Greatest Croatian

Final list

1. Josip Broz Tito, revolutionary, statesman and president of Yugoslavia 1953–1980
2. Nikola Tesla, electrical engineer and inventor
3. Ruđer Bošković, physicist, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher
4. Miroslav Krleža, writer, playwright and poet
5. Franjo Tuđman, statesman, President of Croatia 1990–99
6. Dražen Petrović, basketball player, Olympic silver medalist
7. Stjepan Mesić, President of Croatia 2000–10
8. Ivo Andrić, novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
9. Tin Ujević, poet
10. Stevo Karapandža, celebrity chef
11. Tomislav of Croatia, 10th-century ruler of Croatia
12. Rahim Ademi, Croatian Army general
13. Stipe Šuvar, sociologist and politician
14. Vlado Gotovac, poet and politician
15. Ivan Meštrović, sculptor and architect
16. Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Roman Catholic bishop, benefactor and politician
17. Janica Kostelić, alpine ski racer, Olympic gold medalist
18. Stjepan Radić, early 20th century politician
19. Josip Jelačić, 19th-century Ban of Croatia
20. Ante Starčević, 19th-century politician
21. Alojzije Stepinac, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb 1937–1960
22. Branimir Štulić, singer, songwriter and poet
23. Rade Šerbedžija, stage and film actor
24. Matija Gubec, 16th-century leader of a peasant revolt
25. Mirko Ilić, graphic designer and comics artist
26. Miroslav Radman, biologist
27. Ivan Supek, physicist, philosopher, and writer
28. Franjo Kuharić, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb 1970–1997
29. Branko Bauer, film director
30. Ante Gotovina, Croatian army lieutenant-general
31. Miljenko Smoje, writer and journalist
32. Goran Ivanišević, tennis player, winner of Wimbledon
33. Marija Jurić Zagorka, journalist and novelist
34. Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, children's writer
35. Ljudevit Gaj, 19th-century linguist, politician and writer
36. Marko Marulić, 15th-century poet
37. Petar Zrinski & Fran Krsto Frankopan, 17th-century noblemen, leaders of the Magnate conspiracy
38. Mile Dedaković, soldier, one of the Croatian commanders in the 1991 Battle of Vukovar
39. Lavoslav Ružička, scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
40. Juraj Dalmatinac, medieval sculptor and architect
41. Krešimir Ćosić, basketball player, Olympic medalist and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
42. Slavoljub Penkala, engineer and inventor, created the mechanical pencil
43. Vladimir Nazor, author and politician
44. Ivan Gundulić, baroque Ragusan poet
45. Arsen Dedić, singer-songwriter, composer and poet
46. Marin Držić, renaissance Ragusan playwright
47. Tarik Filipović, actor and television personality
48. Stanka Gjurić, poet, writer, filmmaker and actress
49. Goran Bregović, musician and composer
50. Mate Ujević, poet and lexicographer
51. Savka Dabčević-Kučar, politician, one of the leaders of the Croatian Spring movement
52. Miroslav Blažević, association football coach, led Croatia to third place in the 1998 FIFA World Cup
53. Dušan Vukotić, cartoonist, winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
54. Severina Vučković, pop singer and actress
55. Ivica Račan, politician and prime minister of Croatia 2000–2003
56. Marko Perković Thompson, pop singer
57. Ivan Goran Kovačić, poet and writer, killed in World War II
58. Vladimir Prelog, scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
59. Branko Lustig, film producer, two-time Academy Awards winner
60. Dražen Budiša, politician, one of the leaders of the Croatian Spring movement
61. Mate Parlov, boxer, Olympic gold medalist
62. Vatroslav Lisinski, 19th-century composer
63. Faust Vrančić, polymath and inventor, best known for his 16th-century parachute design
64. Boris Dvornik, actor
65. Vlaho Bukovac, painter
66. Andrija Štampar, promoter of social medicine
67. Bernard Vukas, footballer, best known for his two spells at HNK Hajduk Split
68. Zinka Kunc, opera soprano, performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Milan's La Scala opera houses
69. Antun Mihanović, poet, best known for penning the lyrics to the Croatian anthem
70. Fabijan Šovagović, actor
71. Slavenka Drakulić, writer and journalist
72. August Šenoa, 19th-century novelist
73. Andrija Maurović, comic book artist, known as the "father of Croatian comics"
74. Antun Augustinčić, sculptor
75. Ante Topić Mimara, art collector, founder of the Mimara Museum
76. Edo Murtić, painter
77. Ivo Pogorelić, pianist
78. Bruno Bušić, promoter of Croatia's independence, assassinated in exile in 1978
79. Frano Supilo, politician and journalist, founder of Novi list daily
80. Goran Višnjić, actor, best known for starring in the American TV series ER
81. Vlaho Bukovac
82. Andrija Hebrang, politician
83. Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, paleontologist, discovered the Neanderthal site near Krapina
84. Juraj Križanić, 17th-century Catholic missionary
85. Marin Getaldić, Ragusan scientist, best known for his work in optics
86. Antun Gustav Matoš, poet and essayist
87. Franjo Šeper, Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb 1960–1970
88. Oliver Mlakar, television presenter
89. Mirko Seljan & Stjepan Seljan, explorers best known for their travels in South America and Africa
90. Ivan Lupis, officer of the Austrian Navy, credited as the inventor of the torpedo
91. Ante Trumbić, politician
92. Franjo Trenk, Austrian officer, known as "father of the military band"
93. Ivo Robić, singer and songwriter
94. Ivan Generalić, naïve art painter
95. Lovro pl. Matačić, conductor
96. Slava Raškaj, 19th-century deaf woman painter
97. Vladimir Prelog
98. Branko Gavella, theatre director and essayist
99. Krešo Golik, film director and screenwriter
100. Bartol Kašić, linguist, wrote the first Croatian grammar and translated the Bible into Croatian
101. Marko Turina, cardiac surgeon, first surgeon to operate a congenital heart defect on a newborn