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/manager
  • Robert Jarni, football player/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
  • 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
  • Vinko Žganec, folklorist

Karlovac

  • Zrinka Cvitešić (born 1979), theatre and film actress
  • Jelka Glumičić (born 1941), human rights activist
  • Dragojla Jarnević (1813–1875), poet
  • Vjekoslav Karas (1821–1858), 19th century painter
  • Ivan Mažuranić (1814–1890), poet, linguist and politician
  • Mirko and Stjepan Seljan, explorers
  • Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), physicist and inventor
  • Gajo Petrović (1927–1993), author and philosopher
  • Maksimilijan Vrhovac (1752–1827), bishop of Zagreb
  • Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), painter
  • Ana Vidović (born 1980), classical guitarist
  • Borislav Cvetković (born 1964), Yugoslav footballer
  • Dejan Jakovic (born 1985), Canadian soccer player

Pula

  • James Joyce taught English at the Berlitz School between 1904 and 1905
  • Laura Antonelli, Italian actress, was born in Pula (her family is from Pazin)
  • Lidia Bastianich, American television chef and business mogul, was born near Pula
  • Fausto Budicin, Croatian footballer for HNK Rijeka of the Prva HNL
  • Stjepan Hauser, Croatian cellist
  • Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer-songwriter, was born in Pula
  • Franz Karl Ginzkey, Austrian officer, poet and writer
  • Alojz Gradnik, Slovenian poet, worked in Pula as a judge
  • Archduke Karl Albrecht of Austria, Austrian and Polish officer and landowner
  • Physician Robert Koch worked on the nearby Brioni islands (today:Brijuni)
  • Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer and director of the observatory at Pula, discovered ca. 30 asteroids
  • Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung) a 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
  • 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
  • Alida Valli (real name: Alida Maria Laura Altenburger, Baroness of Marckenstein and Freuenberg), Italian actress, was born in Pula
  • Antonio Vojak, Italian football player

Šibenik

  • Angelo Antonio Frari, famous physician, epidemiologist, historian of medicine, and protomedicus of Venice
  • Ante Rukavina, football player
  • Anthony Maglica, inventor
  • Antun Vrančić, writer
  • Arsen Dedić, musician
  • Danira Gović, actress
  • Dražen Petrović, basketball player
  • Faust Vrančić, inventor
  • Giorgio da Sebenico, architect and sculptor
  • Goran Višnjić, actor, best known for his role on ER
  • Gordon Schildenfeld, football player
  • Ivo Brešan writer
  • Krešimir Baranović, composer and conductor
  • Louis Cukela, double recipient of Medal of Honor
  • Maksim Mrvica, pianist
  • Martino Rota, engraver
  • Mišo Kovač, singer
  • Niccolò Tommaseo, Dalmatian Italian linguist and journalist
  • St. Nikola Tavelić, first Croatian saint
  • Valter Perisa, Former Handball player of the Yugoslavian National Team
  • Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia, King of Croatia
  • Perica Bukić, former water polo player and politician

Sisak

  • Ljudevit Posavski, 9th century prince
  • Sveti Kvirin Sisački, patron saint, bishop
  • Tamás Erdődy, ban
  • Stjepan Radić, politician
  • Desiderius Hampel, Brigadeführer and Generalmajor in the Waffen SS, commander of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) during World War II
  • Janko Bobetko, general
  • Mika Špiljak, politician
  • Bobby Bosko Grubic (a.k.a. Bobby G), singer/songwriter, director/producer
  • Marijan Mrmić, footballer/coach

Slavonski Brod

  • Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
  • Branko Radičević
  • Dragutin Tadijanović
  • Mia Čorak Slavenska
  • Matija Mesić
  • Vjekoslav Klaić
  • Filip Erceg
  • Matija Antun Relković
  • Mario Mandžukić
  • Mario Vrančić
  • Đuro Đaković
  • Kosta Mušicki