List of Famous people born in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia

Ivan "Ivo" Herenčić was a general in the armed forces of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist puppet state, where he commanded a battalion of Ustaše Militia that committed many war crimes and atrocities on civilians in the NDH. Born in Bjelovar in Austria-Hungary, he completed secondary and tertiary education in Zagreb and Sarajevo in what was by then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1933, he left Yugoslavia to join the fascist and ultranationalist Croatian Ustaše movement in Italy. Late that year, Herenčić participated in an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the King of Yugoslavia, Alexander.

Ognjen Vukojević is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He is currently the manager of the Croatia national under-20 team and assistant manager of Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv.

Zoran Mamić is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He is the current manager of Croatian First Football League club Dinamo Zagreb.

Zdravko Mamić is a Croatian former football administrator and sports agent. From 2003 to 2016, he was the executive director of Croatian football club GNK Dinamo Zagreb. He is currently at large and an international warrant for his arrest has been issued. He also holds a Bosnian passport.

Charles Millot was a Yugoslavian born French actor who made many film appearances over a 35-year period.

Bogdan Diklić is a Serbian actor. He has been active since the late 1970s and starred in over one hundred Yugoslav films and television series. Diklić made ten films with director Goran Marković. In August 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award "Pavle Vuisić" for his body of work in Yugoslav cinematography.

Edo Murtić was a painter from Croatia, best known for his lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism style. He worked in a variety of media, including oil painting, gouache, graphic design, ceramics, mosaics, murals and theatrical set design. Murtić travelled and exhibited extensively in Europe and North America, gaining international recognition for his work, which can be found museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. He was one of the founders of the group "March" (Mart) in 1956, and received many international awards. In 1958 Murtić participated in the three biggest events in the world of contemporary art: the Venice Biennale, the Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh, and Documenta in Kassel. Interest in the art of Edo Murtić continues to grow, with retrospective exhibits in major museums.

Filip Ozobić is a Croatian midfielder who currently plays for Azerbaijan Premier League team Qarabağ and Croatia national football team.

Vojin Bakić was a prominent Yugoslav sculptor.

Ratko Perić is a Herzegovnian Croat prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Mostar-Duvno and apostolic administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan from 1993 until his retirement in 2020.