List of Croatians
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.
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"
Ilija Letica - "Letica Corporation "
Andronico Luksic - "Antofagasta PLC"
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
Amber Brkich - Survivor contestant and winner
Boris Buzančić - actor
Tony Croatto - musician
Arsen Dedić - composer
Darko Domijan - singer
Oliver Dragojević - singer
Boris Dvornik - actor
Jenna Elfman (nee Butala) - actress
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
Michael Klesic - actor
Sylvia Koscina - actress, model
Josipa Lisac - singer, AKA Josephine Fox
Robert Luketić - director
Branko Lustig - film producer
Josip Marusic - actor, AKA Tiger Joe Marsh (Mr. Clean )
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
Rade Serbedzija - actor/director (ethnic Serb )
Fabijan Šovagović - actor
Ivica Šerfezi - singer
Goran Višnjić - actor
Siniša Vuco - singer
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
Grga Novak - historian
Invention
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, Japanologist
Marko Antun de Dominis - physicist
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 (naturalized Serb )
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
Faust Vrančić - philosopher, thinker
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
External links
