List of Croats
This is a list of more or less famous people with Croatian heritage, born in or associated with Croatia or of immediate Croatian ancestry, including both Croats and members of Croatia's national minorities.
The bottom section also include some corner cases:
- people born in parts of Illyria/Illyricum before the Great migrations
- people with less direct or less certain Croatian ancestry.
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Nobel Prize winners
Architecture
- Andrija Aleši - builder
- Antun Albini - architect
- Hermann Bolle - architect , (ethnic German)
- Andrija Buvina - builder
- Juraj Dalmatinac - architect from Šibenik
- Victor Kovačić - architect
- Luciano Laurana - architect
- Radovan - sculptor, builder from Trogir
- Ivo Tatić - architect
Business
- Stephen Boskovich - "Boskovich Farms"
- Victor Grinich - "Fairchaild semiconductor"
- Marge Juresic - "Tyson Food Co"
- Ilija Letica - "Letica Corporation"
- Anthony Maglica - "Maglite"
- Antony Lucich-Lucas engineer, Crude oil exploration, "Gulf Oil" -"Texaco"
- Boris Mikšić - "Cortec Coproration"
- Marko Narančić - "Nalley’s Potato Chips"
- Jack Pandol - "Pandol Brothers"
Education, language, culture
Entertainment
- Eric Bana - actor from Australia, son of a Croatian father
- Relja Bašić - actor
- Branko Bauer - film producer
- Boris Buzančić - actor
- Tony Croatto - musician
- Arsen Dedić - composer
- Darko Domijan - singer
- Oliver Dragojević - singer
- Boris Dvornik - actor
- Sergio Endrigo - singer
- Nela Eržišnik-Maras - comedian
- Mira Furlan - actress
- Branko Gavella - playwright
- Kreso Golik - film producer
- Fadil Hadžić - producer, playwrighter, Bosnian Muslim
- Nikica Kalogjera - composer
- Tereza Kesovija - singer
- Sylvia Koscina - actress, model
- Josipa Lisac - singer, AKA Josephine Fox
- Branko Lustig - film producer
- Vladimir Medar - actor
- Helen Merill, Jelena Ana Milčetić - Jazz artist
- Mustafa Nadarević - actor
- Antun Nalis - actor
- Krist Novoselic - rock musician (Nirvana)
- Krsto Papić - film producer
- Edo Peročević - actor
- Ferdo Pomykalo - composer, conductor
- Dunja Rajter - singer
- Ivo Robić - singer
- Zvonimir Rogoz - actor
- Rick Rossovich - actor, from United States
- Fabijan Šovagović - actor
- Ivica Šerfezi - singer
- Goran Višnjić - actor
- Vice Vukov - singer
Exploration
History
- Ivan Kukuljević - historian
- Vjekoslav Klaić - historian
- Emilij Laszowski - historian
- Ivan Lucić - historian
- Franjo Rački - historian
- Ivan Ratkaj - historian, Jesuit, explorer
Invention
- Aleksandar Just - inventor
- Franjo Hannaman - inventor, engineer
- Jaroslav Havlicek - inventor
- Ferdinand Kovačević - inventor
- Ivan Lupis-Vukić - inventor, engineer
- Slavoljub Eduard Penkala - inventor, (ethnic Pole)
- Josip Ressel - inventor
- David Schwarz - inventor
- Ante Supuk - engineer
- Nikola Tesla - inventor (ethnic Serb)
- Faust Vrančić - inventor
- Ivan Vučetić - inventor
Literature
Media
Military
Music
Politics
Religion
Science
- Gaja Alaga - physicist
- Đuro Armeno Baglivi - physician
- Kazimir Bedeković-Komorski - physicist, writer, Jesuit
- Danilo Blanuša - mathematician
- Ruđer Bošković - physicist, philosopher
- Fran Bošnjaković - physicist
- Spiridon Brusina - paleontologist
- Grgur Bučić - naturalist, climatologist
- Ramiro Bujas - psychologist
- Frane Bulić - archeologist
- Nikola Cindro - physicist
- Herman Dalmata - philosopher, mathematician
- Milislav Demerec - biologist
- Vladimir Devide - mathematician, Japan ologist
- Andrija Dudić - naturalist, astronomer, physician
- Asaf Duraković - physician, poet
- Vinko Dvoržak - physicist
- William Feller - mathematician
- Andrija Fuderer - chemist, chess player
- Artur Gavazzi - geographer
- Marin Getaldić - physicist, mathematician
- Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger - archaeologist, anthropologist
- Stjepan Gradić - mathematician
- Dunja Grbić-Galić - microbiologist
- Frederik Grisogono - mathematician
- Mirko Grmek - physician, science writer and historian
- Vladimir Gruden - psychiatrist
- Ferdinand Hadvig - physician
- Sven Hauptfeld - physicist
- Milan Herak - geologist
- Branko Horvat - economist
- Vladimir Hudolin - psychiatrist
- Gustav Janeček - chemist
- Mijo Kišpatić - geologist
- Marijan Korošić - economist
- Marijan Košiček - psychologist
- Oton Kučera - mathematician, physicist
- Đuro Kurepa - mathematician from Glina
- Asim Kurjak - physician
- Eduard Miloslavić - physician
- Andrija Mohorovičić - geophysicist
- Stjepan Mohorovičić - physicist
- Vilko Nice - mathematician
- Grga Novak - archaeologist, historian
- Vladimir Paar - physicist
- Josip Pančić - bothanist from Bribir
- Đuro Pilar - geologist
- Stjepan Poljak - physician
- Eduard Prugovečki - physicist, writer
- Miroslav Radman - biologist
- Veljko Roškar - chemical engineer
- Santorio Santorio - physician
- Zvonimir Šeparović - lawyer, (victimology)
- Ante Šercer - physician
- Andrija Štampar - physician, diplomat
- Ivan Supek - physicist, philosopher
- Mirko Vidaković - forester, botanist
- Robert Visiani - climatolog
- Nikola Vitov-Gučetić - statesmen, philosopher, science writer
- Vladimir Vranić - mathematician
- Vladimir Žerjavić - statistician, economist
Sport
Visual arts
Other
People born in Illyria or the subsequent Roman province, now part of Croatia, before the Great Migrations and the arrival of Croats and other Slavs:
People with less direct Croatian ancestry:
People with Croatian ancestry but high-ranked officials of other countries:
People with less certain Croatian ancestry:
See also
