page_title: Greatest Croatian
section_title: Final list
hierarchical_section_title: Greatest Croatian / Final list
caption_attribution_description: Director Rade Šerbedžija at the International Press Academy’s 12th Annual Satellite Awards
context_page_description: The Greatest Croatian was a poll conducted over five weeks in 2003 by the Croatian weekly Nacional.
  The public was invited to vote via the magazine's website, text messages and postcards to determine the "Greatest Croatian" in history. Almost 8,000 votes were received during the course of the poll, and the final results were published in the magazine's 6 January 2004 issue.
context_section_description: Due to the nature of the poll used to select and rank, the results do not pretend to be an objective assessment. They are as follows:
  Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980), revolutionary, statesman and president of Yugoslavia 1953–1980
  Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), electrical engineer and inventor
  Ruđer Bošković (1711–1787), physicist, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher
  Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981), writer, playwright and poet
  Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999), statesman, President of Croatia 1990–99
  Dražen Petrović (1964–1993), basketball player, Olympic silver medalist
  Stjepan Mesić (b. 1934), President of Croatia 2000–10
  Ivo Andrić (1892–1975), novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
  Tin Ujević (1891–1955), poet
  Stevo Karapandža (b. 1947), celebrity chef
  Tomislav of Croatia (?–928), 10th-century ruler of Croatia
  Rahim Ademi (b. 1954), Croatian Army general
  Stipe Šuvar (1936–2004), sociologist and politician
  Vlado Gotovac (1930–2000), poet and politician
  Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962), sculptor and architect
  Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815–1905), Roman Catholic bishop, benefactor and politician
  Janica Kostelić (b. 1982), alpine ski racer, Olympic gold medalist
  Stjepan Radić (1871–1928), early 20th century politician
  Josip Jelačić (1801–1859), 19th-century Ban (viceroy) of Croatia
  Ante Starčević (1823–1896), 19th-century politician
  Alojzije Stepinac (1898–1960), Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb 1937–1960
  Branimir Štulić (b. 1953), singer, songwriter and poet
  Rade Šerbedžija (b. 1946), stage and film actor
  Matija Gubec (c. 1556–1573), 16th-century leader of a peasant revolt
  Mirko Ilić (b. 1956), graphic designer and comics artist
  Miroslav Radman (b. 1944), biologist
  Ivan Supek (1915–2007), physicist, philosopher, and writer
  Franjo Kuharić (1919–2002), Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb 1970–1997
  Branko Bauer (1921–2002), film director
  Ante Gotovina (b. 1955), Croatian army lieutenant-general
  Miljenko Smoje (1923–1995), writer and journalist
  Goran Ivanišević (b. 1971), tennis player, winner of Wimbledon
  Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873–1957), journalist and novelist
  Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), children's writer
  Ljudevit Gaj (1809–1872), 19th-century linguist, politician and writer
  Marko Marulić (1450–1524), 15th-century poet
  Petar Zrinski (1621–1671) & Fran Krsto Frankopan (1643–1671), 17th-century noblemen, leaders of the Magnate conspiracy
  Mile Dedaković (b. 1951), soldier, one of the Croatian commanders in the 1991 Battle of Vukovar
  Lavoslav Ružička (1887–1976), scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
  Juraj Dalmatinac (1410–1473), medieval sculptor and architect
  Krešimir Ćosić (1948–1995), basketball player, Olympic medalist and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
  Slavoljub Penkala (1871–1922), engineer and inventor, created the mechanical pencil
  Vladimir Nazor (1876–1949), author and politician
  Ivan Gundulić (1589–1638), baroque Ragusan poet
  Arsen Dedić (1938–2015), singer-songwriter, composer and poet
  Marin Držić (1508–1567), renaissance Ragusan playwright
  Tarik Filipović (b. 1972), actor and television personality
  Stanka Gjurić (b. 1956), poet, writer, filmmaker and actress
  Goran Bregović (b. 1950), musician and composer
  Mate Ujević (1901–1967), poet and lexicographer
  Savka Dabčević-Kučar (1923–2009), politician, one of the leaders of the Croatian Spring movement
  Miroslav Blažević (b. 1935), association football coach, led Croatia to third place in the 1998 FIFA World Cup
  Dušan Vukotić (1927–1998), cartoonist, winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
  Severina Vučković (b. 1972), pop singer and actress
  Ivica Račan (1944–2007), politician and prime minister of Croatia 2000–2003
  Marko Perković Thompson (b. 1966), pop singer
  Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913–1943), poet and writer, killed in World War II
  Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998), scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate
  Branko Lustig (1932–2019), film producer, two-time Academy Awards winner
  Dražen Budiša (b. 1948), politician, one of the leaders of the Croatian Spring movement
  Mate Parlov (1948–2008), boxer, Olympic gold medalist
  Vatroslav Lisin
caption: Rade Šerbedžija, #23
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