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
Main article: List of people from 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
- Ivan Mažuranić (1814–1890), poet, linguist and politician
- Adrijana Lekaj (born 1995), tennis player
- 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
Main article: List of people from 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
- Krešimir Baranović, composer and conductor
- Ivo Brešan writer
- Perica Bukić, former water polo player and politician
- Arsen Dedić, musician
- 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
- Denis Periša, first Croatian hacker, photographer, DJ and writer
- Dražen Petrović, basketball player
- Martino Rota, engraver
- Šime Zorić, DJ
- Alan Vranić, actor
- Gordon Schildenfeld, football player
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
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