List of people from Croatia

The following is a list of prominent individuals who are or were Croatian citizens or of Croatian ancestry.

Art

Architecture

Sculpture

Painting

Film and theatre

Media

• Lidia Bastianich – American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur
• Adrian Chiles – British television and radio presenter
• Slavica Ecclestone – British-Croatian former model
• Robert Herjavec – Canadian businessman, investor, author, dancer, and television personality from Shark Tank
• Bill Kurtis – journalist, television reporter, producer
• Katie Pavlich – American conservative commentator, author, blogger, podcaster
• Goran Milić – worked in HRT, now works in Al Jazeera
• Tony Robbins – American life coach, self-help author and motivational speaker
• Teresa Scanlan – Miss America 2011
• Petra Stunt – British designer
• Vladimir Herzog – Croatian born Brazilian journalist

Academics

History

• James Belich – historian
• Julije Kempf – historian, writer
• Nada Klaić – historian
• Vjekoslav Klaić – historian
• Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski – historian
• Ivan Lučić – historian
• Dominik Mandić – historian
• Franjo Rački – historian
• Ivan Ratkaj – historian, Jesuit, explorer
• Juraj Ratkaj – historian
• Ferdo Šišić – historian
• Ludovicus Tubero – historian

Invention

• Zlata Bartl – inventor of Vegeta
• Josip Belušić – inventor
• Franjo Hannaman – inventor, engineer
• Marcel Kiepach – inventor
• Mario Kovač – computer engineering professor and inventor
• Ferdinand Kovačević – inventor
• Giovanni Luppis – inventor of the torpedo
• Slavoljub Eduard Penkala – inventor
• Mario Puratić – inventor who made major advances in fishing technology
• Ralph Sarich – inventor of the orbital engine
• David Schwarz – aviation pioneer of Jewish ancestry
• Marin Soljačić – inventor of wireless energy transfer
• Ante Šupuk – engineer
• Tomislav Uzelac – programmer, inventor of the first successful MP3 player
• Faust Vrančić – inventor of the parachute
• Ivan Vučetić – inventor of dactyloscopy

Social science

Science

Nobel Prize

• Ivo Andrić – literature
• Paul L. Modrich – chemistry
• Vladimir Prelog – chemistry
• Lavoslav Ružička – chemistry

Music

Composers

Classical

Popular

Literature

Business

Exploration

• Ferdinand Konščak – explorer
• Dragutin Lerman – explorer
• Ignacije Szentmartony – explorer
• Željko Malnar – explorer, producer
• Mirko and Stjepan Seljan – explorers
• Ignacije Szentmartony – explorer
• Ivan Visin – explorer

Military

Croatian War for Independence

• Janko Bobetko – general
• Ante Gotovina – general pukovnik
• Josip Jović – Croatian policeman, first victim in Independence War
• Rudolf Perešin – fighter pilot
• Blago Zadro – general

Politics

Foreign figures of Croatian descent

Religion

Heroism

• Paul Bucha
• Mila Gojsalić
• Nikola Jurišić
• Marko Križevčanin
• Michael J. Novosel
• Petar Perica
• Nikola Tavelić
• Mijat Tomić
• John J. Tominac
• Ivan Vranetić

Urban legends

• Jure Grando – first real person described as a vampire in historical records
• Joe Magarac – American steel worker of Croatian extraction.
• Joe "Pegleg" Morgan – first non-Hispanic member of the Mexican Mafia
• Frane Selak – survivor of seven incidents of possible death, lottery winner
• Matija Babić

Sport

See also

References

External links

• Additional list of Croatian architects and builders: hr:Dodatak:Popis hrvatskih arhitekata i graditelja
• Additional list of Croatian sculptors: hr:Kategorija:Hrvatski kipari
• Additional list of Croatian painters: Category:Croatian painters hr:Kategorija:Hrvatski slikari
• Additional list of Croatian stage actors: hr:Kategorija:Hrvatski kazališni glumci
• Outstanding Croats
• Croats and Croatia In French