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

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