List of Famous people born in Croatia
Zlatko Mateša
Zlatko Mateša is a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1995 to 2000. A member of the Croatian Democratic Union, Mateša is currently the president of the Croatian Olympic Committee and honorary consul of Mongolia in Croatia.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić is a writer born and raised in Yugoslavia. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996.
Bogdan Diklić
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.
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Sergio Mimica-Gezzan is a Croatian-born American film and television director. He is the son of famous Croatian film director Vatroslav Mimica. He has received three Directors Guild of America awards for his work as an assistant director and is now a regular lead director in episodic television. He has often worked with Steven Spielberg as an assistant director. He directed six episodes of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, two episodes of Heroes, two episodes of Raised by Wolves, three episodes of The Terror, and all eight episodes of The Pillars of the Earth, the television adaptation of Ken Follett's novel of the same name.
Nikola Eterović
Nikola Eterović is a Croatian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a titular archbishop and the Apostolic Nuncio to Germany since 2013.
Antonio Veić
Antonio Veić is a Croatian former professional tennis player and current coach. His highest singles ranking is 119, which was reached on 14 May 2012.
Ivica Barbarić
Ivica Barbarić is a Croatian professional football manager and former player.
Vladimir Miholjević
Vladimir Miholjević is a Croatian former professional road bicycle racer. He turned pro in 1997. As of 2016, he, Robert Kišerlovski and Kristijan Đurasek are only three Croats who has completed the Tour de France. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Martina Majerle
Martina Majerle is a Croatian singer of mixed Croatian and Slovenian descent. Majerle represented Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia with the string quartet Quartissimo with the song "Love Symphony". It competed in the second semi-final but failed to reach the final. Martina has also been a backing vocalist for several countries in various editions of the contest.
Nikola Kekić
Nikola Kekić or "Nino" Kekic is the Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, who served as the bishop of the Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Križevci.