100 Notable alumni of
University of Zagreb
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The University of Zagreb is 135th 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
- performance artistartistuniversity teachervisual artistfilm 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 artistic 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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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as the 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
- Occupations
- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Goran Višnjić is a Croatian actor. He is best known 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.
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Rade Šerbedžija
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1969
- Occupations
- composerstage actoractortelevision actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Rade Šerbedžija is a Croatian and Yugoslav actor, director and musician. He is known for his portrayals of imposing figures on both sides of the law, and is considered 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), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), 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 study of history and Slavic literature
- Occupations
- poetwriternovelistessayistshort story writer
- 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
- Biography
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Zvonimir Boban is a Croatian former professional footballer who serves as president of GNK Dinamo Zagreb. A midfielder, Boban played most of his career for Italian club AC 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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Zoran Milanović
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician who is the current president of Croatia. First elected in 2020, he was re-elected in 2025 with 74% voter support. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was the prime minister of Croatia from 2011 to 2016, as well as the president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2007 to 2016.
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Mira Furlan
- Occupations
- singerstage actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Mira Furlan was a Croatian-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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Andrej Plenković
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Andrej Plenković is a Croatian politician serving as the prime minister of Croatia since 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
- Occupations
- academic musiciancellist
- Biography
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Luka Šulić is a Croatian-Slovenian cellist. He was a member of 2CELLOS, along with Stjepan Hauser.
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Stjepan Mesić
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitical commissarpolitician
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Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as the 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 the speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), and mayor of his hometown of Orahovica.
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Stjepan Radić
- Occupations
- writertranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Stjepan Radić was a Croat politician and the co-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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Ante Marković
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- electrical engineerpolitical commissarpolitician
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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
- literary criticwriternotarymagazine editoropinion journalist
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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 when many politicians sought unification with other South Slavs.
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Ivo Josipović
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- composerlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Ivo Josipović is a Croatian academic, jurist, composer, and politician who served as the president of Croatia from 2010 to 2015.
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Josip Manolić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1960 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Josip "Joža" Manolić was a Croatian 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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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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Milan Bandić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1974 studied political science
- Occupations
- politicianmayor
- 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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Lajos Batthyány
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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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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Ante Čačić
- Occupations
- association football coach
- 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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Boris Dvornik
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Boris Dvornik was a Croatian actor.
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Vladimir Nazor
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- politicianwriterpolitical commissartranslatorpoet
- 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 Presidency of the Croatian Parliament (Croatian head of state), and first Speaker of the Croatian Parliament.
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Vladko Maček
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- lawyerpolitician
- 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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Ivan Mažuranić
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- writerpoetlawyertranslatorpolitician
- 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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Jadranka Kosor
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- writerpoetjournalistpolitician
- 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
- television presentercolumnistjournalistwar correspondentpundit
- 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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- university teacherchildren's writernovelistresistance fighteressayist
- 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
- Occupations
- singerpoetcomposersongwriterrock singer
- Biography
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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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Ivica Račan
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- 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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Zlatko Hasanbegović
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied historical science
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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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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Sanja Doležal
- Occupations
- actorsingertelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sanja Doležal is a Croatian singer and television host.
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Franka Batelić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied law
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- 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. Batelić represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Crazy".
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Zlata Petković
- Occupations
- modelactor
- Biography
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Zlata Petković was a Serbian actress, model, television host, singer and beauty pageant titleholder. She was Miss Yugoslavia 1971 and is best known for her role as Marija in the 1970s Yugoslav television series Povratak otpisanih.
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Dragan Primorac
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- expert witnessuniversity teacherresearcherphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Dragan Primorac /ˈdrɑːɡən ˈpriːməˌræts/ is a Croatian politician, physician, geneticist, and forensic scientist. He served as Minister of Science, Education and Sports in the 9th and 10th government of Croatia under HDZ's Ivo Sanader, and was a presidential candidate in the 2009 and 2024 elections.
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Ivan Šubašić
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- politician
- Biography
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Ivan Šubašić was a 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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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Gordan Jandroković is a Croatian diplomat and politician who has been the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since 2017, and is the only speaker to have served more than one term. Prior to his tenure as speaker he was a member of parliament from 2003 to 2020, and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 2010 to 2011. He is a member of the Croatian Democratic Union and is a member of its presidency.
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Dragutin Tadijanović
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1925-1928
- Studied in 1928-1937
- Occupations
- translatorpoetlinguistwriter
- Biography
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Dragutin Tadijanović was a Croatian poet, and in his native Croatia he is referred to as a "Bard."
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Tomislav Tomašević
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 2006
- Occupations
- activistpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Tomislav Tomašević is a Croatian politician, activist, environmentalist and political scientist who has served as the 53rd Mayor of Zagreb since 4 June 2021.
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Marija Pejčinović Burić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1985
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical economist
- 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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Slavenka Drakulić
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- writernovelistjournalistessayist
- 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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Milorad Pupovac
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1974-1979
- Occupations
- philologistlinguistuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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Jovan Rašković
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- university teacherpsychiatristpolitician
- Biography
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Jovan Rašković was a Croatian Serb politician. He was leader of the Serb Democratic Party.
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Antun Vrdoljak
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- screenwriterfilm directoractorpolitician
- 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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Mato Lovrak
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- children's writerteacherwriter
- Biography
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Mato Lovrak was a Croatian children's literature writer.
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Mislav Kolakušić
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Mislav Kolakušić is a Croatian lawyer and politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia from 2 July 2019 to 16 July 2024, having been elected to the position at the 2019 election as an Independent. Previously, he served as a judge at the Zagreb Commercial Court.
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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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Sanda Rašković Ivić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1980
- Occupations
- diplomatpsychiatristpolitician
- Biography
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Sanda Rašković Ivić is a former Serbian politician, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. 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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Tomislav Karamarko
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1979
- 1982-1985 studied study of 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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- singerguitaristtelevision actoractorrecord producer
- 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 the leader and co-founder of Zabranjeno Pušenje, contributing on all of its releases. Sejo Sexon was one of the founders of the New Primitivism movement in his hometown Sarajevo. As an actor, he has been featured in Top lista nadrealista.
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Filip Šovagović
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- television actorpoetfilm directoractor
- 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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Svetozar Pribićević
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- politician
- Biography
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Svetozar Pribićević was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary and later the 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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Miroslav Tuđman
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- university teacherpoliticiancomputer scientistinformation scientistsociologist
- 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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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
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- 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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Vesna Pusić
- Occupations
- philosopherpolitical scientistuniversity teacherpolitician
- 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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Savka Dabčević-Kučar
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- prime ministeruniversity teacherpoliticianpolitical commissareconomist
- Biography
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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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Zoran Mušič
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- graphic designerdraftspersonartistprintmakergraphic artist
- 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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Vladimir Bakarić
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- economistjuristpolitical commissarpolitician
- Biography
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Vladimir Bakarić was a Yugoslav and Croatian communist revolutionary and a politician. He served as the President of the Executive Council of the People's Republic of Croatia from 1945 to 1953 and Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 1953 to 1963. In addition, he was Secretary of the League of Communists of Croatia for 2 decades from 1948 to 1969, where he became a close collaborator with President Josip Broz Tito.
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Károly Khuen-Héderváry
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1871
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- 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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Pavao Pavličić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1969 graduated with bachelor's degree in Italian and comparative literature
- In 1974 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in literary studies
- Occupations
- linguistscreenwriterwritertranslatoruniversity teacher
- 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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Miro Gavran
- Occupations
- playwrightscreenwriterwriter
- Biography
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Miro Gavran is a Croatian writer of short stories, fiction and drama. His works have been translated into 44 languages, making him the most translated Croatian writer, and his books have come out in 280 different editions at home and abroad. His dramas and comedies have had more than 450 theatre first nights around the world and have been seen by more than four million theatre attendants.
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Davor Božinović
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- diplomatpolitician
- 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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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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Vladimir Šeks
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- juristlawyerpolitician
- 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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Ivan Đikić
- Occupations
- university teachermolecular biologistbiologist
- 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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Vesna Parun
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied philosophy and Romance languages
- Occupations
- painterpoetwritertranslatorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Vesna Parun was a Croatian poet.
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Ivan Merz
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1923
- Occupations
- writerprofessorphilosophersoldier
- Biography
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Ivan Merz was a Catholic layman from Bosnia and important supporter of the Catholic Church in Croatia. Merz promoted the Liturgical Movement in Croatia and together with Ivo Protulipac, he established a movement for the young people, Hrvatski orlovski savez ("The Croatian Union of the Eagles"), inspired by the Eucharistic Crusade, which he had encountered in France. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
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Krešimir Mišak
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1996 studied journalism studies
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Krešimir Mišak is a Croatian journalist, rock musician, and science fiction author.
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Petar Skansi
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coachpolitician
- 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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Predrag Matvejević
- Occupations
- opinion journalistuniversity teacherliterary historianessayisttranslator
- 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
- playwrightuniversity teachertheatre criticwriteressayist
- 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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Bruna Esih
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Bruna Esih is a Croatian politician and croatologist, currently serving as president of political party Independents for Croatia.
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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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Franjo Kuharić
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Franjo Kuharić was a Croatian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Zagreb from 1970 until his resignation in 1997. Made a cardinal in 1983, he was known as the "Rock of Croatia" because of his defense of human rights and urgings of peace and forgiveness during the independence conflict and the Bosnian War.
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Milan Šufflay
- Occupations
- science fiction writerhistorianalbanologistuniversity teachertranslator
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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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Ukshin Hoti
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- politicianwriterpeace activistphilosopherhuman rights defender
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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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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 was Vice-President of the European Commission and the Commissioner for Democracy and Demography from 2019 to 2024. She previously served as a member of the European Parliament from 2013 to 2019. Since December 2024 she serves as the European Commissioner for Mediterranean in the Von der Leyen Commission II.
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Vladan Desnica
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- playwrightnovelistscience fiction writerpoettranslator
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Vladan Desnica was a Yugoslav writer and translator.
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Jadranka Đokić
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- film actoractorstage actor
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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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Ivo Brešan
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- slavistplaywrightscreenwriterwriter
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Ivan "Ivo" Brešan was a Croatian and Yugoslav playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His works include screenplays written with his son Vinko.
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Ivan Vilibor Sinčić
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- political activistpolitician
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Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, or simply Ivan Sinčić, is a Croatian politician and anti-eviction activist. He served as chairman of the Key of Croatia party (formerly known as Human Shield) and as a member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.
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Igor Mandić
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- literary criticcolumnistwriterjournalistmusic critic
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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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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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Slavko Goldstein
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- screenwriterwriterfilm directorpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Slavko Goldstein was a Croatian historian, politician, and fiction writer.
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Dušan Vukotić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied architecture
- Occupations
- caricaturistfilm producerfilmmakerfilm directoranimator
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Dušan Vukotić was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin, with Croatian citizenship, cartoonist, author and director of animated films. He is the best known member of the Zagreb school of animated films.
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Zlatko Mateša
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- water polo playerpolitician
- Biography
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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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Željko Reiner
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- university teacherphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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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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Gordan Grlić-Radman
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Gordan Grlić-Radman is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since July 2019.
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Andrija Hebrang
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- physicianradiologistuniversity teacherpolitician
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Andrija Hebrang is a Croatian physician and politician. 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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Vili Beroš
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- politician
- Biography
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Vili Beroš is a Croatian politician and neurosurgeon who served as Minister of Health from 2020 to 2024.
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Željka Markić
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- translatorbusiness executivejournalistchief 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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Dražen Budiša
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- writerpolitician
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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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Nikica Valentić
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1974
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Katarina Peović
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- Studied in 1993-1999
- Occupations
- university teachercultural studies scholar
- Biography
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Katarina Peović Vuković is a Croatian politician and media and culture researcher. From March to September 2018, she was a representative of the Workers' Front party in Zagreb Assembly. On January 21, 2019, Katarina Peović announced her candidacy for the Croatian presidential election in 2019 as a candidate of the Workers' Front party, and established media presence in the candidates' confrontations. In the 2020 parliamentary elections, she was elected as a member of the Croatian Parliament on the platform of the Green–Left Coalition.
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Milka Babović
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- sports commentatorathletics competitorjournalist
- Biography
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Milena "Milka" Babović was a Croatian sprint and hurdles runner and journalist.
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Radovan Fuchs
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- scientist
- Biography
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Radovan Fuchs is a Croatian scientist and politician serving as Minister of Science and Education since 2020.
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Radimir Čačić
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- politician
- Biography
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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 from 2017 to 2021.
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Marija Selak Raspudić
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- philosopherbioethicistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Marija Selak Raspudić is a Croatian politician and bioethicist who has served as member of the Croatian Parliament since 2020. She is married to Nino Raspudić.
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Srđa Trifković
- Enrolled in the University of Zagreb
- In 1987 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in political studies
- Occupations
- historianwriterjournalist
- Biography
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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.
