List of Famous people born in Zagreb County, Croatia

Petar Zrinski

First Name Petar
Born on June 6, 1621
Died on April 30, 1671 (aged 49)

Petar Zrinski was Ban of Croatia (Viceroy) from 1665 to 1670 and a writer. A member of the Zrinski noble family, he was noted for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian Magnate conspiracy to overthrow the Habsburgs, which ultimately led to his execution for high treason.

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Franjo Kuharić

First Name Franjo
Died on March 11, 2002 (aged 32)

Franjo Kuharić was a Croatian Catholic cardinal, who served as the Archbishop of Zagreb from 1970 until his resignation in 1997. The cardinal was often referred to as the "Rock of Croatia" known for his defense of human rights and his urgings of peace and forgiveness during the independence conflict and the Bosnian War.

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Zvonimir Črnko

First Name Zvonimir
Born on August 1, 1936
Died on January 25, 2008 (aged 71)

Zvonimir Črnko was a Croatian actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1963 to 1985.

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Ivica Todorić

First Name Ivica
Born on January 2, 1951 (age 73)

Ivica Todorić is a Croatian businessman. Until June 2017 he was owner and Chairman of the Board of Agrokor, the largest privately owned company in Croatia. The operations of Agrokor are focused on two core businesses: manufacturing of food and drinks, and retail.

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Milka Ternina

First Name Milka
Died on May 18, 1941

Milka Ternina was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses. Praised by audiences and music critics alike for the electrifying force of her acting and the excellence of her singing in both German and Italian works, her career was curtailed at its peak in 1906 by a medical condition which paralyzed a nerve in her face.

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Aloysius Stepinac

First Name Aloysius
Born on May 8, 1898
Died on February 10, 1960 (aged 61)

Aloysius Viktor Stepinac was a Yugoslav Croat prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal, Stepinac served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1937 until his death, a period which included the fascist rule of the Ustaše over the Axis puppet state the Independent State of Croatia from 1941 to 1945 during World War II. He was tried by the communist Yugoslav government after the war and convicted of treason and collaboration with the Ustaše regime. The trial was depicted in the West as a typical communist "show trial", and was described by The New York Times as biased against the archbishop. However, Professor John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. claims the trial was "carried out with proper legal procedure". In a verdict that polarized public opinion both in Yugoslavia and beyond, the Yugoslav authorities found him guilty on the charge of high treason, as well as complicity in the forced conversions of Orthodox Serbs to Catholicism. Stepinac advised individual priests to admit Orthodox believers to the Catholic Church if their lives were in danger, such that this conversion had no validity, allowing them to return to their faith once the danger passed. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison, but served only five at Lepoglava before being transferred to house arrest with his movements confined to his home parish of Krašić.

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