List of Famous people named Juraj

Juraj Kucka is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian top division club Parma and the Slovak national team.

Juraj Herz was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best known for his 1968 horror/black comedy The Cremator, often cited as one of the best Czechoslovak films of all time, though many of his other films achieved cult status. He directed for both film and television, and in the latter capacity he directed episodes of a French-Czech television series based on George Simenon's Maigret novels.

Juraj Kukura is a Slovak actor.

Juraj Halenár was a Slovak football forward who was most famous for playing for Slovan Bratislava.

Juraj V Zrinski was a Croatian Ban (viceroy), warrior and member of the Zrinski noble family.

Juraj Sagan is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. Sagan has also formerly competed with Liquigas–Doimo and Tinkoff–Saxo. His younger brother Peter Sagan, a 3-time World Road Race Champion, is also a member of the Bora–Hansgrohe team. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France.

Juraj II Drašković was a Croatian nobleman, statesman and Catholic bishop and cardinal, very powerful and influential in the Croatian Kingdom. He was a member of the Drašković noble family and elected by Sabor – the Parliament of Croatia – as Ban (viceroy) of Croatia to oversee the country between 1567 and 1578.

Juraj IV Zrinski was a Croatian count, a member of the Zrinski noble family, and royal Master of the treasury from 1567 until his death in 1603.

Juraj Haulik de Váralya was a Croatian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church of Slovak ethnicity and the first archbishop of Zagreb. He was also acting ban of Croatia for two separate terms.

Juraj Križanić, also known as Jurij Križanič or Yuriy Krizhanich, was a Croatian Catholic missionary who is often regarded as the earliest recorded pan-Slavist. His ideal, often misunderstood - even today - was to bring about a union of the churches, which Rome and Constantinople had tried to do without success for centuries. He believed that this might come about through closer relations between Slav Catholicism and the Russian Orthodox Church, and supported the idea that all Slavs had a common language and ethnic origin.