- Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is an American politician of the Democratic party and a candidate for President of the United States in both 2004 and 2008. Kucinich currently represents the 10th District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. His district includes most of western Cleveland, as well as such suburbs as Parma and Cuyahoga Heights. - Victor Grinich
Victor Grinich was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley. His parents were Croatian immigrants and his original name was Victor Grgurinović(Gur-go-rin-o-vich). He was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. To make his last name easier to pronounce during military roll calls, he officially changed it to "Grinich". - Bill Belichick
In 2001, just his second season as Patriots head coach, Belichick guided the Patriots to their first league title with a dramatic victory in Super Bowl XXXVI. In the seasons since then, he has directed New England to sustained success, reaching the Super Bowl four times in the last seven years while claiming five straight division championships. Over the last five seasons (2003-07), the Patriots have compiled an overall record of 77-17 (. - William Feller
William (Vilim) Feller (July 7 1906 - January 14 1970), born Willibrord, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory. - Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich is a Croatian-American writer. He has published a novel ("April Fool's Day"), three short story collections, two collections of narrative essays, and a textbook ("Fiction Writer's Workshop"). Mr. Novakovich is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Award, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. - Gary Gabelich
Gary Gabelich (born August 29, 1940, died January 1984) was a Croatian-American who set the land speed record with his rocket powered automobile "Blue Flame" on October 23, 1970, achieving the average speed of 622.287 (record speed was 622.407)miles/h (1001.452863 km/h) on dry lake bed at Bonneville Salt Flats in Wendover, Utah. This record was the first record over 1000 km/h, it remained unbeaten until 1983, … - Peter Tomich
Peter Tomich was an ethnic Croat born in Prolog near Ljubuški, Austria-Hungary, in what later became Bosnia and Herzegovina. During World War I he served in the US Army. After enlisting in the United States Navy in January 1919, he initially served in the destroyer "Litchfield" (DD-336). By 1941, he had become a Chief Watertender on board the training and target ship "Utah" (AG-16). On December 7, 1941, while the ship lay in Pearl Harbor, … - George Radanovich
George P. Radanovich (born June 20 1955) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 19th Congressional District of California. (map - Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic is an American rock musician best known as the bassist for Nirvana. Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC. The original Croatian spelling of his surname is 'Novoselić' (English: Novoselich). - Guy Mitchell
Guy Mitchell (February 22, 1927-July 1, 1999) was a Croatian-American pop singer, who as well as his homeland was extremely successful in the United Kingdom and Australia. As an international recording star of the 1950s he achieved record sales in excess of 44 million units and this included six million-selling singles. - Denise Richards
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She came to fame in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including "Wild Things" and "The World Is Not Enough". Richards is also known for her marriage to (and divorce from) actor Charlie Sheen, son of The West Wing's Martin Sheen. - Mike Grgich
Mike Grgich is a Croatian-American winemaker. He was born into a winemaking family in the town of Desne on Croatia's coastal Dalmatian region. He attended the University of Zagreb, where he studied viticulture and enology. However, he learned about California and wanted leave the then-Yugoslavia to become a winemaker there. In 1954, he fled communist Yugoslavia to West Germany, obtaining a fellowship to study there. - Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Maris (September 10 1934 - December 14 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season home run record in 1961 on the last day of the season. 37 years later, in the 1998 season, Mark McGwire broke his major league record by hitting 70. Maris remains the American League record holder as of the 2006 season. - Nick Saban
Nick Lou Saban (born October 31, 1951 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American college football coach and the current head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. Saban took the Alabama position after coaching the Miami Dolphins for two years and previously coaching Alabama's SEC Western division rival, LSU. Saban's eight-year contract for a total of $32 million made him the highest paid college football coach in the United States. - Anthony Francis Lucas
Anthony Francis Lucas (September 9, 1855-September 2 1921) was responsible for the first successful oil well at the Spindletop oil field in Southeast Texas, which made Beaumont, Texas one of the first oil boomtowns. - Boris Mikšić
Boris Mikšić is a Croatian businessman and politician. In the 1970s, Mikšić, a native of Zagreb, which was then part of Yugoslavia, emigrated to theUnited States of America. He settled in Minnesota where he gradually began his business. Through the years he became one of the wealthiest Croatian Americans. He first ventured into Croatian politics as an independent candidate in the 2003 parliamentary elections. - Tony Peraica
Anthony J. "Tony" Peraica (born April 14, 1957) is the Cook County Commissioner for the 16th district, and was the Republican nominee for Cook County Board President. Tony Peraica is currently the Lyons Township Republican Committeeman, a post he has held since 2002. Peraica (a Roman Catholic), his wife Nilofar Peraica (a Sunni Muslim), and their two children Marko and Anisa live in Riverside, Illinois. Peraica was born in Croatia in 1957, was orphaned at the age of 11. - Chad Hunt
Chad Hunt (born in Wadsworth, Ohio, United States, 1973) is a gay porn star who performs in pornographic movies. He has appeared six times on the cover of "Inches Magazine", a gay porn magazine that focuses on men with extra-large penises. He has also appeared in many other porn industry magazines, television shows, books, and was a model for famed NYC photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in an art gallery exhibit. - John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. - Jenna Elfman
Jenna Elfman (born September 30, 1971, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American television and film actress. - George Mikan
George Lawrence Mikan, Jr. (June 18, 1924 - June 1, 2005), nicknamed Mr. Basketball, was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBL, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). Invariably playing with thick, round spectacles, the 6 ft 10 in 245 lb. - John Kasich
John Richard Kasich (born May 13, 1952, McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) is a former U.S. Republican Representative turned television show host for FOX News Channel in the United States. He hosts "Heartland with John Kasich", and also guest hosts "The O'Reilly Factor", filling in for Bill O'Reilly when necessary. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1974 with a B.A. in political science. He was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity. - David Diehl
David Diehl (born September 15, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football player with Croatian and German background. He is an offensive lineman in the National Football League. Diehl is currently a starter on the offensive line for the New York Giants, and is one of only two offensive lineman to enter the NFL in 2003 and start all 48 regular season games through the end of the 2005 season. - Patrick Muldoon
Patrick Muldoon (born William Patrick Muldoon III on September 27, 1968 in San Pedro, California) is an American actor. He was born to an Irish-American father and a Croatian-born mother. He attended a Jesuit high school, and graduated in 1991 from the University of Southern California, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and played football for the USC Trojans. - Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Maticchio Bastianich is a Croatian-American chef and host of television cooking shows. - Rudy Perpich
Rudolph "Rudy" George Perpich, Sr. (June 27, 1928 - September 21, 1995) was an American dentist and politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from December 29, 1976 to January 4, 1979, and from January 3, 1983 to January 7, 1991. This was the longest tenure among the state's governors. He was also the state's only Roman Catholic governor and the only one to serve non-consecutive terms. - Paul Salopek
Paul Salopek is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Salopek was raised in central Mexico. He has reported for the "Chicago Tribune" since 1996, writing about Africa, the Balkans, Central Asia and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He worked for "National Geographic" from 1992-1995, visiting Chad, Sudan, Senegal, Niger, Mali, and Nigeria. The October 1995 cover story for "National Geographic" was Salopek's piece on Africa's mountain gorillas. - Ivana Miličević
Ivana Miličević is an American actress. Miličević was born in Yugoslavia, to Tonka Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur, and Damir, a homemaker and entrepreneur. She has two younger brothers, Tomo and Fillip. Miličević, an ethnic Croat, emigrated to the United States with her family when she was nine years old and was raised in Michigan. Miličević worked as a model while attending Athens High School in Troy, Michigan. - Mickey Lolich
Michael Stephen Lolich (born September 12, 1940 in Portland, Oregon) was a baseball pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1962 until 1979, playing the majority of his career with the Detroit Tigers. Lolich is best known for his performance in the 1968 World Series, when he allowed just five runs in three complete games, winning all three including the final and decisive game. - Ante Razov
Ante Razov (born March 2, 1974 in Whittier, California) is an American soccer striker, who currently plays for C.D. Chivas USA where he is their all time top-scorer in Major League Soccer. Razov, who was born in a family of Croatian immigrants, played college soccer at UCLA and was drafted by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the third round of the 1996 MLS College Draft. He played two seasons in LA, but did not get much playing time, scoring just one goal, … - Scott Bakula
Scott Stewart Bakula (born October 9, 1954) is an American actor who played leading roles in two science fiction television series: "Quantum Leap" and "Star Trek: Enterprise". He also co-starred with Maria Bello in the short-lived 1996 CBS television series "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (which bore little or no relation to the 2005 motion picture of the same title), and had a recurring role in the sitcom "Murphy Brown". - Gene Rayburn
Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 - November 29, 1999) was an Emmy-nominated American radio and television personality. Born Eugene Rubessa and an only child of Croatian immigrants, he graduated from Knox College. Rayburn was married to Helen Ticknor from 1940 until her death in October 1996. They had one child, a daughter, Lynn. After the birth of their child, Rayburn was drafted into the U.S. Air Force. - Bill Rancic
William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, "The Apprentice". He is the first "Apprentice" winner. - Amber Mariano
Amber Joy Brkich Mariano (born August 11, 1978 in Beaver, Pennsylvania) is an American reality TV contestant who was the winner of "Survivor: All-Stars", and previously was a contestant on "Survivor: The Australian Outback". On May 9, 2004, she accepted fellow "All-Stars" competitor Rob Mariano's proposal of marriage on live television. - Mary Matalin
Mary Joe Matalin (born September 19, 1953) is an American political strategist and consultant. She is known for her work with the Republican Party. She was an assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. In April 2004, she published the book "Letters to My Daughters". In March of 2005, Matalin was chosen to run a new conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster. - Fritzie Zivic
Fritzie Zivic (May 8, 1913, Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - May 16, 1984), born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich (Croatian: "Živčić", known to boxing fans as Fritzie Zivic, “The Croat Comet”), was an American boxer. - Nick Begich
Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Begich, Sr. was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska. He disappeared after his plane crashed in 1972. - Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis (born September 21, 1940) is a television journalist and producer best known as the host of numerous A&E crime and news documentary shows, including "Investigative Reports", "American Justice", and "Cold Case Files". Previously he anchored "The CBS Morning News" and was a popular news anchor of the CBS affiliate in Chicago. - Pat Miletich
Patrick Jay "The Croatian Sensation" Miletich known as Pat Miletich (born March 9, 1968 in Davenport, Iowa) from Bettendorf, Iowa is a mixed martial artist (MMA) well known for his fights within the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is the founder of Miletich Fighting Systems, which trains some of the most talented and popular fighters in MMA, such as former UFC Welterweight champion Matt Hughes, … - Ed Jurak
Edward James Jurak (born October 24 1957 Los Angeles, California -) was a utility player with a 6 year career from 1982-1985, 1988-1989. He played for the Boston Red Sox and Oakland A's both of the American League and the San Francisco Giants of the National League. He played first base, second base, shortstop, third base, outfield and designated hitter. He played primarily as a shortstop/third baseman.
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