List of people by city in Croatia
This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in various cities in Croatia.
Čakovec
- Lidija Bajuk, musician
- Lujo Bezeredi, sculptor and painter
- Srećko Bogdan, football player and manager
- Robert Jarni, football player and manager
- Ladislav Kralj-Međimurec, artist
- Dražen Ladić, football goalkeeper
- Ivana Lisjak, tennis player
- Franjo Punčec, tennis player
- Rudolf Steiner, philosopher
- Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, composer
- Filip Ude, gymnast
- Vinko Žganec, folklorist
- Juraj IV Zrinski, soldier, politician and patron
- Juraj V Zrinski, soldier and politician
- Nikola Zrinski, soldier, poet and philosopher
- Nikola Šubić Zrinski, soldier and politician
- Petar Zrinski, soldier, politician and poet
Dubrovnik
Karlovac
- Borislav Cvetković (born 1964), Yugoslav footballer
- Zrinka Cvitešić (born 1979), theatre and film actress
- Jelka Glumičić (born 1941), human rights activist
- Dejan Jakovic (born 1985), Canadian soccer player
- Dragojla Jarnević (1813–1875), poet
- Vjekoslav Karas (1821–1858), 19th-century painter
- Alfred Freddy Krupa (born 1971), painter
- Ivan Mažuranić (1814–1890), poet, linguist and politician
- Gajo Petrović (1927–1993), author and philosopher
- Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), painter
- Mirko and Stjepan Seljan, explorers
- Ana Vidović (born 1980), classical guitarist
- Maksimilijan Vrhovac (1752–1827), bishop of Zagreb
Osijek
Pula
- Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, born in Pola, then lived in Italy (her family is from Pisino/Pazin)
- Lidia Bastianich, American television chef and business mogul, was born near Pula
- Fausto Budicin, Croatian footballer for HNK Rijeka of the Prva HNL
- Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer-songwriter, was born in Pola, then Italy
- Franz Karl Ginzkey, Austrian officer, poet and writer
- Alojz Gradnik, Slovenian poet, worked in Pula as a judge
- Stjepan Hauser, Croatian cellist
- Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Austrian and Polish officer and landowner
- Robert Koch, physician, worked on the nearby Brioni islands (today:Brijuni)
- Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer and director of the observatory at Pula, discovered ca. 30 asteroids
- Mate Parlov, greatest Croatian boxer of all time; one of the greatest Croatian sportspeople of the 20th century
- Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung), rocket engineer and pioneer of cosmonautics (astronautics), was born in Pula to Slovene parents
- Stiven Rivić, Croatian footballer of the German club Energie Cottbus
- Elvis Scoria, former Croatian footballer and current coach of NK Istra 1961
- Antonio Smareglia (1854–1929), Italian composer
- Alida Valli (real name: Alida Maria Laura Altenburger, Baroness von Marckenstein und Frauenberg), Italian actress, was born in Pola, then lived in Italy
- Antonio Vojak, Croatian football player
- Georg Ludwig von Trapp, Austrian naval hero and head of the famous singing family immortalized in the musical The Sound of Music lived in Pula, his father August von Trapp and other relatives are buried there
- Hede von Trapp, sister of George Ritter von Trapp, Austrian painter
Šibenik
- Juraj Šižgorić, latinist poet
- Krešimir Baranović, composer and conductor (d. 1975)
- Ivo Brešan, writer (d. 2017)
- Perica Bukić, former water polo player and politician
- Arsen Dedić, musician (d. 2015)
- Roberto Ferruzzi, painter
- Angelo Antonio Frari, physician, epidemiologist, historian of medicine, and protomedicus of Venice
- Danira Gović, actress
- Mišo Kovač, singer
- Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia, King of Croatia
- Anthony Maglica, inventor
- Mate Maleš, football player
- Maksim Mrvica, pianist
- Dražen Petrović, basketball player (d. 1993)
- Martino Rota, engraver
- Gordon Schildenfeld, football player
- Ante Rukavina, retired footballer
- Stipe Gojanović, professional tweeter
- Ante Kulušić, football player
- Aleksandar Petrović, basketball coach
- Giorgio da Sebenico, architect and sculptor
- Murat-beg Tardić, Ottoman Croatian general.
- St. Nikola Tavelić, first Croatian saint
- Niccolò Tommaseo, Dalmatian Italian linguist and journalist
- Faust Vrančić, inventor
- Goran Višnjić, actor, best known for his role on ER
- Antun Vrančić, writer
- Dario Šarić, basketball player
- Neven Spahija, basketball coach
- Antonija Sandrić, basketball player
- Tonino Picula, politician
- Miro Bilan, basketball player
- Henrik Širko, basketball player
- Predrag Šarić, retired basketball player, father of Dario Šarić
- Nik Slavica, basketball player
- Željko Burić, politician and current mayor of Šibenik
- Ivica Tucak, retired water polo player, current national team coach
- Renato Vrbičić, retired water polo player (d. 2018)
- Vinko Brešan, film producer, son of Ivo Brešan
- Mišo Kovač, musician
- Danira Nakić, retired female basketball player
- Vanda Baranović-Urukalo, retired female basketball player
Sisak
- Monika Babok, swimmer
- Janko Bobetko, Croatian Army general
- Goran Dević, film director and screenwriter
- Tamás Erdődy, ban
- Bobby Bosko Grubic (aka Bobby G), singer/songwriter, director, producer
- David Haines, British aid worker who was captured by ISIL
- Desiderius Hampel, commander of the 13th Waffen-SS Mountain Division during World War II
- Ivica Horvat, footballer and manager
- Bisera Veletanlic, serbian pop singer
- Stjepan Lamza, footballer
- Vladimir Laxa, highly decorated veteran of the First World War
- Vladimir Majder, Croatian partisan and Spanish Civil War veteran
- Ivan Medarić, footballer
- Miroslav Miletić, composer and viola player
- Marijan Mrmić, footballer/coach
- Lisa Nemec, long-distance runner
- Ljudevit Posavski, 9th-century prince
- Stjepan Radić, politician
- Ivica Senzen, footballer
- Sveti Kvirin Sisački, patron saint, bishop
- Mika Špiljak, politician
- Viktor Špišić, footballer
- Mario Garba, footballer
Slavonski Brod
- Zdenko Balaš (born 1940), rower at the 1964 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia[1]
- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
- Đuro Đaković
- Filip Erceg
- Vjekoslav Klaić
- Mario Mandžukić
- Matija Mesić
- Kosta Mušicki
- Branko Radičević
- Matija Antun Relković
- Mia Slavenska
- Dragutin Tadijanović
- Mario Vrančić
- Josip Weber
References
- ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Zdenko Balaš". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
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