100 Notable alumni of
University of Zagreb
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The University of Zagreb is 144th in the world, 48th in Europe, and 1st in Croatia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Zagreb sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Marina Abramović
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- photographerperformance artistvideo artistuniversity teacherfilm director
- Biography
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Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. At 46 years of age, she also became the youngest person to assume the presidency.
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Goran Višnjić
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- stage actortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Goran Višnjić is a Croatian-American actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions. He is best known in the United States for his roles as Dr. Luka Kovač in ER and Garcia Flynn in Timeless, both NBC television series. For ER, he and the cast were nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the son-in-law of Croatian film director and former head of Croatian Radiotelevision (1991–95), Antun Vrdoljak. He moved to the United States in the late 1990s.
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Rade Šerbedžija
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1969
- Occupations
- television actoractorstage actorcomposerpoet
- Biography
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Rade Šerbedžija is a Serbian-Croatian actor, director and musician. He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law. He was one of the best known Yugoslav actors in the 1970s and 1980s. He is internationally known mainly for his role as Boris the Blade in Snatch (2000), his supporting roles in such Hollywood films as The Saint (1997), Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), X-Men: First Class (2011), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Taken 2 (2012); and for his recurring role as former Soviet Army General Dmitri Gredenko in Season 6 of TV action series 24.
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Ivo Andrić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1912 studied Slavic literature and study of history
- Occupations
- diplomatwriternovelistessayistpoet
- Biography
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Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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Zvonimir Boban
- Occupations
- association football player
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Zvonimir Boban is a Croatian former footballer who currently works at UEFA as the Chief of Football. Boban played as a midfielder. He played most of his professional career for Italian club Milan with whom he won four Serie A titles and one UEFA Champions League title. He also captained the Croatia national team which won third place at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
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Mira Furlan
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Mira Furlan was a Croatian-American/Yugoslav-American actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).
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Zoran Milanović
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician serving as President of Croatia since 19 February 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was prime minister from 2011 to 2016 and president of the Social Democratic Party from 2007 to 2016.
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Andrej Plenković
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- diplomatpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Andrej Plenković is a Croatian politician who has been serving as the prime minister of Croatia since 19 October 2016. He was previously one of eleven Croatian members of the European Parliament, serving from Croatia's accession to the European Union in 2013 until his resignation as MEP when he took office as prime minister. Plenković has also been serving as the president of the Croatian Democratic Union since 2016.
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Luka Šulić
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- cellistacademic musician
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Luka Šulić is a Slovenian-Croatian cellist. He was a member of 2CELLOS, along with Stjepan Hauser.
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Stjepan Mesić
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- politicianpolitical commissarlawyer
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Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the first multi-party elections, the last president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991) and consequently secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), as well as speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), a judge in Našice, and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica.
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Stjepan Radić
- Occupations
- politiciantranslatorwriter
- Biography
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Stjepan Radić was a Croat politician and founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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Ana Vidović
- Occupations
- guitarist
- Biography
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Ana Vidović is a Croatian classical guitarist. A guitarist child prodigy, she has won a number of prizes and international competitions all over the world.
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Milan Bandić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1974 studied political science
- Occupations
- mayorpolitician
- Biography
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Milan Bandić was a Croatian politician and the longest-serving mayor of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Bandić was mayor almost continuously from 2000 to 2021, except during the time between his resignation in 2002 and the 2005 election. He was also suspended from exercising his powers and duties for several months after his 2014 arrest over a corruption scandal. Out of Bandić's multifaceted engagement in politics, the most noted part was his mayoralty of Zagreb, which followed the Croatian Democratic Union's (HDZ) first post-socialist period of government (1990–2000), and exacerbated many existing transitional problems in the city.
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Ivo Josipović
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- lawyercomposerpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ivo Josipović is a Croatian academic, jurist, composer, and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.
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Ante Marković
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- electrical engineerpoliticianpolitical commissar
- Biography
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Ante Marković was a Croatian and Yugoslav politician, businessman and engineer. He is most notable for having served as the last Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1991.
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Ante Starčević
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1843-1845
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ante Starčević was a Croatian politician and writer. His policies centered around Croatian state law, the integrity of Croatian lands, and the right of his people to self-determination. As an important member of the Croatian parliament and the founder of the Party of Rights he has laid the foundations for Croatian nationalism. He has been referred to as Father of the Nation due to his campaign for the rights of Croats within Austria-Hungary and his propagation of a Croatian state in a time where many politicians sought unification with other South Slavs.
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Andreas Meyer-Landrut
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Andreas Meyer-Landrut is a former German diplomat. He was West Germany's ambassador to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1980 to 1983 and again from 1987 to 1989. He also served as the chief of staff to the office of the President of Germany during the presidency of Richard von Weizsäcker from 1989 to 1994.
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Ante Čačić
- Occupations
- association football manager
- Biography
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Ante Čačić is a Croatian professional football manager who was most recently manager of Croatian Football League club Dinamo Zagreb.
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Lajos Batthyány
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- economistpolitician
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Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár was the first Prime Minister of Hungary. He was born in Pozsony (modern-day Bratislava) on 10 February 1807, and was executed by firing squad in Pest on 6 October 1849, the same day as the 13 Martyrs of Arad.
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Josip Manolić
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Josip Manolić is a Croatian former politician and communist revolutionary during World War II in Yugoslavia. He served as a high-ranking official of the Yugoslav State Security Administration (OZNA or UDBA) and later as Prime Minister of Croatia, from 24 August 1990 to 17 July 1991. He was the last prime minister of Croatia as a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, as the country formally declared its independence during his term, on 25 June 1991. Following his brief term as prime minister, Manolić served as the first Speaker of the Chamber of Counties, the then upper house of the Croatian Parliament, from 1993 until 1994.
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Boris Dvornik
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- actor
- Biography
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Boris Dvornik was a Croatian actor.
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Vladimir Nazor
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- writerpoliticianpoettranslatorpolitical commissar
- Biography
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Vladimir Nazor was a Croatian poet and politician. During and after World War II in Yugoslavia, he served as the first President of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament (Croatian head of state), and first Speaker of the Croatian Parliament.
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Ivan Mažuranić
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- translatorlawyerpoetwriterlinguist
- Biography
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Ivan Mažuranić was a Croatian poet, linguist, lawyer and politician who is considered to be one of the most important figures in Croatia's political and cultural life in the mid-19th century. Mažuranić served as Ban of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia between 1873 and 1880, and since he was the first ban not to hail from old nobility, he was known as Ban pučanin (Ban commoner).
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Vladko Maček
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Vladimir Maček was a politician in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. As a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) following the 1928 assassination of Stjepan Radić, Maček had been a leading Croatian political figure until the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941. As a leader of the HSS, Maček played a key role in establishment of the Banovina of Croatia, an autonomous banovina in Yugoslavia in 1939.
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Jadranka Kosor
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- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her predecessor Ivo Sanader. Kosor was the first and so far only woman to become Prime Minister of Croatia since independence.
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Miroslav Lazanski
- Occupations
- columnisttelevision presenterwriterpoliticianpundit
- Biography
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Miroslav Lazanski was а Serbian journalist, military analyst, politician, and a diplomat who served as ambassador of Serbia to the Russian Federation. Previous to his appointment, Lazanski was a Member of parliament. He wrote on political and military matters and was a correspondent and commentator for the Belgrade daily Politika. He was a member of the National Assembly of Serbia from 2016 to 2019 as member of the governing coalition led by the Serbian Progressive Party.
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Dubravka Ugrešić
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- writerresistance fighterchildren's writeruniversity teachernovelist
- Biography
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Dubravka Ugrešić was a Yugoslav-Croatian and Dutch writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she was based in Amsterdam from 1996 and continued to identify as a Yugoslav writer.
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Darko Rundek
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- composerpoetsingeractorrock singer
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Darko Rundek is a Croatian rock singer, songwriter, poet, and actor. His music career started in the early 1980s, as the frontman of the world music influenced rock band Haustor. He emigrated to France after the Yugoslav wars started in 1991, and has recorded eight albums with various musicians from different parts of the world: Apokalipso, U širokom svijetu, Ruke, MHM A-HA OH YEAH DA-DA, Balade Petrice Kerempuha, Plavi avion, Mostovi and Brisani prostor.
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Zlatko Hasanbegović
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- politicianhistorian
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Zlatko Hasanbegović is a Croatian politician and historian who has served as a member of the Croatian Parliament since 2016. He served as Minister of Culture in the cabinet of Tihomir Orešković from 22 January to 19 October 2016. Hasanbegović is also a member of the Zagreb Assembly and one of the founders of the Independents for Croatia party.
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Franka Batelić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied law
- Occupations
- songwritersinger
- Biography
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Franka Batelić, also known as Franka, is a Croatian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame as the winner of the first season of Showtime. She represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Crazy".
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Ivica Račan
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- politicianjurist
- Biography
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Ivica Račan was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments.
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Sanja Doležal
- Occupations
- singeractortelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sanja Doležal is a Croatian singer and television host.
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Tomislav Karamarko
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1979 studied law
- 1982-1985 studied history
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tomislav Karamarko is a Croatian politician who served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from January to June 2016. He served in the Cabinet of Jadranka Kosor as Minister of the Interior from 2008 to 2011.
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Davor Sučić
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- television actorguitaristsingerrecord produceractor
- Biography
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Davor Sučić, better known by his stage name Sejo Sexon, is a Bosnian rock and roll musician, film score composer, actor and television director. He is most notably the bandleader and a co-founder of the rock group Zabranjeno Pušenje, contributing on all Zabranjeno Pušenje releases. He was one of the founders of the New Primitivism movement in his hometown Sarajevo. As an actor, he has been featured in the Top lista nadrealista.
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Ivan Šubašić
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- politician
- Biography
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Ivan Šubašić was a Yugoslav Croat politician, best known as the last Ban of Croatia and Prime Minister of the royalist Yugoslav Government in exile during the Second World War.
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Gordan Jandroković
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- politiciandiplomat
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Gordan Jandroković is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since 2017. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2008 to 2011, and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2010 to 2011 in the cabinets of prime ministers Ivo Sanader and Jadranka Kosor.
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Jovan Rašković
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- university teacherpoliticianpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Jovan Rašković was a Croatian Serb psychiatrist, academic and politician.
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Slavenka Drakulić
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- journalistnovelistwriteressayist
- Biography
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Slavenka Drakulić is a Croatian journalist, novelist, and essayist whose works on feminism, communism, and post-communism have been translated into many languages.
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Mato Lovrak
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- children's writerwriterteacher
- Biography
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Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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Marija Pejčinović Burić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Marija Pejčinović Burić is a Croatian politician of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union party who served as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and First Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 2017 to 2019. She was the third woman to hold the post of foreign minister, following Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Vesna Pusić. Pejčinović Burić previously served as a Member of Parliament during its Sixth Assembly (2008–2011), representing the 6th electoral district.
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Sanda Rašković Ivić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1980
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Sanda Rašković Ivić is a Serbian former politician, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and politician. She was the president of the Democratic Party of Serbia from 2014 to 2016. She has served as one of the vice-presidents of the People's Party since 2017 and is currently serving as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia.
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Milorad Pupovac
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1974-1979
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlinguistphilologist
- Biography
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Milorad Pupovac is a Croatian politician and linguist. He is a member of the Sabor, the former president of the Serb National Council, and the president of the Independent Democratic Serb Party. He was also an observer at the European Parliament.
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Filip Šovagović
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- film directorpoettelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Filip Šovagović is a Croatian actor, film director, comedian, playwright and journalist. At first known simply as the son of renowned actor Fabijan Šovagović, he has established himself as one of the most prolific Croatian actors of the 21st century.
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Vesna Pusić
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- university teacherpoliticianphilosopher
- Biography
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Vesna Pusić is a Croatian sociologist and politician who served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs in the centre-left cabinet of Zoran Milanović. She was Croatia's second female Foreign Minister taking the office after Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. She is known as an outspoken liberal and an advocate of European integration, anti-fascism, gender equality and LGBT rights.
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Antun Vrdoljak
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- film directorscreenwriterpoliticianactor
- Biography
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Antun Vrdoljak is a Croatian film actor and director, sports official, and head of Croatian Radiotelevision during the Yugoslav Wars. Between the 1960s and early 1990s he was mainly a film artist. In the early 1990s he became involved in politics and became a prominent member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), which led to his appointment to a series of offices. He was director general of Croatian Radiotelevision (1991–1995), and president of the Croatian Olympic Committee (1991–2000).
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Ana Rucner
- Occupations
- cellist
- Biography
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Ana Rucner is a Croatian cellist. She represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with Dalal Midhat-Talakić, Deen and Jasmin Fazlić Jala with the song "Ljubav je" performing it on 10 May 2016 in the first semi-final but failed to qualify to the final.
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Srećko Horvat
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Srećko Horvat is a Croatian philosopher, author and political activist. The German weekly Der Freitag called him "one of the most exciting voices of his generation" and he has been described as a "fiery voice of dissent in the Post-Yugoslav landscape". His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Jacobin, Newsweek and The New York Times.
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Miroslav Tuđman
- Occupations
- computer scientistpoliticianuniversity teachersociologistinformation scientist
- Biography
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Miroslav Tuđman was a Croatian scientist and politician, the son and eldest child of the first President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, and his wife Ankica.
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Svetozar Pribićević
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Svetozar Pribićević was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary and later Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was one of the main proponents of Yugoslavism and a federalized South Slavic state which would later turn out to be Yugoslavia. However, he later became a bitter opponent of the same policy that was promoted by King Alexander I.
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Mirna Medaković
- Occupations
- film actoractor
- Biography
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Mirna Medaković Stepinac is a Croatian actress.
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Zoran Mušič
- Occupations
- painterprintmakergraphic artistdrawergraphic designer
- Biography
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Zoran Mušič, baptised as Anton Zoran Musič, was a Slovene painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He was the only painter of Slovene descent who managed to establish himself in the elite cultural circles of Italy and France, particularly Paris in the second half of the 20th century, where he lived for most of his later life. He painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, as well as scenes of horror from the Dachau concentration camp and vedute of Venice.
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Savka Dabčević-Kučar
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- politicianuniversity teacherprime ministereconomistpolitical commissar
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Savka Dabčević-Kučar was a Croatian politician. She was one of the most influential Croatian female politicians during the communist period, especially during the Croatian Spring when she was deposed. She returned to politics during the early days of Croatian independence as the leader of the Coalition of People's Accord and the Croatian People's Party. From 1967 to 1969 she served as the Chairman of the 5th Executive Council (Prime Minister) of the Socialist Republic of Croatia, one of eight constituent republics and autonomous provinces of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. She was the first woman in Europe to be appointed head of government of a political entity and the first female in the post-World War II Croatia to hold an office equivalent to a head of government.
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Bojan Navojec
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Bojan Navojec is a Croatian theatre and film actor.
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Vladimir Bakarić
- Occupations
- juristeconomistpoliticianpolitical commissar
- Biography
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Vladimir Bakarić was a Yugoslav and Croatian communist revolutionary and a politician.
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Pavao Pavličić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1969 graduated with bachelor's degree in comparative literature and Italian
- In 1974 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in literary studies
- Occupations
- literary theoristuniversity teachertranslatorwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Pavao Pavličić is a Croatian writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels. He writes for both adults and children.
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Károly Khuen-Héderváry
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1871
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Count Károly Khuen-Héderváry de Hédervár, born as Károly Khuen de Belás was a Hungarian politician and the ban of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in the late nineteenth century. Khuen's reign was marked by a strong magyarization. After a series of riots broke out against him in 1903, Khuen was relieved of his duty and appointed prime minister of Hungary.
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Miro Gavran
- Occupations
- writerscreenwriterplaywright
- Biography
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Miro Gavran is a Croatian writer of short stories, fiction and drama. His works have been translated into 40 languages, making him the most translated Croatian writer, and his books have come out in 250 different editions at home and abroad. His dramas and comedies have had more than 400 theatre first nights around the world and have been seen by more than two million theatre attendants.
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Tomislav Tomašević
- Occupations
- activistpoliticianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Tomislav Tomašević, commonly known as Senf (mustard), is a Croatian politician, activist, environmentalist and political scientist who is serving as mayor of Zagreb since 2021. He is one of the leaders of the local Zagreb is OURS! political party and the national We Can! political party. Since the 2017 Zagreb local elections, he has been a delegate in the Zagreb Assembly. He was also elected to the Croatian Parliament in the 2020 election. He serves as the de facto leader of the Green–Left Coalition.
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Mladen Stojanović
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Mladen Stojanović was a Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav physician who led a detachment of Partisans on and around Mount Kozara in northwestern Bosnia during World War II in Yugoslavia. He was posthumously bestowed the Order of the People's Hero.
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Davor Božinović
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Davor Božinović is a Croatian diplomat and politician who serves as Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia since 2017. He previously served as Minister of Defence from 2010 to 2011.
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Ivan Đikić
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistmolecular biologist
- Biography
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Ivan Đikić is a Croatian-German molecular biologist who is the Director of the Institute of Biochemistry II at Goethe University Frankfurt.
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Vladimir Šeks
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- politicianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Vladimir Šeks is a Croatian lawyer and politician. He has been a representative in the Croatian Parliament since the nation's independence, and has held the posts of the Speaker of the Parliament, as well as Deputy Prime Minister in the government. He also served as acting President of the Croatian Democratic Union and Leader of the Opposition from 5 January to 30 April 2000.
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Vesna Parun
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied Romance languages and philosophy
- Occupations
- children's writertranslatorwriterpoetpainter
- Biography
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Vesna Parun was a Croatian poet.
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Predrag Matvejević
- Occupations
- university teachertranslatorwriterliterary historianopinion journalist
- Biography
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Predrag Matvejević was a Bosnian and Croatian writer and scholar. A literature scholar who taught at universities in Zagreb, Paris and Rome, he is best known for his 1987 non-fiction book Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape, a seminal work of cultural history of the Mediterranean region which has been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Dževad Karahasan
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- writertheatre criticuniversity teacherplaywrightdramaturge
- Biography
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Dževad Karahasan was a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Karahasan was awarded the Herder Prize and Goethe Medal for his writings.
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Petar Skansi
- Occupations
- politicianbasketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Petar Skansi was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, he played for Jugoplastika and Maxmobili Pesaro. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that silver medalled at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Ivan Merz
- Occupations
- professorsoldierphilosopher
- Biography
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Ivan Merz was a Croatian lay academic, beatified by Pope John Paul II on a visit at Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 22, 2003. Ivan Merz promoted the liturgical movement in Croatia and together with Ivo Protulipac created a movement for the young people, “The Croatian Union of the Eagles” (“Hrvatski orlovski savez)”, inspired by the “Eucharistic Crusade,” which he had encountered in France.
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Ukshin Hoti
- Years
- 1943-1999 (aged 56)
- Occupations
- peace activistwriterpoliticianhuman rights activistphilosopher
- Biography
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Ukshin Hoti was a Kosovo Albanian philosopher and activist. Hoti was a professor of international law and later philosophy at the University of Pristina and founder of UNIKOMB, a political party of Kosovo. Since 1982 he had been arrested several times by Yugoslav authorities. In 1994 he was convicted to five years in the Dubrava prison. In May 1999, when his sentence ended and he was to be released, the prison guards transferred him to an unknown location. His whereabouts remain unknown and many human rights activists consider him dead.
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Krešimir Mišak
- Occupations
- science fiction writerjournalist
- Biography
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Krešimir Mišak is a Croatian journalist, rock musician, and science fiction author.
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Ante Trumbić
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ante Trumbić was a Yugoslav and Croatian lawyer and politician in the early 20th century.
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Milan Šufflay
- Occupations
- university teacheralbanologisthistorianscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Milan Šufflay was a Croatian historian and politician. He was one of the founders of Albanology and the author of the first Croatian science fiction novel. As a Croatian nationalist, he was persecuted in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and his murder subsequently caused an internationally publicized affair.
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Franjo Kuharić
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- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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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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Ivan Vilibor Sinčić
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical activist
- Biography
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Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, or simply Ivan Sinčić, is a Croatian politician and anti-eviction activist, chairman of the Key of Croatia party (formerly known as Human Shield) and member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Jadranka Đokić
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Jadranka Đokić is a Croatian actress. One of the top Croatian actresses, she has won critical approval for her theatre, film and television performances.
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Igor Mandić
- Occupations
- writercolumnistliterary criticmusic criticjournalist
- Biography
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Igor Mandić was a Croatian writer, literary critic, columnist and essayist. According to Croatian historian Slobodan Prosperov Novak, Mandić was the most important and the most versatile Croatian newspaper writer of the second half of the 20th century. His polemic texts have marked a Yugoslav publicist epoch of the 1960s and 1970s. Known for his fresh, sharp writing style and contrarian views, he has been dubbed "the master of quarrel".
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Ivo Brešan
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- playwrightslavistwriterscreenwriter
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Ivan "Ivo" Brešan was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His work included screenplays written with his son Vinko.
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Milka Babović
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- sports commentatorjournalistathletics competitor
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Milena "Milka" Babović was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist.
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Slavko Goldstein
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- writerscreenwriterhistorianjournalistpolitician
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Slavko Goldstein was a Croatian historian, politician, and fiction writer.
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Željko Reiner
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- university teacherpoliticianphysician
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Željko Reiner is a Croatian physician, politician, university professor, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and former Minister of Health and Social Welfare who served as the 10th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since independence and the 20th speaker overall, from December 2015 until October 2016.
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Željka Markić
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- journalistbusiness executivetranslatorchief executive officer
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Željka Markić is a leader of Croatian right-wing movement U ime obitelji (In the Name of Family).
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G. M. Dimitrov
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- politician
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Georgi Mihov Dimitrov, known as Gemeto (Bulgarian: Гемето, lit. 'The G. M.') to distinguish him from Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov, was a Bulgarian politician, a leading figure of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union during the 1930s and 1940s, and an opponent of fascism and communism alike.
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Radimir Čačić
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- politician
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Radimir Čačić is a Croatian politician and businessman who has been President of the People's Party – Reformists (NS-R) since the party's formation in 2014, as well as Prefect of Varaždin County since 2017.
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Nikica Valentić
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- politician
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Nikica Valentić was a Croatian entrepreneur, lawyer, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1993 to 1995. He is to date the youngest person to have served in that capacity, being 42 years old when taking office, and is also the first Croatian prime minister to have been born after World War II.
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Dubravka Šuica
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- politician
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Dubravka Šuica is a Croatian politician of the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) who has been Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography since 2019. She previously served as a member of the European Parliament from 2013 to 2019.
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Srđa Trifković
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political studies
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- historianjournalistwriter
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Srđa Trifković is a Serbian-American publicist, politician and historian. He is currently a foreign affairs editor for the paleoconservative magazine Chronicles, and a politics professor at the University of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Dušan Vukotić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied architecture
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- caricaturistfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producerillustrator
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Dušan Vukotić was a Yugoslav and Croatian-Montenegrin cartoonist, author and director of animated films. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films.
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Snježana Kordić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Graduated with Master of Science in linguistics
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
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- science writergrammarianuniversity teacherlinguistpedagogue
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Snježana Kordić is a Croatian linguist. In addition to her work in syntax, she has written on sociolinguistics. Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous articles against the puristic and prescriptive language policy in Croatia. Her 2010 book on language and nationalism popularises the theory of pluricentric languages in the Balkans.
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Krešo Beljak
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- politician
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Krešo Beljak is a Croatian politician who has been mayor of Samobor since 2009, and a member of the Croatian Parliament since 2016. He is also President of the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) since 2016.
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Hrvoje Šarinić
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- politicianarchitect
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Hrvoje Šarinić was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1992 to 1993.
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Milan Kujundžić
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- physicianpolitician
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Milan Kujundžić is a Croatian physician and politician who held the position of Minister of Health in the Cabinet of Andrej Plenković between 2016 and 2020.
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Milanka Opačić
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- politician
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Milanka Opačić is a Croatian politician who served as a Minister of Social Welfare and Youth at centre-left Cabinet of Zoran Milanović from 2011 to 2016. She served as one of four vice-presidents of the Social Democratic Party, the main centre-left political party in the Sabor. She was first elected to Sabor in the 1992 parliamentary election, and was reelected in 2000, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2016.
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Dražen Budiša
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- politicianwriter
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Dražen Budiša is a Croatian politician who used to be a leading opposition figure in the 1990s and a two-time presidential candidate. As president of the Croatian Social Liberal Party through the 1990s he remains to date the only Leader of the Opposition not to have been from either the Croatian Democratic Union or the Social Democratic Party.
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Zlatko Mateša
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- politicianwater polo player
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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.
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Ivo Goldstein
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- diplomathistorianwriter
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Ivo Goldstein is a historian, author and ambassador from Croatia. Goldstein is a recipient of the Order of Danica Hrvatska (2007) and the City of Zagreb Award (2005).
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Andrija Hebrang
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- radiologistphysicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Andrija Hebrang is a Croatian physician and politician. A member of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), he is a former member of the Parliament of Croatia. A physician by vocation, Hebrang had served three terms as Croatia's Minister of Health (1990–1992, 1993–1998, and 2003–2005) and spent three months as Minister of Defence (May–October 1998) under six different Prime Ministers. In addition, he was his party's candidate in the 2009–10 Croatian presidential election, eventually finishing third behind Ivo Josipović, and Milan Bandić, winning 12 percent of the vote in the first round.
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Miko Tripalo
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- political commissarpolitician
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Ante "Miko" Tripalo was a Croatian politician. He was one of the members of Croatian Spring, a movement for higher level of autonomy of SR Croatia within SFR Yugoslavia.
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Blaženka Divjak
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- politicianmathematician
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Blaženka Divjak is a Croatian scientist and university professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin. She served as Minister of Science and Education from 9 June 2017 until 23 July 2020.
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Žarko Puhovski
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- human rights activistuniversity teacherpolitical scientistphilosopher
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Žarko Puhovski is a Croatian professor, political analyst, philosopher and intellectual, former president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee.
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Gordan Grlić-Radman
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- diplomat
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Gordan Grlić-Radman is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since July 2019.
