Artists of Croatia and he is considered one of the most influential independent naïve artists. ...

* Aleksandar Srnec *

Miljenko Stančić Miljenko Stančić (1 March 1926 – 13 May 1977) was a Croatian painter and graphic artist born in Varaždin. He is famous for his vast painting oeuvre of Varaždin cityscapes. Along with Ljubo Ivančić, Ivan Kožarić, Valerije Michieli and ...

* Slavko Stolnik *

Zlatko Šulentić Zlatko Šulentić (16 March 1893 – 9 July 1971) was a Croatian painter of landscapes and portraits. He was one of the second generation of Croatian modern painters, a follower of the Munich Circle painters. He also studied at the Academy of F ...

Miroslav Šutej Miroslav Šutej (29 April 1936 – 13 May 2005) was a Croatian avant-garde painter and graphic artist. Šutej was born in Duga Resa in 1936. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb and was an associate in Krsto Hegedušić's maste ...

Marino Tartaglia Marino Tartaglia (3 August 1894 – 21 April 1984) was a Croatian painter and art teacher, for many years a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. From 1948 he was a member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He received t ...

Đuro Tiljak Đuro Tiljak (1895–1965) was a Croatian artist, writer and teacher. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and studied for some time in Moscow with Wassily Kandinsky. During the 1930s, he was editor of the journal "Culture" (''Kul ...

Ivan Tišov Ivan Tišov (8 February 1870 – 20 September 1928) was a Croatian painter. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, bringing back ideas from the Munich Secession movement to Zagreb. He is best known for his work in public and gover ...

Lavoslav Torti Lavoslav Torti (27 February 1875 – 18 October 1942) was a Croatian sculptor. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the c ...

* Marijan Trepše * Ana Tzarev – naïve art *

Milivoj Uzelac Milivoj Uzelac (1897–1977) was a painter influential in the Zagreb modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s. During the Zagreb Spring Salon of the 1920s, he participated with Vilko Gecan, Marijan Trepše and Vladimir Varlaj as the Group of Four. ...

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Vladimir Varlaj Vladimir Varlaj (25 August 1895 – 15 August 1962) was a Croatian artist, a member of the Group of Four during the Zagreb Spring Salon of the 1920s, and a founder of the Independent Group of Artists. He was influential in the Zagreb modern art s ...

Ivan Večenaj Ivan Večenaj (18 May 1920 – 13 February 2013; Koprivnica, Croatia) was a Croatian painter. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the no ...

Matko Vekić Matko Vekić (born 1970 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia) is a contemporary Croatian artist working in the medium of painting. He has been described as one of the most prominent Croatian painters of the younger generation. Vekić uses diverse everyday motifs ...

* Mladen Veža – illustrator * Emanuel Vidović *

Mirko Virius Mirko Virius (October 28, 1889 – 1943) was a Croatian naïve painter. He was one of the three most prominent members of the first generation of the Hlebine School. Virius was born in the village of Đelekovec near Koprivnica, where he comple ...

– naïve art * Adolf Waldinger * Viktor Đerek – photographer

Film and theatre

Ante Babaja Ante Babaja (6 October 1927 – 14 January 2010) was a notable Croatian film director and screenwriter. Babaja finished high school in Zagreb before going on to enrol at the University of Zagreb where he studied law and economy. He started work ...

Steve Bacic Steve Bacic ( ; hr, Bačić ) is a Canadian actor. He is known for playing the characters Gaheris and Telemachus Rhade on the Sci-Fi series ''Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda''. After guest starring in seasons 1-3 as both characters, he joined the c ...

Eric Bana Eric Banadinović, (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana (), is an Australian actor and comedian. He began his career in the sketch comedy series '' Full Frontal'' before gaining notice in the comedy drama '' The Castle'' (19 ...

– (born Eric Banadinović) Hollywood actor *

Relja Bašić Relja Bašić (14 February 1930 – 7 April 2017) was a Croatian actor. With a career that lasted more than half a century, he is considered one of the most prolific performers of that country. Biography Bašić was born on 14 February 1930 i ...

– actor *

Branko Bauer Branko Bauer (18 February 1921 – 11 April 2002) was a Croatian film director. He is considered to be the leading figure of classical narrative cinema in Croatian and Yugoslav cinema of the 1950s. Early life Bauer became interested in cine ...

George Beban George Beban (December 13, 1873 – October 5, 1928) was an American actor, director, writer and producer. Beban began as a child performer in San Francisco, California, and became a well-known vaudevillian and stage actor in the 1890s and 1900s ...

– actor, director, writer and producer *

Ena Begović Ena Begović (8 July 1960 – 15 August 2000) was a prominent Yugoslav film actress. She is regarded as one of the best and most beautiful actresses in former Yugoslavia. Early life and career Begović was born in Trpanj to Terezija and Nikola ...

Mia Begović Mia Begović (; born 11 January 1963) is a Croatian film, stage and television actress. She is best known as the younger sister of the late Croatian actress Ena Begović. Personal life Born in Trpanj to mother Terezija and father Nikola Begovi ...

Rene Bitorajac Rene Bitorajac (; born 2 March 1972) is a Croatian actor. He has appeared in a number of Croatian and Bosnian films since the 1980s. Most notably, he starred in the 2001 Academy Award-winning Bosnian film ''No Man's Land''. He is also known for st ...

Mirjana Bohanec Mirjana Bohanec-Vidović (born October 2, 1939) is a Croatian people, Croatian operatic soprano. She studied singing at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb and with Emmy Loose in Vienna. She made her professional opera debut in 1966 at the Cr ...

Slavko Brankov Slavko Brankov ( sr-Cyrl, Славко Бранков; 19 May 1951 – 8 August 2006) was a Croatian film, theatre and television actor of Serb descent. Career He graduated at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1976. In 1971, he started hi ...

Vinko Brešan Vinko Brešan (; born 3 February 1964) is a Croatian film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in t ...

– director *

Veljko Bulajić Veljko Bulajić (born 22 March 1928) is a Montenegrins of Croatia, Montenegrin film director and UNESCO Kalinga Prize recipient. He has spent the majority of his life working in Croatia and is primarily known for directing World War II-themed movi ...

– ethnic Montenegrin film director * Zlatko Burić – actor *

Boris Buzančić Boris Buzančić (13 March 1929 – 9 October 2014) was a Croatian actor and politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Zagreb between 1990 and 1993. A native of Bjelovar, Buzančić began acting very early. He appeared in numerous films and TV ...

– actor *

Nathaniel Buzolic Nathaniel Buzolic ( ; born 4 August 1983) is an Australian actor. He was the host of Nine Network's late-night television quiz show '' The Mint'', and had a regular role on the BBC soap opera '' Out of the Blue'' (2008). He was also a co-host o ...

– actor * Al Christy – actor *

Petra Cicvarić Petra Cicvarić (born 29 March 1986) is a Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map ...

* Zlatko Crnković – actor *

Zrinka Cvitešić Zrinka Cvitešić (born 18 July 1979) is a Croatian film, television and theatre actress. Biography The elder of two daughters, Zrinka Cvitešić was born in Karlovac, in the Karlovac County to Ivan and Višnja Cvitešić. Her mother played or ...

Nataša Dorčić Nataša Dorčić (born 9 June 1968 in Rijeka) is a Croatian theatre, film and television actress. Dorčić graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1998, but started acting professionally as early as 1994, when she joined the Croat ...

Vanja Drach Vanja Drach (1 February 1932 – 6 September 2009) was a Croatian theatre and film actor. His film and television credits include '' H-8'', ''Lud, zbunjen, normalan'', ''Gospa'', ''Charuga'', '' Kapelski kresovi'', ''Nikola Tesla'', '' Svjedoci' ...

Claire Du Brey Claire Du Brey (born Clara Violet Dubreyvich, August 31, 1892 – August 1, 1993) was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films between 1916 and 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey. Ear ...

– actress *

Vlatko Dulić Vlatko Dulić (20 April 1943 – 20 November 2015) was a Croatian theatre, television and film actor and theatre director. Hailing from Subotica in Vojvodina, a province of Serbia, Dulić studied acting at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art, wher ...

– actor *

Boris Dvornik Boris Dvornik (; 16 April 1939 – 24 March 2008) was a Croatian actor. Biography Born in Split to the family of a carpenter, Dvornik discovered acting talent at an early age, while performing in children's plays. After studying to become an e ...

– actor *

Jenna Elfman Jennifer Mary Elfman (née Butala, born 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom ''Dharma & Greg'' (1997–2002), for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Televisi ...

– television and movie actress *

Stipe Erceg Stipe Erceg (; born 30 October 1974) is a German/Croatian actor. He is notable for playing the role of Peter in the 2004 Hans Weingartner film ''The Edukators'' alongside Daniel Brühl and Julia Jentsch, as well as the role of Holger Meins in '' ...

– actor *

Nela Eržišnik Nevenka "Nela" Eržišnik (née Maras; 18 June 1922 – 14 August 2007) was a Croatian actress. Born in Banja Luka as Nevenka Maras, she appeared in some classic Croatian films of the 1950s and early 1960s. Later, she switched to television and ...

– actress, comedian *

Judah Friedlander Judah Friedlander (born March 16, 1969) is an American actor and comedian, known for playing the role of writer Frank Rossitano on the NBC sitcom ''30 Rock''. Friedlander is also known for his role as Toby Radloff in the film ''American Splendor' ...

– actor and comedian *

Mira Furlan Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'' (1993–1998), and as ...

– actress (''

Babylon 5 ''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tel ...

'', ''

Lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...

'') * Stanka Gjurić – actress, writer, filmmaker *

Gallagher Gallagher may refer to: Places United States * Gallagher Township, Pennsylvania * Gallagher, West Virginia, an unincorporated place People * Gallagher (comedian) (1946–2022), American stand-up comedian * Gallagher (surname) Fictional characte ...

– comedian and prop comic *

Emil Glad Emil Glad (25 June 1929 – 28 August 2009) was a Croatian actor. Glad was a long-time member of Gavella Drama Theatre, from its foundation in 1954 until his retirement in 1994. His film credits include ''Lapitch the Little Shoemaker ''Lapitc ...

Ratko Glavina Ratko Glavina (born 1 December 1941) is a Croatian actor. Filmography Television roles * "Ruža vjetrova" as Jure Jelavić (2011-2012) * "Novo doba" (2002) * "Nepokoreni grad" (1982) * "Velo misto" (1981) * "Naše malo misto" (1970) Filmsk ...

* Obrad Gluščević * Ljupka Gojić – model *

Krešo Golik Krešimir "Krešo" Golik (20 May 1922 – 20 September 1996) was a Croatian film and television director and screenwriter. In a creative career spanning five decades between the late 1940s and late 1980s, Golik directed a number of criticall ...

Frank Gorshin Frank John Gorshin Jr. (April 5, 1933 – May 17, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and impressionist. He made many guest appearances on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' and ''Tonight Starring Steve Allen''. As an actor, he played the Riddler on the ...

– actor and comedian *

Ivo Gregurević Ivo Gregurević (; 7 October 1952 – 1 January 2019) was a Croatian film, theatre and television actor. Throughout over a quarter of a century, Gregurević played rural bullies and arrogant nouveau riche and became one of Croatia's best known a ...

* Gloria Grey – screen, stage actress and director *

Goran Grgić Goran Grgić (born 17 November 1965) is a Croatian theatre, television and film actor. Grgić graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1990. Upon graduation he was hired as a regular cast member at the '' Gavella'' theatre in Zagre ...

Rajko Grlić Rajko Grlić (born 2 September 1947) is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia. Biography Rajko Grlić w ...

Fedor Hanžeković Fedor Hanžeković (9 January 1913 – 18 August 1997) was a Croatian film director. Hanžeković had studied art history and English language at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences before starting his filmmaking ca ...

* Ivan Herceg – actor *

Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with un ...

– film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, opera director *

Alaina Huffman Alaina Kalanj (also known as Alaina Huffman) (born April 17, 1980), is a Canadian film and television actress, best known for the television series ''Painkiller Jane (TV series), Painkiller Jane'', where she played the character Maureen Bowers. ...

Željko Ivanek Željko Ivanek (né Šimić-Ivanek; ; ; born August 15, 1957) is an American actor, known for his role as Ray Fiske on ''Damages'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. Ivanek is also known for his role of Ed Danvers on '' Homicide: Life on t ...

– actor *

Nives Ivanković Nives Ivanković (born 1 June 1967) is a Croatian actress. Biography Ivanković was born on 1 June 1967 in Duvno. She attended elementary and secondary school in Split and graduated in acting from the Academy of Performing Arts at the Universit ...

Anne Jackson Anne Jackson (September 3, 1925 – April 12, 2016); retrieved April 16, 2016Archivedfrom the original on April 16, 2016. was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was the wife of actor Eli Wallach, with whom she often co-sta ...

– actress *

Nataša Janjić Nataša Janjić-Medančić (born 27 November 1981) is a Croatian film, stage and television actress. Personal life Nataša Janjić was born in Split on 27 November 1981. As a child, she studied at the Youth Theatre in Split. After finishing schoo ...

Toni Jeričević Toni Jeričević (born July 17, 1983) is a businessman turned actor and TV host who appeared in American and Croatian theatre plays, commercials and national television productions. He is best known as a TV host of the prime time reality sports TV ...

Anthony Jeselnik Anthony Jeselnik ( ; born ) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer. He is known for his dark comedy style, which emphasizes ironic misdirection, non sequiturs, biting insults, an arrogant demeanor, and a stage persona that freque ...

– comedian *

Mladen Juran Mladen Juran (born 8 May 1942) is a Croatian film director, screenwriter and actor - the author with the nominations for the Main Film Prize in Latin America and the Best European Fantastic Film, Oscar Academy Awards Candidate - films thema ...

Sena Jurinac Srebrenka "Sena" Jurinac () (24 October 1921 – 22 November 2011) was a Bosnian-born Austrian operatic soprano. Biography Jurinac was born in Travnik, Bosnia-Herzegovina (then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia), the daughter of a Croatia ...

Jagoda Kaloper Jagoda Kaloper (June 19, 1947 – October 1, 2016) was a Croatian visual artist, filmmaker, and actress known for various roles in films in the Yugoslav cinema. Biography Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia Jagoda Kaloper made her screen debut in the 1965 ...

* Saby Kamalich * Sonja Kastl *

Ljubomir Kerekeš Ljubomir Kerekeš (born 16 January 1960) is a Croatian film, theatre and television actor. Life and work Kerekeš began acting in 1980 in his hometown of Varaždin and between 1982 and 1996 was a member of the theatre ensemble at the Croatian Nat ...

* Michael Klesic – actor *

Matija Kluković Matija Kluković (born 4 May 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a young Croatian independent film director. In 2006 he finished his debut feature ''Slow Days'' (''Ajde, dan... prođi...'') that has received much critical acclaim from Croatian film criti ...

Sylva Koscina Sylva Koscina (; born Silvija Košćina, ; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules ( Steve Reeves) in ''Hercules'' (1958) and ''Hercules Unchai ...

– actress, model * Mario Kovač – theatre and film director *

Robert Kurbaša Robert Kurbaša (born 13 October 1977) is a Croatian actor. Filmography Television roles * ''Ruža vjetrova'' as Srđan Matošić (2011-2012) * ''Pod sretnom zvijezdom'' as Vedran Gallo (2011) * '' Dnevnik plavuše'' as Toni (2010-2011) * ...

Frano Lasić Frano Lasić (born 12 November 1954) is a Croatian actor and pop singer. Filmography Television roles * "Jack Holborn" (1982) * "The Winds of War (TV miniseries), The Winds of War" (1983) * "Kiklop" as Melkior Tresić (1983) * "The Fortu ...

* John G. Lenic *

Rachel Leskovac Rachel Leskovac (born 5 June 1976) is an English actress and singer. She is known for portraying the roles of Kelly Yorke in the BBC One medical drama series ''Holby City'' (2003–2004), Natasha Blakeman in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Stree ...

– actress * Edvin Liverić *

Leon Lučev Leon Lučev (born 1970 in Šibenik) is a Croatian actor. He had his feature film debut in Vinko Brešan's 1996 comedy ''How the War Started on My Island''. Since then, he has amassed lead roles in numerous high-profile European films, including ' ...

Branko Lustig Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for ''Schindler's List'' and '' Gladiator''. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia ...

– film producer (winner of two

Oscar awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

) *

Franjo Majetić Franjo Majetić (26 February 1923 – 29 November 1991) was a Croatian actor noted for his comedic roles. Although predominantly a stage actor, he is best remembered for his film debut - at age 47 - in the classic 1970 comedy ''One Song a Day Ta ...

John Malkovich John Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Aw ...

Dalibor Matanić Dalibor Matanić (, born 21 January 1975) is a Croatian filmmaker. His most well-known film is the 2002 feature '' Fine Dead Girls'' which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2003 Sochi film festival. His 2015 film '' The High Sun'' was screened ...

Nevio Marasović Nevio Marasović (born 7 July 1983) is a Croatian film director and screenwriter, and also a commercial director. Biography He made his first feature film called ''The Computer Repairment'' at the age of sixteen. He graduated film directin ...

Branko Marjanović Branko Marjanović (Zagreb, 12 May 1909 - Zagreb, 13 February 1996) was a Yugoslav film director and editor. He graduated from drama school in Zagreb, gained movie experience in Prague and worked on educational filming in Zagreb. During World War ...

Ante Čedo Martinić Ante Čedo Martinić (27 January 1960 – 27 December 2011) was a Croatian actor. Filmography Television roles * ''Ruža vjetrova'' as Anić (2011) * '' Loza'' as Bilić (2011) * '' Bitange i princeze'' (2010) * ''Ponos Ratkajevih'' as Ant ...

Stojan Matavulj Stojan Matavulj (born 24 February 1961) is a Croatian actor. Filmography Television roles * ''Ruža vjetrova'' as Stipe Odak (2011–2013) * '' Instruktor'' as Strikan (2010) * ''Zakon!'' as Zdravko Maček (2009) * ''Sve će biti dobro'' a ...

Mark Matkevich Mark Matkevich is an American art gallerist and actor best known for appearing as Drue Valentine in 17 episodes of the television program ''Dawson's Creek''. He also appeared in the film '' Sweet Home Alabama'', where he played Patrick Dempsey's ...

– actor * Rene Medvešek *

Sven Medvešek Sven Medvešek (born 1965) is a Croatian actor and director. Establishing himself as both a leading man and character actor, Medvešek's best-known film roles include Lukas in ''Slow Surrender'' (2001), Rafael in ''Winter in Rio'' (2002), Marin D ...

Oktavijan Miletić Oktavijan Miletić (1 October 1902 – 17 August 1987) was a Croatian cinematographer and director. His avant-garde work in the period from 1928 to 1945 remains as one of the foundations of Croatian film. Miletić was one of the founders of the ...

Ivana Miličević Ivana Miličević (; born April 26, 1974) is a Bosnian Croat-American actress and model. She is best known for her starring roles in the Cinemax action drama series ''Banshee'' (2013–2016) and The CW science fiction drama series ''The 100'' (20 ...

– actress *

Vatroslav Mimica Vatroslav Mimica (25 June 1923 – 15 February 2020) was a Croats, Croatian film director and screenwriter. Early life Born in Omiš, Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II. In 194 ...

Ildy Modrovich Ildy Modrovich is an American screenwriter and television showrunner. Her most prominent past credits include ''CSI: Miami'', for which she has written twenty-two episodes, ''Forever'' and ''Californication.'' Modrovich wrote, produced and was th ...

– television producer, writer and singer *

Nina Morić Nina Morić (22-07-1976) is a Croatian-Italian fashion model. She became an Italian citizen after her marriage with photojournalist Fabrizio Corona. Biography Morić was born in Zagreb into an upper-middle class household. After finishing hig ...

– model *

Patrick Muldoon Patrick Muldoon (born September 27, 1968) is an American actor, film producer, and musician. Early life and education Muldoon was born in San Pedro, California, the son of Deanna, a homemaker, and William Patrick Muldoon II, a personal injury ...

– actor *

Lorenzo Music Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music (May 2, 1937 – August 4, 2001) was an American actor, producer and writer. Music began his career in the late 1960s as a writer and a regular performer on the controversial CBS variety show ''The Smothers Brothers ...

– actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician *

Antun Nalis Antun Nalis (9 February 1911 – 14 February 2000), a.k.a. Tonči Nalis, was a Croatian actor. Antun Nalis was born in Zadar, which was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. After World War I Zadar became part of Italy, which later helped Nalis to ...

– actor *

Bojan Navojec Bojan Navojec (born 26 April 1976) is a Croatian theatre and film actor. Navojec was born in Bjelovar. He graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb The Academy of Dramatic Art ( hr, Akademija dramske umjetnosti or ADU) i ...

Maja Nekić Maja can refer to: Places * Maja, Croatia, a village * Maja, Banten, a subdistrict in Lebak Regency, Banten, Indonesia ** Maja railway station * Maja, West Java, a subdistrict in Majalengka Regency, West Java, Indonesia * Maja River, a tributar ...

Antonio Nuić Antonio Nuić (born 26 March 1977 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian Croatian film director and screenwriter. Nuić had graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Drama Art before beginning his career directing music videos and short films. His first short fil ...

Zrinko Ogresta Zrinko Ogresta (born 5 October 1958) is a Croatian screenwriter and film director, professor of film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and a member of the European Film Academy in Berlin. Praised for their strong visual style, ...

* Marija Omaljev-Grbić *

Mia Oremović Mia Oremović (31 July 1918 – 24 July 2010) was a Croatian theatre, film and television actress. Selected filmography *'' It Was Not in Vain'' (1957) *'' H-8'' (1958) *''I Have Two Mothers and Two Fathers'' (1968) *''One Song a Day Takes Mischi ...

Krsto Papić Krsto Papić (7 December 1933 – 7 February 2013) was a Croatian screenwriter and film director whose career spanned over five decades. He is generally considered among the best directors of former Yugoslavia and the only director from Croatia th ...

– film director *

Leona Paraminski Leona Paraminski (born 22 August 1979) is a Croatian film, theater and television actress. She grew up in Vrbovec, a town near Zagreb, and spent time traveling around Croatia and Germany as a child. Biography Leona became interested in the arts ...

Frank Pavich Frank Pavich ( ) is a Croatian-American film director and producer. Career Pavich's first film as director was ''N.Y.H.C. (film), N.Y.H.C.'', a feature-length documentary about the New York hardcore music scene. The film was shot in the summer of 1 ...

— film director, producer *

Stjepan Perić Stjepan Perić (; born 1 March 1983) is a Croatian actor. Biography After finishing high school, Perić studied law at the University of Zagreb. In 2003, he quit law to pursue a career as an actor. In 2003, he enrolled in the Academy of Dramati ...

Anton Perich Anton Perich is a Croatian-American filmmaker, photographer and video artist, born in Dubrovnik, SR Croatia, Croatia, in 1945. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1970. Biography From 1965 to 1970, Perich lived in Paris, France and be ...

– filmmaker, photographer and video artist *

Edo Peročević Eduard Peročević, better known as Edo Peročević (December 3, 1937 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia – April 28, 2007 in Zagreb, Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem ...

– actor, radio speaker *

Žarko Potočnjak Žarko Potočnjak (3 February 1946 – 21 October 2021) was a Croatian theatre, television and film actor. Potočnjak graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1972. Upon graduation he was hired as a regular member at the ''Komedija ...

Alma Prica Alma Prica (born 17 September 1962) is a Croatian actress. She graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts in 1985 and then joined the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HNK Zagreb) in 1986. Although primarily a theatre actress, she also a ...

Zvonimir Rogoz Zvonimir Rogoz (10 October 1887 – 6 February 1988) was a Croatian actor who played in German, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech and Slovakian, on stage and in cinema, during a career long 81 years. A native of Zagreb, Rogoz started his actor's ...

– actor *

Rick Rossovich Frederic Enrico Rossovich (born August 28, 1957) is an American actor. Rossovich began acting in the early 1980s, first gaining recognition for portraying Ron "Slider" Kerner in the 1986 film ''Top Gun''. Rossovich's other movies include the thri ...

– actor *

Branko Schmidt Branko Schmidt (born 21 September 1957) is a Croatian film director. His 2012 film ''Cannibal Vegetarian'' was selected as the Croatian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlis ...

Lucija Šerbedžija Lucija Šerbedžija (born 8 June 1973) is a Croatian theatre and film actress and model, a daughter of actor, Rade, and a sister of film director, Danilo Šerbedžija. She is probably best known in the English-speaking world for her role in ''The ...

Ivo Serdar Ivo Serdar (19 December 1933 – 21 November 1985) was a popular Croatian actor.(23 June 2003)Gornja Jelenska: Spomen glumcu Ivi Serdaru '' Index.hr'' (reporting on a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Serdar's birth in the town of Gornja ...

Shaun Sipos Shaun Sipos (born October 30, 1981) is a Canadian actor, known for playing Jack on the ABC series ''Complete Savages'', Eric Daniels on ''Life Unexpected,'' David Breck on The CW series ''Melrose Place'', Aaron Whitmore on The CW's ''The Vampi ...

– actor *

Marija Škaričić Marija Škaričić (born 6 August 1977) is a Croatian actress. Biography Marija Škaričić was born on August 6, 1977 in Split. She ended Primary and Secondary school in Split. As a high school student, she attended ''Gradsko kazalište mla ...

Mia Čorak Slavenska Mia Slavenska, née Čorak (20 February 1916 in Brod-na-Sava, now Croatia, then Austria-Hungary – 5 October 2002 in Los Angeles, United States) was a Croatian-American soloist of the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo in 1938–1952 and 1954–1955 ...

– prima

ballerina A ballet dancer ( it, ballerina fem.; ''ballerino'' masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on yea ...

Tonko Soljan Tonko Soljan is a Croatian American film and television producer known best for the PBS acquired documentary film '' Beyond Our Differences'' and the broadly distributed feature film '' Adrift in Manhattan'' starring Heather Graham, William Bald ...

– film and television producer *

Fabijan Šovagović Fabijan Šovagović (4 January 1932 – 1 January 2001) was a Croatian film, television and theatre actor, and writer. Biography Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He ...

– actor *

Filip Šovagović Filip Šovagović (born 13 September 1966) is a Croatian actor, film director, comedian, playwright and journalist. At first known simply as the son of renowned actor Fabijan Šovagović, he has established himself as one of the most prolific Cr ...

Gabriela Spanic Gabriela Elena Španić Utrera (born December 10, 1973), known simply as Gabriela Spanic, is a Venezuelan actress and singer. She's known for her roles in several Latin telenovelas, most notably her portrayal of twins in '' La usurpadora'' (1998 ...

– actress *

Lita Stantic Élida Stantic (born April 7, 1942), and more commonly known and credited as Lita Stantic, is an Argentine cinema film producer, producer, screenplay writer, and film director, director. Stantic is one of the most important producers working in t ...

– producer, screenplay writer, and director *

Nera Stipičević Nera Stipičević (born 21 January 1983) is a Croatian pop singer and actress. Nera Stipičević was born in Makarska, where she attended elementary music school. Stipičević is of Albanian origin and was a close relative of Aleksandar Stipče ...

* Yvonne Suhor – actress *

Ognjen Sviličić Ognjen Sviličić (born 1971 in Split) is a screenwriter and film director, based in Berlin noted for his critically acclaimed 2007 films Sorry For Kung Fu, '' Armin and These Are the Rules'' Career Sviličić was born 1971 in Split, in a fami ...

Nikola Tanhofer Nikola Tanhofer (; 25 December 1926 – 24 November 1998) was a Croatian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His first film as director, '' It Was Not in Vain'' was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.> ...

Vanessa Terkes Vanessa Cvujetka Terkes Rachitoff, (born 3 March 1978) is a Peruvian film, television and stage actress. She is best known for her role in the Mexican television series ''El Pantera ''El Pantera'' (English: ''The Panther'') is a Mexican tele ...

– actress, TV show host in Latin America; her grandfather Cvjetko was Croatian *

Ivica Vidović Ivica Vidović (10 May 1939 – 18 April 2011) was a Croatian actor who appeared in many classic Yugoslav films from the 1960s until his death in 2011. Following his screen debut in 1962 film ''Rana jesen'', Vidović appeared in many films gra ...

Goran Višnjić Goran Višnjić (; born 9 September 1972) is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions. He is best known in the United States for his roles as Dr. Luka Kovač in '' ER'' and Garcia Flynn in '' Tim ...

– actor ('' ER'') *

Zlatko Vitez 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 Nikica Valentić. Vitez graduated from ...

Antun Vrdoljak Antun Vrdoljak (; born 5 June 1931) is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he becam ...

– film director *

Severina Vučković Severina Vučković (born 21 April 1972), better known mononymously as Severina, is a Croatian singer-songwriter and actress. In 2006, the Croatian weekly '' Nacional'' listed her among the 100 most influential Croats, calling her "the only ''bo ...

– entertainer, actress *

Dianne Wiest Dianne Evelyn Wiest (; born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for 1986’s ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' and 1994’s ''Bullets over Broadway'' (both of which were directed by Woody ...

– American actress *

Anthony Yerkovich Anthony Yerkovich is an American television producer and Television writer, writer. He is best known for creating the 1980s cop show ''Miami Vice''. He served as the show's executive producer along with Michael Mann (film director), Michael Mann ...

– television producer and writer *

Matthew Yuricich Matthew J. Yuricich (January 19, 1923 – May 28, 2012) was an American special effects artist. Biography Born of Croatian immigrant parentage in Lorain, Ohio, he spoke only Croatian when he started grade school. After graduating high school in ...

- special effects artist *

Richard Yuricich Richard Yuricich (born December 1942) is a special visual effects artist. He is the brother of Matthew Yuricich, also a special effects artist. Yuricich is of Croatian descent. He has been nominated for an Academy Award three times. Oscar Nomin ...

– special visual effects artist *

Lordan Zafranović Lordan Zafranović (born 11 February 1944) is a Czech-Croatian film director. He was a major figure of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Early life Lordan Zafranović was born in 1944 in Maslinica, island of Šolta, Dalmatia, during the fascist occupati ...

Louis Zorich Louis Zorich (February 12, 1924 – January 30, 2018) was an American actor. He played sporting good salesman Burt Buchman, Paul Buchman's father, on the NBC series ''Mad About You'' from 1993 to 1999. Early years Zorich was born in Chicago, I ...

– American actor *

Jim Zulevic Jim Zulevic (February 20, 1965 – January 7, 2006) was an American actor, improvisational comedian, television writer, and radio host. He died suddenly, most likely due to a heart attack, at age 40. Early life Zulevic, of Scottish and Cro ...

– actor, comedian, TV writer, and radio host

Media

Lidia Bastianich Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich (; born February 21, 1947) is an Italian-American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur. Specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine, Bastianich has been a regular contributor to ...

– American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur *

Adrian Chiles Adrian Chiles (born 21 March 1967) is a British writer and television and radio presenter. He has co-presented both ''The One Show'' (2007–2010) and '' Daybreak'' (2010–2011) with Christine Lampard. He was also the chief presenter for foo ...

– British television and radio presenter *

Slavica Ecclestone Slavica Ecclestone (; born 2 June 1958) is a Croatian former model and the ex-wife of former Formula 1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone. Early life Ecclestone was born in Rijeka, where her Serb parents—Jovan "Jovo" Radić and Ljubica Malić from Ma ...

– British-Croatian former model *

Robert Herjavec Robert Herjavec (; ; born September 14, 1962) is a Croatian-Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality. Herjavec founded BRAK Systems, a Canadian integrator of Internet security software, and sold it to AT&T Canada (now Allstre ...

– Canadian businessman, investor, author, dancer, and television personality from ''

Shark Tank ''Shark Tank'' is an American business reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC.Hibberd, James (May 10, 201'Dancing,' 'Bachelor,' and a bigger 'Shark Tank' returning to ABCInsider TV. Retrieved June 24, 2012 The show i ...

'' *

Bill Kurtis Bill Kurtis (born William Horton Kuretich; September 21, 1940), is an American television journalist, television producer, narrator, and news anchor. Kurtis was studying to become a lawyer in the 1960s, when he was asked to fill in on a tempora ...

– journalist, television reporter, producer *

Katie Pavlich Catherine Merri "Katie" Pavlich (born July 10, 1988) is an American conservative commentator, author, blogger, and podcaster. Early life and education Pavlich was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to a family of Croat and German descent. She grew up i ...

- American conservative commentator, author, blogger, podcaster *

Goran Milić Goran Milić (born 24 January 1946) is a Croatian and Bosnian journalist and television personality. With a high-profile career spanning forty years, he's one of the most recognizable media personalities in the countries of former Yugoslavia. Fro ...

– worked in Hrt, now works in Al Jazeera *

Tony Robbins Anthony Jay Robbins (né Mahavoric, born February 29, 1960) is an American author, coach, speaker, and philanthropist. He is known for his infomercials, seminars, and self-help books including the books ''Unlimited Power'' and ''Awaken the Gia ...

– American life coach, self-help author and motivational speaker *

Teresa Scanlan Teresa Michelle Scanlan (born February 6, 1993) is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Nebraska who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, subsequently winning Miss America 2011 at age 17 and becoming the youngest Miss America since Bette ...

– Miss America 2011 *

Petra Stunt Petra Ecclestone (born 19 December 1988) is a British heiress, model, fashion designer and socialite. Early life Ecclestone was born in London as the younger daughter of former Armani model Slavica Radić and English Formula One billionaire ...

– British designer *

Vladimir Herzog Vladimir Herzog (27 June 1937 – 25 October 1975), nicknamed Vlado (a usual Croatian abbreviation for the name Vladimir) by his family and friends,Freitas, Daelcio"Jornalista morto pelo regime militar: Vladimir Herzog" UOL Educação was a Brazil ...

– Croatian born Brazilian journalist

Academics

History

* James Belich – historian *

Julije Kempf Julije Kempf (25 January 1864 – 6 June 1934) was a Croatian historian and writer. Kempf was born in Požega, Slavonia. After graduating from Požega gymnasium, he attended teachers school in Zagreb. Afterwards, he worked in Novi Vinodolski ...

– historian, writer *

Nada Klaić Nada Klaić (21 July 1920 – 2 August 1988) was a Croatian historian. She was a Croatian medievalist of the 20th century. A substantial part of the work was devoted to criticism of medieval sources. Academic career Nada Klaić was born in Zagre ...

– historian *

Vjekoslav Klaić Vjekoslav Klaić (21 June 1849 – 1 July 1928) was a Croatian historian and writer, most famous for his monumental work ''History of the Croats''. Klaić was born in Garčin near Slavonski Brod as the son of a teacher. He was raised in German s ...

– historian *

Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (29 May 1816 – 1 August 1889) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer, most famous for the first speech delivered in Croatian before the Parliament. Considered a renowned patriot, Kukuljević was a proponent of ...

– historian * Ivan Lučić – historian *

Dominik Mandić Dominik Mandić (2 December 1889 – 23 August 1973) was a Herzegovinian Croat Franciscan and historian. Biography Mandić was born in Lise near Široki Brijeg in Herzegovina. He completed his primary education in Široki Brijeg, where he atte ...

– historian *

Franjo Rački Franjo Rački (25 November 1828 – 13 February 1894) was a Croatian historian, politician and writer. He compiled important collections of old Croatian diplomatic and historical documents, wrote some pioneering historical works, and was a key f ...

– historian *

Ivan Ratkaj Ivan Ratkaj (22 May 1647 – 26 December 1683), also Ivan Rattkay, was a Croatian Jesuit missionary, explorer and cartographer. He wrote the first detailed description of the Tarahumara, a Native Mexican people. Biography Ratkaj was born in ...

– historian, Jesuit, explorer *

Juraj Ratkaj Juraj Ratkaj (also known as Juraj Rattkay, born in Veliki Tabor, on December 22, 1612 — Zagreb, on September 1, 1666) was a Croatian historian, priest and nobleman. Born in the Ratkaj Croatian noble family, barons of Veliki Tabor, he was a ...

– historian *

Ferdo Šišić Ferdo Šišić (9 March 1869 – 21 January 1940) was a Croatian historian, the founding figure of the Croatian historiography of the 20th century. He made his most important contributions in the area of the Medieval Croatian state (disambiguation) ...

– historian * Ludovicus Tubero – historian

Invention

Zlata Bartl Zlata Bartl ( Dolac, 20 February 1920 – Koprivnica, 30 July 2008) was a Bosnian Croat scientist and is the creator of Vegeta. Bartl finished school in Sarajevo and went to Zagreb to study natural sciences, engineering, medicine and health, biote ...

– inventor of ''

Vegeta ( ), also referred as is a fictional character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise created by Akira Toriyama. Vegeta first appears in chapter #204 "Sayonara, Son Goku", published in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine on November 7, 1988, seeking ...

'' *

Josip Belušić Josip Belušić (March 12, 1847 - January 8, 1905) was a Croatian people, Croatian inventor and professor of physics and mathematics. He was born in the small settlement of Županići, in the region of Labin, Istria, and schooled in Pazin and Kope ...

– inventor * Franjo Hannaman – inventor, engineer * Marcel Kiepach – inventor * Mario Kovač – computer engineering professor and inventor * Ferdinand Kovačević – inventor *

Giovanni Luppis Giovanni (Ivan) Biagio Luppis Freiherr von Rammer (27 August 1813 – 11 January 1875), sometimes also known by the Croatian name of Vukić, was an officer of the Austro-Hungarian Navy who headed a commission to develop the first prototypes o ...

– inventor of the torpedo *

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (; 20 April 1871 – 5 February 1922) was a Croatian engineer and inventor of Dutch-Polish descent. Biography Eduard Penkala was born in Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš), then part of Austria-Hungary, to F ...

– inventor *

Mario Puratić Mario Puratić (1904 - 1993) (usually spelled Puretic, and sometimes Puretich, in English) was an Austro-Hungarian Empire-born American inventor who made major advances in fishing technology, such as the Puretic power block. Puratić was born in 1 ...

– inventor who made major advances in fishing technology *

Ralph Sarich Ralph Tony Sarich (born 10 December 1938 in Baskerville, Western Australia) is an Australian automotive engineer, inventor, and businessman who developed the orbital engine and the orbital combustion process engine. Sarich founded the Orbital E ...

– inventor of the orbital engine * David Schwarz – aviation pioneer of Jewish ancestry *

Marin Soljačić Marin Soljačić (born February 7, 1974) is a Croatian-American physicist and electrical engineer known for wireless non-radiative energy transfer. Biography Marin Soljačić was born in Zagreb in 1974. After graduating from XV Gymnasium (MIOC) ...

– inventor of wireless energy transfer * Ante Šupuk – engineer * Tomislav Uzelac - programmer, inventor of the first successful MP3 player *

Faust Vrančić Fausto Veranzio ( la, Faustus Verantius; hr, Faust Vrančić; Hungarian language, Hungarian and Latin regional pronunciation, Vernacular Latin: ''Verancsics Faustus'';Andrew L. SimonMade in Hungary: Hungarian contributions to universal cultur ...

– inventor of the parachute *

Ivan Vučetić Juan Vucetich Kovacevich (born Ivan Vučetić; 20 July 1858 – 25 January 1925) was a Croatian-Argentine anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of dactyloscopy (fingerprint identification). Biography Vucetich was born ...

– inventor of dactyloscopy

Social science

Ivan Belostenec Ivan Belostenec (c. 1594 – 2 February 1675) was a Croatian linguist, lexicographer and poet. Life In 1616 he joined the Paulists. He studied philosophy in Vienna and theology in Rome. Belostenec was a prior of Pauline monasteries in Lepoglava ...

– lexicographer *

Juraj Dobrila Juraj (Giorgio) Dobrila (16 March 1812 – 13 January 1882) was a Catholic bishop and benefactor from Istria who advocated for greater national rights for Croats and also Slovenes in Istria under Austrian rule. Biography Dobrila was born in the ...

– cleric, benefactor *

Elsie Ivancich Dunin Elsie Ivancich Dunin (born July 19, 1935) is a dance ethnologist (ethnochoreologist), choreographer, professor and author specializing in folk dance from Croatia, Macedonia, and Romani (Gypsies) in Macedonia. Her studies focus on Croatian diaspo ...

– cultural ethnologist, author, professor, choreographer *

Ljudevit Gaj Ljudevit Gaj (; born Ludwig Gay; hu, Gáj Lajos; 8 August 1809 – 20 April 1872) was a Croatian Linguistics, linguist, politician, journalist and writer. He was one of the central figures of the pan-Slavist Illyrian movement. Biography Origi ...

– linguist, reformer *

Vatroslav Jagić Vatroslav Jagić (; July 6, 1838 – August 5, 1923) was a Croatian scholar of Slavic studies in the second half of the 19th century. Life Jagić was born in Varaždin (then known by its German name of ''Warasdin''), where he attended the elem ...

– philologist *

Milan Kangrga Milan Kangrga (1 May 1923 – 25 April 2008) was a Croatian and Yugoslav philosopher who was one of the leading thinkers in the Praxis School of thought which originated in the 1960s in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Biography Kan ...

– philosopher *

Bartol Kašić Bartol Kašić ( la, Bartholomaeus Cassius, it, Bartolomeo Cassio; August 15, 1575 – December 28, 1650) was a Jesuit clergyman and grammarian during the Counter-Reformation, who wrote the first Illyrian grammar and translated the Bible and th ...

– lexicographer *

Juraj Križanić Juraj Križanić (c. 1618 – 12 September 1683), also known as Jurij Križanič or Yuriy Krizhanich (russian: Юрий Крижанич), was a Croatian Catholic missionary who is often regarded as the earliest recorded pan-Slavist. His ideal, of ...

– social philosopher *

Franjo Kuhač Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (November 20, 1834 – June 18, 1911) was a piano teacher, choral conductor, composer, and comparative musicologist who studied Croatian folk music. Kuhač did a great deal of field work in this area, collecting and publishing ...

– folklorist, ethnologist *

Jakov Mikalja Giacomo Micaglia''“In Peschice de Gargano si costruisce una nave pro parte Johannis de Natali de Ragusio, Baroli commorantis”. Il calefatore è Marinus de Ragusio.''Cod. Dipl. Barl., 1570 vol. 10, n. 380> was a settlement of Croat refugees

– linguist and lexicographer *

Miroslav Radman Miroslav Radman (born April 30, 1944) is a Croatian biologist. Biography Radman was born in Split, PR Croatia, Yugoslavia. From 1962–1967 he studied experimental biology, physical chemistry and molecular biology at the University of Zagreb and ...

– genetic biologist * Stanislav Pavao Skalić – encyclopedist, adventurer *

Rudolf Steiner Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a ...

– philosopher *

Josip Juraj Strossmayer Josip Juraj Strossmayer, also Štrosmajer (; german: Joseph Georg Strossmayer; 4 February 1815 – 8 April 1905) was a Croatian politician, Roman Catholic Bishops in the Catholic Church, bishop, and benefactor (law), benefactor. Early life an ...

– cleric, benefactor *

Rudi Supek Rudi Supek (Zagreb, 8 April 1913 – Zagreb, 2 January 1993) was a Croatian sociologist, philosopher and a member of the Praxis School of Marxism. Supek studied philosophy in Zagreb and graduated in 1937. He went to study clinical psycholog ...

– philosopher *

Henry Suzzallo Henry Suzzallo (August 22, 1875 – September 25, 1933) was the president of the University of Washington from 1915 to 1926. He later served as director of the National Advisory Committee on Education and president of the Carnegie Foundation for ...

– educator * Ante Topić-Mimara – art collector *

Vinko Žganec Vinko Žganec (January 22, 1890 - December 12, 1976) was a Croatian ethnomusicologist. Žganec was born in Vratišinec in Međimurje. He started to be interested in music early in his childhood and jotted down his first folk song in 1908. In 1916 ...

– folklorist, ethnomusicologist

Science

* Gaja Alaga – physicist *

Giorgio Baglivi Giorgio Baglivi ( la, Georgius Baglivus; hr, italic=yes, Gjuro Baglivi; September 8, 1668 – June 15, 1707), born and sometimes anglicized as was a Croatian-Italian physician and scientist. He made important contributions to clinica ...

– physician and scientist from

Ragusa Ragusa is the historical name of Dubrovnik. It may also refer to: Places Croatia * the Republic of Ragusa (or Republic of Dubrovnik), the maritime city-state of Ragusa * Cavtat (historically ' in Italian), a town in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Cro ...

Antun Karlo Bakotić Antun Karlo Bakotić (4 November 1831 in Kaštel Gomilica – 13 January 1887 in Zadar) was a Croats, Croatian writer and physicist. He studied mathematics and physics at Vienna and Venice. He worked as a professor in Rijeka, as well as managing th ...

– physicist and writer *

Mladen Bestvina Mladen Bestvina (born 1959) is a Croatian-American mathematician working in the area of geometric group theory. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah. Biographical info Mladen Bestvina is a thr ...

– mathematician *

Ruđer Bošković Roger Joseph Boscovich ( hr, Ruđer Josip Bošković; ; it, Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich; la, Rogerius (Iosephus) Boscovicius; sr, Руђер Јосип Бошковић; 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a physicist, astronomer, ...

– theologian, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, Jesuit and polymath *

Branko Bošnjaković Branko (Franjo Marko) Bošnjaković (born 18 February 1939) is a Dutch- Croatian physicist and professional working in the field of environmental protection and sustainability. Biography Branko Bošnjaković was born in Zagreb. He studied physics ...

– physicist, environmentalist * Fran Bošnjaković – engineer, physicist * Juraj Božičević – engineer *

Frane Bulić Frane Bulić (October 4, 1846 - July 29, 1934) was a Croatian priest, archaeologist, and historian. Biography Bulić was born in Vranjic (now part of Solin), and studied theology in Zadar and then classical philology and archeology in Vienn ...

– archaeologist *

Predrag Cvitanović Predrag Cvitanović (; born April 1, 1946) is a theoretical physicist regarded for his work in nonlinear dynamics, particularly his contributions to periodic orbit theory. Life Cvitanović earned his B.S. from MIT in 1969 and his Ph.D. at Cornel ...

– physicist *

Milislav Demerec Milislav Demerec (January 11, 1895 – April 12, 1966) was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington IW now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, re ...

– biologist * Andrija Dudić – naturalist, astronomer, physician *

William Feller William "Vilim" Feller (July 7, 1906 – January 14, 1970), born Vilibald Srećko Feller, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory. Early life and education Feller was born in Zagreb to Ida Oemichen-Perc, a Croa ...

– mathematician *

Andrija Fuderer Andrija Fuderer (13 May 1931, Subotica, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Yugoslavia – 2 October 2011, Palamós, Catalonia) was a Croatian–Belgian chess master. At the beginning of his career, he won the Yugoslav Junior Chess Champi ...

– chemist, chess player *

Artur Gavazzi Artur Gavazzi (14 October 1861 – 12 March 1944) was a Croatian geographer and cartographer of Italian ancestry. Gavazzi was born in Split (then in Austria-Hungary) and died in Zagreb (then in the Independent State of Croatia). Gavazzi was ...

– geographer *

Marin Getaldić Marino Ghetaldi ( lat, Marinus Ghetaldus; hr, Marin Getaldić; 2 October 1568 – 11 April 1626) was a Ragusan scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially ...

– physicist, mathematician * Vladimir Jurko Glaser – physicist *

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger (born October 25, 1856 in Zagreb, died December 24, 1936, Zagreb) was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist. Education Dragutin finished his elementary education in Zagreb, Croatia, as well as t ...

– geologist, paleoanthropologist and paleontologist *

Stjepan Gradić Stjepan Gradić, also known as Stefano Gradi (Latin: Stephanus Gradius; 6 March 1613 – 2 May 1683) was a philosopher, scientist and a patrician of the Republic of Ragusa. Biography Stijepo's parents were Miho Gradi (Gradić) and Marija Benessa ...

– mathematician, philosopher, physicist, writer and polymath *

Mirko Dražen Grmek Mirko Dražen Grmek (9 January 1924 – 6 March 2000) was a Croatian and French historian of medicine, writer and scientist. He was one of the pioneers and founders of the history of medicine. His entire opus promotes the historical research of me ...

– physician, science writer and historian *

Branko Horvat Branko Horvat (24 July 1928 – 18 December 2003) was a Croatian economist and politician. Horvat was born in Petrinja on 24 July 1928. In 1944 during World War II, Horvat and his father Artur Horvat joined the Partisan movement in Croatia. He w ...

– economist * Željko Ivezić – astrophysicist *

Zvonimir Janko Zvonimir Janko (26 July 1932 – 12 April 2022) was a Croatian mathematician who was the eponym of the Janko groups, sporadic simple groups in group theory. The first few sporadic simple groups were discovered by Émile Léonard Mathieu, which ...

– mathematician *

Korado Korlević Korado Korlević (born on 19 September 1958 in Poreč) is a Croatian teacher and prolific amateur astronomer, who ranks among the world's top 20 discoverers of minor planets. As of 2016, he is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discover ...

– astronomer, asteroid discoverer * Oton Kučera – mathematician, physicist *

Zvonko Kusić Zvonko Kusić () (born 14 June 1946) is a Croatian physician who is professor of oncology and nuclear medicine and head of the Department of Oncology and Nuclear Medicine of the Sisters of Charity University Hospital in Zagreb. He was president ...

– physician * Jacob Matijevic – NASA engineer * Eduard Miloslavić – physician *

Andrija Mohorovičić Andrija Mohorovičić (23 January 1857 – 18 December 1936) was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology. Early years Mohorovičić wa ...

– geophysician *

Stjepan Mohorovičić Stjepan Mohorovičić (August 20, 1890 – February 13, 1980) was a Croatian physicist, geophysicist and meteorologist. Biography Mohorovičić was born in the town of Bakar. His father is the world-famous geophysicist Andrija Mohorovičić. He ...

– physicist *

Grga Novak Grga Novak (2April 18887September 1978) was a distinguished Croatian historian, archaeologist and geographer, and President of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1958 to 1978. Born on the island of Hvar, he was Professor of Ancient Hi ...

– archaeologist, historian * Franjo Petriš – philosopher, humanist, writer and polymath *

Đuro Pilar Đuro Pilar (April 22, 1846 in Brod na Savi – May 19, 1893 in Zagreb) was a Croatian geologist, palaeontologist, and professor and rector at the University of Zagreb. Biography Pilar had, with his mother (Tereza Čulić of Derventa), a strong ...

– geologist *

Stjepan Poljak Stjepan Poljak (born 17 November 1983 in Zabok, Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian association football, football midfielder, who plays for NK Zagorec Krapina. Career Poljak signed a three-year cont ...

– physician *

Eduard Prugovečki Eduard Prugovečki (March 19, 1937 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist and mathematician of Croatian-Romanian descent. Prugovečki was born in Craiova, Romania to a Romanian mother, Helena (née Piatkowski), and Croatian father, Slav ...

– physicist, writer *

– biologist * Paško Rakić – neuroscientist *

Goran Senjanović Goran Senjanović (born June 9, 1950) is a theoretical physicist at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). He received his Ph.D. at the City College of New York in 1978, under the supervision of Rabindra Mohapatra. B ...

– physicist *

Zvonimir Šeparović Zvonimir Šeparović (14 September 1928 – 30 January 2022) was a Croatian jurist and politician. Biography Šeparović was a professor of Criminal Law at the University of Zagreb and rector of the University from 1989 to 1991. He was also kno ...

– lawyer, (victimology) *

Ante Šercer Ante Šercer (21 April 1896, Požega, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia – 25 June 1968, Zagreb) was a Yugoslav physician. He attended elementary school in Dubrovnik. Finishing medical studies in Graz (Austria) and Prague (Czech Republic), he soon a ...

– physician *

– physicist *

Andrija Štampar Andrija Štampar (1 September 1888 – 26 June 1958) was a distinguished scholar in the field of social medicine from Croatia. Education Štampar was born 1 September 1888 in Brodski Drenovac (part of Pleternica), at the time part of the Aust ...

– physician, diplomat * Marijan Šunjić – physicist *

Ivan Supek Ivan Supek (8 April 1915 – 5 March 2007) was a Croatian physicist, philosopher, writer, playwright, peace activist and humanist. Early years and education Supek was born in Zagreb, Croatia (still nominally under Austria-Hungary). During his hig ...

– physicist, philosopher *

Ćiro Truhelka Ćiro Truhelka (2 February 1865 – 18 September 1942) was a Croatian archeologist, historian and art historian who devoted much of his professional life to the study of the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He wrote about prehistoric, Roman and ...

– archaeologist and art historian * Vladimir Varičak – mathematician, physicist *

Mirko Vidaković Mirko pl. Vidaković (October 29, 1924 – August 15, 2002) was a Croatian botany, botanist and dendrology, dendrologist and the expert for the genetics of the forest trees. Biography Vidaković was born in Lemeš, Bačka, Lemeš, Bačka. He attai ...

– forester, botanist *

Nikola Vitov Gučetić Nicolò Vito di Gozzi ( la, Nicolai Viti Gozzii, 1549–1610), Niko Vita Gozze, or Nikola Gučetić was a Ragusan statesman, philosopher, science writer and author of one of the first scientific dissertations regarding speleology. Life Gučet ...

– statesmen, philosopher, science writer *

– philosopher, thinker * Vladimir Vranić – mathematician *

Juan Vucetich Juan Vucetich Kovacevich (born Ivan Vučetić; 20 July 1858 – 25 January 1925) was a Croatian-Argentine anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of dactyloscopy (fingerprint identification). Biography Vucetich was born ...

– anthropologist, police official who pioneered fingerprinting *

Vladimir Žerjavić Vladimir Žerjavić (2 August 1912 – 5 September 2001) was a Croatian economist and demographer who published a series of historical articles and books during the 1980s and 1990s on demographic losses in Yugoslavia during World War II and of Ax ...

– statistician, economist

Nobel Prize

Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in ...

– Literature * Nobel prize winner

Paul L. Modrich Paul Lawrence Modrich (born June 13, 1946) is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. Modric ...

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chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

Vladimir Prelog Vladimir Prelog (23 July 1906 – 7 January 1998) was a Croatian-Swiss organic chemist who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research into the stereochemistry of organic molecules and reactions. Prelog was born and grew up in ...

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Lavoslav Ružička –

Music

Composers

Julije Bajamonti Julije (Julio) Bajamonti (Italian: ''Giulio Bajamonti''; 4 August 1744 – 12 November 1800) was a medical historian, writer, translator, encyclopedist, historian, philosopher, and musician from the city of Split in present-day Croatia. His wif ...

– composer *

Krešimir Baranović Krešimir Baranović (25 July 1894 – 17 September 1975) was a Croatian composer and conductor. He was director and conductor of the Zagreb Opera, Belgrade Opera and professor at the Belgrade Music Academy. In the spirit of a kind of Slavic ...

Blagoje Bersa Blagoje Bersa (born as Benito Bersa, 21 December 1873 – 1 January 1934) was a Croatian musical composer of substantial influence.

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Jakov Gotovac Jakov Gotovac (11 October 189516 October 1982) was a Croatian composer and conductor of classical music. His comic opera, ''Ero s onoga svijeta'' (''Ero the Joker''), Croatia's best-known opera, was first performed in Zagreb in 1935. Biograph ...

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Josip Hatze Joseph Hatze (1879–1959) was one of the first and most prominent Croats, Croatian composers in the Mediterranean style in the first half of last century. Hatze was born in Split (city), Split (then Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia) to a fa ...

Milan Horvat Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

Ivo Josipović Ivo Josipović (; born 28 August 1957) is a Croatian academic, jurist, and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015. Josipović entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ), and played a ke ...

– composer, 3rd President of Croatia *

Igor Kuljerić Igor Kuljerić (February 1, 1938 – April 20, 2006) was an important Croatian composer and conductor. His large opus followed the stylistic changes and evolutions of 20th and 21st century music. Biography Born in the coastal city of Šibenik ...

– composer, conductor *

Fran Lhotka Fran Lhotka (25 December 1883 – 26 January 1962) was a Czech-born Croatian composer of classical music. A student of Antonín Dvořák, in 1909 he moved to Zagreb where as a professor of harmony he would teach almost every Croatian contempor ...

Lovro von Matačić Lovro von Matačić (14 February 1899 – 4 January 1985) was a Croatian conductor and composer. Early life Lovro von Matačić was born in Sušak to a family that was granted a noble title in the early 17th century. Growing up, he was always s ...

Johnny Mercer John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallich ...

– American lyricist, songwriter and singer; co-founder of Capitol Records * Lav Mirski *

Ivan Padovec Ivan Eugen Padovec (17 July 1800 – 4 November 1873), commonly known as Johann (Ivan) Padowetz (see the signature on the photo), born in the baroque town of Varaždin in Croatia (known for its festivals of baroque music), was a guitar virtuoso ...

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Boris Papandopulo Boris Papandopulo (February 25, 1906 – October 16, 1991) was a Croatian composer and conductor of Greek and Russian Jewish descent. Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Djela hrvatskih skladatelja Židovskog podrijetla u Beču; s ...

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Dora Pejačević Countess Maria Theodora Paulina (Dora) Pejačević ( hu, Gróf verőczei Pejácsevich Mária Theodóra Paulina "Dóra", link=no, 10 September 1885 – 5 March 1923) was a Croatian composer and a member of the Pejačević noble family. She wa ...

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Milan Sachs Milan Sachs (28 November 1884 – 4 August 1968) was a Czech-Croatian opera conductor and composer, who was long associated with the Zagreb Opera in Croatia, where he conducted some important local premieres, including Wagner's ''Parsifal'', an ...

Luka Sorkočević Count Luka Sorkočević ( it, Luca Sorgo; January 13, 1734 – September 11, 1789) was composer from the Republic of Ragusa. His music has been preserved, like other Sorkočević family possessions, in the archives of the Dubrovnik Franciscan ...

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Franz von Suppé Franz von Suppé (né Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppe) (18 April 181921 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A c ...

– composer of light operas, born and raised in the

Kingdom of Dalmatia The Kingdom of Dalmatia ( hr, Kraljevina Dalmacija; german: Königreich Dalmatien; it, Regno di Dalmazia) was a crown land of the Austrian Empire (1815–1867) and the Cisleithanian half of Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). It encompassed the entir ...

Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Josip Štolcer-Slavenski (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосип Штолцер-Славенски; 11 May 1896 – 30 November 1955 ) was a Croatian composer and professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade. British musicologist Jim Samson described Š ...

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Stjepan Šulek Stjepan Šulek (5 August 1914 in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary – 16 January 1986 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) was a Croatian composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher. Biography Born in Zagreb in 1914, Šulek began his music stu ...

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Vjekoslav Šutej Vjekoslav Šutej (31 July 1951 – 2 December 2009) was a prominent Croatian orchestral conductor. Overview Šutej studied conducting under Igor Gjadrov at the Zagreb Music Academy, before obtaining his Master of Music degree in Rome in the cl ...

Ivo Tijardović Ivo Tijardović (; 18 September 1895 – 19 March 1976) was a Croatian composer, writer and painter. A member of the Unitary National Liberation Front, he served as the 47th Mayor of Split, during the city's World War II occupation by Fascist Ita ...

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Ivan Zajc Ivan Zajc (also hr, Ivan plemeniti Zajc, it, Giovanni de Zaytz; ; August 3, 1832 – December 16, 1914), was a Croatian composer, conductor, director, and teacher who dominated Croatia's musical culture for over forty years. Through his ar ...

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Classical

Zlatko Baloković Zlatko Baloković (March 31, 1895 – March 29, 1965) was a Croatian violinist. Early years He was born in Zagreb, Croatia (at the time part of Austria-Hungary), and began violin lessons at age ten. He made such progress that, after three years, ...

– violinist *

Max Emanuel Cenčić Max Emanuel Cenčić (born 21 September 1976) is a Croatian countertenor, as of 1994 based in Austria. He was a member of the Wiener Sängerknaben. Early career as a boy soprano Born Max Emanuel Cenčić in Zagreb, he started singing at a ve ...

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countertenor A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a s ...

Valter Dešpalj Valter Dešpalj (born 1947) is a Croatian cellist and a professor at the Zagreb Academy of Music. Early years Dešpalj was born in Zadar, Croatia to Albanian parents and graduated from the Juilliard School (cello with L. Rose, chamber music wi ...

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– opera singer *

Franjo Krežma Franjo Krežma (4 September 1862 – 15 June 1881), also known as Franz Krezma in German-speaking countries, was a Croatian violinist and composer. Family and education Born in Osijek, Croatia, he showed interest for music in his early childhood ...

– violinist *

Stephen Kovacevich Stephen Kovacevich (born October 17, 1940) is an American classical pianist and conductor. He is particularly celebrated for his recordings of works by Beethoven, Bartók and Schubert, and is known for technical skill, clarity of playing and an ...

– classical pianist *

Ivo Maček Ivo Maček (24 March 1914 – 26 May 2002) was a prominent Croatian pianist, composer, teacher, editor and academician. He was born in Sušak on 24 March 1914 and died in Zagreb on 26 May 2002. On account of his diverse social work, for his ...

– pianist *

– conductor * Zinka Kunc-Milanov –

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Maksim Mrvica Maksim Mrvica (; born 3 May 1975) is a Croatian pianist. He plays classical crossover Crossover is a term applied to musical works or performers who appeal to different types of audience. This can be seen, for example, (especially in the ...

– pianist *

Tomislav Mužek Tomislav Mužek is a Croatian tenor and opera singer. He studied in Vienna at the University of Music and Performing Arts and made his professional debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1999. Was an ensemblemember of the Bremen Stadttheater from 20 ...

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tenor A tenor is a type of classical music, classical male singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. The tenor's vocal range extends up to C5. The lo ...

Ivo Pogorelić Ivo Pogorelić (also Ivo Pogorelich; born 20 October 1958) is a Yugoslav-born Croatian pianist. He is known for his sometimes unorthodox interpretations, which have brought him a sizable following and both praise and criticism from musical ...

– pianist *

Ema Pukšec Ema Pukšec (February 6, 1834 – January 14, 1889), also known as Ilma de Murska, as well as Ilma di Murska, was a famous 19th-century soprano opera singer from Croatia. Life Ema Pukšec was born in Ogulin (present-day Republic of Croatia). H ...

(Ilma De Murska) – opera singer *

Ruža Pospiš-Baldani Ruža Pospiš-Baldani (; born 25 July 1942) is a Croatian operatic mezzo-soprano. Baldani was born in Varaždinske Toplice and made her professional opera debut in 1961 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb as Konchakovna in Alexander Borodi ...

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mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (; ; meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C ...

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Milka Trnina Milka Ternina (born Katarina Milka Trnina, pronounced ; 19 December 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses. Praised by audiences and music critics alike f ...

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Dunja Vejzović Dunja Vejzović (; born 20 October 1943, Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia) is an operatic mezzo-soprano and soprano from Croatia. Biography Dunja Crnković was born in Zagreb and was married in 1963, changing her surname to Vejzović. She ...

– soprano *

Ana Vidović Ana Vidović (born 8 November 1980) is a classical guitarist originally from Croatia. A child prodigy, she has won a number of prizes and international competitions all over the world. Early life Vidović was born on November 8, 1980, in Karlo ...

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Dubravka Zubović Dubravka Zubović is a retired opera singer and voice teacher in Orange County, California, United States. History Dubravka Zubović was born in Zagreb, Croatia, former SFR Yugoslavia where she began her voice studies at the age of 14, graduatin ...

– opera singer and voice teacher

Literature

– novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. *

Ivan Aralica __NOTOC__ Ivan Aralica (born 10 September 1930) is a Croatian novelist and essayist. Born in Promina near Knin, and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar, Aralica had worked since 1953 as a high ...

– writer * Franjo Babić – writer, journalist * Zvonimir Balog – poet, writer * Juraj Baraković – poet *

Milan Begović Milan Begović (January 19, 1876 – May 13, 1948) was a Croatian writer, born in Vrlika, in the territory of today's Croatia. He was educated in Split, Zagreb and Vienna and spent some time as high school professor in Split before going to Hambu ...

– writer * Sabo Bobaljević – poet *

Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani Lukrecija Bogašinović Budmani (26 October 1710 – 8 June 1784) was a Ragusan poet. The granddaughter of Petar Toma Bogašinović, she was born in Dubrovnik, Republic of Ragusa hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libe ...

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Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938) was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children. Early life She was born on 18 April 1874 i ...

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Mile Budak Mile Budak (30 August 1889 – 7 June 1945) was a Croatian politician and writer best known as one of the chief ideologists of the Croatian fascist Ustaša movement, which ruled the Independent State of Croatia during World War II in Yugoslavia ...

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Dobriša Cesarić Dobriša Cesarić (; 10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) was a Croatian poet and translator born in Požega. Cesarić is considered one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.Milan Crnković – writer *

Džore Držić Džore Držić (; Italian: ''Giorgio Darsa'') (February 6, 1461 – September 26, 1501) was a poet and playwright, one of the fathers of Croatian literature. This respectable citizen of Dubrovnik, the uncle of the greatest Croatian playwright Mari ...

– poet, playwright * Blanka Dovjak-Matković – poet, writer *

Slavenka Drakulić Slavenka Drakulić (born July 4, 1949) is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages. Biography Drakulić was born in Rijeka, Croatia (at that ti ...

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Tomislav Dretar Tomislav Dretar (born 2 March 1945) is a Croatian, Bosnian, French and Belgian poet, writer, critic, and translator, as well as an academic, journalist, editor, political leader and president of Bihać's HVO. He is also known by the French ali ...

– writer, politician, journalist, critic *

Marin Držić Marin Držić (; also ''Marino Darza'' or ''Marino Darsa''; 1508 – 2 May 1567) was a Croatian writer from Republic of Ragusa. He is considered to be one of the finest Renaissance playwrights and prose writers of Croatian literature. L ...

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Ignjat Đurđević Ignjat Đurđević (also Ignazio Giorgi; February 1675 – 21 January 1737) was a baroque poet and translator from the Republic of Ragusa, best known for his long poem ''Uzdasi Mandaljene pokornice'' ("''Sighs of Repentant Magdalene''"). He wr ...

– poet, translator, historian, astronomer and Benedict monk *

Viktor Car Emin Viktor Car Emin (Kraj at Mošćenička Draga, 1 November 1870 – Opatija, 17 April 1963) was a prominent Croatian people, Croatian writer. He graduated from Teachers School in Kopar. He was expelled from the Italian controlled Istria first to settl ...

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Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...

Filip Erceg Filip Erceg (born 1979) is a Croatian writer, journalist and political scientist. Erceg was born in Slavonski Brod, but lived his childhood in Bjelovar. He graduated in politology at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb. As a ...

– writer and socialist politician *

Đuro Ferić Đuro Ferić, also Giorgio Ferrich, (May 5, 1739 – 1820) was a poet and a Jesuit vicar general of the Republic of Ragusa. As a poet, he belonged to the Illyrian circle in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia). Illyrian (Slavic) was synonymous with ...

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Drago Gervais Drago Gervais (April 18, 1904 – July 3, 1957) was a Croatian Istrian poet and playwright, and one of the most prominent poets writing in the Chakavian dialect of Croatian. Drago Gervais was born in 1904 in Opatija. His father Artur, a descen ...

– poet and playwright, paternal French descent *

Đivo Šiškov Gundulić Đivo (Ivan) Šiškov Gundulić (also ''Giovanni di Sigismondo Gondola''), (13 February 1678 – 13 December 1721) was a nobleman from the Republic of Ragusa, the son of Šišmundo (Šiško) Gundulić and Katarina Nale. He was the Rector of the ...

– poet, dramatist and nobleman *

Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Ksaver Šandor Gjalski (26 October 1854 – 6 February 1935) was a Croatian writer and civil servant. He was born Ljubomil Babić at Gredice, near Klanjec in Hrvatsko Zagorje into a minor aristocratic family. He finished high school in Varaž ...

– writer * Stanka Gjurić – poet and essayist *

Ivan Gundulić Dživo Franov Gundulić ( it, Gianfrancesco Gondola; 8 January 1589 – 8 December 1638), better known today as Ivan Gundulić, was the most prominent Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa (now in Croatia). He is regarded as the Croatian nati ...

– Ragusan poet *

Petar Hektorović Petar Hektorović (1487 – 13 March 1572) was a Croatian writer. Hektorović, also known as Pietro Ettoreo or Piero Hettoreo, was born and died in Stari Grad, Hvar. He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and an important ...

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Miljenko Jergović Miljenko Jergović (born 28 May 1966) is a prominent Bosnian writer. Biography Born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia to Croatian parents, Jergović received his M.A. in literature from the Sarajevo University. While at high ...

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Marija Jurić Zagorka Marija Jurić (; 2 March 1873 – 30 November 1957), known by her pen name Zagorka (), was a Croatian journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She was the first female journalist in Croatia and is among the most read Croatian writers. Ea ...

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Andrija Kačić Miošić Andrija Kačić Miošić (; 17 April 1704 – 14 December 1760) was a Croatian poet and Franciscan friar, descendant of one of the oldest and most influential Croatian noble families - Kačić. Biography Born in Brist near Makarska, he became ...

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Janko Polić Kamov Janko Polić Kamov (; 17 November 1886 – 8 August 1910) was a Croatian writer and poet. Although his literary corpus is small due to his short life, he is considered a significant writer in Croatian literature, emblematic of the contemporary ...

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avant-garde The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or ' vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical ...

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Brne Karnarutić Brne Karnarutić (1515–1573) was a Croats, Croatian Renaissance poet. His most famous work was ''Vazetje Sigeta grada'', a historical epic on the Battle of Szigetvár. Life He was born in Zadar, probably in 1515, from an old noble family. Afte ...

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Radoslav Katičić Radoslav Katičić (; 3 July 1930 – 10 August 2019) was a Croatian linguist, classical philologist, Indo-Europeanist, Slavist and Indologist, one of the most prominent Croatian scholars in the humanities. Biography Radoslav Katičić was born ...

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classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

Indo-Europeanist Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Sla ...

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Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is o ...

Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić (; born 29 October 1964) is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive langua ...

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Ante Kovačić Antun "Ante" Kovačić (June 6, 1854 – March 10, 1889) was a Croatian writer who is best known for his magnum opus work '' U registraturi''. Biography Early life Born to a family of Croatian peasants in Hrvatsko Zagorje, Kovačić made ...

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Ivan Goran Kovačić Ivan Goran Kovačić (; 21 March 1913 – 12 July 1943) was a Croatian poet and writer. Early life and background He was born in Lukovdol (part of Vrbovsko), a town in Gorski Kotar, to a Croat father, Ivan Kovačić, and Transylvanian Jewi ...

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Ron Kovic Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, writer, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His 1976 memoir ''Born on the Fourth of July'' was made into the Academ ...

– Vietnam War veteran, writer and peace activist * Josip Kozarac – writer *

Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević (; 17 February 1865 – 29 October 1908) was a Croatian poet. His reflexive poetry, reaching its zenith in the 1890s, was a turning point that ushered modern themes in Croatian poetry. Early life Kranjčevi ...

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Miroslav Krleža Miroslav Krleža (; 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Yugoslav and Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry (''Ba ...

– novelist, writer, philosopher,

encyclopedist An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into article ( ...

Eugen Kumičić Eugen Kumičić (11 January 1850 – 13 May 1904) was a prominent Croatian writer and politician. Kumičić was one of the most prolific Croatian novelists of the realism era and a pioneer of naturalism in Croatian literature. Biography Kumi� ...

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Tomislav Ladan Tomislav Ladan (25 June 1932 – 12 September 2008) was a Croatian essayist, critic, translator and novelist. Ladan was born in Ivanjica, Serbia, and spent his formative years in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina (Travnik, Bugojno), where he g ...

– writer * Božena Loborec – poet, writer *

Hanibal Lucić Hanibal Lucić () or Annibale Lucio (c. 1485 – 14 December 1553) was a Croatian Renaissance poet and playwright, author of the first secular drama in Croatian. Biography He was born to a Dalmatian noble family of ''Antun'' and ''Goja'' in Hv ...

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Darko Macan Darko Macan (born 1966) is a Croatian writer and illustrator who has created and collaborated on comics, essays and science fiction and fantasy. He is also an editor. Biography Born in Zagreb, where he still lives, he has a degree in history an ...

– writer * Vjekoslav Majer – poet *

Igor Mandić Igor Mandić (20 November 1939 – 13 March 2022) was a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist. According to Croatian historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić was the most important and the most versatile Croatian newspaper w ...

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Ranko Marinković Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist. Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in ...

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Marko Marulić Marko Marulić Splićanin (), in Latin Marcus Marulus Spalatensis (18 August 1450 – 5 January 1524), was a Croatian poet, lawyer, judge, and Renaissance humanist who coined the term "psychology". He is the national poet of Croatia. According to ...

– writer * Antun Gustav Matoš – poet *

Ivan Mažuranić Ivan Mažuranić (; 11 August 1814 – 4 August 1890) was a Croatian poet, linguist, lawyer and politician who is considered to be one of the most important figures in Croatia's political and cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić se ...

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Šiško Menčetić Šišmundo Menčetić ( it, Sigismondo Menze), known simply as Šiško Menčetić (; 1457–1527) was a poet from Ragusa, chiefly creating his opus in the 15th century. Biography Menčetić was born in 1458 in the city of Dubrovnik (today's Croati ...

– poet * Slavko Mihalić – poet, writer, journalist * Zvonimir Milčec – writer, journalist * Mijo Mirković – writer, economist *

Vjenceslav Novak Vjenceslav Novak (11 September 1859 in Senj – 20 September 1905 in Zagreb) was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian. He was born into an emigrant Czech family, of which his mother was from an emigrant Bavarian family. H ...

– writer *

Josip Novakovich Josip Novakovich (Croatian: ''Novaković'') is a Croatian Canadian writer. Early life and education Josip Novakovich was born in Yugoslavia (in 1956) and grew up in the central Croatian town of Daruvar. Novakovich studied medicine at the Univers ...

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Janus Pannonius Janus Pannonius ( la, Ioannes Pannonius, hr, Ivan Česmički, hu, Csezmiczei János or ; 29 August 1434 – 27 March 1472) was a Croatian- Hungarian Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Re ...

(Ivan Česmički) – Hungarian poet of 15th century, of Croatian descent *

Vesna Parun Vesna Parun (; 10 April 1922 – 25 October 2010) was a Croatian poet. Biography After schooling in Zlarin, Šibenik, and Split, she studied Romance languages and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. ...

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Vlatko Pavletić Vlatko Pavletić (; 2 December 1930 – 19 September 2007) was a Croatian politician, university professor, literary critic and essayist who served as acting President of Croatia from 1999 to 2000, as well as he served as Speaker of the Croatian ...

– theorist of literature, essayist and critic, politician *

Mikša Pelegrinović Mikša Pelegrinović (or Michiele Pelegrinovich) (c. 1500 – 26 December 1562) was a Croatian poet. Biography Pelegrinović was born around the year 1500 in the town of Hvar on the island of the same name. He came from a noble family orig ...

– poet * Dalibor Perković – writer * Sanja Pilić – writer * Paula Preradović – poet *

Petar Preradović Petar Preradović (19 March 1818 – 18 August 1872) was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general. He was one of the most important Croatian poets of the 19th century Illyrian movement and the main representative of romanticism in Croatia. ...

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Ivan Raos Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

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Matija Antun Relković Matija Antun Relković (also Reljković; 6 January 1732 – 22 January 1798) was Habsburg military officer and a Croatian writer. Early life and military career Born in the village of Davor, Croatia, Davor in Kingdom of Slavonia (today a part of ...

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Milan Rešetar Milan Rešetar (February 1, 1860 – January 14, 1942) was a linguist, historian and literary critic from Dubrovnik. Biography Rešetar was born in Dubrovnik. After the gymnasium in Dubrovnik, he studied classical philology and Slavic languages i ...

– writer (ethnic

Serb The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language. The majority of Serbs live in their na ...

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Paul Salopek Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962 in Barstow, California) is a journalist and writer from the United States. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and was raised in central Mexico. Salopek has reported globally for the Chicago Tribune, Foreign ...

– journalist *

Paul Skalich Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

– encyclopedist, Renaissance humanist and adventurer *

Antonio Skármeta Antonio Skármeta (born Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic on November 7, 1940) is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Lite ...

– Chilean writer *

Ivan Slamnig Ivan Slamnig (24 June 1930 – 3 July 2001) was a Croatian poet, novelist, literary theorist and translator. Slamnig was born in Metković. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and later taug ...

– poet, novelist, literary theorist, translator * Sonja Smolec – poet and writer * Antun Sorkočević – writer, diplomat, composer * Višnja Stahuljak – writer *

August Šenoa August Ivan Nepomuk Eduard Šenoa (; originally Schönoa; 14 November 1838 – 13 December 1881) was a Croatian novelist. Born to an ethnic German and Slovak family, Šenoa became a key figure in the development of an independent literary tradi ...

– writer * Antun Branko Šimić – poet *

Dinko Šimunović Dinko Šimunović (1 September 1873 – 3 August 1933) was a Croatian writer. Dinko Šimunović was born in Knin. He spent almost two decades as a teacher in villages of the Zagora, the hinterland of Dalmatia. He retired in 1927 and moved to Za ...

– writer * Sunčana Škrinjarić – writer, poet, journalist *

Slobodan Šnajder Slobodan Šnajder (; born 8 July 1948) is a Croatian writer and publicist. Šnajder was born in 1948 in Zagreb, where he graduated in philosophy and English studies from the Faculty of Philosophy. He was co-founder and editor of the theatre jour ...

– writer *

Antun Šoljan Antun Šoljan (1 December 1932, Belgrade - 12 July 1993, Zagreb) was a Croatian writer in a period of Cold War who appeared as a part of the literary magazine ''Krugovi'' (Circles, from 1952 onwards). Šoljan was active as a poet, novelist, short ...

– poet *

Drago Štambuk Drago Štambuk (20 September 1950) is a Croatian physician, poet, essayist and an ambassador. Štambuk was born in Selca on the island of Brač. He attended the gymnasium in Split, and the University of Zagreb School of Medicine. Career He spec ...

– poet *

Dragutin Tadijanović Dragutin Tadijanović (4 November 1905 – 27 June 2007) was a Croatian poet, and in his native Croatia he is referred to as a " Bard." Tadijanović was born in the village of Rastušje close to Slavonski Brod in the region of Slavonia. He pub ...

– poet *

Mihály Táncsics Mihály Táncsics ( sr, Михајло Танчић, Mihajlo Tančić; 21 April 1799 – 28 June 1884) was a Hungarian writer, teacher, journalist and politician. Life Mihály Táncsics was born on 21 April 1799 in the village of Ácsteszér ...

– writer, teacher, journalist and politician * Ante Tomić – writer * Josip Eugen Tomić – writer *

Jagoda Truhelka Jagoda Truhelka (; 5 February 1864 – 17 December 1957) was a Croatian writer and pedagogist. A native of Slavonia, Truhelka worked as teacher and headmistress in Osijek, Zagreb, Gospić, Banja Luka, and Sarajevo. Her novels are notable for focu ...

– writer, pedagogist *

Dubravka Ugrešić Dubravka Ugrešić (; born 27 March 1949) is a Yugoslav and later Croatian writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996 and refuses to identify as a Croatian writer. Early life and education Ugrešić ...

– writer *

Tin Ujević Augustin Josip "Tin" Ujević (; 5 July 1891 – 12 November 1955) was a Croatian poet, considered by many to be the greatest poet in 20th century Croatian literature. From 1921, he ceased to sign his name as Augustin, thereafter using the sig ...

– poet *

Mavro Vetranović Mauro Vetrani ( hr, Mavro Vetranović) (1482–1576) was a writer and Benedictine monk from Ragusa. Biography Born in Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), then the Republic of Ragusa, in 1482, he entered the Benedictine Order in 1507 on the island of Mljet ...

– writer, Benedictine friar *

Viktor Vida Viktor Vida (October 2, 1913 – September 25, 1960) was a Croatian writer. Early life Vida was born in Kotor. After completing his ''matura'' in Podgorica in 1932, he moved with his parents to Zagreb, where he graduated from the University of ...

– writer *

Mirko Vidović Mirko Vidović (born in Bila near Livno, December 31, 1940, deceased in Valence on October 13, 2016), was a Croatian writer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Early life and education He attended primary school at his native village of Bila near Livn ...

– writer * Jeronim Vidulić – Renaissance poet, priest *

Grigor Vitez Grigorije "Grigor" Vitez ( sh-Cyrl, Григорије "Григор" Витез; 15 February 1911 – 23 November 1966) was a Yugoslav writer and translator. He is best remembered as the author of children's poetry and other forms of literature ...

– poet *

Pavao Ritter Vitezović Pavao Ritter Vitezović (; 7 January 1652 – 20 January 1713) was a Habsburg-Croatian polymath, variously described as a historian, linguist, publisher, poet, political theorist, diplomat, printmaker, draughtsman, cartographer, writer and print ...

– writer, historian, linguist and publisher *

Ivo Vojnović Ivo Vojnović (9 October 1857 – 30 August 1929) was a writer from Dubrovnik. Biography Vojnović was born in Dubrovnik as the first son of Count Konstantin Vojnović (1832–1903) and Maria de Serragli (1836–1922) on 9 October 1857 in Du ...

– writer *

Stanko Vraz Stanko Vraz (born Jakob Frass; 30 June 1810 – 20 May 1851) was a Slovenian- Croatian poet. He Slavicized his name to ''Stanko Vraz'' in 1836. Biography Born in the village of Cerovec in Lower Styria, Austrian Empire (today in Slovenia), Vraz ...

– poet (ethnic Slovene) *

Sonja Yelich Sonja Yelich (; born 1965) is a New Zealand poet. She is the mother of pop singer Lorde. Early life Sonja Yelich () was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1965, into an immigrant family from the region of Dalmatia. She studied literature at th ...

– poet *

Dinko Zlatarić Dominko "Dinko" Zlatarić (1558–1613) was a Croatian poet and translator from Republic of Ragusa, considered the best translator of the Renaissance. Life Dominiko was the most famous member of the Zlatarić noble family from Dubrovnik. Din ...

– poet, translator, considered the best translator of the Renaissance *

Petar Zoranić Petar Zoranić (1508 – before 1569) was a Croatian writer and poet from Zadar. He is most important as the author of ''Planine'', regarded as the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature, the novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569. ...

– writer *

Nikola Zrinski Nikola () is a given name which, like Nicholas, is a version of the Greek ''Nikolaos'' (Νικόλαος). It is common as a masculine given name in the South Slavic countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montene ...

– poet, philosopher, soldier *

Aleksandar Žiljak Aleksandar Žiljak (born 19 June 1963) is a science fiction and fantasy writer and illustrator from Zagreb, Croatia. In 2006, he co-edited ''Ad Astra'', an anthology of Croatian language, Croatian SF stories, which covers period from 1976 to 2006, ...

– writer

Business

* Madeline-Ann Aksich – businesswoman, philanthropist and artist *

Benedetto Cotrugli Benedetto Cotrugli ( hr, Benedikt "Beno" Kotruljević; 1416–1469) was a Ragusan merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist. Life Cotrugli was born in the city of Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), part of the Republic of Ragusa. As a dip ...

– merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist. Wrote the first description of double-entry bookkeeping. *

Mike Grgich Miljenko "Mike" Grgić (born April 1, 1923) is a Croatian-American winemaker in California. He was born into a winemaking family in the town of Desne on Croatia's coastal region of Dalmatia. He is notable for being the winemaker behind the 197 ...

– winemaker *

Victor Grinich Victor Henry Grinich (November 26, 1924 – November 5, 2000) was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the "traitorous eight" that founded Silicon Valley. Early life and education Born to Croatian immigrant parents, his ori ...

– pioneer in the semiconductor industry *

– businessman, Herjavec Group, ''

Dragons' Den ''Dragons' Den'' is a reality television program format in which entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hope of securing investment finance from them. The program originated in 2001 in Japan, where it is k ...

'' and

* Antony Lucich-Lucas – engineer;

crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude ...

exploration,

Gulf Oil Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger ...

;

Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Indepe ...

* Andrónico Luksic – Antofagasta PLC; richest Croat ever * Michela Magas - designer, entrepreneur and innovation specialist *

Anthony Maglica Anthony "Tony" Maglica (Croatian: '' Ante Maglica'') (born 1930) is the owner and founder of Mag Instrument Inc, the company that manufactures the Maglite flashlight which was designed by Maglica. The Maglite is a powerful and durable flashlight th ...

–

Maglite Maglite (also spelled Mag-Lite, stylized as MAG-LITE) is a brand of flashlight manufactured in the United States by Mag Instrument, Inc. located in Ontario, California, and founded by Anthony Maglica. It was introduced in 1979. Constructed princ ...

* Branko Marinkovic – businessman *

Dietrich Mateschitz Dietrich Mateschitz (; 20 May 1944 – 22 October 2022) was an Austrian billionaire businessman. He was the co-founder and 49% owner of Red Bull GmbH. In April 2022, Mateschitz's net worth was estimated at US$27.4 billion. Mateschitz worked in ...

–

Burgenland Croats Burgenland Croats (, , , ) is the name for ethnic Croats in the Austrian state of Burgenland, along with Croats in neighboring Hungary and Slovakia. Around 320,000 residents of Austria identify as of Croat heritage; 56,785 have, as sole or mul ...

; billionaire, owner of

Red Bull Red Bull is a brand of energy drinks of Austria, Austrian company Red Bull GmbH. With 38% market share, it is the most popular energy drink brand as of 2019. Since its launch in 1987, more than 100 billion cans of Red Bull have been sold worldwid ...

corp. *

Nicolás Mihanovich Nicolás Mihanovich (1846–1929) was a Croatian Argentine businessman closely linked to the development of the Argentine merchant marine. Life and times The Beginnings Nicolás Mihanovich was born Nikola Mihanović in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, A ...

– shipping magnate *

Boris Mikšić Boris Mikšić (born 11 October 1948 in Zagreb) is a Croatian businessman and politician. Mikšić was born in Zagreb, then part of SFR Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Zagreb Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architect ...

– Cortec Corporation *

Nikola Nobilo Nikola "Nick" Nobilo, (23 August 1913 – 28 August 2007), was a New Zealand winemaker and founder of Nobilo Wines. He was originally from Austria-Hungary. Early life Nobilo was born in present-day Croatia in 1913. His family's home vill ...

– wine maker *

– inventor, businessman *

Bill Rancic William Rancic (; born May 16, 1971) is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality television show ''The Apprentice''. He is married to E! ...

– entrepreneur * Al Ljutic – Ljutic Industries *

Mate Rimac Mate Rimac (; born 12 February 1988) is a Croatian innovator, entrepreneur, and founder of the Croatian electric sports car company Rimac Automobili and Greyp Bikes, a high-tech eBike and eBike technology company. During his high-school years ...

–

Rimac Automobili Rimac Automobili (, \'Ri-mats\) is a Croatian car manufacturer headquartered in Sveta Nedelja, Croatia, that develops and produces electric sports cars, drivetrains and battery systems. The company was founded in 2009 by Mate Rimac. Rimac Auto ...

and Bugatti Rimac

Exploration

Ferdinand Konščak Fernando Consag, known in his native Croatian as Ferdinand Konščak (December 2, 1703 – September 10, 1759), was a Croatian Jesuit missionary, explorer and cartographer, who spent most of his life in Mexico, in Baja California. Education Con ...

– explorer *

Dragutin Lerman Dragutin Lerman (24 August 1863 - 12 July 1918) was a Croatian explorer. Biography Lerman was born in Požega, Slavonia, but he left his home very early. He was a member of the 1882 Henry Morton Stanley expedition to Congo and was one of Sta ...

– explorer *

Ignacije Szentmartony Ignacije Szentmartony (October 28, 1718 – April 15, 1793) was a Croatian Jesuit priest, missionary, mathematician, astronomer, explorer and cartographer. Biography Szentmartony was born in Kottori, Kingdom of Hungary (today Kotoriba, M ...

– explorer *

Željko Malnar Željko Malnar (12 April 1944 – 9 July 2013) was a Croatian maverick traveller, writer and a fringe television celebrity, best known for his own weekly show ''Nightmare Stage'' and his satirical micronation the Republic of Peščenica. Biogra ...

– explorer, producer *

Mirko and Stjepan Seljan Mirko Seljan (5 April 1871 – c. 1913) and Stjepan Seljan (19 August 1875 – 7 June 1936) were Croatian explorers. Early life The brothers were born in Karlovac, Croatia (at the time part of Austria-Hungary). After receiving a basic ed ...

– explorers *

– explorer *

Ivan Visin Ivan "Ivo" Visin (3 November 1806 – 17 August 1868) was a naval captain of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and an explorer. Biography Visin was born in Prčanj, then under the occupation of the French Empire. At the request of the government of ...

– explorer

Military

Edgar Angeli Edgar Angeli (11 May 1892 – 17 June 1945) was a Croatian rear admiral who served as the commander of the Navy of the Independent State of Croatia between 1943 and 1944. Biography Angeli was born in 1892 in Karlovac, Austria-Hungary, Angel ...

– Rear Admiral during World War II (ethnic Jewish) *

Matija Čanić Matija Čanić (1901 – 3 May 1964) was Croatian military officer who became a general during the Independent State of Croatia and was awarded the title of knight (''vitez''). He was a supporter of Lorković-Vokić coup, but suffered no ser ...

- General during World War II * Bernhard Caboga-Cerva - Feldzeugmeister of the Austrian Empire *

Josip Kazimir Drašković Josip Kazimir Drašković (1716–1765) was a Croatian general who played an important role in the Seven Years' War (1756–1763). He was Count of the noble House of Drašković (Draskovich). From 1736 to 1739, Drašković took part in the war a ...

– General in the

Seven Years' War The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (1754� ...

(1756–1763) *

Mato Dukovac Mato Dukovac (23 September 1918 – 6 June 1990) was the leading Croatian fighter ace of World War II, credited with between 40 and 44 confirmed victories. He joined the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia following the Axis invasion ...

– Croatian World War II fighter ace * Mirosław Ferić – Polish fighter pilot of World War II, Bosnian Croat father *

Jure Francetić Jure Francetić (3 July 1912 – 27/28 December 1942) was a Croatian Ustaša Commissioner for the Bosnia and Herzegovina regions of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II, and commander of the 1st Ustaše Regiment of the ...

– Ustashe Commissioner *

Cvitan Galić Cvitan Galić (29 November 1909 – 6 April 1944) was a Croatian World War II fighter ace. Born in the village of Gorica near Imotski, in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, Galić finished grade school in the town of Sovići. In 1927 he joined ...

– Croatian World War II fighter ace * Ilija Gregorić – Military commander of rebels during the

Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt Croatian may refer to: *Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , ...

Matija Gubec Matija Gubec (, hu, Gubecz Máté) ( 1548 – 15 February 1573), with his real name Ambroz Gubec (or ''Gobec''), was a Croatian / Slovenian (nationality still disputed) revolutionary, best known as the leader of the Croatian–Slovene Peasant Re ...

– leader of the

Luka Ibrišimović Fra Luka Ibrišimović, O.F.M. (ca. 1620 – March 1698) was a Croatian friar, cultural worker soldier and a spy, most known for leading an uprising against Ottoman forces in Slavonia during the Great Turkish War. Biography Ibrišimović ...

– Priest and Hajduk * Đuro Jakčin – Naval Commander and first Commander of the Navy during World War II *

Nikola Jurišić Baron Nikola Jurišić ( hu, Jurisich Miklós; – 1545) was a Croatian nobleman, soldier, and diplomat. Early life Jurišić was born in Senj, Croatia. He is first mentioned in 1522 as an officer of Ferdinand I of Habsburg's troops deployed ...

– nobleman, soldier, and diplomat *

Ivan Karlović Ivan Karlović (c. 1485 – 9 August 1531), also known as by his Latin name ''Johannes Torquatus'', was the Count of Krbava, and Ban of Croatia from 1521 to 1524 and again from 1527 to 1531. In defense against Ottoman Empire expansion, he lost mo ...

– ban of Croatia *

Petar Keglević Petar Keglević II of Bužim (died in 1554 or 1555) was the ban of Croatia and Slavonia from 1537 to 1542. Career Keglević was captain from 1521 to 1522 and later ban of Jajce. In 1526, some months before the Battle of Mohács, he got the '' ...

– ban of Croatia and Slavonia *

Vinko Knežević Vinko Knežević or Vincent Knesevich of Saint Helen ( hr, Vinko Knežević od Svete Jelene, hu, Vince Knezsevics de Szent-Ilona); 30 November 1755 – 11 March 1832) was a Croatian nobleman and general in the Habsburg monarchy imperial army se ...

– nobleman and General in the Habsburg Austria Army *

Vladimir Kren Vladimir Kren (8 December 1903 – 2 December 1948) was a Croatian major general and commander of the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia (ZNDH) during World War II. He was an officer in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force (VVKJ) before the wa ...

– Major General and Commander of the Air Force during World War II *

Petar Krešimir IV of Croatia Petar ( sr, Петар, bg, Петър) is a South Slavic masculine given name, their variant of the Biblical name Petros cognate to Peter. Derivative forms include Pero, Pejo, Pera, Perica, Petrica, Periša. Feminine equivalent is Petra. ...

– medieval king and military leader *

Petar Kružić Petar Kružić (died 1537) was a Croatian knez, captain, soldier and defender of Klis, and the captain of Senj. In the early 16th century Petar Kružić ''(knez of Klis)'' defended the Klis Fortress against Turk invasion. He died in 1537 ...

– heroic defender of

Klis Klis ( hr, Klis, it, Clissa, tr, Kilis) is a Croatian municipality located around a mountain fortress bearing the same name. It is located in the region of Dalmatia, located just northeast of Solin, Croatia, Solin and Split, Croatia, Split near ...

against the

Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic o ...

Grgo Kusić Grgo Kusić (1892 – 1918) was a Croat soldier in the Austro-Hungarian Army. According to some accounts, Kusić was tall, and is frequently cited as the tallest Croat ever, as well as the tallest soldier of the Austro-Hungarian Army. However, oth ...

– tallest Croat ever, tallest soldier of Austro-Hungarian Army *

Slavko Kvaternik Slavko Kvaternik (25 August 1878 – 7 June 1947) was a Croatian Ustaše military general and politician who was one of the founders of the Ustaše movement. Kvaternik was military commander and Minister of '' Domobranstvo'' (''Armed Forces''). O ...

– Minister of Armed Forces during World War II *

Ivan Lenković Ivan Lenković (died 22 June 1569) was a Habsburg Croatian army general and the leader of the Uskoks. He carried the title of baron. He is noted for the construction of Nehaj Fortress and as a captain of the Senj area.Bousfield (2003), p. 227. ...

– Army general and the leader of the

Uskoks The Uskoks ( hr, Uskoci, , singular: ; notes on naming) were irregular soldiers in Habsburg Croatia that inhabited areas on the eastern Adriatic coast and surrounding territories during the Ottoman wars in Europe. Bands of Uskoks fought a g ...

Mladen Lorković Mladen Lorković (1 March 1909 – April 1945) was a Croatian politician and lawyer who became a senior member of the Ustaše and served as the Foreign Minister and Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World ...

– Foreign Minister and Minister of Interior during World War II * Marko Mesić – priest and war hero from the Ottoman Wars *

Vladimir Metikoš Vladimir Metikoš (7 July 1899 – 24 September 1945) was a Croatian general in the then Independent State of Croatia (NDH).''Tko je tko u NDH'', Zagreb, 1997, p. 268; Biography Born in Banja Luka, he was posted during World War I to the I ...

– General during World War II * Vladimir Majder – Croatian partisan and Spanish Civil War veteran *

Miroslav Navratil Miroslav (Friedrich) Navratil (19 July 1893 – 7 June 1947) was a Croatian soldier, pilot, and general who served in the armies of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the Independent State of Croatia. Until the end of World War I ...

– fighter pilot during WWI, General during WWII *

Michael J. Novosel Michael J. Novosel Sr. (September 3, 1922 – April 2, 2006) of Enterprise, Alabama served in the United States military during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He flew the B-29 Superfortress bomber in World War II. In order to s ...

– hero of the Vietnam War *

Rüstem Pasha Rüstem Pasha (; ota, رستم پاشا; 1505 – 10 July 1561) was an Ottoman statesman who served as Grand Vizier to Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent. Rüstem Pasha is also known as Damat Rüstem Pasha (the epithet ''damat'' meaning 'son- ...

Opuković – Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire *

Piyale Pasha Piali Pasha, ( tr, Piyale Paşa; hu, Piali pasa) (c. 1515–1578) was an Ottoman Grand Admiral (Kapudan Pasha) between 1553 and 1567, and a Vizier (minister) after 1568. He is also known as Piale Pasha in English. Early life His exact place ...

– Ottoman Grand Admiral and Vizier *

Lothar Rendulic Lothar Rendulic ( hr, Rendulić; 23 October 1887 – 17 January 1971)Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.) (1980): ''Protokolle des Ministerrates der Ersten Republik, 1918–1938, Abteilung VIII, 20. Mai 1932 bis 25. Juli 1934''. ...

– Austrian Colonel General during World War II *

Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd Mathias Rukavina von Boynograd (1737 - 3 May 1817) was a Croatian general in the Habsburg monarchy imperial army service. He joined the army in 1755 and fought against the Kingdom of Prussia, Ottoman Turkey, and the First French Republic. For most ...

– General in the Austro-Hungarian Army *

Stjepan Sarkotić Stjepan Freiherr Sarkotić von Lovćen (also ''Stefan Sarkotić'', ''Stjepan Sarkotić'', or ''Stephan Sarkotić''; 4 October 1858 – 16 October 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian Army generaloberst of Croatian descent who served as Governor of Bosni ...

– General in the Austro-Hungarian Army * Arsen Sečujac – General in the Habsburg Austria Army * Tomislav Sertić – General during World War II * Ivan L. Slavich, Jr. – United States Army colonel, military pioneer, served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War *

Andrijica Šimić Andrija "Andrijica" Šimić (1833 – 5 February 1905) was a Herzegovinian hajduk. Biography Andrija Šimić (Andrijica is a diminutive form) was born in Grude, into an ethnic Croat family of seven children: he had a brother and five siste ...

– legendary

hajduk A hajduk ( hu, hajdúk, plural of ) is a type of irregular infantry found in Central and parts of Southeast Europe from the late 16th to mid 19th centuries. They have reputations ranging from bandits to freedom fighters depending on time, p ...

Tom Starcevich Leslie Thomas Starcevich, VC (5 September 1918 – 17 November 1989) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of British and Commonwealth ...

– Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross during WWII * Ivan Tomašević – soldier and World War II General *

Tomislav Tomislav (, ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, that is widespread amongst the South Slavs. The meaning of the name ''Tomislav'' is thought to have derived from the Old Slavonic verb "'' tomiti''" or "'' tomit" meaning to "''languish ...

– first Croatian king *

Peter Tomich Petar Herceg-Tonić (later anglicized as Peter Tomich; June 3, 1893 – December 7, 1941) was a United States Navy sailor of Herzegovinian Croat descent who received the United States military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his act ...

(Petar Tomić) – U.S. Army and U.S. Navy *

Mijat Tomić Mijat Tomić (died 1656) was a hajduk who led brigands which fought against Ottoman Empire rule in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. Biography He was born in the village of Brišnik near Tomislavgrad. Although his exact birth date is uncertain, ...

– Croatian legendary Hajduk *

Baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knig ...

Franjo Trenk – leader of

Pandurs The Pandurs were any of several light infantry Light infantry refers to certain types of lightly equipped infantry throughout history. They have a more mobile or fluid function than other types of infantry, such as heavy infantry or line i ...

; father of

military music A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

* Franjo Vlašić – General and Ban *

Josef Philipp Vukassovich Baron Josef Philipp Vukassovich ( hr, Barun Josip Filip Vukasović; 1755 – 9 August 1809) was a Croats, Croatian soldier who joined the army of Habsburg monarchy and fought against both Ottoman Empire and the First French Republic. During ...

– Habsburg commander *

Matija Zmajević Matija Zmajević (also Matej Zmajević; russian: Матвей Христофорович Змаевич, Matvei Khristoforovich Zmayevich; ; January 6, 1680 – August 23, 1735) was an admiral of the Russian Baltic Fleet and the shipbuilder of ...

–

Admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ...

of the

Baltic fleet , image = Great emblem of the Baltic fleet.svg , image_size = 150 , caption = Baltic Fleet Great ensign , dates = 18 May 1703 – present , country = , allegiance = (1703–1721) (1721–1917) (1917–1922) (1922–1991)(1991–present) ...

Petar Zrinski Petar IV Zrinski ( hu, Zrínyi Péter) (6 June 1621 – 30 April 1671) was Ban of Croatia (Viceroy) from 1665 to 1670, general and a writer. A member of the Zrinski noble family, he was noted for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian Magna ...

– Croatian ban and conspirator *

Nikola Šubić Zrinski Nikola IV Zrinski or Miklós IV Zrínyi ( hu, Zrínyi Miklós, ; 1507/1508 – 7 September 1566), also commonly known as Nikola Šubić Zrinski (), was a Croatian nobleman and general, Ban of Croatia from 1542 until 1556, royal master of the tr ...

– Croatian ban, hero of the

Battle of Szigetvár A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force ...

Nikola VII Zrinski Nikola () is a given name which, like Nicholas, is a version of the Greek ''Nikolaos'' (Νικόλαος). It is common as a masculine given name in the South Slavic countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montene ...

– Croatian ban, warrior and poet

Croatian War for Independence

Janko Bobetko Janko Bobetko (10 January 1919 – 29 April 2003) was a Croatian general who had participated in World War II and later in the Croatian War of Independence. He was one of the founding members of 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, the first anti ...

– general *

Ante Gotovina Ante Gotovina (born 12 October 1955) is a Croatian retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He is noted for his primary role in the 1995 Operation Storm. In 2001, the Intern ...

– general pukovnik *

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– Croatian policeman, first victim in Independence War *

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– fighter pilot *

Blago Zadro Blago Zadro (31 March 1944 – 16 October 1991) was a commander of the northern part of Croatian forces in Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence. He was killed in an attack by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in the town of Borovo Naselj ...

– general

Politics

Mehmed Alajbegović Mehmed Alajbegović (7 May 1906 – 7 June 1947) was a Bosnian Muslim politician, lawyer and a government minister of the Independent State of Croatia, an Axis puppet state. He was executed for war crimes by Yugoslav authorities following the ...

– Foreign Minister and Minister of Walfare during World War II *

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– ruler of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1980 *

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– politician *

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– Serbian politician of Croat ethnicity; vice-president of

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; former Deputy Prime Minister of

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and once Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management *

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– Croatian patriot politician (ethnic Jewish) * Andrija Hebrang – Croatian communist party leader, nationally conscious (ethnic Jewish) *

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– a president of

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and a long-time mayor of its capital

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Josip Jelačić Count Josip Jelačić von Bužim (16 October 180120 May 1859; also spelled ''Jellachich'', ''Jellačić'' or ''Jellasics''; hr, Josip grof Jelačić Bužimski; hu, Jelasics József) was a Croatian lieutenant field marshal in the Imperial-Roy ...

– soldier, former Croatian ban *

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– Deputy Prime Minister NDH * Džafer-beg Kulenović – politician in NDH *

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– political centrist, leader of the

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before the establishment of the

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– Prime Minister during World II *

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– former Yugoslav prime minister *

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– President of the Republic of Croatia * Dr. Ante Pavelić (older) – vice-president of the National assembly of the

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– Ustaša leader *

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– Croatian national leader in 1st half of 20th century *

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– "father of Croat nation" *

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– historian, one of greatest albanologists *

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– Croatian national leader *

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– first President of Croatia, founder of modern Croatia

Foreign figures of Croatian descent

People of Croatian ancestry who are high-ranked officials of other countries: *

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– US Senator from Alaska * James Belich – former Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand *

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– Minister of the Navy of Peru *

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– former Mayor of Chicago; former

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State Supreme Court Chief Justice *

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- President of Chile *

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– Australian Democrat Senator * Ivan Gašparovič – President of Slovakia (Croatian father) * Cedomil Lausic Glasinovic – Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile), MIR activist, executed 1975 * Alejandro Jadresic – Chilean Energy Minister, engineer, economist; awarded the Order of Prince Trpmir of the Republic of Croatia * John Kasich – Governor of Ohio * Dennis Kucinich – US Representative from Ohio; former Mayor of Cleveland * Frank Mahovlich – Canadian Senator (NHL Hall of Famer) * Mary Matalin – US political consultant * Josip Marohnić – founding father of Croatian Fraternal Union * John Newman (Australian politician), John Newman – assassinated Australian politician, martyr * Roy Nikisch – Governor of Chaco Province, Chaco, Argentina * Rudy Perpich – former Governor of Minnesota * Baldo Prokurica – former Congressman, current Senator in Chile * Edmundo Pérez Zujovic – Chilean Christian Democrat Party of Chile, PDC, Minister of Finance, Interior and of Public Works, assassinated in 1971 * Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, Francisco Orlić Bolmarčić – former President of Costa Rica, Croat parents * George Radanovich – US Representative from California * Clem Simich – Member of NZ Parliament * Jorge Sobisch – Governor of Neuquén, Argentina * Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic – former Chilean First Lady * Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić – former president of Argentina (Chilean mother of Croatian descent) * Eric Skrmetta – US politician * Vincent Thomas – US politician * Michael Anthony Stepovich – former Governor of Alaska * Radomiro Tomic – former Chilean Deputy, Senator and Ambassador * Lynne Yelich – Member of Canadian Parliament

Religion

* Ivan Ančić – theological writer * Josip Bozanić – cardinal * Markantun de Dominis – archbishop * Matthias Flacius, Matija Vlačić Ilirik – Protestant reformer * Juraj Habdelić – Jesuit and writer *

– friar, leader of an uprising against Ottoman forces in Slavonia * Estanislao Esteban Karlic – Archbishop of Paraná, Argentina *

– Jesuit and grammarian during the Counter-Reformation * Baltazar Adam Krčelić – historian, theologian and lawyer * Marko Krizin (Marko Križevčanin) – saint * Antun Mahnić – bishop * Leopold Mandić – saint * Ivan Merz – beatified * Gregory of Nin – bishop * Franciscus Patricius – philosopher and scientist * Marija Petković – beatified nun * Ivo Protulipac – layman * Vinko Puljić – Cardinal Priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Sarajevo * John of Ragusa – Cardinal * Franjo Šeper – Cardinal (Catholicism), Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith * Alojzije Stepinac – archbishop, beatified * Zlatko Sudac – stigmatic * Nikola Tavelić – saint * Miroslav Volf – Christian theologian * Bernard Zamanja – theologist

Heroism

*Paul Bucha * Mila Gojsalić *

* Marko Križevčanin *

* Petar Perica * Nikola Tavelić *

* John J. Tominac * Ivan Vranetić

Urban legends

* Jure Grando – first real person described as a vampire in historical records * Joe Magarac – American steel worker of Croatian extraction. * Joe "Pegleg" Morgan – first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia * Frane Selak – survivor of seven incidents of possible death, lottery winner * Matija Babić – anti-hrvat i Vijetnamac

Sport

* John Abramovic – former basketball player, played in the Basketball Association of America for Pittsburgh Ironmen, St. Louis Bombers, Baltimore Bullets (1944–54), Baltimore Bullets and Syracuse Nationals * Mirko Alilović – handball goalkeeper * Mario Ančić – tennis; Davis Cup Champion * Johnny Babich – former baseball player, played in Major League Baseball for Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Bees, and Philadelphia Athletics * Dalibor Bagarić – former NBA player * Ivano Balić – handball player, IHF player of the year 2003, 2006 * Zvonko Bego – football player * Željko Bilecki – football player * Bill Belichick – NFL Coach * Brian Billick – NFL coach * Gary Beban – former NFL player *Dragan Bender (born 1997) - basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League * Pete Bercich – former NFL player * Dražen Besek – football coach and former player * Sandra Bezic – figure skater, choreographer and television commentator * Val Bezic – figure skater * Slaven Bilić – former football player, former manager of Croatian national football team and current manager of West Ham United in the Premier League * Dražen Biškup – football coach and former player * Djurdjica Bjedov – swimmer * Zlatan Ibrahimović – football player * Antonio Blasevich – football player and coach * Goran Blažević – football goalkeeper * Miroslav Blažević – football Manager * Zvonimir Boban – football player * Bojan Bogdanović - basketball player in NBA * Andrew Bogut – NBA basketball player * Alen Bokšić – football player * Tamara Boroš – table tennis champion * Mark Bosnich – football goalkeeper, Premier League * Mark Bresciano – football player (Italian father, Croat mother) * Reid Brignac – baseball player * Denis Buntić – handball player * Nick Burley – boxer * Tony Butkovich – American football player, All-American * Pete Carroll – NFL head coach and executive vice president * Joseph Cattarinich – NHL Hall of Famer * George Chuvalo – heavyweight boxer * Branko Cikatić – First K-1 Grand Prix Winner (kickboxing) * Marin Čilić – No. 1 Junior in the World (tennis) and US Open champion * Ann Cindric – baseball player * Vedran Ćorluka – football player, Tottenham Hotspur * Krešimir Ćosić – member of the basketball Hall of Famer * Fred Couples – golfer (former World number 1) * Helen Crlenkovich – athlete * Dario Cvitanich – football player, Ajax * Ivona Dadic – Austrian track and field athlete * Nick Dasovic – football player and coach * Paul Diamond – professional wrestler, soccer player * David Diehl – NFL player * Nicholas Drazenovic – ice hockey player * Stipe Drews – boxing champion * Domagoj Duvnjak - handball player * Marina Erakovic – tennis player, New Zealand * Abby Erceg – football player, New Zealand * Eddie Erdelatz – American football player * Elvis Fatović – former water polo player and coach, European and World medalist * Mirko Filipović (Cro Cop) – mixed martial artist and kickboxer; K-1 * Jonathan Filewich – ice hockey player * Mark Fistric – ice hockey player * Dražen Funtak – sprint canoer * Gary Gabelich – American automobile-racing driver * Ray Gabelich — Australian Rules footballer * Gabre Gabric – track and field athlete * Gino Gardassanich – football player * Gordan Giriček – former NBA player * Mike Golic – co-host of ESPN Radio's ''Mike and Mike in the Morning''; former NFL player * Kara Goucher – long-distance runner * Elvis Grbac – NFL player * Great Antonio – strongman * Visco Grgich – former NFL player * Bobby Grich – former MLB player * Tom Haller – MLB baseball player * Justin Hamilton (basketball, born 1990), Justin Hamilton – basketball player * Travis Hamonic – ice hockey player * John Havlicek – basketball player * John Hecimovic – ice hockey player * Frankie Hejduk – football player, MLS * Mario Hezonja – basketball player, NBA * Zvonimir Boban – football player * Robert Jarni – football player * Saša Hiršzon (born 1972) - tennis player * Ico Hitrec – football player * Hrvoje Horvat – team handball, handball player * Les Horvath – former NFL player * Tony Hrkac – ice hockey player * Dick Hrstich – New Zealand wrestler * Goran Ivanišević – tennis player; Wimbledon Champion; two Olympic bronze medals, 1992 * Andreas Ivanschitz – football player * Robert Jarni – football player * Nikica Jelavić – football player, Everton FC * Ana Jelušić – skier * Dražan Jerković – football player (top scorer WC 1962 and EURO 1960) * Ed Jurak – baseball player * Al Jurisich – baseball player * Igor Jurković – kickboxer * John Jurkovic – NFL player * Tvrtko Kale – football player, goalkeeper (Hapoel Haifa) * Ivo Karlović – tennis player * Mario Kasun – former NBA player, Orlando Magic *Siniša Kelečević (born 1970) - basketball player * Ivan Klasnić – football player, Werder Bremen * Marko Kopljar – handball player * Ante Kostelić – Alpine skiing coach * Ivica Kostelić – Alpine Skiing Slalom World Cup Champion (three Olympic silvers) * Janica Kostelić – A.S. World Cup Champion in 2001, 2003 & 2006 (four Olympic golds, two silvers) * Dan Kordic – ice hockey player * John Kordic – ice hockey player * Robert Kovač – football player * Niko Kovač – football player * Mario Kovačević – football player * Niko Kranjčar – football player * Mike Kreevich – baseball player * Toni Kukoč – NBA player (NBA Sixth Man of the Year 1995–96) * Blaženko Lacković – handball player * Dražen Ladić – football goalkeeper * Stefan Leko – kickboxer * Curt Leskanic – former MLB pitcher * Matija Ljubek – kayaker * Ivan Ljubičić – tennis player; Davis Cup Champion (#3) * Johnny Logan (baseball), Johnny Logan – baseball player * Mickey Lolich – baseball player * Venio Losert – handball goalkeeper * Steve Lubratich – baseball player * Dan Luger – rugby union player * Frank Mahovlich – NHL Hall of Famer (1958 Calder Trophy winner) * Pete Mahovlich – NHL player * Iva Majoli – Roland Garros Champion * Tony Mandarich – American football player * John Mandic – NBA player * Mario Mandžukić – football player, plays for Juventus * Todd Marinovich – former NFL player * Marv Marinovich – former NFL player * Vic Markov – American football player * Roger Maris – baseball player, MLB * Željko Mavrović – former European boxing champion * John Mayasich – former hockey player * Catfish Metkovich – baseball player * Petar Metličić - handball player * Siniša Mihajlović – (mother's side family) football player * Marcello Mihalich – football player * George Mikan (Mr. Basketball) – NBA (Basketball Hall of Fame) * Pat Miletich – UFC mixed martial artist * Stipe Miocic – UFC mixed martial artist * Luka Modrić – football player, plays for Real Madrid C.F. * Sofía Mulánovich – surfer * Dražen Mužinić – football player * Zdravko Miljak – handball player * Rob Ninkovich – American football player * Frank Nobilo – NZ golfer * Mirjana Ognjenović -former Yugoslav/Croatian handball player * Phil Oreskovic – ice hockey player * Victor Oreskovich – ice hockey player * Erv Palica – former MLB pitcher * Mate Parlov – boxing champion * Mark Pavelich – ice hockey, NHL * Marty Pavelich – ice hockey, NHL * Matt Pavelich – ice hockey, NHL official * Snježana Pejčić – shooting player * Sandra Perković – discus thrower * Nikolaj Pešalov – Olympic gold medal winner in weightlifting * Johnny Pesky – baseball player, manager and coach * Dražen Petrović – NBA Hall of Famer * Zoran Planinić – former NBA player * Dan Plesac – former MLB pitcher * Diana Prazak - professional boxer * Robert Prosinečki – football player * Joel Prpic – ice hockey player * Dado Pršo – football player * Braslav Rabar – chess player * Dino Rađa – former NBA star * Paul Radisich – racing driver * Nikola Radulović – basketball player * Ivan Rakitić – footballer, plays for FC Barcelona * Ante Razov – football player * Jules Rykovich – former NFL player * Borna Rendulić – NHL player * Lou Saban – NFL coach * Nick Saban – college football coach * Spider Sabich – alpine skier * Vladimir Sabich – American skier murdered by girlfriend Claudine Longet * Brian Sakic – NHL player * Joe Sakic – NHL player (2001 Hart Memorial Trophy Winner) * Dario Šarić (Super Dario) – NBA player with the Philadelphia 76ers * Cory Sarich – ice hockey player * Buzz Schneider – ice hockey player * Branko Šegota – football player * Frank Sinkwich – American football player and awarded the Heisman Trophy * Elvis Sinosic (King of Rock N Rumble) – mixed martial artist, UFC * Paul Skansi – American football player * Nick Skorich – American football player and coach * Matt Skrmetta – baseball player * Paul Spoljaric – baseball player * Josef Spudich – American football player * Darijo Srna – football player * Max Starcevich – All-American football guard * Steve Stipanovich – former NBA player, No.2 pick in 1983 NBA Draft * Dominik Straga – swimmer * Dario Šimić – football player * Davor Šuker – football player (best scorer of the 1998 WC most goals winner of golden shoe in 98 WC with six goals) * Bruno Šundov – former NBA player * Žan Tabak – former NBA player * Marko Tomas – basketball player * Rudy Tomjanovich – former NBA player and coach * Andy Tonkovich – first NBA pick in 1948 * Igor Tudor – football player * The Great Antonio – strongman and eccentric * Roko Ukić – NBA player * Auggie Vidovich – NASCAR driver * Mark Viduka – football player, Premier League * Blanka Vlašić – high jumper * Marc-Édouard Vlasic – ice hockey player * Antonio Vojak – football player * Oliviero Vojak – football player * Nikolai Volkoff – WWE Hall of Famer, born Josip Peruzović * Danny Vranes – basketball player * Stojko Vranković – former NBA player * Nikola Vujčić (born 1978) - basketball player and general manager (basketball), team manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv * Bernard Vukas – football player * Vladimir Vuković – chess player * Božo Vuletić – Olympic water polo gold medalist * Wesna – professional wrestler * Slaven Zambata – football player * Fritzie Zivic (The Croat Comet) – former World Welterweight Champion * Chris Zorich – former NFL player * Zdravko Zovko – handball player * Bob Zupcic – baseball player * Ante Žižić (born 1997) - basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League * Mario Andretti – racing driver, born in Motovun

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External links

* Additional list of Croatian architects and builders: :hr:Dodatak:Popis hrvatskih arhitekata i graditelja * Additional list of Croatian sculptors: :hr:Kategorija:Hrvatski kipari * Additional list of Croatian painters: :Croatian painters :hr:Kategorija:Hrvatski slikari * Additional list of Croatian stage actors: :hr:Kategorija:Hrvatski kazališni glumci
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