- Mate Boban
Mate Boban (1940 - July 7,1997) was a Herzegovian Croat politician and leader of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Croats during the Bosnian-Herzegovinian War. Boban was the first and only president of the short lived Herzeg-Bosnia which was never recognized but existed between 1991-1994. He was virulently anti-Bosniak and maintained friendly relationships with the Serbs even when the Croats were fighting the JNA.
- Janko Bobetko
Janko Bobetko (1919 - 2003) was a Croatian army general and the Croatian army's Chief of the General Staff between 1992 and 1995.
- Vojislav Šešelj
Vojislav Šešelj (born 11 October, 1954 in Sarajevo, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian politician of Croatian origins, and the founder and president of the Serbian Radical Party, the largest party in the Serbian parliament. He was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and is currently in The Hague awaiting trial.
- Slobodan Praljak
Slobodan Praljak is a Croatian politician who is among six defendants charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in relation to the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
- Wayne Arthurs
Wayne Arthurs (b. March 18, 1971 in Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian professional tennis player. He is currently 195th in the ATP rankings for singles and is ranked 79th in doubles. However, Arthurs announced after his first round qualifying match at Wimbledon that he would retire after the tournament. Arthurs is left-handed and uses a one-handed backhand. His serve is his strongest weapon by far, …
- Ante Marković
Ante Marković (born November 25, 1924 in Konjic, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) was the last prime minister of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is a Bosnian Croat. He graduated from the Electrotechnical Department of the Technical Faculty of the University of Zagreb in 1954. In 1986. he became president of the Presidency of Socialist Republic of Croatia (thus becoming 7th Croatian president) replacing Ema Derosi-Bjelajac.
- Stjepan Radić
Stjepan Radić was a Croatian politician and the founder of the Croatian Peasant Party (CPP, "Hrvatska Seljačka Stranka") in 1905. Radić is credited with galvanizing the peasantry of Croatia into a viable political force. Through his entire carear, he was opposed to the union and, later, Serb hegemony in the first Yugoslavia and became an important political figure in that country. He was assassinated by a Serb politician in the parliament, …
- Željko Komšić
Željko Komšić (born January 20, 1964) is a Bosnian politician of Croatian descent. On October 1, 2006, he was elected to a four-year term as the Croat member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Franjo Komarica
Dr. Franjo Komarica (born 1946 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a Bosnian Croat Catholic prelate, the Bishop of Banja Luka since 1985. He studied theology in Innsbruck in Austria, and was for long time the youngest member of the Bishop's Conference in Rome. He was President of the Bishops' Conference of Bosnia and Herzegovina for several years. During the Yugoslav wars he did a great deal to help people. For this work he has received numerous awards, …
- Draža Mihailović
Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб "Дража" Михаиловић; Anglicised: "Drazha Mihailovich" ; also known as Чича or "Čiča") (April 27, 1893 - July 17, 1946) was a Serbian general now primarily remembered as leader of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the Fatherland during World War II. After the war, he was tried by the Communist Partisans for collaboration with Fascists and crimes against civilian population, …
- Josip Juraj Strossmayer
Josip Juraj Strossmayer was a Roman-Catholic bishop, benefactor and a politician from Croatia. Strossmayer was born in Osijek to a Croatian family with a German name because his great-grandfather was an ethnic German immigrant from Styria who had married a Croatian woman. He finished a gymnasium in Osijek, graduated theology at the Catholic seminary in Đakovo, and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at a high seminary in Budapest, at the age of 20.
- Ivan Ribar
Ivan Ribar (born on January 21, 1881, in Vukmanić, Austria-Hungary; died on June 11, 1968, Zagreb, Yugoslavia), was a Yugoslav politician of Croatian descent. Ribar was born in Vukmanić near Karlovac. He had a PhD in law. In politics, Ribar was: * President of the Royal Parliamentary Assembly, 1920 - 1922 * President of Executive Committee, Anti-Fascist Council of People's Liberation of Yugoslavia, …
- Tihomir Blaškić
Tihomir Blaškić was a Bosnian Croat army officer who had been sentenced for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Tihomir Blaškić was born in a poor family, where male children without means to support themselves traditionally either joined the Franciscan monks or became career soldiers. Blaškić opted for the latter and enrolled in military high school in Zagreb, training to become an officer in Yugoslav People's Army.
- Veljko Kadijević
General Veljko Kadijević (born November 21, 1925) was the minister of defence in the Yugoslav government from 1988 to 1992, which makes him de facto commander of Yugoslav People's Army during Ten-Day War and initial stages of Croatian War of Independence. He was born in the village of Glavina Donja near Imotski to a Croatian mother and a Serbian father, he always declared himself as a Yugoslav. In 1942 he joined the Yugoslav partisans and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
- Davor Šuker
Davor Šuker is a former Croatian footballer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers in the 1990s. The crowning moment of his career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he became the top goalscorer and won the Golden Boot by scoring 6 goals in 7 matches, leading the Croatian national team to a third-place finish in their first World Cup appearance. He is also the Croatian national team's all-time goalscoring leader with 45 goals.
- Borisav Jović
Borisav Jović was a Serbian communist politician, who served as the Serbian member of the collective presidency of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as chairman of the presidency of Yugoslavia from May 1990 to May 1991. He is perhaps best known for helping to negotiate the Brioni Accord in early July 1991, which gave Slovenia its independence after the Ten-Day War. Near the end of his mandate in the rotating presidenacy, he blocked his successor, …
- Dragan Čović
Dragan Čović was a member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, representing the nation's Croat population. Čović is born in a village Ljuti Dolac, near of city Široki Brijeg, in Western Hercegovina. He was elected in October 2002 to serve a four-year term. He was taking his eight month turn as leader of the presidency between 2003 and 2004. Dragan Čović was dismissed by the High Representative Paddy Ashdown after Čović was indicted for financial corruption, …
- Petar Zrinski
Petar Zrinski was a Croatian warrior and member of the Zrinski noble family.
- Mladen Petrić
Mladen Petrić is a Croatian football striker. He has dual Croatian-Swiss citizenship. Born in Dubrave (village close to Brčko) in Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Petrić first moved with his family to Vinkovci, Croatia, due to war and then later to Neuenhof, Switzerland, where he started to play football at the local club FC Neuenhof before moving to FC Baden and starting his professional career at the club in the summer of 1998.
- Robert Hoyzer
Robert Hoyzer (born August 28, 1979 in Berlin, Germany) is a former football referee who scandalized German football by fixing matches in the Bundesliga scandal of 2005. Hoyzer, a member of the Bundesliga's Hertha BSC Berlin was registered by the German Football Association (DFB) as a referee in 2003. He refereed in the second division and regional leagues but was not selected to officiate in the top division.
- Ivan Rakitić
Ivan Rakitić is a young Swiss-born Croatian footballer who plays for FC Schalke 04. He plays as a midfielder. Although he has previously competed with the Swiss under-17 and under-19 national team, he decided to take up the call by Slaven Bilić and play for Croatian national team. Rakitić was part of Basel's 2006 UEFA Cup run to the competition's quarter-finals. In 2007 he was proclaimed the 'best young player' of the 2006/2007 Swiss Super League.
- 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.
- Nikola Zrinski
Nikola Zrinski or Miklós Zrínyi (Hungarian: "Zrínyi Miklós", Croatian: "Nikola Zrinski"; January 5, 1620-November 18, 1664) was a Croatian and Hungarian warrior, statesman and poet, member of the Zrinski noble family.
- Oliver Dulić
Oliver Dulić (born 21 January 1975 in Belgrade) is a Serbian politician of Croatian origin, long-time member of Democratic Party, and incumbent president of the National Assembly of Serbia.
- Nikola Šubić Zrinski
Nikola Šubić Zrinski or Miklós Zrínyi, was a Croatian and Hungarian soldier in service of Habsburg Monarchy, and member of the Zrinski noble family. Nikola was the son of Nikola Zrinski and Ilona Karlović (sister of Croatian ban Ivan Karlović ). He distinguished himself at the siege of Vienna in 1529, and in 1542 saved the imperial army from defeat before Pest by intervening with 400 Croats, for which service he was appointed ban of Croatia.
- Miroslav Filipović
Miroslav Filipović was a former Franciscan friar from Bosnia and Herzegovina who commanded the Jasenovac concentration camp in Yugoslavia during World War II. As a Croatian extreme nationalist and a fascist, Miroslav Filipović/Majstorović (as he would become known) combined his religion with his extremist political ideology. He was born Miroslav Filipović, and became part of the Franciscan order in 1938 at the monastery in Petrićevac (near Banja Luka), …
- Branko Lustig
Branko Lustig (born June 10, 1932) is a prominent film producer. He is the only Croatian person to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Croatia) to a Jewish family. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He received his first Oscar in 1993 for the production of "Schindler's List", a film based on the novel of Thomas Keneally (which is, in turn, …
- Toni Kukoč
Toni Kukoć (born September 18, 1968 in Split) is a retired Croatian basketball player. He was renowned for his versatility and passing ability; although his natural position was small forward, he played all five positions on the court with equal prowess and demonstrated court vision that is seldom found in players of his height. Kukoč is one of the first established European stars to play in North America's National Basketball Association (NBA).
- Ivo Miro Jović
Ivo Miro Jović is the former Croat member of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, elected in the Parliament on May 9, 2005 following the sacking of Dragan Čović by the High Representative on charges of corruption. He served until November 6, 2006. After he had graduated as a history teacher from the University of Sarajevo, Jović worked as a teacher in Ilijaš and Kiseljak.
- Slavoljub Eduard Penkala
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala was an engineer and inventor from Croatia. Eduard Penkala was born in Liptovský Mikuláš (in what is now Slovakia), to Franjo Penkala, who was Polish, and Maria Penkala (née Hannel), who was Dutch. He attended the University of Vienna and Technische Universität Dresden, graduating from the latter in 1898 and going on to earn a doctorate in organic chemistry.
- Blaž Kraljević
Blaž Kraljević was a Croat paramilitary leader during the first few months of the Bosnian War who commanded the HOS ("Hrvatske obrambene snage") or Croatian Defence Forces.
- Ivan Visin
Ivan Visin (1806 - 1868) was a naval captain and explorer. Visin was a Croat-Bokelj born in Prcanj, in Boka Kotorska. On request of the government of the Habsburg monarchy, he circumnavigated the globe in a vessel called "Splendido" between 1852 and 1859. Journey started in Antwerpen and ended successfully in Trieste. The ship was 30m long with 311 tonnes of cargo. Visin was the sixth explorer after Magellan to sail around the world.
- Ljudevit Posavski
Ljudevit Posavski ("TransSavian") was a Croat Prince of Savia from 810 to 823. His throne was in Sisak. As the ruler of the Pannonian Croats, his successful resistance of Frankish domination was an important precursor to the eventual unification of Croatian duchies in Dalmatia and Pannonia into the Kingdom of Croatia. In 822, after being forced to flee, he became a ruler over the Serbs. He held close ties with the Carinthinians and Timokians.
- Ivan Zajc
Ivan pl. Zajc (August 3, 1832 - December 16, 1914) was a prolific Croatian composer, conductor, director and teacher who for over forty years dominated Croatia's musical culture. Through his artistic and institutional reform efforts, he is credited with its revitalization and refinement, paving the way for new and significant Croatian musical achievements in the 20th century.
- Mario Stanić
Mario Stanić is a former Croatian football midfielder. He started his career with Željezničar Sarajevo. He was considered to be one of the most talented young players in former Yugoslavia. In 1992, war began and he went to Croatia, where he played for Dinamo Zagreb. After only one season, he moved to Spanish Sporting de Gijón, and year later to SL Benfica in Portugal. In 1995 he arrived at Club Brugge and was top scorer of the Jupiler League that year with 20 goals.
- Ante Trumbić
Ante Trumbić was an important Croatian politician in the early 20th century. He was one of the key politicians in the creation of a Yugoslav state. Trumbić was born in Split in the Austro-Hungarian crownland of Dalmatia and studied law at Zagreb, Vienna and Graz (with doctorate in 1890). He practised as a lawyer, and then, from 1905 as the city mayor of Split. Trumbić was in favor of moderate reforms in Austro-Hungarian Slavic provinces, …
- Maks Luburić
Vjekoslav "Maks" Luburić, was a member of the Croatian World War II regime the Ustaše, best known as the commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp. In the beginning of the Second World War, Luburić was the commanding general for the area of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) around the Drina river, which is why he is sometimes referred to as "General Drinjanin" (General of the Drina). Vjekoslav Luburić, as the commander-in-chef of all the Croatian camps, …
- Tereza Kesovija
Tereza Kesovija (October 3, 1938) is a famous Croatian singer who began popular in the 1960s.
- Radoslav Katičić
Radoslav Katičić is a Croatian linguist, historian and culturologist. After graduating at the University of Zagreb on the theme from the field of Indo-European comparative grammar, Katičić began extensive studies in general linguistics, ancient Balkan languages, indology and Croatian language history. He became the head of Slavic philology department at the University of Vienna in 1977 (position he was to hold until retirement).
- Josip Skoko
Josip Skoko (born December 10 1975 in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Croatian descent who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. He is an Australian international and made his debut for Australia against Macedonia in 1997. Skoko has been a main-stay of the "Socceroos" side since his debut, participating in two World Cup qualifying campaigns.